I’m also a millennial working in the trades. When I choose to work full time I make more than my parents did, combined. I work for myself tho and right now I’m working maybe one job a month because I’m building my own house by myself. Once the homes waterproof then I’m completely overhauling my work van and going back full-time. I can build my cabinets, shower pan, stairs etc on the weekends. I need to fix the safety net after covid wiped it all out.
My parents money went a lot further than mine tho. Shit they bought the place I grew up in for $35k in 1990.
I hope your optimism is correct and that retirement is even possible. I don’t see how I can, even owning the land I’m on now, without expatriating - which I’m not against, trust me, Americas done very little that I can be proud of, there’s clearly a discrepancy between ideals and mores, of meaning and purpose, and every developing country I’ve been too has been more welcoming and felt safer than this shithole. America is a 3rd world country with iPhones, living in fear of untouchable gangs (police)killing them without regard. The terrorism is the point. The cruelty. Is.the.point.
I think inflation is going to take everyone retirement. I think Trump will privatize social securty and Medicaid and I think the following depression will find private equity losing it all and everyone just being left stuck out. Make America Great Depression Again, herewego
I’m also a millennial working in the trades. When I choose to work full time I make more than my parents did, combined. I work for myself tho and right now I’m working maybe one job a month because I’m building my own house by myself. Once the homes waterproof then I’m completely overhauling my work van and going back full-time. I can build my cabinets, shower pan, stairs etc on the weekends. I need to fix the safety net after covid wiped it all out.
My parents money went a lot further than mine tho. Shit they bought the place I grew up in for $35k in 1990.
I hope your optimism is correct and that retirement is even possible. I don’t see how I can, even owning the land I’m on now, without expatriating - which I’m not against, trust me, Americas done very little that I can be proud of, there’s clearly a discrepancy between ideals and mores, of meaning and purpose, and every developing country I’ve been too has been more welcoming and felt safer than this shithole. America is a 3rd world country with iPhones, living in fear of untouchable gangs (police)killing them without regard. The terrorism is the point. The cruelty. Is.the.point.
I think inflation is going to take everyone retirement. I think Trump will privatize social securty and Medicaid and I think the following depression will find private equity losing it all and everyone just being left stuck out. Make America Great Depression Again, herewego