This paper discusses how entrepreneurial discourse and the idea of entrepreneurial self are internalized by university students and how they affect their thoughts about education-work transition and their ideas and feelings about their future. The data is gathered by applying visual and narrative methods. It is composed of reflection texts attached to pictures and empathy-based-stories written by students who are about to graduate from BA and MA programs in social sciences, humanities, business and administration at Universities of Tampere (Finland) and Barcelona (Spain). The analysis reveals that university students have internalized the entrepreneurial ethos but not uncritically. They question the economy-based work-oriented entrepreneurial selfdiscourse. Work and income are no longer trusted as grounds for good life. Although students wish for a steady income from a permanent job, they are very aware of the erratic reality. Consequently, they aspire after balance between work and life. They emphasize rootedness in a place and physically close social relations as the resources to cope with the uncertainties in the working life and society, and as the most important ingredients of good life. Perhaps the students are in the process of updating the components of good life to better match with the current reality.

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