Millennial about to turn 41.
I'm tired.
I'm not particularly fond of my fellow Americans anymore.
And I don't have an ounce of patriotism left.
This country can go ahead and fuck itself. Which it appears to be doing pretty thoroughly. Dumbest fucking country in the history of the world if you take into account its wealth and influence compared to its quality of life and happiness index.
Weighing how much effort/money it would take to get Canadian citizenship and whether I have that kind of energy left in me.
It's not like this is a millennial thing:
- 2000-02: dot-com crash
- 1990-92: early 90s recession
- 1987: Black Monday
- Mid-1980s: Savings and Loan Crisis
- Early 1980s: Early 1980s recession
- Mid 1970s: Mid 1970s recession
And you can keep going back. Also, the plural of crisis is crises.
I'm tired, boss
I'm on the oldest edge of Gen Z, 27 year old here.
I can maybe handle my parents promising a good life for me before rug pulling that. Well, I can't and that's one of the many reasons why I have mental health issues.
I don't think they could have predicted 3 economic crashes in my life before I turn the age they conceived me.
It's just profoundly sad that there are people who were raised for this planet and the planet has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years alone. The technology, the temperature, the expected job market, the ability to own even basic things, the political climate.
Most people on Lemmy were raised with a bright future that has been dimmed each passing year. The only light we have are those we are close to.
I'm an "elder" millennial.... I'm 40+.
Pretty much everything went to shit right after I got to the workforce. It was somewhat subtle at first, but it's only gotten far worse and far more obvious as time has gone on.
Kids? Nah bro. Have you seen the world? I don't want to live here, why would I subject someone that I care about to a life, living in this hellscape? Like all parents, I'm sure I would love my children if they existed and even though they don't exist, I still love them enough to not subject them to gestures at everything this.
I haven't gotten a meaningful raise since starting work. I was originally hired at basically minimum wage, a bit better than it in my area (ironically, my starting wage in my career is now below what minimum is now), and the only time I went up in salary is when I changed jobs.
With more than half a dozen years of experience (this is a while back) I was fighting for anything over $60k/yr (it gets worse), while housing in my area was skyrocketing above $400k for a modest home....
After the usual expenses of food and rent, I've been robbed blind by being given no choice but to buy things "as a service" and own fucking nothing. I've pushed back against it as much as possible and after years, I paid off my vehicle and absolutely, positively, 100% own this now 13 year-old car. Whoopee....
I've lived through everything from 9/11, to Trump... Twice.... And nothing has ever quantifiably gotten "better" without getting worse in some other way.
Better, faster, more capable computers? You're obligated to run software that spies on you. Better cars with fancy tech that makes them basically drive themselves? Only if you subscribe to activate the seat warmers for a nominal yearly fee.... Phones are more capable, better, faster, more connected and overall significantly improved? These are now devices used by companies to harvest every meaningful ounce of information from you, selling it to the highest bidders (multiple times, I might add), and giving you nothing for your contribution. Congratulations, someone has monetized your existence via an app on your phone.
Everything is worse. You never have time off work anymore. Even if you take vacation, the expectation is that if they call you, you'll answer, then you're working for free. But if you don't answer, then your job is at risk.
Fuck everything. This world sucks. I'm fucking sick of all of this shit and I'm mad as hell about it.
Some of us millennials have been extraordinarily lucky.
I'm an old millennial but I avoided any personal impact from the 2001 recession by being in college, on financial aid.
Then the 2008 recession didn't hit me very hard because I wasn't a homeowner was a single childless dude who was flexible enough to just up and move wherever there was a job, across the country if necessary. I had a different job in a different state each year from 2008 through 2011, taking big raises with each move, then eventually back to school.
Then the 2020 recession didn't hit me very hard because my wife and I both had counter-cyclical jobs (I tend to be busier when businesses are failing) and already owned a home, allowing us to bypass much of the inflation of the post-2020 period with a fixed rate mortgage we had refinanced to below 3% in 2021.
Now, the 2025 recession is probably gonna hit us hard. But I've basically escaped the last 3, so maybe I'm due.
Just wait til you're in your 40s...
I'm turning 42 this summer. I'm considered an "elder millennial".
