Ebook: Heavy lifting: grow up, get a job, raise a family, and other manly advice

Part I Breaking Away -- 1 Ward Cleaver Was A Stud -- 2 College Does Not Prepare You For The Real World -- 3 Getting Your Own Place -- 4 Living With Roommates -- 5 Video Games And The Grown Man -- Part II Life Skills 101 -- 6 The Art Of Drinking -- 7 Clothes And The Man -- 8 The Job Hunt -- 9 The Benefits Of Getting Fired -- 10 Finding Your Vocation -- Part III Love And Marriage -- 11 Asking Her Out -- 12 Getting Married -- 13 Getting Married -- 14 Owning A Home -- 15 Marriage is For Keeps: How To Avoid Divorce -- Part IV Fatherhood -- 16 Fatherhood Is Not Something To Be Avoided -- 17 The Greatness Of Being A Dad -- 18 Your Role In The Mommy Wars -- 19 Having Another Child (Or Two) -- 20 School Days -- Part V Dads Out And Proud -- 21 Raising A Responsible Rebel -- 22 Dads Get It Done -- 23 Settling Down Isn't Settling For Less -- Acknowledgments -- Index.;What has happened to men in America? Once upon a time, men in their twenties looked forward to settling down and having children. Today, most young men seem infected by a widespread Peter Pan syndrome. Unwilling to give up the freedom to sleep late, play video games, dress like a slob, and play the field, today's men wallow in an extended adolescence, ostensibly unaware that they're setting themselves up for a depressing, lonely existence. In this hilarious ode to male adulthood, Jim Geraghty and Cam Edwards#x97;two happily married, 40-year-old men#x97;have a simple message for their younger peers: Gr.