Gen Z is coming into the workforce and — in the grand tradition of what Millennials cringe-ily called “adulting” — they’re complaining about how much easier older generations have had it financially.
The problem is not finding a job, it’s finding a job that pays well while not destroying your mental health, and ideally also feeling somewhat rewarding or otherwise meaningful.
You can earn money doing “something IT” no problem, but say you don’t wanna do webdev, your options are easily cut in half. Don’t wanna do ML/data science either? Half that again. And then you apply what I mentioned above und suddenly you look at a tiny market.
The problem is not finding a job, it’s finding a job that pays well while not destroying your mental health, and ideally also feeling somewhat rewarding or otherwise meaningful.
You can earn money doing “something IT” no problem, but say you don’t wanna do webdev, your options are easily cut in half. Don’t wanna do ML/data science either? Half that again. And then you apply what I mentioned above und suddenly you look at a tiny market.
Mental health?!?!1! What are you some sort of commie??? I just put my feelings into a bottle of Jack Daniel’s like a REAL ‘MURICAN