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Actually, that PP's description is atypical for GenX too. Things weren't as cheap in the early to mid 1990s as you may think.  When I was 22 (1995) I was still a law student, paying 35k per year for tuition and room & board.  As another PP  said starting salaries for people who had recently finished college were well under 40K.  Even as a lawyer at biglaw in the late 90s, starting salaries were under 100k. The only people I know who bought houses within a year of finishing school had parental help for the downpayment. [/quote]
+1.  When I moved to the DC area after college in 1996 I was 22 and I had an exempt position requiring a college degree that paid $27k and required long hours and travel.
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I think you're missing the point though.  I graduated late 90s, so I don't really have a dog in this fight (economy was still good and jobs were plentiful).  But post-recession my heart really went out to the young people just graduating into that dismal economy.  You might have had low-paying and demanding jobs in the early 90s, but they literally had no jobs.  It was so disheartening to see super smart kids from top schools applying in droves to unpaid internships...and then having to do multiples of those for years to have any hope of ever getting a paid job.

Everyone works hard and struggles, but I truly do think it was extremely rough for people who graduated in late 2007-2010-ish (and it's not like it was much better even later, since there were jobs, but you were competing with people who had just spent 3 years doing unpaid internships to get experience).[/quote]

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