What kind of jobs did u do until now? there is still an opportunuty to change your life in this age. Still has about 20+ years of work. What would you like to do?
This is also exacerbated by colleges that sell the idea of get this degree, this is the average salary in your field. Great, but so many variables are at play - the city you're in, the companies you want to work for etc.
The thing is she's not wrong. Working is essential to life but her complaints are very real. The modern realities of work are extremely detrimental to overall mental health. Couple that with the insain inflation over the last 5 years and stagnant wages and many people feel this way. Why are we grinding away just to have no life and dies poor and alone?
@@letsgobrandon416 The market rewards you for doing work that is valued, not for showing up. Work in a lucrative field like engineering, law or medicine instead of a field where wages keep going down.
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582 you're missing the point. Due to government spending, regulations, tax policy, and Fed interest rates, the average cost of living is now beyond the average salary in many parts of the country. Indeed it's worse than that, in many parts of country, cost of living is double, and triple average wages. USA average wages is $75k. Average cost of living is now $140k. In my area, average cost living is $210k. Good luck finding a $140k job, let some a $210k one. Oh and that is middle-class average which is the salary necessary to own/rent, own two cars, have two kids and go on one modest vacation a year. $140k just to be able to do that. Thus, even in a lucrative field, most are struggling, and the lucrative fields are over saturated. To many people seeking too few jobs. That depresses wages further, it's an employers market. So now you have to be a top performer in a lucrative field to get and keep your job. And the law of normal distribution means that most of can't be the best. In average you well be average, and that's with all your efforts aligned correctly. Put that all together and one would expect that only the top 10% and above of earners are doing well, and that's exactly what is going on. Thus 90% of the county is struggling financially to one degree or another. Unless you're naturally brilliant in a way that's highly profitable - or a boomer who's lived through the greatest period of economic growth the country has ever seen and was wise enough to take advantage of that, your struggling right now, and is impossible to get ahead on you're own merit. And that's not a dig against boomers. It's just a happenstance of history. Heck, if you bought your house before 2005, or just after the 08 crash, you're probably doing better than most people, even on an average salary. I now several people makes less than me who are better off because they got their house right after 08 and their housing costs are a third of mine for a house twice the size. It's just a timing issue you can't control. Most born after the 80s just didn't get that chance.
@@Jonasbarbury I don’t think it’s a generational thing, there are plenty of young lawyers and doctors working 70 hour weeks making bank. Some people are just inferior human beings and social media gives them an outlet to project that.
Unfortunately. There's a lot of poor or just plain bad advice and practices given to kids and they end up not being able to cope. Many are told a job is 9-5, you need to live this way, and here are your social responsibilities. All three of those are at odds with one another and they aren't learning the reality early enough to develop coping mechanisms. If your first job is when you leave college, then you missed six years of formative growth.
False expectations? Go to school Work Hard Save Money And What will be, will be. I got no sympathy for her. She's got a college education and a job. After that, everything is on her.
@@spadeespada9432you see my friend, imagine being told and see a world full or possibility then learn only a few people get them and fewer people get to take advantage of it, and so you already have a group of young adults with low expectations of the world around you, and here the fun part, inflation is so bad right now how can anyone get a house when they are on average 450-500k for a do upper
I myself have seen how bad it is now, I worked for a company and if you use the phase boot straps, I have big businesses all my energy time and commitment I woke up at 5 stopped working at 5 got home at 7-8 for terrible pay, I developed a stutter because of toxic work place culture is normal towards my generation and the sentiment you folk have, I was overworked so bad I would stress eat or not eat and loose a lot of weight, my brain can’t handle being yelled out anymore due to the fact that I would be yelled at for simple mistakes like dropping a paper clip and not seeing it straight away, I can blasted so often for such mistakes whilst working all day every day for crumps and come home and puke from stress, this is why my generation is giving up, people speak of entitlement, how are we entitled when everyone I know shares the same experience go ahead call me lazy
I loved Kyla’s response, it summed everything up perfectly. I think looking at a 9-5 and thinking “this is my life now” and being honest with the fact that it sucks is fair, especially when you figure you won’t get a house out of it, you might not be able to afford to have kids, go on vacation, etc. you start to question “what am I even doing this for? To survive?” That’s a terrible life. And she posted it on social media because that is how Gen Z communicates. Who cares if she’s crying, she’s being honest and voicing something that if left silent wouldn’t be talked about right now, and other Gen Z who are also entering the work force can feel validated that they are not alone in those feelings.
