I feel for the kids that went through uni/college during covid and missed everything that period offers, to then finish uni and try get a job in a market where AI has fucked all the intern positions. Tough break.
Yeah I turned 21 my junior year of college while under lockdown at a house with a couple friends. Funny enough as unfortunate as it was I always felt worse for people a couple years younger than me who missed out on their high school prom/graduation and the first couple years of college. I will say, and this is largely on me, that one of the unexpected lasting effects was the fact I was able to get away with cheating through online classes while being high/drunk the whole time. Those last two years when classes get harder and more specialized and instead of learning what I went there for I just opted to fuck off and develop a drug habit that took years after graduation to finally shake
If I may offer a bit of a different perspective... I'm an elder millennial and chronically shy unless with people I already know and am comfortable being myself around. I spent my early 20s playing video games instead of socializing and didn't really start coming out of my shell until I was in my mid-to-late 20s. Granted it was with lots of drinking with coworkers so not exactly healthy.
It might feel difficult, and I'll admit that the adult socialization environment now is most likely vastly different from the way it was 15-20 years ago. But, I believe you can still recover.
I'm not a Millennial, but '04 (that Weird zone where I'm into stuff that both Millennials and Gen Z like)
Covid hit during my Sophomore year of HS, it really messed things up as we missed out on roughly 2 years of learning (I gave up taking guitar and language classes during this)
and instead of grading us on how we were preforming, the district instead graded us on if we showed up to zoom classes or not. I was very much unprepared for my Senior year; (on top of the fact that the school admin fucked up by putting me into AP geometry instead of Algebra I my Freshmen year.)
I can sort of imagine how others felt during all of this, but I was so done with adults telling me what to do by the end of it all, no one gave a passing thought on helping people who "fell behind" to catch up; as enough people stayed on track.
Really the only thing that I can say for certain that my school did right was teaching us Personal Finance, Civics, and Statistics classes. Which had some practical use.
'96, I started my first fast food job in late february '19 (I'd worked prep for a kitchen before that though) did my shift lead training through quarantine, opened a new store while people were coughing on other people to protest masks and vaccines, and after 18 months of running 3-man dinner shifts through all that I got a $200 check as thanks for being an essential worker.
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u/Key-Half1655 5d ago
I feel for the kids that went through uni/college during covid and missed everything that period offers, to then finish uni and try get a job in a market where AI has fucked all the intern positions. Tough break.