Excuse me, I’m a baby boomer who got her first job in a recession and that first job was full-time with unpaid overtime and less than $100 a week. And remember gas lines?
I remember gas lines, I am of the “silent” generation, born DURING WWII. I also remember when one hundred dollars a week was a dream, anyone who earned that much was considered well off. It was equal to at least fifteen hundred in today’s worthless dollars. As a teenager I was happy to work all day in the hot sun for three or four dollars. I had a classmate in high school who bought a 1955 Cadillac Sedan Deville in perfect running condition for fifty dollars in 1962.
Also having to pay back student loans to obtain a science degree at 7-8% interest rates in the teeth of a nasty recession without the sympathetic bankruptcy climate of today. Compare and contrast with the whiny snowflakes are boo hooing about paying back at less than 2% interest? Sucks to be a barista with a combined gender studies/art history degree, doesn’t it snowflake?
I was in high school during the Carter-era gas lines. I made money offering to take people's cars to get gas and wait in the lines for them.
-PJ