Baby Boomers cannot even comprehend the difficulty of life for younger generations

do you really think that the 6 month preppers are getting hired by anybody for a worthwhile job? that's just whack.

LOL. How scammy. My father is a boomer, he would say toughen up. Toughen up.

I'm a late boomer and my parents lived through the depression. It was expected after high school you either got a full-time job and moved out or went to college and then moved out. As a generation we were supposed to figure things out on our own and we did. I have friends with adult sons living at home in their 30's and only part-time jobs. Failure to launch.

Bro, my dad got an engineering degree at NCSU with a 900-950 or so SAT score. Now the average engineering student there has a ~1400 SAT and 3.9 GPA

Do you get it? You had different formative influences. Less FOMO, less comparison game. You didn't see so much distraction, division, hedonism. Your options were few, and everyone was okay with that.

A boomer can talk dem old blues,.NFL footballers, track, and accomodations on road trips. It's all about experience, slick,

bro their teachers used to beat the hell out of them if they didn't act right in school

I agree somewhat.

Kids today have to try and prevent leftist takeovers in their country.

They have journalism and academia to fight and good luck to young, sensible, hard working, law abiding, capitalist folks.

Keep our country free!

as to job interviews. There were no jobs in the 70’s.

The military entrance stations and Greyhound bus stations were full of recruits who didn’t have a daddy who could get them on at GM or Ford.

boomers could go to college for like 100 bucks a term. They could rent an apartment for probably 20 bucks a month. And they could get a brand new VW beetle motorcar for only $800.

They had millions of jobs that don't exist anymore, because technology was so primitive. There were retail stores and restaurants everywhere, as very few things were delivered to anyone's home, besides newspapers. Newspapers were delivered to everyone's home, by far the most thorough and indispensible source of information, and needed hundreds of employees. If you worked hard, you could make as much delivering papers as you can delivering Uber Eats today, adjusted for inflation.

I'm envious of the factory jobs they had. When I was a kid, my only dream was to work in a factory assembly line making tee shirts or widgets. Then coming home and smoking Pall Malls on my front porch. That was the dream the globalists stole from this child. I might have been been in a Bruce Springsteen song. But they took it away from me.

Most people think thet are smarter than they are, and work harder than most others. Tgat is why older generations fail to see how younger generations experience life

On the other hand you don't have to worry about getting drafted and maybe killed in a war everyone now acknowledges was a mistake, so there's that.

College was a lot cheaper then than now but nowhere near as cheap as 100 bucks a term unless maybe it was at a community college. But 100 bucks in real money in 1960 is more like $900 now, still way cheaper for a college term than what it costs now. But again tuition was nowhere nearly as cheap as $100 a year. I was paying a little over $2,000 a term at a state school in the early 70s. That's about $15,000 now. And that $800 VW might have existed in the early 50s. When I started driving in 1969 they cost a hair under $2,000 so again we're looking at about $15,000 in today's money, again, cheaper than you can get any new car for now but not that much. You can get equivalent cars, Mirages, Versas, for under $20,000. Yes, things were cheaper then than now but not by nearly as much as you seem to think.

There were nowhere near as many restaurants then as now. People didn't eat out nearly as much. Retail work was a much, much, better deal then. You could support a family if you worked retail in a lot of stores. There were many more factory jobs then than now. The work was pretty miserable and sometimes dangerous but if you were in the right locations, especially in a unionized shop, the money and benefits were pretty good.

Kids delivered newspapers. I don't know how much Uber Eats drivers make but if they can afford a car it's loads more than a kid walking or on a bike delivering papers before or after school could dream of making.

Women have never needed to worry about this in the history of civilization.

Not a boomer, but a gen Xer. Every generation thinks they have it tougher than the last, but in reality, each generation has its own challenges. Life wasn’t all roses for boomers either. If you keep believing life is a struggle, it will become one. If you believe you can do great things and are willing to work for them, then you will. Adulting ain’t easy, and never has been.

I can speak to my own experience. I missed one question on the math portion of the SAT, and was the top male student in my high school class. I was a state champion. I went to state school because I was poor. I worked multiple dead end jobs (full time in the summer and part time during the school year) from the age of 15 to pay my way through college. I traveled out of state for track meets twice in high school in four years on my own dime. I paid for all my clothes, running shoes, most of my meals, and I didn’t have a car until I was 23. I did undergraduate research (because I had excellent grades in engineering and made contacts through my professors) and got a job from someone who had done research in the same program years prior. I haven’t inherited a cent and my parents played no role in my career. Please let me know how much easier I had it than you.

Sounds like you are absolutely fine.

Now the same bright young kid doesn't get into the engineering program because he's not a DEI candidate and he never makes those industry connections.

It's not about high school or college. It's about after. Most millennials will never, ever be able to buy a house. The median home price right now in the USA is approximately $400,000. In some areas like San Fran, it's $1.3 million. They have increase exponentially faster than wages have.

Wages have stagnated, inflation is increasing significantly faster than wages. It's impossible to even save up because of low wages, high cost of college + interest on student loans, extremely high rent prices, the high cost of cars and insurance, high cost of medical care, food prices are insane.

There are VERY VERY few houses being built in America. It's mostly apartments being built. So home prices will continue to skyrocket due to high demand but low supply, and most people will be forced to be permanent renters.

Not only can they not afford to buy houses, they can't even afford to have children.

The retirement age is going to be changed to 70+ in the very near future, but most still won't be able to retire by then. SOCIAL SECURITY WILL NOT EXIST by the time 30 year olds (in 2025) retire, meaning all they paid into the program will just vanish.

UK job application process.

1. Most jobs not advertised.

2. Lots of advertised jobs are fake.

3. Apply. Complete psychometric tests. Usually numerical and communication. Sometimes abstract reasoning. Complete 4 x 500 word responses.

4. Sift.

5. Complete video interview.

6. Sift.

7. Group interview or face to face.

8. Sift.

9. Face to face interview.

I applied to the civil service. Scored better than 90% of test takers in the numerical section and better than 88% of test takers in the written section. Then a panel interview in front of 3. Rejection. I have a physics degree and a masters in nuclear. I'm probably more qualified than the panel put together.