Do you have any career plans after Starbucks?
(Just kidding, sounds like you’re off to a good start)
Seriously...
Do your planning and career training paths set you on a course to financial and personal freedom and independence? Do your friends’?
We’ve all heard the Mom’s basement trope, and while my life hasn’t always worked out the easiest, I’ve been out and on my own (in TX) since I learned to code, back in college, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
It seems like a lot of my younger acquaintances have accepted and gotten used to the concept of living a life of reduced wealth and prosperity compared to previous generations. Do you think that’s the case? Do you think there’s anything to be done about it (personally, or as a generation)?
Just wondering...
Don’t worry, I get what you mean.
I don’t know if I’ll be independent yet. If I go the full academic route, I guess I’ll be a slave to the universities. If not, I may be a ward of the public sector.
I’ve absolutely resigned to it. Boomers grew up in a period of artificial prosperity made possible by victory in war and by their country becoming the top dog. Globalization makes things different now. I think we could do something about it once the housing bubble bursts again