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[quote=Anonymous]Perhaps this has been addressed earlier in the thread, but this notion that the only people who suffered in an economic downturn are new graduates is really ignorant.  Do Millennials really think Gen Xers weren’t affected by the most recent financial crisis just because they didn’t graduate from college in 2008?

I’m a Gen Xer.  I had a baby in 2008, and my law firm went under less than two weeks after my baby was born so I had no job to come back to (and when my colleagues were jumping ship, the firms they went to had no interest in taking on someone not ready to start that week since they had so many candidates to choose from).  No one else was hiring so I had to find whatever crap job would keep a roof over our heads.  If I’d been younger and didn’t have to worry about childcare, I would have had more options, but instead I had to take a garbage non-attorney job that became a blight on my resume and derailed my career even after the economy recovered.

So excuse me if I don’t see Millennials as some uniquely economically-oppressed group.  You weren’t the only ones who suffered in the financial crisis.  Nor were the Gen Xers, there were plenty of Boomers who lost jobs (and a huge about of their retirement funding, for those who were relying on pensions) and then had to battle against age discrimination in trying to find new jobs.  They didn’t have it easy either.[/quote]

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