I’ll say this on the other side: welcome to reality. Most people throughout human history have worked jobs they hated to survive and never took vacations or wore fancy clothes or anything even remotely like that. The problem is that so many of us were raised like royalty and are first finding this out after going to college (assured by teachers that our passion was economically viable) and sure, it’s a shock to the system. You were told that your birthright was an upper middle class lifestyle in which you do a fun job, own a big house, and take lavish overseas vacations. Even in America in the 21st century, this isn’t the median experience. Most people don’t own large homes. They didn’t get to follow their passion and go to college for a degree in whatever they wanted. They work in restaurants and stores and repair shops and as skilled labor. They vacation to local fishing holes or whatever is close by. The PMC is fairly sheltered and doesn’t know this, and their kids aren’t introduced to this, but yeah, a lot of the “paying your dues” jobs those people take for fun money are things lower class people do for a living.
@@TheresaReichley Did anyone even listen to the clip? She literally isn't even complaining about the vacations or the pay or the job. She is saying that she only has time to eat, sleep, and work. If she has to get up at 6 AM, she probably needs to go to bed between 9 and 10 PM. If she gets home at 6:15, that isn't a lot of time left to do anything. 9-5 jobs ARE stupid. Being required to commute long distances is also stupid. The earth has so much more to offer than slavery n "pay your dues, stupid peasant" jobs.
@@user-sx9hq7qwert she’s also just out of school, has no work experience. Until you have work experience that tells a future employer that you are not a flake and are actually competent at the job, you really don’t get as much choice as someone who has lots of experience.
@@TheresaReichley U don't get a choice at all anyway, unless u work for urself. N she is literally posting ab the commute, not the job or the pay. Seniority doesn't change a commute. If it was unhealthy when Gen X did it (commuting), it is still unhealthy now; Gen Z is just refusing unhealthy. :)
Gen x here. In college i had 2 jobs(3 if you count national guard) to pay for school, apartment, groceries. After graduation i had a full time job as a research assistant in a lab in the city with a long bus commute, and a part time job after that at home Depot. This was to pay for my apartment, car, and food. Suck it up Gen Z, entry level work sucks, and the pay is shit, ita because the expectation is really low. Demonstrate you can do better and demand more
Why does Kyla keep reaching to the Boomers for her comparisons? The Boomers entered the workforce 50 years ago, in a totally different world and economy. Those conditions haven't been true for at least years - not for GenX and not for the Millennials. We all worked crappy jobs and slowly found our footing in the world. Nobody expected to work for a single company their entire lives. Everyone waited and scraped to afford a home.
The problem is honestly going to college to then getting a job taking calls and using spreadsheets.which is a job thay needs doing. The problem was sending 70 percent of kids to college. Delaying them entering the workforce and giving them a false sense of the world
I’m GenX, and having started working at 14, I went to work before most Boomer college grads in the last cohort. Then, I entered the military when promotions were the slowest ever, but had to work for Boomers who had been promoted twice as fast and would never have made it to Captain as a GenX officer. I don’t know where you get off saying GenX had it easier. Frankly, I think this whole generation thing is total BS and racism adjacent anyways. Go take a nap, Boomer.
You can't do math or don't know what the boomer generation covered. I'm a late, but not last of the boomers, and I started work 44 years ago. You might want to rephrase that as some of the boomers entered the work force more than fifty years ago.
@@richdobbs6595 You talking to me? I’m in the first year of X, and since a lot of college grads never had real jobs until after college, and since a cohort is 6 years, I beat a lot of them to the workforce. I ran a restaurant before my 17th birthday, and supervised multiple restaurants before my 18th birthday. Also, I got a scholarship due to my high SAT score. My math is fine. I started working on the late seventies, so I beat you to the work force. But hey, why bother with the details? Y’all tell me about my life, and I won’t talk about yours.
There may be an element of truth to that. But I will add that as Kyla pointed out, for younger people the value of giving up those hours isn't what it used to be. You give up everything just to scrape by. At least before you knew you were working toward owning a home and a retirement. Now you give up all your time, social life, mental health.. to live? Well I guess it's all a choice. Time to drop out of the corporate world, for some. The value isn't there like it was in the past. We're kinda going 'backward' in a way. Its now more efficient, economically speaking, for some couples to keep one parent home instead of paying for child care while working full time. That's counter to the last 60+ years where we've adjusted to men and women both working full time. Society is atomized now though so until you find (if you do) a partner who you can trust, you're on your own. Everything has a high cost.
