To be honest, you can absolutely have both. My quarter-life crisis was about the role of higher education in my life, and my midlife crisis was about all the things my quarter-life crisis didn’t deal with. And I don’t think you can guarantee that your quarter-life crisis will deal with everything. The next 20 years are perfectly adequate to paint yourself into another, worse, corner.
To be honest, you can absolutely have both. My quarter-life crisis was about the role of higher education in my life, and my midlife crisis was about all the things my quarter-life crisis didn’t deal with. And I don’t think you can guarantee that your quarter-life crisis will deal with everything. The next 20 years are perfectly adequate to paint yourself into another, worse, corner.