Even though they’re HUGE IDJITS.

I don’t think so, but you can write to Kinja Help and ask!

I know right? For us Gen Xers it was “Go to college so you don’t end up working at McDonalds.” Then the shit hit the fan economically and they were all “Why don’t you go work at McDonalds?! What, you think you’re too good for it you lazy bum?”

YOU GUUUUYZ!! After my hair falling out due to my accident, and being holed up recovering for MONTHS, I finally had a solo girly day! Got my hair done, eyebrows waxed, and went to Sephora. Plus I did it all driving myself and WALKING without crutches!!! Feels good to be doing the everyday things I was missing out on…

Um, yeah, what you said. Mr. Willow is an attorney. He graduated law school in 2010. Once he passed the bar, he started working as an associate with a solo practitioner. He makes roughly the same amount that I do working in non-profit human services. He’s worth way more than that, but the jobs are not there.

Agree with everything you said but in my view the MD issue has a bit more relevant complexity—there are MD jobs, but they don’t necessarily pay as well as you’d think and they vary be geographical region as well... Just because jobs in a field exist doesn’t mean they pay well, especially when you factor in the debt a…

When my 70 year old Aunt gets on me for living with my parents, I like to point out to her that to get through college in her day, all she needed to do was work in summer. She graduated with no loans, got her degree in PE but then worked for TWA until retirement. Life isn't what it was 50 years ago. Since 1980 alone,…

But you’re so smart... for a girl

Yup, this. I started college in 2001, but stopped when I got married in 2004. Teaching was a successful career. There were jobs everywhere. When I went back to college to get my teaching degree, my education professors were telling us we were graduating at a great time, we would walk in to any job we wanted (luckily I…

I wonder when this person graduated, because it was rough for everyone in 2008 and a few years after. Everything was very competitive with the jobs scarce. It was hard to find internships during school l too. I have an engineering degree and it took me a year to find a job, if I had to wait much longer who knows what…

Interviewed by a Baby Boomer the other day. He just moved from a Las Vegas type city to where I (am obliged to) live right now - a Hamptons type place. My whole life I lived in NY/LON/PAR type places. He hit on me like mad and when I didn’t react, he said, “you are charming for a woman in (Hamptons type place.”

I think a lot of them think that they have such a great life because of “bootstraps” and not because of how many opportunities that generation had before the economy totally went to shit.

Brown eye-five! I hated having brown eyes as a kid ‘cause my sister’s are this crazy hazel with like orange in the middle that turns to green and has a dark blue ring around the edges. They’re wacky and awesome. But when I got older, I grew to really like my eyes ‘cause they’re pretty dark and I’m rather fair-skinned…

Ditto. I have like 4 or 5 friends with law degrees. One got accepted to both Northwestern and University of Chicago and he works as an LSAT tutor (nothing wrong with that ‘cept it doesn’t pay the bills). His wife who graduated law school with a near perfect GPA gets paid $14 an hour prosecuting traffic tickets for the…

They don’t. They just wanna remind you of how good they had it and how you should “work as hard as they did.”

Not to hate on a whole generation...well maybe a little, but since graduating college (I’m in my late 20’s), I, like many of my peers have found it hard to nail down that golden 9-5 that promises happiness through financial stability and decades of routine. My very professionally successful mom will occasionally…

I have friends with law degrees from top ten schools who have jobs that pay $10-$15/hr and $80k in loans. And those are the ones that lucked into jobs.

“there are endless opportunities for...Esqs.”

I think it is completely hilarious that you’re negging non-STEM majors on this particular thread.

Well, bless your heart. I have a degree in music and arts management, and also not working a shit job. Did your degree come with a condescension minor?