@@DooridoJones Wages have just been going down for certain fields. If people would go into a profession that the market values like law, medicine or engineering they shouldn’t have difficulty paying for things.
One thing that you all missed out on is that her parents seem to have failed her. They didn't prepare her for the real world. Had she worked a job prior to going to college or better yet while in college, she would have figured out all that.
I'm 42, worked 80+ hrs a week in my 20's. Started a business, lost everything in the great recession. I'm just now starting to get back on my feet. I'm old enough now burn out is starting to set in.
I think all of us felt a little frustrated when we started "grownup work", especially if we had long commutes (I had to spend 2 hours a day in traffic). Being GenX, I don't think anyone whined about it, because no one would have cared if we did. I saved up and got a raise, and got an apartment closer in that cut my commute in half. You get used to it, get better at managing your time, and pay increases. But it's still work--I've been grinding away for over 30 years now.
@jackuzi8252 Just a few questions about your post... what is GenX? What is a raise and pay increases? Just kidding, I'm GenX and barely living paycheck to paycheck (with no kids and no mortgage, or massive debt). My salary today is actually less than the salary I started with 5 years ago when adjusted for inflation (with no chance of getting a "raise" anytime soon.) Hey crying blond girl (with manicured nails) life sucks, get used to it.
Kyla talked about boomers having had stable jobs with pensions, but many of them didn’t have that experience. The boomers’ parents had that experience.
It existed for older boomers. Also the younger you are the worst it gets. At least Boomers had the opportunity to have stable jobs and normal priced homes. I remember my mom used to have unlimited overtime. For Millenials and younger OT likely doesnt exist.
Yeah, they romanticize the past. My dad was born in the 40s, volunteered for Marine Corps/Vietnam, then spent his life scraping by as a carpenter in Texas. The younger generation doesn’t know how good they’ve got it. Maybe that is a good thing and they won’t have as tough a time but a little gratitude/grace you do them some good, IMHO.
@@watamutha Some boomers had their jobs move overseas or foreigners come here to take college grads jobs. Nobody can say it was better in the past-especially women.
I'm Gen X and we all thought the same thing when we got our first jobs after college. In college we learned pretty quickly to never even take morning classes! Now suddenly we had to be at one location 5 out of 7 days a week for all the daylight hours and then some? Of course it was a shock to the system. We just didn't have the ability to put it on the internet for all the world to laugh at our naivete. Yeah, it sucks to be 'paying one's dues' in those first jobs, and only gets better when you like the work you're doing enough to have that be the dominant force in your life, yet still be happy.
I agree. Another Gen-X here. The only difference I see is she has a platform to complain on. We didn't have that, but if we could have them it would have happened. She is young... Maybe 23? Naive. It will pass. When I was her age I was personally offended that my comfortable suburban lifestyle I had always known since birth was now going to have to be downgraded, I have to pay my dues, only to get back up to parity with my parents after at a minimum of a decade. I did complain, but it was only to those in earshot.
Those, like Liz, that want people to shut up and go on with the current state of matters need to realize that this 9 to 5, 40 hour week, came about at a time when one income could afford a home for a family of 5 including a stay at home spouse, a car, food, healthcare, retirement, and education for their 3 children.
@@crissd8283The first union to have the 40 hour week was the IBTW- it was a very powerful union. It was able to impose this on every daily newspaper in the US in a fairly short time. The level of affluence you imagine was uncommon for union printers.
What you and everyone else needs to realize is the global service economy is upon us. The reason that old work week existed, with such high pay is we had no competition. Germany, Japan, China and pretty much all of Europe were decimated during WW2. We basically had a monopoly on manufacturing from that period until now, when they caught up and even surpassed the US. Today, with technology, information is more easy to access than ever before. As a result, education globally has improved. Look at the top engineering universities on the planet. The top 3 aren't in the US. Now that they're here, guess what, you now have HUNDREDS of MILLIONS more competition globally in both service AND skilled jobs. This is HUGE. Jobs ike programming. Finance. Sales. Customer Service. etc etc. Basically this is the point, if the American workers start demanding too much they'll just outsource the labor. They're already doing it, a lot of my co-workers were laid off and they sent an email later about how they were "near-sourcing" to places with the same timezone, like Costa Rica while also "outsourcing" jobs to places India or China. With easy translation software powered by AI the language barrier will slowlly disappear and then what? What do you bring to the table that can compete with someone who is better educated, more skilled and demanding a quarter of the pay you are asking for? THAT is the future of the job market.
