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Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:03 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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As a low-level Walmart employee, you will have a hard time making it on your own.
When I was early 20s, I would always find a job working as a waitress because it paid more than something like Walmart. It was harder, but it paid better. This was early 2000s, and I was happy if I averaged $10 an hour after tips instead of the $5.15 minimum wage. At $10 an hour back then I was able to pay for a crappy apartment in Baton Rouge with a roommate, utilities, and food. I had a bit left over for beer money. My parents paid for my car, car insurance, and health insurance, and they were my emergency fund in the event of something major happening. It wasn’t possible to live independently with a Walmart job in the early 2000s. I’m not sure if it ever has been.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:08 pm to pelicanpride
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I’m not sure if it ever has been.
It wasn't possible. That idiot is already burnt out from working 40 hours a week for a year or two. Boo fricking hoo.
40 hours per week if you're single and no kids is nothing. Get a second part time job if need be.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:11 pm to Slippy
Agreed.
I will never forget the harsh realization that 100k as gross pay was not all that much money. Once taxes, deductions, etc came out of it and you saw what was left every paycheck, it was extremely depressing.
I will never forget the harsh realization that 100k as gross pay was not all that much money. Once taxes, deductions, etc came out of it and you saw what was left every paycheck, it was extremely depressing.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:11 pm to jimmy the leg
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At 20 years old, I couldn’t afford living on my own. She is delusional thinking that back then, everyone turned 20 and bought a house and car all on their own. As for working at sprawl mart, it can be a good career if you are intelligent and hard working.
Every generation has hardships.
Theirs is self inflicted if they don’t want to have roommates.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:14 pm to deeprig9
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Wrong bitch. 20 years ago I lived with two roommates to split rent and ate cheap shitty food like Ramen noodles, pastas, canned meats, and Totino''s. But dumb bitch is right about one thing, twenty years later with 20 years of experience under my belt, getting raise after raise, I do not live like that anymore. Such a dumb short-sighted entitled bitch.
I agree with your general argument but downvoted because you sound like a crotchety incel.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:28 pm to beaverfever
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I have no idea what people that age are supposed to do.
Stop being dramatic and claiming institutional victimhood is what they are supposed to do.
I have two daughters age 21 and 24. They support themselves just fine currently working unskilled labor jobs. Job/s, plural.
They want to move up in the world, of course, which is why they are educating themselves to increase their skills sets to enable them to command more money and live beyond a paycheck to paycheck existence, but their paychecks do pay their bills currently.
They both have two roommates, which is not new at all...this idea that young people are supposed to be able to live on their own and/or be able to buy houses while in their 20s, etc., etc., and if they can't, they are being screwed, is simply not historically accurate.
My parents weren't able to buy their first house until they were almost 40. My wife's parents both lived with roommates before they got married (as was the norm back then).
The current economy means that it is tougher for young people now than at some points in the past. But it's also not as tough as other points in the past, and it's about the same as still other points.
But back then no one had social media and twenty-five 24 hour news outlets telling everyone that they were victims. So they just lived life without thinking much about it.
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:32 pm to GreenRockTiger
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she’s wrong about how much easier it was 20 years ago
We worked our asses off to barely scrape by, too.
Every generation did when they were just starting out.
They just weren't filled full of entitled expectations, so they just did what they needed to do...worked multiple jobs, got roommates, etc.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:39 pm to armytiger96
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Newsflash every generation had it just as bad as your generation. We all figured it out just like your generation will.
Agreed….
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:40 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
She entitled and naive and thinks she deserves to have a caviar lifestyle on some low skill salary. The reality is service sector jobs have mostly always been like this. Hopefully she get this lesson soon and goes into engineering or something that gives her the ability to move to and negotiate for better pay. Adam Smith literally talked about this 200 years ago. Blame her parents for allowing her to get as old as she is and not understand reality.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 11:45 pm to wackatimesthree
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They just weren't filled full of entitled expectations, so they just did what they needed to do...worked multiple jobs, got roommates, etc.
Yes they were.
This thread could have been started in virtually any decade and the replies would be the same.
You realize the whole "No one wants to work anymore" meme has been around for literally hundreds of years.
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:15 am to Slippy
This is stupid at the same time. They complain that we had it easier, when in reality we didn’t.
Why were we able to survive and make it on our own at that age? We weren’t buying smart phones every year. We didn’t pay $50/month for cell service. We didn’t have internet. We didn’t have to have cable.
