[quote=AN][quote=CA renter]Personally, I prefer to live in a world where people have plenty of opportunities to achieve their dreams. Those opportunities have been shrinking dramatically over the past few decades, and you can’t blame the younger generations for being upset about it. This is not the same world that you and I experienced when we were young adults.[/quote]
One thing we all can be sure of is, it’s never the same experience between different generation. Never was, never will be. So, it’s survival of the fittest. Adapt or die. I’m party of this younger generation you’re speaking of and yet, I’m not upset, I have plenty of opportunities to achieve my dreams. I’m actually doing it right now. But I also see many in my generation who don’t have the same work ethic and/or the ability to see the world for what it currently is and adapt to it. They think they can just get a liberal arts degree from a private school, racking up big debts, and somehow, they shouldn’t be burden w/ the debt and be paid big bucks because they have a BA in underwater basket weaving. If you’re a s/w engineer today specializing in mobile, there are plenty of opportunity. I’m being pinged by head hunter at least once a week (some weeks, it’s once a day).
So, although the opportunity isn’t universally available in all areas today like it was 20 years ago, there are many advantages of the current gen X/Y as well. We can go to work in jeans and t-shirts, we get big parties every Friday (Zinga), we get to be instant millionaires (if we work for a start up that succeeded like Facebook, Google, etc), we get to telecommute, we get food and gym for free (a lot of bay area companies), etc. None of this existed 20 years ago.[/quote]
Personally, I wouldn’t change the time I was born, and the life I and my family have been able to live for anything before or after. My hope would be that everyone had the opportunity to feel that way about life.
Like the players in the tech revolution today, many of us in my age group were able to cash in on real estate and other investments–franchises, etc.–in a comparable way. That,along with our chosen careers with the airlines, enabled us to become millionaires by the time we were in our early 30’s.
I can understand, as CAR mentioned, how many younger people would feel frustrated by the lack of some of these opportunities today. On the other hand, as AN mentioned, fantastic opportunities are still there for those who are educationally prepared, and looking in the right places.
