re: Recent college grads - is this experience the norm?

When I took my first job out of college I had to move across the country. Re-location money wasn't an option, so I negotiated a later start to save some money to move. I moved in with my folks for three months, lived like a hermit and worked every shift I could get until I had enough money to secure a place to live and gas to get there.

My only furniture was a tailgate chair and a tv tray. I slept in a sleeping bag in my one bedroom apartment for a month until I got paid from the real job and bought a bed. The next month I bought a sofa.

Good times.