a sense of joy and then a panic

Not that I mean that people's reasons for wanting these things are exactly the same. Maybe it's being in one's early twenties, maybe it's lack of meaningful employment, maybe it's having graduated, maybe it's wanting a plan or security, maybe it's wanting something new, and maybe the last is tied to lack of meaningful employment and/or to past experience, etc. It was meant to be a list of various things that people are going through.