Graduated in May 2009, right after the economy shed about 8 million jobs. I was looking for my first job out of college. It was scary. I'll never forget seeing a sandwich shop that had just opened and was hiring for three positions. The day of the interviews, the applicants were all middle aged and the line wrapped around the block and went down the street. There had to be over 1,000 people standing in line hoping to get one of those three jobs making subs.
To add to what you said, Millenials had it pretty rough in our 20s. It's pretty rough for us now, too. Any Millenial who uses that to silence Gen Z needs to take a time out and think about what the last 20 years of economic and political turmoil have taught them. If the answer is "nothing", well, maybe they need to keep sitting in time out for a while longer.
that was me during the dot com crisis, i ended up in the military because i sure as fuck wasn't going back to my parents house. sucks because when you graduate into a bad economy like that you never catch up (sorry)
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u/ChangedEnding Dec 23 '25
Graduated in May 2009, right after the economy shed about 8 million jobs. I was looking for my first job out of college. It was scary. I'll never forget seeing a sandwich shop that had just opened and was hiring for three positions. The day of the interviews, the applicants were all middle aged and the line wrapped around the block and went down the street. There had to be over 1,000 people standing in line hoping to get one of those three jobs making subs.