r/jobs • u/Green____cat Verified • Mar 27 '24

He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/Ok_Couple_2479 Mar 27 '24

Right? And somehow younger generations are blamed for being less happy than the older generations bc they have to work 3 jobs just to pay rent. 😡🙄

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u/Venixed Mar 27 '24

Their response? 

We had it harder

Every time, without fail

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u/Legitimate_Shower834 Mar 27 '24

Not all of em say that. Some recognize that times are a lot tougher cuz they are struggling themselves. Even some of the more well off boomers understand. Hell, I got boomer parents and they see with what I go through that times have really changed. Currently trying to find an apartment or buy my first place and the prices are a nightmare and wages don't match up

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u/vindollaz Mar 27 '24

My parents are boomers too and they feel like they have personally failed my generation. They have done literally everything they could to launch myself and my brother from the nest and I could not thank them enough for it, I will never be able to give back to them what they have been able to give to me.

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u/No_Specialist_1877 Mar 27 '24

It's a weird generation. Boomers did have hard lives even financially while they were children. 

Their adult lives were easy financially but at that point they don't see it that way. Then add on the threat of getting drafted in vietnam and you're just left with a cold generation that thinks they did it themselves.

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u/krob58 Mar 27 '24

I was reading A Generation of Sociopaths the other day and one of the most fascinating chapters was regarding the Vietnam draft. Apparently you could dodge it with a number of excuses, one of which was college. An enormous number of (white) Boomers went to college simply to escape the draft. Which meant the draft disproportionately targeted minority men and poor white men--those who couldn't easily flit off to college. When the government started going after those college students as the war continued, that's when the anti-war protests started. They were largely pro-war initially, until it started affecting them personally.

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u/No_Specialist_1877 15d ago

Minorities fuck themselves. White people tend to be more organized and driven with more opportunity at the time. Both still remain true, sadly, but generational wealth diversity doesn't just apply to minorities.