CoolCab posted:

at the start of this arc:

lottie was in full time employment at what appeared to be a lovely coffee shop, being offered a management position presumably for decent money. she was living with her parents (perhaps improving her salary would have helped there?) and a little listless, but the primary problem her mother had was that she was too engaged at her current position. kids her age wind up living with their folks an awful length of time now, it is what it is.

now, she's at an entry level position that she is explicitly overqualified for and she's being underpaid for. she's moved away from her stable living situation so, isolating herself in another town she can shack up with an older man she's met like four times, in a home that is explicitly violent and unpleasant before glenn comes into the picture.

claire is even worse! she starts at one of the most prestigious universities on the planet, loving impossible to get into and iirc she had some kind of ride or scholarship? she's not enjoying her major and is having second thoughts, boy it's every undergraduate ever. she has gotten over her childhood speech impediment and despite the fact she feels like she's surrounded by future hedge fund managers etc - you can do whatever the gently caress you want with a degree from LSE. i know a dude who is very high up in local government - it's like a fuckin harvard degree you can probably use that social capital to go more or less anywhere you want that doesn't require a specialist degree. she's experiencing some mild existential angst, hey being 19 is fun, but she's skyrocketing up in the world. two more years of pantsuits and the world would be her oyster.

now, she's transferred to a much much worse program - fine whatever we need sociologists in this world i won't give her too much poo poo for this, we all figure stuff out even though her parents reacting badly were pretty objectively correct. her speech impediment is back, in fact she seems to have massively regressed following lottie reentering her life and glenn's intervention. she went from complete adult independence, if slightly unhappy, to this loving mess in a month:



also



do they do DBS checks for career advisors, no reason