Because nobody before Gen Y graduated into a recession
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 28 Nov 2008 at 03:49 pm | Tagged as: Business
Generation Y confronts economic crisis
Schwartz, 26, says he’s now more realistic about the chance of landing his dream job.
“I’m going to have to be a lot less picky,” he says. “As a new grad, I’m worried I won’t be able to get a good job right away.
“You’ll really have to be the cream of crop to even just get an interview, with the way the market is.”
But stop crying in your beer in sympathy for the poor GenYers — apparently it’ll all be okay. In theory everyone is still fighting to employ them cuz they’re so, so special.
Ha! Great (Gen X)minds think alike… I have a draft from two weeks ago I started in response to a similar Globe story on youth unemployment that failed to mention the early 90s or early 80s recession. I called it “Memo to Millennials: Buckle Up”, intending to impart some sarcastic words of wisdom, then realized I didn’t have any except, uh, work at some low-paying jobs and eventually things will get better?
My tested-and-true GenX advice would be “Oh, go do another degree. It’s a respectable way to avoid the job market entirely for a while longer and hey, it can’t hurt.”