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I happened across this today. It looks like millennials have it worse than I thought. You can't live on 19K a year, which is what the average millennial in my state earns according to this source.
No wonder they all want to stay in their parents basement and hope for a communist revolt.
The older folk have no idea what milennials go through today in the job market. It wasn't like in their day when they could just waltz right in to some upper level management job right out of college or have job security at the same place for 30+ years with great pay, benefits, and job options or during their day when one income could support a family of 4
Depressing, but when you think about it this way, it is not really shocking. When you considering the average working American is competing now with the global market which ultimately means downward pressure on overall wages over time.
The older folk have no idea what milennials go through today in the job market. It wasn't like in their day when they could just waltz right in to some upper level management job right out of college or have job security at the same place for 30+ years with great pay, benefits, and job options or during their day when one income could support a family of 4
Well, that wasn't my experience. I worked and struggled for YEARS to get to a place where I had a career that would actually go somewhere. I took a lot of huge risks in my career to position me to where I could have some trajectory and believe me, there were some extremely hard years. I'm talking digging in the sofa cushions for enough change to buy myself a bag of potato chips on my birthday hard. When I was out of college in the '80s, as a woman, all anyone would interview me for where secretarial jobs. And even those had strict typing requirements. You had to actually take a typing test to qualify to be a receptionist, college degree or not. To get to a place where I could have career growth took decades. Don't you tell me that I just waltzed into some cushy management job. It just didn't happen. Nor did it for anyone I know. Now, my father's generation? Maybe. If you were a man. And white.
Every generation has their struggles. I think you're been watching too much TV or something.
And the median income # is totally skewed considering how many millennials were shat out from the crackheads of the 90s. Do you think they are going to be high income earners now?
AND, most undocumented workers ARE millennials, so that skews the income #'s as well.. But yes, all you pampered brats have it SO bad. You and your boomer parents can all go and DIAF. Angry Gen X'er here sick of you and your parents' bullsh.
This is non-sense. It is not because millennials are disadvantaged. It is because most millennials are not willing to invest in themselves. I am 24 and currently earn more than 95% of people 18-24. Why? Because I studied my ass off and earned a marketable degree. I didn't struggle to find a job out of college; I literally had my pick between four different jobs a month out of college. Age has nothing to do with opportunity. It has to do with having an intuition about what it takes to get to where you want to be making sure you get there. Education is the key to economic liberation. Unfortunately, today we have the dumbest youth in our nation's history, with the lowest test scores, the lowest graduation rates and the highest teen pregnancy rates.
Just a side note: It is absolutely astounding how underdeveloped emotionally most young people are today (I am talking about my peers in their early twenties). A lot of them lack responsibility and have a poor grip on reality. It is no wonder real employers with real jobs aren't chomping at the bit to hire them. A lot of it has to do with poor family dynamics and a breakdown in the transition to adulthood.
But all your entertainment is FREE these days. Stop complaining.
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