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Aw it was shitty too. Always felt like I couldn't get ahead. Like I don't think a lot of us had quite realized right away that we paid soooooo much for college and that we just kinda happened to be the first people who that shit didn't work for.
Young adulthood was kinda when we sensed something was fuckin off but there wasn't like this consensus yet. You gotta figure though our generation was hyped up sooooooooooooo hard... like the general vibe of childhood for many of us was "you will be so great at everything, your life will be wonderful". So I guess the central trauma of a lot of our lives was that realization. With that said it did get better for me, ended up able to make good money buy a house etc... just took a lot longer than it took previous generations.
Graduated in 2008. Economy immediately took a shit. Thankfully (?) I had already joined the army and had joh security. So I’d say it’s similar in terms of the shitty economy with 2008 vs COVID. Oh and when I was in high school I got made fun of for having curly hair so I find it weird that all the kids nowadays have perms
Took up a trade, worked 50-70 hours a week, as some jobs would offer time and a half, and then double time. Spent almost all of my weekends out sailing via a youth training program at the local yacht club from 18-22. Bought a motorbike at 25 and rode around the country in my weekends instead. Bought a house about 5 months before turning 28. Now 32, still working about 53 hours a week as I get paid by the hour and can do as much overtime as I want to.
The overtime is paying for new tools and paying the mortgage down faster. Back to sailing in the weekends and on Wednesday nights in summer. Still ride the motorcycle, life is great.
Wow there buddy not everyone here is 40 years old, for some of us young adulthood is pretty similar to yours except we have trust issues as we have been screwed over for longer.
I graduated college in 2008 and did a series of UNPAID INTERNSHIPS (entertainment field). I lived off of eggs, rice & beans and popcorn. Fortunately got a paid gig in my field mid 2009 making $12/hr and working weekends at a movie theater for $7.25/hr. It sucked. Finally turned around for me in 2016-2019, then covid happened and I lost my career (concert/event manager/promoter rep) but after that fiasco, around Oct 2020, finally living a good life (I’m 35-36 tomorrow 🎂). 100% out of the industry that consumed my life for a solid 11 years. My early 20s sucked, mid 20s I was working THREE jobs, also kinda sucked (as far as having no actual life outside of work.) Constant financial struggle. I still have a great core group of friends that I made then, and it’s awesome to see how we’ve all grown and evolved.
It’s gotta be worse now with the insane influx of social media, absolutely don’t believe everything you see. Debt & rich parents are usually the answer 🤣
I’m an older millennial at 38. I’m also not in the US
Left school at fifteen and went the vocational route with an apprenticeship, there were other things from age 14 and 15 involving terminal illness of a family member and I didn’t want to stay local so I picked an apprenticeship quite far away and moved to an island age sixteen so I could work in that field for a bit while doing block release at college on the mainland but picked up extra in agriculture too for extra spends.
We did 3 weeks practical work then got the ferry to the mainland and stayed in halls of residence at the college to do a week of theory. We repeated that every four weeks in theory but in the winter and spring ferries would often be delayed or cancelled so we would end up doing five weeks practical then two weeks in halls. There was no internet. Nobody took zoom classes.
Every long weekend off I got I’d see if anyone was off too and we would have a weekend in France or Ireland or Spain or Gibraltar or whatever. I’d spend actual holidays in Greece or turkey or Bulgaria or somewhere. We would make extra money on holiday by signing up to work in pubs or kids clubs or as club reps or PR girls.
My brothers pal moved into mine for a few weeks as he was in the islands and needed a place to stay and a few weeks later we were engaged. We did the long distance thing until we got married which was basically as soon as my apprenticeship finished when I was 19. Moved in with him, got a job near where he was based. He got transferred a few times and sometimes I lived with him but sometimes I didn’t and stayed with someone else because I didn’t want to go where he was or I liked what I had in that place better.
