I fall in that Millennial age range as much as I hate to admit it and I pulled it off. I know a much younger person that just got an engineer job at a defense contractor. He's definitely in that pay range. He's 23. I've known him since he was 12. Only luck he had was having parents that raised him right. Didn't grow up rich. Worked hard and went to a college out in the country and didn't waste it away partying at some big name tranny factory university. I know another that spent his 18-25 years not doing shit to learn anything useful. He works at a warehouse and lives with his parents with no end in sight.
I get it, shit sucks and it's a hell of a lot worse than when I was a 20-something. I also look around and see so many people just make excuses and give up.
I know another that spent his 18-25 years not doing shit to learn anything useful. He works at a warehouse and lives with his parents with no end in sight.
Do you not see it as a problem that a warehouse worker is living with his parents with no end in sight? A job like that should be enough to get one's life sorted out rather than something that barely pay subsistence wages.
That's the thing, I ended up picking up programming and realise I'm actually decent at it and schools made me feel like I was too dumb to do maths. Plus I didn't make the mistake of attending university and not picking a useless degree so that meant my parents could help me buy a property instead. Normal people our age aren't like that, we're smart frankly compared to a lot of our counterparts and outmanoeuvred the many government operated scams designed to get you into debt at an early age.
Sometimes though it's through no fault of their own which is where i'm actually unusually quite sympathetic to millennials, because I fucking remembered the way teachers would constantly pressure you about how 'important' university is. The problem with that is even when I was 16 I was actually very good at doing research, the more I found out about how universities operated the more scammy it felt.
It's probably even worse for zoomers, that's another thing with regards to the person you know, sometimes just being raised right is luck in of itself. We've all seen what happens to all these weirdos and obvious sluts who grow up without dads and things like that, it affects people more than they care to admit.
The property market is so monumentally fucked now, I could probably do what some people my age do when they come into money and rent out my house then go live abroad in somewhere like Japan and I could probably live comfortably off the rental income most of my life.
Yeah I'm not a fan of school at all. If I think back I bet every teacher I had a good rapport with is 5 or 10 years into retirement by now. School is a toxic environment and it's not just the students causing it. I scraped my way through a bachelor's degree but I didn't like a second of it. I don't think everyone should do that. If anything a lot fewer should go to university. I'd never suggest anyone go to a university that anyone has heard of. No one has ever asked me about why I went to generic city university since about the first year I was employed. They checked off a box that I have the legit degree and that's it. Maybe the name matters in a few fields, but I'm still skeptical.
The zoomers worry me. I'm really close with my cousin's kid in that barely teenager age. He feels like an outlier to me, not tethered to a phone, has parents, is homeschooled and still seems like "what is this kid turning in to" at times. I'm hoping his aimlessness is just early teen stupidity. He's smart as shit but I just can't ever get him to do anything that is actually productive. A victim of growing up too spoiled I guess.
He feels like an outlier to me, not tethered to a phone, has parents, is homeschooled and still seems like "what is this kid turning in to" at times. I'm hoping his aimlessness is just early teen stupidity. He's smart as shit but I just can't ever get him to do anything that is actually productive.
Why be productive for a society that needs to be cleansed with fire?
I fall in that Millennial age range as much as I hate to admit it and I pulled it off. I know a much younger person that just got an engineer job at a defense contractor. He's definitely in that pay range. He's 23. I've known him since he was 12. Only luck he had was having parents that raised him right. Didn't grow up rich. Worked hard and went to a college out in the country and didn't waste it away partying at some big name tranny factory university. I know another that spent his 18-25 years not doing shit to learn anything useful. He works at a warehouse and lives with his parents with no end in sight.
I get it, shit sucks and it's a hell of a lot worse than when I was a 20-something. I also look around and see so many people just make excuses and give up.
Do you not see it as a problem that a warehouse worker is living with his parents with no end in sight? A job like that should be enough to get one's life sorted out rather than something that barely pay subsistence wages.
That's the thing, I ended up picking up programming and realise I'm actually decent at it and schools made me feel like I was too dumb to do maths. Plus I didn't make the mistake of attending university and not picking a useless degree so that meant my parents could help me buy a property instead. Normal people our age aren't like that, we're smart frankly compared to a lot of our counterparts and outmanoeuvred the many government operated scams designed to get you into debt at an early age.
Sometimes though it's through no fault of their own which is where i'm actually unusually quite sympathetic to millennials, because I fucking remembered the way teachers would constantly pressure you about how 'important' university is. The problem with that is even when I was 16 I was actually very good at doing research, the more I found out about how universities operated the more scammy it felt.
It's probably even worse for zoomers, that's another thing with regards to the person you know, sometimes just being raised right is luck in of itself. We've all seen what happens to all these weirdos and obvious sluts who grow up without dads and things like that, it affects people more than they care to admit.
The property market is so monumentally fucked now, I could probably do what some people my age do when they come into money and rent out my house then go live abroad in somewhere like Japan and I could probably live comfortably off the rental income most of my life.
Yeah I'm not a fan of school at all. If I think back I bet every teacher I had a good rapport with is 5 or 10 years into retirement by now. School is a toxic environment and it's not just the students causing it. I scraped my way through a bachelor's degree but I didn't like a second of it. I don't think everyone should do that. If anything a lot fewer should go to university. I'd never suggest anyone go to a university that anyone has heard of. No one has ever asked me about why I went to generic city university since about the first year I was employed. They checked off a box that I have the legit degree and that's it. Maybe the name matters in a few fields, but I'm still skeptical.
The zoomers worry me. I'm really close with my cousin's kid in that barely teenager age. He feels like an outlier to me, not tethered to a phone, has parents, is homeschooled and still seems like "what is this kid turning in to" at times. I'm hoping his aimlessness is just early teen stupidity. He's smart as shit but I just can't ever get him to do anything that is actually productive. A victim of growing up too spoiled I guess.
Why be productive for a society that needs to be cleansed with fire?
What would you prefer? Should I suggest he fling himself off a cliff?