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sbh says

I like poking him with a stick

That's what she said.

sbh says

If mommy accompanies you to your job interview, it's a safe bet you've got problems.

Why would anyone believe the lie told about college? After graduation......that's when it all begins. The Ms think after graduation they get a gold watch.

Yep.

So for those on this forum, who choose to go child free ... don't you feel relaxed, when you go to sleep at night? I certainly do.

sbh says

Why would anyone believe the lie told about college? After graduation......that's when it all begins. The Ms think after graduation they get a gold watch.

Most of us believe it for a short time. I sure did - for about a month.

The reason is that colleges, deans, and professors spew the bullshit about how elite and important all members of the college community are, and how lucky society is to have graduates of Xxxx University descend from the heights into the population of citizens every year, with pure silk streaming from their highly-educated asses. Couple this with having to actually work damn hard for the worthless degree, and there is understandable entitlement the day it is received.

What straightened me out was job interviews, and massive rejections. Clearly, society was not impressed by my degree and achievements.

I had the advantage that I could continue to interview, adjust my strategy, and learn to roll with the punches. I learned to speak the language of people who my professors had looked down on as morons: those people, outside academe, who weren't even adjunct lecturers.

The current generation isn't even getting the interviews. Whatever is wrong with them, they have fewer opportunities to fix it.

I once went through a stretch of unemployment where it was difficult to get walk-in interviews. When I got the walk-ins, it was as if I was rusty - the stench of unemployment hung on me. This affects performance.

Everyone is ill-served by college when it comes to entering the job market. But if there is no job market, how does one adjust and learn?

Iosef V HydroCabron says

Couple this with having to actually work damn hard for the worthless degree, and there is understandable entitlement the day it is received.

What straightened me out was job interviews, and massive rejections. Clearly, society was not impressed by my degree and achievements.

Yeah, but didn't you get the feel of the cold, real world, during that 1st CO-OP or internship, during the summers of sophomore or junior year?

Once I'd gained some experience, I knew that the halls of academia were a type of private Idaho.

What surprised me, however, was how lame, industrial R&D was going to be, after graduation.

CMY says

My very comfortable, non-degreed parents just stare at me in disbelief when I mention that we won't be able to buy a home in SoCal.

That's exactly the point.
Boomers are blind in that way. They feel that if you just step out and try hard, it will be enough.

They don't think of this as entitlement, but having such a world around you is the entitlement they had that the millennials don't even expect.

Call it Crazy says

Rin says

So for those on this forum, who choose to go child free ... don't you feel relaxed, when you go to sleep at night? I certainly do.

Hmmm... Does that mean the ones WITH children aren't relaxed when they go to sleep??? I've got three and I sleep like a rock, so I don't get your point??

Well, my sister and brother-in-law drink Amarettos and Whisky, respectively, to get themselves to sleep at night.

All that stress about bills, the child's activities, etc, have really eaten away at their lives.

Call it Crazy says

Hmm.. That's sad.... Makes me wonder who REALLY is in charge in that house...

Well, it's either Johnnie Walker, Jimmy Beam, or Jack Daniels, take your pick?

Regardless, since some of our founding fathers didn't have children, I'm following suit.

The coming generations of American kids will be the dumbest of 'em all.

Core R&D will be done in Asia and places like the USA, Canada, etc, will become money laundering centers for monied powers.

Call it Crazy says

Like I said, chicken!!!

Sticks & Stones, plus, the good General's got my back.

Call it Crazy says

That's a given..... But boy can they text!!!

I suspect that the brighter ones will become cyberpunks, so keep an eye on your credit scores and bank balances at all times.