Its called budgeting - my Dad, a professional, often would go work in a machine shop AFTER dinner with the family just to help make 'ends meet' - EVERYTHING has gone up since the 50's, including wages - btw the stay at home spouse held down the fort and contributed immensely - it was called perseverance and TEAMWORK - manup youngin's cryin' serves no profitable purpose
I'd like to know who actually works "9 to 5". Most regular jobs are 8 to 5 with a one hour lunch. I also don't know very many people who worked for the same company for 40 years. I did summer jobs during my high school and college years. I worked several different jobs, some office jobs, some fast food, and a few others. Several of my jobs had multiple shifts, so I was often not working 8 to 5. After many years of working, I stumbled upon a job that lets me work at home. I certainly wasn't looking for a work at home job. This started before the pandemic, so when it hit, nothing really changed in my work life. I get that things have changed, and in some cases, changed a lot, since I entered the workforce nearly 40 years ago. But even today, people expect to get some value when they pay for a good or service. So you should always consider what are people paying you to do, and what value are you providing to them? This is true whether you work for a company or you work for yourself, whether it's an office job or not, and whether you work 40 hours or week or some crazy shift schedule.
@@jamesbizs Um, no. I never said that. Try re-reading it. Maybe redo your math. 8 to 5 is 9 hours, minus a one hour lunch equals 8 hours. 8 times 5 is 40, not 45.
9 to 5 is just an expression though. Back when there were more industrial and manufacturing jobs, people used to work straight through because you couldn't stop.
First off, I think it is totally reasonable for this girl to have these depressed feelings just starting in the workforce and also being that time of month; we used to just suffer in private but she broadcast it to the world because that is what people do now. I also think it is the 90 minute each way commute that is the problem, not the job. Previous generations could afford to share an apartment in the city close to a job, but she couldn't. Three hours of commute every day is absolutely soul sucking.
You do have a point, actually. Still, Gen Z is a coddled generation. But joining the workaday world and its realities is an adjustment for most young adults. She'll adjust, hopefully, and maybe will move closer to her job.
Yes, the elephant in the room here is Urban design. She has to have this massive commute because the distance between (a) the job she could get and (b) the place she could afford to live is massive. And why is that? Perhaps something to do with the fact that Boomer NIMBY's enacted 70 years of housing policy to make it impossible to build anything other than single-family homes in some of the densest, most economically productive cities in the US? Maybe that's a factor here? We can't get into the trap of saying "ho hum, that's traffic, that's life."
@@Maquaker You might want to check you math, Clyde. I am a "boomer", and 70 years ago I was not even alive. The oldest boomers that were alive seventy years ago were teenagers! Teens did not make policy back then (but it seems they do now with WOKE ideology being so rampant).
Completely agree, I was going to comment on this. If she can't afford a place close to her job, she needs to either go remote if she can, or find a job closer to where she lives ASAP. Preferably within 15-20 minutes. Or just pick up and move to a different city/state altogether. I wonder if she lives in a blue state. Complaining about the 9-5 schedule is pretty ridiculous. Complaining about a daily 3-hour round trip commute is not.
@@Maquaker Boomers also prohibited the creation of starter homes. They also put into place prohibitions on the creation of apartments to keep their taxes down. They were a generation that really didn’t think about the importance of prepping the way for the people coming after them. My dad fought tooth and nail his whole life to prevent housing from being built in our city. He wanted lower taxes. I get it, but now his grandchildren can’t afford a house.
I think her reaction is expected, and several people have likely had that same reaction without it being recorded and viewed by millions of people. Younger people see hundreds of thousands of people being laid off, corporations cutting costs to increase shareholder profits, usually at the expense of the employees, and "that grind" doesn't look like it will pay off like it did for older generations. Sure, it might pay off, but it's becoming less and less likely that hard work will equate to success. It's an amazing economy to live in if you own assets but becoming increasingly difficult to obtain those assets.
Long commutes haven't been around for centuries, and that seems to be her issue. I totally get it because entry level workers have mostly been priced out of cities, so people have longer drive to work and that creates a ton of traffic vs people just walking to their job.
@@fahrenheigh It's ok to complain. Just reflect on past, people have always struggled so don't feel like " I'm the only one" to experience this at work.
