Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school graduates have come to a fork in their pathway and they must choose, for the first time in their life, which environment in which to immerse themself.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that new high grads have about six years in which to continue to hone their hard and, especially, their soft skills before they will be expected to have become adults.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people need to accept the idea that their future is now in their own hands; they must become self-motivated in order to get to where they want to go in life.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that recent high school graduates are now eligible to seek a government job without having a four-year college degree and that they should take advantage of this opportunity by mastering new hard skills and assessing their well-honed soft skillset.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that when high school graduates have the choice of environment, in which they will engage, they should consider choosing one that will demand more of them rather than less.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must be reminded that they have mastered an abundance of hard and soft skills that have enabled them and will continue to enable them to adapt to the environment in which they find themselves.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people need to be reminded that the skillset they mastered during their first six years will persist as they follow their chosen pathway through their life-arc and that this skillset will enable them to adapt to their ever-changing environment as their life-arc continues to unfold before them.

Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must understand that since they have successfully traversed their chosen pathway this far, that they already have the skills required to get them wherever it is that they want to go.

Joe-Brown’s infoemed opinion is that young people need to come to grips with the fact that the life-arc unfolding before them is their own; they need to get a grip and start traversing their chosen pathway into their life with a dream to fulfill and a goal to achieve.