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My random thoughts 3 months before I turn 18 (lemmy.ml)

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Is a age that is both full of, and devoid of opportunities. I feel like being a adult is just lying about how much you have your shit together to people who also lie about having their shit together. After we got out of college, we are just going to sit in front of a computer like the generations before us for the rest of our life, with the only difference of be paided less then them. I don't want to be like this. I want my life to be more then this. I want to go out explore and change the world. When we gen z first comes to high school the world seems full of opportunities, we imagine us achieving great things, but not one of us could have imagined the entire generation having a mid-life crisis at the age of 18.

To all the Gen Z, and in the future, Gen Alpha. Welcome to the 2020s, welcome to late stage captalism.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm on the cusp of the change between Gen Z and Millennial and I'm with you in this. When I graduated college and got my bachelor's, I envisioned a life where I'd live in a big city, go do some interesting work, and in my off time I'd be able to finally afford to travel. Explore the world. Meet interesting people and do interesting things. But, I was quickly humbled.

I had to fight, I mean literally FIGHT for my current job for a year. No matter what I did, I couldn't get one since I had no experience and no one wants a college graduate. Now that I have one, I sit about 6 to 7 hours a day in front of a computer. I'm having lower back problems and the lack of exercise is giving me gut problems. I can't afford to live my own so I can forget about traveling. And, now, my contract is nearing its end so I might not even have a job soon.

This was the world we were handed and, now that I've experienced it, I'm looking forward to the day everything goes haywire and we start all over again.