Frustrating!!

I find American teenage drama's very frustrating. When the characters leave school and grow up they go on to have the most insanely glamorous jobs ever. Its totally unrealistic. In the small town of One Tree Hill and in one small group of friends we had a fashion designer, a novelist, a music producer and label owner, a professional basketball player, a singer and a television sports anchor. Are you joking?? Those professions are so select and difficult to have success in that it is totally unrealistic that they would have these jobs, known each other, still be able to live in the same town and have such horrendously turbulent personal lives. None of their days involve long nights, travelling or stress. I went to quite a big school and I don't know one popstar, not one.

Its not just One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl also has a novelist, a blogger (genuinely) and before she was a 'blogger' she was a production assistant on a film set, a newspaper boss, a hotel owner and the future Queen of Monaco! I don't know how we as the viewing public stand it, these people are so far removed from anything that I have experienced in my life that I have nothing to connect me with them. 90210 is no better with an actress and DJ and these ones have only just started uni. They don't even struggle to get the jobs, it generally takes no longer than about 6 months for these people to reach the top of their proefession. Nobody sent out dozens of manuscripts to publishers only to get rejected. They didn't work part time in a bar and write in their spare time, they wrote it and everybody loved it, and of course it was a success. Everything is a success in these shows, nobody fails, and if they do fail its in a dramatic way, a character refuses to do something because it doesn't fit with their moral code or ethics and is fired, so not because they just aren't good enough, or there's someone better at the job, they fail in a heroic way, in a way that implies that they haven't failed it's just everyone around them that failed.

I think it would be interesting to see a person leave university and not be an instant success, they feel slightly lost and without direction not sure what career path they want to take. I could certainly relate to that.