I wish I was 35.
Also, "crises."
I had a discussion about this very thing with a Boomer, who proceeded to state they essentially went through more and including the shared recessions that myself as a millennial went through. Gas shortages of the 70s, wars, protests, etc, failing to grasp the point that was being made that their generation has had all the opportunities. They closed it out with, oh well maybe you should work harder and save more... yeah okay, hard to do that when I am overtaxed, inflation is on the rise, were likely entering Great Depression 2.0 thanks to Donvict, can't afford a house when a mortgage would be cheaper than renting where I am at, but sure yea I will just work til I drop with little living in between, that's the fix, its not the system, its me. Their "I got mine" attitude is astounding dismissive and part of the issue with their generation. Not all of them, some of them get it, but a large majority look at millenials and the younger generation as being lazy and that's why there is such a massive homeless population problem. Not that wages have not grown proportionally with the cost of living, its just that we don't work hard enough. I half joked that the greatest thing that could have happened was that COVID wiped a large swath of their generation off the map, it would save Social Security, free up housing, bring down the burden on healthcare, lower GOP voting base of angry bigot whites that hold on to the belief that America is only right if it is white, a large part of politicians that have made a career out of it would be removed ushering in a new more modern means of thinking into politics, and we might actually make some progress in this country. But nope, now we have angry Karens and racist Kyles who blame immigrants for all their problems rather than looking at the disparity between American generations.
The generation of "cake or death" seriously starting to consider the death instead of the chicken.
I graduated highschool, got out on my own, got 9/11. Then we had 2008 housing. Then we had corona. Probably some stuff I'm missing.
And yet we are the coddled, snowflake generation xD make it make sense. I feel worse for the younger generations, tbh. At least we got to spend our childhoods and teens relatively carefree, if a bit aimless and with the feeling of not being needed in society.
Young people and kids today are dealing with constant existential crisis. I guess the upside to that is that they won't have to deal with this aimlessness that we dealt with, but maybe it's better to feel aimless than to carry the future of our planet on your shoulders before the age of 10.
In the end, we are all dealing with the same problems right now and we can only do our best.
I'm tired, boss
33, will be 34 not long after the Switch 2 launches....
At this point I welcome death, I feel like I've earned Valhalla at this point.
Chaos is a Ladder.
But its a ladder that periodically collapses when you're halfway up and leaves you splayed out on the sidewalk in horrible pain and with five digit hospital bills.
Only to be enslaved by AI, and denied any respite.
Yeah. I’m gonna get fired for being room temperature one day.
Add a few more things for Millennials who were born in the 80’s.
“All you need to do to succeed is go to college!”
“Cool, how do I afford it?”
“Well yeah looks like the guy your mom married makes too much money for you to deserve any form of help. Try working more!”
“Cool, I spent the last few years burning myself out for a degree while working full time and supplementing with sex work. I’ll have nightmares about a motel for the rest of my life, but now I can have a full time job and work towards owning a house now? I even promised to be a teacher, that’s a job with a huge shortage right and I shouldn’t have just grabbed a cheap online BA because there are no requirements anymore?”
“Uhh, lol no we actually want unqualified babysitters. Better than being a gross tranny.”
The fact that my ex husband spent my thirtieth birthday with someone he gave $5k too, three months before kicking me out and emptying my bank account, the fact that I live in a state where even if I were cis the resources for survivors of DV are non existent, the fact that I don’t know if my drivers license is valid anymore….
I’m not even thirty three and I’m exhausted. I can deal with my life sucking or the world sucking, but not both at the same time.
"Unprecedented"
Will be 36 this year. All I can say is: BRO! Wtf?! gestures vaguely
Double the inflation, unemployment and triple the crime for the 80s and 90s. Worked multiple jobs and ate powdered milk with puffed rice song with potatoes to survive. Waaagh
I feel this. My beard and hair have about half as much grey as the meme and I'm still a few years from 35. I want off Mr Bones' Wild Ride
Will Smith is a bitch’s bitch
Advanced capitalism. Crushing.
Jokes on you! I’m 37! 🥺😢😭
I didn't just go through them... I got rekt by them
I didnt even hit 25 and already threw so much too!
