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https://fortune.com/2024/02/09/gen-z-grad-two-degrees-breaks-down-tears-minimum-wage-employers-resume-in-person/

“I was so upset and disappointed in myself because growing up, I was told that if I get an education, if I go to college, then I’ll be successful,” Santos told Business Insider—and she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.

Just last month, 27-year-old Robbie Scott similarly went viral on TikTok for insisting that Gen Z isn’t any less willing to work than generations before. Instead, he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 99 points 9 months ago

she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.

A growing trend in business news journals is to tell people that pursuing college degrees is some kind of trap. It is downright sinister how the response to the student debt crisis has simply been to lie to young people about their future job prospects without a college degree.

If a Fortune Magazine reporter comes at you with a microphone, remember that you are acting in self-defense when you draw and fire.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 80 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I remember being in high school, unsure of what I wanted to go to college for and being told

it doesn't matter, as long as you get a degree in something

Which, let me tell you, does not help at all

I've gotten all of my jobs because I knew someone

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

The trick is to study abroad and never come back. Fuck this hellhole, that's what I should have done.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Or get a degree to do a soulless email job like I did desolate

But I still only got my current job because I knew someone

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

The only reason I was able to escape grocery is because my brother put in a good word for me at the job he was already a manager at, and for that same reason I might be moving to a different department so I don't explode from stress

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

MFW I already feel like a loser for mooching off my parents, and it looks like I'm going to have to mooch off my more successful family members just to get the porks to even consider me.

I hate it here.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Honestly? I've been looking at master's programs to do exactly that. Even kkkanada is leagues better than anarcho-fourthreich.

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wait till next year and you'll eat your words

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