a tweet that starts with "am I the only one" and gets 1 million likes must be expressing a truly universal sentiment. does this say something important about Gen Z or is it just a meme?
I can actually think of several possibilities and I honestly don't know which ones are true
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I think I'd actually bet against you on this, that the majority of the gen zers agreeing with this tweet either didn't like it while on job, and that their jobs are more exhausting than you'd guess.
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the oldest genzers are what, 23? 24? probably just finishing college; most are likely working jobs to either put themselves through college, or are not going to college. Those kind of jobs usually emphasize "always being busy" in ways that make it exhausting
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I would have LOVED a nonexhausting job at that age but every single other person I knew in my age range working a job had an actually legitimately exhausting job. Nobody had a white collar job.
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wait, how do we know the people liking/agreeing are all gen z? around me it seems people kvetch about work (& the necessity of work due to high cost of living) at all ages?
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yea is true mostly responding to Jacob seeming to be tlaking about zoomers
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the oldest zoomers are 27. Shelby is 25 with a degree in mechanical engineering, so she's a zoomer with (likely) a white collar job. I don't know the breakdown of the 1 million likes, but I've seen this sentiment mostly expressed on Twitter by college educated under-30s
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Hi! 35, dev, from Germany - in my experience this sentiment is widely shared by anyone below the boomer generation (ya know, the last one where a single earner could comfortably pay for a whole family) - Germany has a 40h maximum (!) work week...
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