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>>50004732

Hi Zoomer, its far, far worse than you can imagine.

> be standard Millennial (born mid 80s/early 90's)
>Promised if you get good grades in High School and get ANY university degree, will be a success
>Key word is any degree
>Graduate in 2009/early 2010 (Canadian so American experience different but many similarities)
>Job market in province still ok, but not many places not hiring without STEM degree
>Have to go back to school to get relevant degree
>Younger people getting same degree, so you now feel like a fuck up at 24 competing with 18-20 years olds at school. Less energy, more debt stress.
>Some people I know never got jobs, just stayed in debt and lived with parents, after 4 to 8 years to complete their degrees
>very few success stories, more depression, drug addiction
>very few people have families or kids
>even fewer own their own house

It wasn't the great depression, but pretty much cost us 10+ years to get on the property ladder, and shattered illusions of having a successful job/saving/family etc. Many people will not recover, though some were barely affected. I don't think we ever really recovered.

Your advantage is that you can learn from millennial mistakes if you aren't completely retarded, get a useful degree, network and save/invest.