I'd like to point that "expert" to watch something like The Graduate or read something like "Generation X" - or other novels from Coupland - where his characters agonize over things like McJobs. Ironically, I think Coupland is probably describing what is often called "The Jones Generation".

The Graduate was before I was born, and Coupland's work was not something I read until a few years out of college, but both managed to resonate with me.