[CaptainCrunch]

The situations aren't too different from older generations to now, but I think that the preperation from an educational standpoint may have shifted.

No matter if you have a Bachelors degree or masters degree, all it guaranteed you is a long shot at a job in your chosen career path, and even if you got that job, your entry level job didn't pay well, you were basically shoveling sh%t at a lower pay then anyone else in the organization that you worked with, but if you worked hard and got noticed you'd move up the pay and position ladder. But for those first few years, you realized that your job was a pretty big priority.

You come out of university now and an entry level job with a degree is probably in the 40 to 50 k range, starter houses are in the 300's. Cars are in the 18 to 20k range.

When I graduated from university you were probably luck to make 24k per year. A house was in the small 100's and a car was 8 to 12 k. The situation really hasn't changed that much, we came out burdened with heavy student loans.

I think that the failure point is with the people teaching this generation and raising their expectations to an incredible level. Your coming out with a dgree, your going to be making 6 figures in a couple of years. Somewhere along the way companies and teachers started pushing work life balance almost like a recruiting tool. That was never pushed in my old persons day.

Students now are getting a shock to their system when they exit the education system. Organizations don't care all that much about entry level positions, especially with the universities flooding the markets with people from different fields. If you go in and they break you, they don't care there's another group of grads coming out. Company owners are getting that shock with people leaving at 5 or earlier in the day whether their work is done or not. People walking through the doors at 8:30 or 9:00pm.

At the end of the day, the same pressures were on us, and our parents (especially if they went to uni) and our grandparents, this generation is no different. I will argue that their outlook to early career is different, and that might work against them when dealing with the generations that believed that they could put the whole work life balance off for a few years til their career was security.

Again young people suck.

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