re: #88 Pie-onist Overlord

Honestly, I think most people over age 35 or so do not get at ALL how the job market has changed. Especially if they managed to keep their jobs through the mess that started in 2007-08.

I am 54 now. My first decent job was a few months out of high school. I worked for Goodyear in a factory. I made enough money to take care of myself, put money in the bank, had healthcare etc. I was 19. By the time I was 21 that job was shipped overseas. I was never able to afford a college education because I had no family support and had to work to provide for myself. I never got another job that paid that well. And it wasn’t for lack of experience or trying either. I worked in retail(not my chosen thing for my life at all, btw) for the better part of my adult life and I watched that business go from providing a decent wage and pretty good health insurance, paid vacations, etc. to slashing and burning and shitting on the workers. I worked my way up into dept managing and buying, the chances of a kid being able to do that now are not nearly as good as they were back then.

People who spout off about this shit either are rich and have no clue what it is to work like crazy just to survive or they are completely detached from what’s happened because none of it has happened to THEM. (of course for some it’s both)