Comment on I feel like it was on purpose
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Most millennials graduated shortly after the housing crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
Older millennial here. Economy took a shit right as I was getting out of college and into the workforce. Good times.
My friends and I weren’t financially stable-ish until our mid-30s. And by that I mean we were able to start buying some name brand stuff instead of the knock-offs. Felt like we were kings. But only if we had a significant other to split the bills with.
I’m tired and I don’t care about this country anymore.
Yep, got out of school right in time for a recession.
Changed paths, got certified as a pharmacy tech. You can work for a year without being certified as a pharmacy tech, so I was applying before I ever had my piece of paper. I didn’t receive my first call about any of those applications until 2012.
I never found work in that field, and left my home state for seasonal work. I later came back home and crashed into a two year depression. Like, clinical emergency intervention depression. Not sleeping, not eating, not bathing, all that shit.
This time Trump is at the helm. I have no hope. I have no faith in the country I was born in to do the right thing. I assume the military oath all service members take will be forgotten under a banner dripping the blood of “undesirables”, and chants of MAGA.
Makes me fucking sick.
Immediately before, in my case. I’m thinking of welding some armor to a bulldozer.
This guy sucks ass and the mythology behind him is fucked. He was a nightmare neighbor who dumped his literal shit in an open creek and eventually went crazy and had visions from god to kill people. The only reason he didn’t is because of an effective evacuation.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
It’s just that boomers in western US and USA had an exceptional easy time. Everyone before and after, less so.
IDK, maybe. I’m no expert. I would imagine it depends on how globalized the market was during Boomer’s 20’s and 30’s.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Yeah. It sure was “fun” competing with people with decades of experience and advanced degrees right after graduation. I hope that our generation and those after us are able to course correct and undo the bullshit that Boomers have inflicted upon humanity.
Note: Not generation war (no war but class war) but unfortunate reality. Boomers overwhelmingly supported neo-liberal politicians that to pulled up the ladder behind them and robbed future generations in exchange for short-term gains.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I decided to finally do my masters in biotech after a decade in data engineering got me to have some savings, mostly because I did want to do one eventually.
Man, these kids don’t know what’s waiting for them. None of the companies in biotech are hiring, as in their career pages are empty. LinkedIn, Indeed and the usual suspects only throw up listings which are obviously just staffing orgs fishing for data to sell. I feel there is a similar break in the industry with the pandemic, nobody is hiring people just graduating, the barest minimum is 5-6 years of experience.
I’m seeing some of the best minds in Europe here, doing something that is both hard and useful science, I mean we just had a worldwide pandemic and this masters should be extremely relevant for that, and apparently the system will not let them work in their field.
Only way out is academics, on barely-decent, you-will-never-have-a-house-much-less-a-family wages. If they can get in to the limited number of exceptionally “well” paying PhD slots, for 40-45k gross. They may earn as much as me doing random bullshit internal tooling two years ago for a bank that went bankrupt since if they can get tenure as a full prof at a good uni in like 30 years of hard work.
This is bullshit.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
This is exactly why I ended up in tech, despite actually getting a degree relevant to biochem/industrial microbiology. I graduated during the height of the Recession and decided not to go into academia, despite my love of data and research, because they stopped hiring tenure-track at most institutions, replacing them with adjuncts with minimal pay and benefits (even for academia) and poor bastards on the post-grad treadmill.
I fucking hate it and know that I’m not the only person who has been forced out of a research career by these objectively harmful-to-humanity economic policies.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
And here I am going to get a MA in Archaeology lol.
It’ll work out hopefully. I have been gainfully employed in the field off of just my BA, but Trump has basically ruined that job
HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Don’t give up your dreams, it’s shit everywhere, you might as well do something that interests you while getting fucked by the system like the rest of us.
Option two is to do tech pretend-work for some big corpo for six figures, and check out of the workforce and find fulfillment somewhere else.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I’m working on it, I guess.