Kids today don’t know how to struggle.
The first job I had when I got out of high school paid about $5/hr (about $10k/yr). I rabidly realized that that wasn’t going to cut it, so I joined the Navy and learned electronics, which, after the Navy landed me a job paying $9/hr (good money for 1987) after two years I was making $14/hr and working on commercial aircraft. I loved the job but I knew it wouldn’t last so I went to college and got a degree in electrical engineering. Eventually I was making $100k/year.
My sister back in Minnesota knows several people in their early 20’s. They cannot hold a job for long. How they support each other? She knew 7 non related people that lived in one of their mom’s home till they burned it down a few months back due to charging up their phones all at once while they were asleep in a house built in the 1940’s. No injuries but the house is totaled....
One couple she knows are in the early 20’s, have one small kid, no job as he keeps losing them. They live at his parents home. My sister tried to explain that he had to get a job and work from there. There is no perfect / permanent job unless he starts his own business.
I started work at 15 in the summers. Full time at 18. I had 5 jobs before I retired. Each paid more then the last. I invested my money in stock and was able to retire. I did not have a 401k and wish I had as it would mean even more money.