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[areyououtthere]

God, almost every story on this blog makes me so angry and defensive.

When my mom first started showing me stories about my generation's Mean Girls and rainbow parties and asking if it all sounded familiar, I could honestly tell her no, actually I know nothing about that world. When you start talking about job-hunting and the laziness of job

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[sbeath]

You know, I've wanted to say that for years. Baby boomers were all idealistic and then they got jobs and left that behind, voted out government tuition assistance the minute they graduated from college, bought up McMansions and
SUVs, and lots of cheap crap made in sweatshops, and left us with a crap economy, a crap environment, and crap infrastructure. I'm in a particularly bad mood now, but I think it may be widespread--thisloathing of previous generations and the havoc they wreaked on our future, our world, and our options (all, of course, while talking about how great they were and listening to Bob Dylan)

Baby boomers, you're fifty years old. Grow the fuck up and deal with the messes you made, instead of blaming the people who are already having to deal.

[matt_rah]

Word.

Although, I have to say, I understand the motivations of the guy in the article. Getting stuck in a job that will actually make your future career prospects worse rather than better is a real and reasonable concern. Lots of corporations are trying to use the economic downturn just to exploit people more.

But yeah, it's not like people in their 20's or 30's are responsible for repealing Glass-Steagall or deregulation in general.

Matt

[batshua]

I just have to keep saying to myself "it's not just me", and damn, it's hard.

I'm tired of being turned down for entry-level work.

It's not like there's something LESS challenging out there for me to be looking for…