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?
I’m not limiting myself to Economics. Any company that requires data analysis (retail, etc.) I have applied too.
I described the dilemma my generation is currently facing in this economy earlier. In summary, I’m going to keep applying and interviewing because someone, somewhere will be willing to give me a chance to prove myself. That’s all I need, like Jeremy Lin haha.
“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.”
I completely agree which is one of the points I was trying to make. Thank you for echoing my sentiments! I also agree with the gentleman who stated that we need to avoid a generation vs. generation war. The older generation needs to mentor us young folks and the young folks need to respect and learn from their elders otherwise we’re all screwed in some way.