So many millenials disillusioned (graduate, vs, student loan, economy)
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To get my first job out of college, I had to go to school for 5 years, get excellent grades, do 4 internships, community service, studying for the CPA exam. All of this takes on debt that starts you off in life in the hole. I get paid good salary and benefits at a great job. I had to beat out THOUSANDS to do this...
I don't understand; you say this as if it were a bad thing. This is a good thing.
I don't understand; you say this as if it were a bad thing. This is a good thing.
I think that person is saying they're not disillusioned, things are just harder. I know in the 90's, getting a job was as easy as sending in your resume. Those same people were the ones who thought sending their kid to college or forcing it down their throat was a sure-fire thing. It's a different ballgame. People graduating recently had to do so in the economic climate of a recession, bidding for jobs against veterans and the skilled. People graduating in the 90's did so when there was a surplus in the economy and getting a college degree was done by relatively so few, it was actually a great thing to have.
Well, from those I know who got jobs it was. If your situation was different, my bad. But regardless of if it wasn't "that" easy, it was still a lot easier than it is now. That was my point.
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Well, from those I know who got jobs it was. If your situation was different, my bad. But regardless of if it wasn't "that" easy, it was still a lot easier than it is now. That was my point.
I'm not talking about just me. It was largely the same for everyone I graduated with in 94. School, lots of internships, networking, often toiling in retail/service for a while to get your first foot in the door.
In some ways I think things are better now as there are a lot more paid internships (mine were all unpaid) and there is a lot more formal internship programs so you're less likely to need to knock on doors and plead to work for free.
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Would you agree that it was much easier to get a job, let alone a better paying job than it is now.
I don't know about the former, definitely not re the latter. Hiring is pretty darn strong now, especially at the lower levels. It's the mid levels that seem to be toiling.
Entry level salaries are much higher now in absolute dollars. But of course there is inflation and I would have to adjust them for real dollars... which I haven't done.
I think that person is saying they're not disillusioned, things are just harder. I know in the 90's, getting a job was as easy as sending in your resume. Those same people were the ones who thought sending their kid to college or forcing it down their throat was a sure-fire thing. It's a different ballgame. People graduating recently had to do so in the economic climate of a recession, bidding for jobs against veterans and the skilled. People graduating in the 90's did so when there was a surplus in the economy and getting a college degree was done by relatively so few, it was actually a great thing to have.
Not quite.
Weren't you born in the '90's?
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