The life of a millennial:
- Graduated into the Great Recession
- Entry level jobs required 3 years experience
- Pensions replaced by the 401k
- Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility
- Felt stability in life then a pandemic
- Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises
- Home prices doubled overnight forcing permanent renters
- Childcare costs 1 month of rent
- Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live
- AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years
Millennials watched their parents lose everything in 2008. Then got handed $100K in student debt. Then got called entitled for wanting a living wage. Then survived a pandemic in our prime years. Then got priced out of every neighborhood we grew up in. And y’all really wonder why we’re not okay? We’ve been in survival mode for 20 years straight and nobody even noticed.