No, I voted for McCain.
My skills lie in Statistics which is in demand however finding entry level jobs is quite complicated in this economy thanks to the large amount of individuals with 2+ years experience taking the lower level jobs which pushes people such as myself out of the entry level jobs in that field. While I may not like it, it’s a fact of life and I have to deal with it. It’s my problem and maybe I’ll get lucky in that some employer will give me my first shot and let me prove that I can produce. If not, I’ll keep trying! :D
What I keep hearing is a vocal minority on FR that despises young conservatives and holds ridiculous assumptions about that demographic. For example, you assumed I voted for Odumbo. Ignorant much?
That minority is also trying, and succeeding, at driving away young conservatives through constant personal attacks instead of listening to our opinions and experience in the entry-level labor markets. While we may not know much of anything, we do know the conditions of that specific labor market and how they affect us. Disagreements are fine but please don’t assume that A) you’re superior to us in anyway or B) that you know everything because you most certaintly aren’t and do not.
I’m more than willing to listen and acknowledge your stereotypes of my generation (many are quite accurate) but you should also be willing to listen to our experiences and our views because sometimes we may actually have something to contribute to the conversation that you older folks may not know.
Food for thought.
Good luck in your job search, I do realize how hard it is out there to get a job. Keep trying, your first job probably won't be your dream job, but down the road a good one will come along. On that I am being very serious.
What us “older” people don’t like hearing is excuses and whining about how someone “stole” your opportunities which sounds a whole lot like entitlement syndrome. Life is hard. Life isn’t fair. We play the hand we’re dealt the best we can. Sometimes we guess wrong and have to start over. Sometimes we fall down, sometimes hard. We try to pick ourselves up and move on without blaming others for the consequences of our choices.
As far as our current state of affairs, there’s much blame to go around. Clearly many generations of people have voted themselves goodies at other’s expense and thought a little “soft” socialism would be a wonderful thing. In 2008 overwhelmingly your generation voted for Obama for a wide variety of reasons, from being cool voting for the black guy, wanting a “free” education, “green” energy to save the planet, no war, to raising taxes on the “wealthy” to make things “fair”, whatever...
Now your generation along with everyone else is learning the cost of all that “free” stuff and your vote. You can’t tax the hell out of your employer and expect your employer to continue growing the business. Poor people don’t hire people. You can’t regulate everything and then wonder where the jobs went. You can’t demonize employers and then expect them to go out on a limb and expand their business. You can’t constantly change the tax code and expect businesses to do any long term planning. Business needs some stability in future visibility to plan effectively - see Obamacare...
If you are really good at statistics and modeling, there’s a wide array of fields it can be applied to. Why limit yourself to economics?