We drove a shitty car that ran and didn’t need a flashy one.
I am sorry, but they seem to think Gen X lived in some current day nirvana while they are in he’ll.
We didn’t have all this shite and we didn’t look at Walmart as a career. It was a side job to help get experience and pay some bills. Instead, these kids don’t work until after they graduate and think they should be living a full independent, average adult life out the gate.
It is hard, don’t get me wrong, but plenty of us ate Ramen noodles to make ends meet too.
Again, stop considering above average shite as basic and then talk.
Why were we able to survive and make it on our own at that age? We weren’t buying smart phones every year. We didn’t pay $50/month for cell service. We didn’t have internet. We didn’t have to have cable.
We drove a shitty car that ran and didn’t need a flashy one.
I am sorry, but they seem to think Gen X lived in some current day nirvana while they are in he’ll.
We didn’t have all this shite and we didn’t look at Walmart as a career. It was a side job to help get experience and pay some bills. Instead, these kids don’t work until after they graduate and think they should be living a full independent, average adult life out the gate.
It is hard, don’t get me wrong, but plenty of us ate Ramen noodles to make ends meet too.
Again, stop considering above average shite as basic and then talk.
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:28 am to Geauxgurt
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We weren’t buying smart phones every year.
There she blows!!!
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:42 am to FLObserver
quote:So did I and most people in their twenties. Very few young adults make enough money to live by themselves.
Have two kids that age and each has two roommates just to get by.
This is nothing new.
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:43 am to JohnnyKilroy
When they sit there and buy $1000+ phones, yes thar she does blow.
They claim that is a necessity but it is not. A basic cellphone and internet plan and so forth aren’t that much. They aren’t having those though and change them every year or two. That is not “squeaking by “.
I am not trying to say it is easier now. I actually think it’s the same. The point is they think we didn’t have these same issues, and we did.
They claim that is a necessity but it is not. A basic cellphone and internet plan and so forth aren’t that much. They aren’t having those though and change them every year or two. That is not “squeaking by “.
I am not trying to say it is easier now. I actually think it’s the same. The point is they think we didn’t have these same issues, and we did.
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:52 am to Geauxgurt
I have never met a single person who gets a new phone every year. Have you?
The iPhone hasn’t even changed much in like 4 or 5 years now. Even if you were some kind of insane person who wants the new phone every year, you can get 500+ on trade in for the previous year’s phone.
It’s just a hilarious thing that people bring up on TD every single thread.
Cell phone purchases are easily, by miles, the single most referenced reason why younger people are broke. It’s insane and funny as hell.
Was there some sort of memo that went out to everyone over 40 that told them that every person under 40 is buying a new premium phone every year? Where did this come from? It certainly didn’t come from your real world observation.
The iPhone hasn’t even changed much in like 4 or 5 years now. Even if you were some kind of insane person who wants the new phone every year, you can get 500+ on trade in for the previous year’s phone.
It’s just a hilarious thing that people bring up on TD every single thread.
Cell phone purchases are easily, by miles, the single most referenced reason why younger people are broke. It’s insane and funny as hell.
Was there some sort of memo that went out to everyone over 40 that told them that every person under 40 is buying a new premium phone every year? Where did this come from? It certainly didn’t come from your real world observation.
This post was edited on 1/1/25 at 12:56 am
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:52 am to RollTide1987
quote:I didn’t buy my first home until I was 35, in 2003.
Boomers will downvote but as a Millennial I can relate. I'm 37 years old and have never owned my own home. I have money but have never felt financially comfortable enough to buy real estate.
I can't imagine what Gen Ze is going through.
I have three nephews in their twenties that recently bought homes as nice or nicer than mine. They all have degrees and have good work ethics.
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:54 am to StringedInstruments
quote:Yes. Why not?
but are you seriously suggesting that America, the land of prosperity, freedom, and opportunity, has created a society that requires young people to hustle or climb in hot attics to have a future?
You think easy jobs should pay well? You think a fricking cashier should make as much as an HVAC tech?
Posted on 1/1/25 at 12:58 am to nealnan8
quote:$400 in 1988 is $1,089 in 2025.
The national average for monthly rent is about $1,500. In 1988, I rented a pretty nice half of a shotgun double one block from Audubon Park for $400.
Posted on 1/1/25 at 1:05 am to Trevaylin
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one hustles and will do well
one is committed to AC repair industry and will do okey with commercial work. climbing in attics in the summer is tough
Have these two start an HVAC company together,
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