What Next?: Your Five-Year Plan for Life after College

WOW. I found this book extremely refeshing. Not only does it include actionable steps to achieve your goals, it offers tips on how to flourish as your full self. I really appreciate the holistic leans including wellness, relationships and finances. Where has this book been all of my life?! Top notch.

It's fascinating to me how often the most essential and functional elements of adulthood are what we learned so little about in school. Elana Gross, my hat is off to you for creating a road map for graduates full of truly meaningful information as they find their way into the adult world. This feels like the perfect blend of self care, career advice, financial management (sometimes one of the scariest topics of all), and how to be compassionate towards yourself in the process. Now, can you turn this into a college course that's mandatory for all graduates already??

I wish I had this book when I graduated college! What Next? has everything you need to know about your first five years out of college. It has taken me years to accumulate the wealth of knowledge that this book provides. Elana Lyn Gross does an amazing job of summarizing all the key points of your career, finances, relationships, and wellness that you need to know to hit the ground running. I'd absolutely recommend this to any recent grad or for anyone looking for helpful, actionable tips to plan for what's next.

Break out your trusty journal and be prepared to answer some really hard and really important questions! This book is chock-full of great advice for anyone who wants to skip years of painful lessons navigating "adult life." If you need a great collection of strategies that can help you navigate your career, finances, health, and relationships, get this book now.

This is a must-have guide for any college grad as they embark into the real world! It will help answer questions like - How do I network? What's a budget? What's the key to work-life balance? And that's just the tip of the iceberg! It'll help you get on the right track to success in your 20's!

Helpful and well written! Definitely recommend

What Next? makes sense of all the chaos of post-grad life through clear and concise advice broken down into sections on career, finances, and health. This young professional bible has all the tools to help anyone discover their path to success. A perfect gift for any new grad or twenty-something finding their way!

While the book is marketed towards people who have just graduated from college, I do think almost anyone could benefit from most of the advice in this book. It is always good to have a five year plan, and the exercises in this book are very valuable for anyone looking to make a change in their career, finances, mental or physical health, or relationships.The first part of the book contains a series of exercises and some journaling work to help readers come up with a five-year plan in each of these different areas of their life. The questions in this section serve as helpful guides to think through your goals. The rest of the book is broken into sections containing advice in each of these areas. What struck me the most about this book was just how much advice and information is packed into it - the book really does provide advice for almost any situation. It is clear that the author spent a lot of time thinking through the different situations laid out and spent time researching expert advice and speaking with professionals.I particularly enjoyed the section on wellness - the section on mental health was really illuminating. I've read a lot about personal finance, and I've job searched, so most of the advice in those sections served as helpful reminders of good advice. But the section on mental health really stood out to me because I haven't seen most of that advice before and it was truly eye-opening and uniquely valuable.Like my Emily Post etiquette guide, this is a book that I expect will sit on my shelf to be picked up when I need advice about something specific - like right before a job interview, when I'm having trouble with a personal relationship, or when I need a reminder about the difference between a Roth and a 401K.