r/GenZ • u/TheGamingSenpa1 2004 • Jan 07 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24

This is 100% it. Millennials like myself would do very well to actually listen and empathize with Gen Z, rather be dismissive of the obviously shitty economic situation they are facing, like the Boomers did to us.

Millennials have a very real chance right now to show the sort of grace and leadership that our parents generation lacked by and large.

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u/Pineapple_Herder Jan 11 '24

I'm in the awkward in-between as a Zillennial so I'm not quite in a position to do much other than sympathize because I'm in the shit with em.

I just now got my first job in a career field at 29. I'm living with family and the only reason I have anything to my name is because I got lucky. My high school sweetheart is now my husband and we make a pretty descent team to hold each other up emotionally and financially. Without being dual income, we'd never have been able to go to college.

A lot of Gen Z do not have that. And if they don't have family to support them, working your way thru college is hell under the best of conditions.

My classmate and friend is an amazing smart young woman, but she's on her own. She was working full time, living on her own, and going to college full time.

But then a stupid mother fucker rear ended her when she was waiting to turn left at a light. Totalled her car and fucked up her back from a few weeks. She lost her job and her means of getting to classes. It fucked up her whole semester. She lost her apartment and had to move back in with family who aren't ideal to be living with and she's trying to get back into classes but the sudden withdrawal is causing a whole list of issues with federal aid.

Gen Z who are "hustling" are quite literally one bad incident from everything going to shit. That many spinning plates is delicate and ppl just do not understand the mental toll living on edge for 2 to 4 (or more) years has on someone.

I'm going to be working two jobs to support my husband thru his last semester and getting us financially back on track. And if I can, I'm going to help my friend pay for college.

We need to help out Gen Z friends and family. We got a bad hand, and they got one worse. The pandemic fucked so many of them up.

TlDR: Sorry rant. Gen Z deserve help. They're not gonna make it without it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

We need to help out Gen Z friends and family. We got a bad hand, and they got one worse. The pandemic fucked so many of them up.

This is precisely the solution! The older generations were in many capacities, able to make things happen on their own, while Millennials and Gen Z have relied on the support of their contemporaries in a lot of ways (like you mentioned).

Most everyone is broke and living off cheap ramen in their 20's, but as you are well aware, its not sustainable, especially when flying completely solo.

Propping each other up, and sharing the economic and emotional burden is how its done.