[quote=yamashi1][quote=bearishgurl]
That’s it, in a nutshell. The “expectations” of most young adults today (esp those with college degrees) are through the roof and completely unrealistic. Especially for residents of crowded, CA coastal counties with a HUGE well-established “captive audience” of deep-pocketed, lifetime residents, many who have been in the local workforce for 40+ years. In my mind, millenials can’t possibly “compete” with all of these factors and shouldn’t be expected to. They must be satisfied with what they have currently attained, stay humble and keep “showing up,” keeping themselves as “visible” as possible at work. They need to “pay their dues” if they want to be able to compete for future promotions. As worker-bees with 0-15 years experience, they can’t have everything NOW![/quote]
Like I said about your previous post, you are a very biased individual who has personalized many things I have written and spit them out for your personal biased agenda.
A lot of the things you say that you are refuting is not the nature of what I intended. In addition, you continue to rant about how millenials feel entitled to everything for doing nothing. To be honest nothing could be farther from the truth.
The one thing you are correct about though is the “pay their dues” theory. Like I said before, we are results oriented people who believe in a just and meritocratic society. We believe that you don’t deserve a job because of the color of your skin, the amount of gray hair you have, or the amount of hours you sit in front of your computer. We believe in the bottom line, how much $ you bring into the company, how much impact you have to the bottom line.
Not sure why you are so against it, but it seems like you were ousted by someone younger who may have made more money for your company. Either way, not my concern in the slightest. BTW, I asked my boomer coworkers where they live and a few live down the street from me, and the rest live in Carmel Valley, Bird Rock, and Coronado. Not sure where you were going with that question, but just answered it since you asked.[/quote]Regarding my FT work, the vast bulk of it was for a local government, from which I “retired.” I was never ousted by younger-anything. We had a “merit system” and were “represented” employees (yes, even the “professionals”). In my field, I worked in the private sector FT for ~7 years and in food service for ~6 years when I was young. I’ve been working out of my home in my field as an “independent contractor” for the past ~9 years.
If your boomer co-workers reside in “Bird Rock” and “Coronado” in residences which they own, then they must have been very highly-paid at the time they purchased them as those areas have always been among the SD communities with the highest-priced RE. Either that, or they “inherited” their residences. If they actually purchased them by qualifying for a mortgage using their wages at the time, then you have quite a “hill” to climb to attain their positions, IMO, especially of they purchased their Bird Rock residence long ago.
I’m not buying the story that you say boomer-workers are telling their co-workers in that they can’t retire yet because their stocks are decimated. If they’re referring to the crash of 2008, we recovered from that long ago. Perhaps they’re just using that as an “excuse.” I feel that some of the real reasons for ~65 yo straggling boomers still in the FT workforce are that they are still assisting their youngest kids through college. Room and board, both on and off campus, can be very pricey today, depending upon campus and locale. When we were having kids, we didn’t have them one after another in immediate succession (at least not planned), like I see multiple families headed by millenials do. We couldn’t because FT daycare for 2+ kids at a time (without assistance from relatives) took up too much of a chunk of our paychecks. My large group of co-workers and I had them about 5-12 years apart. That’s why we’re now seeing boomers ~60+ years old with college-age kids. There are a lot of us out there.
I don’t know any boomers who are heavily indebted (secured or unsecured) and thus would need to keep working FT to pay off debt.