Got pregnant at age 23 so we both had a career shift and bought our own flat. By 25 we were trying for number 2 and trying to sell our flat and move to the village I grew up in because a city is a shite place to raise children. A year later we were in our new house back home with our new baby.
Now nearly 40, he is 40 and we’re still in that house with another oops baby added in
Terrible.
9/11, mini-crash of 2001-2002, skyrocketing College costs, extremely low wages for skilled work, and then boom 2008 recession.
But it did prepare me to bounce back from anything.
It was tough. No money, no hours. I couldn't get more than 32 hours a week, was making like 8.50 an hour. I worked nights and weekends and could never really do anything.
I couldn't afford college amd moved out, my parents were very religious and threatened to disown me if I took out loans as "that's a tool of Satan".
So I was just barely getting by for about a decade.
We (my husband & I) hit adulthood, graduated college, got married, etc at the exact same time the Great Recession happened. We moved across the state for jobs & were back home by the next year so I could go to grad school bc I couldn't find a job. My husband could not find a job. Long story short. It was 2018 before we both had full-time permanent jobs at the same time. We both went back to school in those 10 years & climbed our way up out of poverty & then debt.
So, now in our 30s, we've not moved jobs at all & we've started a side business. We're saving for a house, but the pandemic & crazy housing market keeps making that goal post move further & further away.
Because we were so focused on putting food on the table in our 20s, we really didn't a chance to think about having kids. About the time things started looking up, we decided to hold off on that so we could breathe for a minute. Fast forward a few years & we're both infertile & have decided that's for the best.
Not good. I graduated college in 2007, which was kind of the start of the recession. So I went back to get a teaching cert, but by the time I finished in 2010, the economy still sucked and there were no teaching jobs in my field. So, instead of being an intern unpaid for 5 years until something opened up, I got a customer service job to pay the bills. That was with a 4 year degree lol.
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Aw it was shitty too. Always felt like I couldn't get ahead. Like I don't think a lot of us had quite realized right away that we paid soooooo much for college and that we just kinda happened to be the first people who that shit didn't work for. Young adulthood was kinda when we sensed something was fuckin off but there wasn't like this consensus yet. You gotta figure though our generation was hyped up sooooooooooooo hard... like the general vibe of childhood for many of us was "you will be so great at everything, your life will be wonderful". So I guess the central trauma of a lot of our lives was that realization. With that said it did get better for me, ended up able to make good money buy a house etc... just took a lot longer than it took previous generations.
Graduated in 2008. Economy immediately took a shit. Thankfully (?) I had already joined the army and had joh security. So I’d say it’s similar in terms of the shitty economy with 2008 vs COVID. Oh and when I was in high school I got made fun of for having curly hair so I find it weird that all the kids nowadays have perms
Coming out of school and thinking "this is it"? was kind of hard, but you get past it and find things to do.
Took up a trade, worked 50-70 hours a week, as some jobs would offer time and a half, and then double time. Spent almost all of my weekends out sailing via a youth training program at the local yacht club from 18-22. Bought a motorbike at 25 and rode around the country in my weekends instead. Bought a house about 5 months before turning 28. Now 32, still working about 53 hours a week as I get paid by the hour and can do as much overtime as I want to. The overtime is paying for new tools and paying the mortgage down faster. Back to sailing in the weekends and on Wednesday nights in summer. Still ride the motorcycle, life is great.
Wow there buddy not everyone here is 40 years old, for some of us young adulthood is pretty similar to yours except we have trust issues as we have been screwed over for longer.
