re: My kids still live at home

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I lived with my parents til I was 34 and it enabled me to save up for the down payment on my first house. It sure felt good cutting that 5k check to the bank knowing I had saved up for so long

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They have to pay more and isn't able to save as much

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My brother and sister (who are 10 years older than I am) was out the house at 18.

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so I thought that is what people was suppose to do.

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bruh... wtf

stayed with my old man for a year and a half. he got free lawn service, painting and cleaning, i saved enough for a down payment on a house. win-win.

I joined the Marines at 18 and left. I’ve never lived with my parents since then, but I don’t fault people my age who have had to.

It’s simply not the same economy it used to be. Bachelors degrees are dime-a-dozen now. The OT grandpas just love to say “well that’s what you get for majoring in gender studies”. Most of the people I know who have had trouble finding jobs majored in categories that 15 years ago would have provided suitable employment. These are degrees in; social work, criminal Justice (my first one), business, education, etc.

I dare someone to major in one of those and try to gain suitable employment fresh out of college with one of these. Sure, you may be able to get hired somewhere but you’ll be running to get coffee for 20k a year and that’s considered lucky. If you’re in a city, you’re an “unpaid intern” or code for slave. Don’t like that? Well there’s 50 other applicants who would love to take your place because they all have a bachelors and are all unemployed.

Combine that with the fact that rent for a 1br 1 bath is about $800 on the cheap end in a rural area and is about 1200-1500 in most cities for a shittttyyyyyy apartment. 25k a year comes to about 1500 a month after taxes. Who here could honestly live on that while paying rent. A lot of twenty-somethings are living with their parents not because they want to but because it’s survival. Boomers fricked the economy and refuse to retire and prices continue to skyrocket. It’s been an employer’s market for the last 20 years and millennials are simply fricked at the moment.

ETA: say you’re not happy because your bachelors didn’t do anything for you. What can you do? Go to grad school? Get ready to take out another 30k of loans and it’ll MAYBE pay off. Want to go to law school? Nope. Too many lawyers. You’ll work as a paralegal for 35k and 120k in student loans. Say you want to go to med school? Great, that’ll be 200k in loans and the curriculum is so demanding that don’t even think about trying to take a part-time job. So it’ll actually cost to about 400-500k in tuition and lost wages. Boomers largest accomplishments in life have literally been being born at the right time, and then turning around and saying “millennials suck. I’m never going to retire. frick you, deal with it. Find a different job but don’t forget to pay for our Medicaid”

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Apartments are crazy expensive if you want something decent in a nice area. And starting pay at many jobs is low. It makes living on your own straight out of college difficult for many.

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Its not supposed to be easy. Life is hard

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Its not supposed to be easy. Life is hard

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So they stay with their parents for a year then it's a lot easier. That's the point Cleatus.

I was gone at 18. Had to come back at 21 cause I fricked around at Auburn. Then I got my shite together and got back out at 23. Been out since (27 now). Those 2 years fricking sucked. I know lots of college grads who cant find jobs here in atlanta that still live at home. I also know some that have jobs and still cant afford to move out.

lil bit different there bubba

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It’s simply not the same economy it used to be. Bachelors degrees are dime-a-dozen now. The OT grandpas just love to say “well that’s what you get for majoring in gender studies”. Most of the people I know who have had trouble finding jobs majored in categories that 15 years ago would have provided suitable employment. These are degrees in; social work, criminal Justice (my first one), business, education, etc.

I dare someone to major in one of those and try to gain suitable employment fresh out of college with one of these. Sure, you may be able to get hired somewhere but you’ll be running to get coffee for 20k a year and that’s considered lucky. If you’re in a city, you’re an “unpaid intern” or code for slave. Don’t like that? Well there’s 50 other applicants who would love to take your place because they all have a bachelors and are all unemployed.

Combine that with the fact that rent for a 1br 1 bath is about $800 on the cheap end in a rural area and is about 1200-1500 in most cities for a shittttyyyyyy apartment. 25k a year comes to about 1500 a month after taxes. Who here could honestly live on that while paying rent. A lot of twenty-somethings are living with their parents not because they want to but because it’s survival. Boomers fricked the economy and refuse to retire and prices continue to skyrocket. It’s been an employer’s market for the last 20 years and millennials are simply fricked at the moment.

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bullshite.

You take the 20k fetching coffee to get your foot in the door. You deliver pizzas or Uber a few nights a week. You don't go out to eat, unless you are getting your employee discount at your second job. You don't get to be an OT Baller smoking fine cigars and sipping top shelf whiskey. Maybe you even have to call mommy for some extra money every once in a while.

This is considered "normal young adulthood" and you millennials are just making excuses for the fact you are incapable of personal responsibility.

Too much media exposure has ruined you, you have this bullshite idea of what you are supposed to live in, what you are supposed to wear, what your job is supposed to be, etc... all inventions of marketing execs who have created all of these perceptions to sell you shite your whole life.