I think the jobs out there really are just “jobs”. Dead-ends or gigs. The pay is low and it will never go up. And you’ll never get promoted because there really isn’t much of anywhere to move up to. So you can be a wage slave in a boring, low-paid pointless job with no future. That’s just a reality for a lot of people — and plenty of them went to college and got hired to a job that sounded on paper like it might be a really good job. But then it wasn’t.
There used to be “careers” out there where people could start out low, work hard, and move up. I think this sort of path has been drastically reduced.
Some older people get it. But I talk to a lot of Baby Boomers who think that the economy and demographics in 2024 are pretty much identical to how things were in 1984. But things have changed. A lot.
2004 was the last time anything was close to normal
REAL JOBS & PARTICIPATION TROPHIES ARE NOT A GOOD MATCH.
I NEVER interviewed for job other than IN PERSON.