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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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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

I won't say I'm bad at my current job, far from it, but I'm ridiculously formally underqualified for it. All my grown-up jobs has come from me knowing guys who knows guys. It is ridiculous. If I hadn't known any guys I'd be fucked.

I do have a a bachelor's degree and almost all of a master's degree in something totally unrelated to my current career. I had to drop out for mental health reasons and the student debt from back then is still an albatross around my neck. A very radicalising albatross by the way.

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