Mike CernovichVerified account

My dad is a boomer, he was not given this economic opportunity at all. He worked 2 jobs in high school and was forced to drop out of school to help his family pay the bills. Even into adulthood he was laid off 3 times as a tool and die maker. Meanwhile myself as a millennial has

never gone without work. Yes, i have had to do some shitty jobs. But i have found stable employment throughout my 20s because i work hard and i do not complain, unlike a lot of people my age.

Peoples' parents saved up for them too. Notice you never hear the words "college fund" anymore? Also, everything wasn't bought on credit then. People then usually understood that if they didn't have the money it meant THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT.

My parents had a mortgage and nothing else. My mum had a 150 a week budget for food that she NEVER went over. Family of 5 in the 70s and 80s. I remember getting my first pay check at 15 of 50 bucks working at Kmart and mum took 30 of it for savings. Lol

Oh we have lots of fancy gizmos, but we will not be owning homes, and many of us may never actually retire.

Huh, my niece is 24. RN, no debt, cause she chose CC. Making 68,000 a yr. just bought her first condo. I think it’s more in the choices millennials are making. Parenting too. No one has to be in debt. But if that’s the choice....

Well that's good. Obviously a lot of people went through degree programs thinking there was going to be employment opportunities as a result, partially because schools like mine, claimed 100% job placement.

Caveat emptor, my friend, perhaps they taught you some Latin in college ;)

You can't know the outcome of something like education beforehand though. Some people I went to school with are crushing it, while others are worse off than I am.

Kyle, that’s not exactly true. Some fields you go into are looking to hire. Nursing being one, health care, lots of trade school graduates, stem, it’s all about researching it. Now, dream jobs, different story & risky.

Okay, so we're going to take the generation of failed artists and feminist dance theory majors and turn them into nurses and welders?

Well, yeah. you gotta make money. Reverse course. Also, having a double major used to be a thing, a back up plan. In case the dream failed.

My prediction: Children of millenials will be radically normal because by the time they are adults, being normal will be counter cultural