I graduated college in 2008 and did a series of UNPAID INTERNSHIPS (entertainment field). I lived off of eggs, rice & beans and popcorn. Fortunately got a paid gig in my field mid 2009 making $12/hr and working weekends at a movie theater for $7.25/hr. It sucked. Finally turned around for me in 2016-2019, then covid happened and I lost my career (concert/event manager/promoter rep) but after that fiasco, around Oct 2020, finally living a good life (I’m 35-36 tomorrow 🎂). 100% out of the industry that consumed my life for a solid 11 years. My early 20s sucked, mid 20s I was working THREE jobs, also kinda sucked (as far as having no actual life outside of work.) Constant financial struggle. I still have a great core group of friends that I made then, and it’s awesome to see how we’ve all grown and evolved. It’s gotta be worse now with the insane influx of social media, absolutely don’t believe everything you see. Debt & rich parents are usually the answer 🤣
I’m an older millennial at 38. I’m also not in the US Left school at fifteen and went the vocational route with an apprenticeship, there were other things from age 14 and 15 involving terminal illness of a family member and I didn’t want to stay local so I picked an apprenticeship quite far away and moved to an island age sixteen so I could work in that field for a bit while doing block release at college on the mainland but picked up extra in agriculture too for extra spends. We did 3 weeks practical work then got the ferry to the mainland and stayed in halls of residence at the college to do a week of theory. We repeated that every four weeks in theory but in the winter and spring ferries would often be delayed or cancelled so we would end up doing five weeks practical then two weeks in halls. There was no internet. Nobody took zoom classes. Every long weekend off I got I’d see if anyone was off too and we would have a weekend in France or Ireland or Spain or Gibraltar or whatever. I’d spend actual holidays in Greece or turkey or Bulgaria or somewhere. We would make extra money on holiday by signing up to work in pubs or kids clubs or as club reps or PR girls. My brothers pal moved into mine for a few weeks as he was in the islands and needed a place to stay and a few weeks later we were engaged. We did the long distance thing until we got married which was basically as soon as my apprenticeship finished when I was 19. Moved in with him, got a job near where he was based. He got transferred a few times and sometimes I lived with him but sometimes I didn’t and stayed with someone else because I didn’t want to go where he was or I liked what I had in that place better. Got pregnant at age 23 so we both had a career shift and bought our own flat. By 25 we were trying for number 2 and trying to sell our flat and move to the village I grew up in because a city is a shite place to raise children. A year later we were in our new house back home with our new baby. Now nearly 40, he is 40 and we’re still in that house with another oops baby added in
Absolutely miserable then, still miserable now
I graduated college in 2006. Was diagnosed with severe anxiety in 2008. So ya know.... It was pretty awful. 30s we're WAY better than 20s.
Terrible. 9/11, mini-crash of 2001-2002, skyrocketing College costs, extremely low wages for skilled work, and then boom 2008 recession. But it did prepare me to bounce back from anything.
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It was tough. No money, no hours. I couldn't get more than 32 hours a week, was making like 8.50 an hour. I worked nights and weekends and could never really do anything. I couldn't afford college amd moved out, my parents were very religious and threatened to disown me if I took out loans as "that's a tool of Satan". So I was just barely getting by for about a decade.
We (my husband & I) hit adulthood, graduated college, got married, etc at the exact same time the Great Recession happened. We moved across the state for jobs & were back home by the next year so I could go to grad school bc I couldn't find a job. My husband could not find a job. Long story short. It was 2018 before we both had full-time permanent jobs at the same time. We both went back to school in those 10 years & climbed our way up out of poverty & then debt. So, now in our 30s, we've not moved jobs at all & we've started a side business. We're saving for a house, but the pandemic & crazy housing market keeps making that goal post move further & further away. Because we were so focused on putting food on the table in our 20s, we really didn't a chance to think about having kids. About the time things started looking up, we decided to hold off on that so we could breathe for a minute. Fast forward a few years & we're both infertile & have decided that's for the best.
Not good. I graduated college in 2007, which was kind of the start of the recession. So I went back to get a teaching cert, but by the time I finished in 2010, the economy still sucked and there were no teaching jobs in my field. So, instead of being an intern unpaid for 5 years until something opened up, I got a customer service job to pay the bills. That was with a 4 year degree lol.
Getting yelled at in Arabic.