It's too bad someone is holding her hostage and making her work in a city with a long commute. If only she was free to move to a smaller city or town where she could be home 30 minutes after leaving work.
20 years ago I left the house at 6am to drive 90 minutes to get to the office. I got home at 7pm and had to cook dinner for my kids. And clean and do laundry. I had no man or no friends. I was making $30 an hour. I never once cried over my situation. I felt blessed.
I'm in my 40's, I have never worked an easy 9-5 job in my life -- in fact my entire working life has been 12 hour days or more. I worked as a trucker (14 hours days), construction jobs (16 hour days) etc! And no -- none of that included commute time! Wow, i would really love a 9-5 job!
I’m 65 and have been working since I was 15. I remember my first 9-5 job and how exhausting it was. I went home and went to bed at 8 pm every night for the first week. By the end of the month I was ok, but the whole thing was shocking. I remember whining to my mom who basically told me to buck up. Zero sympathy. I made it through and was eventually doing some pretty solid 60 hour work weeks. All change is exhausting, but once you settle into a new routine, it’s much easier. I wish her luck.
I agree there are always going to be rising opportunities later on. I didn't really have hope but instead told myself to buck up and now I have an easier position after a few years. I have faith God but I believe if someone can behave and work with grateful thinking they will improve.
Liz doing a great job of covering the Thomas Sowell “constrained” vision of the situation and Kyla covering the “unconstrained” angle. One realizes life is hard, wear a helmet/ the other, life is perfectable if we just do it right. Guess which one will benefit generations more?
Thanks for bringing me up TS, and nice use of "constrained vision" ! Sowell also mentions, regarding wealth inequality, that people rarely stay at the income level of their first job. Over the course of a person's life, they will earn more and more, bringing them into higher income brackets -- and probably different working conditions, too.
Her name is Brielle asero. I found her after this video and followed her on TikTok. What people don't understand about this video is that she's not complaining about the job itself which she actually says in the video. I don't even know if she's complaining about the hours necessarily. Her real problem is her commute. If she drove 30 minutes to work and 30 minutes back home and worked an extra hour each day I guarantee you she would not be making this video
Thank you! I do not have TikTok but I do have Instagram and was trying to find her on the latter app. Anyway, I am so glad that people like Alex Clark, Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, the Lotus Eaters, and others skipped ragging on her and defended the poor girl.
She should try working 12 on 12 off seven days a week on an aircraft carrier . During your 12 hours off you may have to stand a four hour watch and attend to your collateral duties . And if you're sleeping in general quarters sounds you must go to your battle station .
Where do people get the idea boomers worked 9 to 5 in one location for 40 years. My experience was more like 6 to 6, being at no job more than 10 years, and relocating to 4 different states on two coasts. Man, I needed TikTok to cry to! Thing is we did not feel burdened. We were excited and grateful.
Gen X here. Every generation is, on average, softer than the last until something terrible happens. The key is on average. This kid is a nut, and you guys are nutpicking. Most of my nieces and nephews were raised with a perfectly decent work ethic.
Suggestions for the young lady: (1) find a place to workout near your job, exercise will help relieve stress; (2) cook a few meals on the weekend and put them in the freezer; (3) grow up and realize this is real life. You made choices that led you here.
In the US Army 1992-1994, I lived in Germany and I had to get up at 430am, run 30 minutes to the Frankfurt train station, ride 45 minutes to Hanau and then run 5 miles (40 minutes) to my Army unit. Be ready to work for the day, then at 5pm go home in reverse. I never complained, once, because there was a woman at home who loved me. I worked hard, made good life decisions and now I am retired at 58. Everything is paid for.
Aww cmon, cut the girl some slack. I'm a boomer. After college I waited tables on the beach for two years and lived with 4 guys to pay rent. When I got my first job in advertising - my career - I used to call home and btch and moan to my mom and dad about how much i wasn't cut out for a career and how i should just be a waiter all my life because it was easier (and yes, I was paying off a 20k student loan in 1983).My dad loved to tease me about having to wear 'tight shoes' and how unfun it was being a grown up. This wake up and welcome to the real world is age-old, and older generations always laugh at younger ones just entering the adulthood. Think of a baby deer or foal learning to stand up and walk...funny to watch, but by no means a sign of crippling weakness or paradigm shift to the future of deer. Even baby birds fall to the ground when pushed from the nest. They learn to fly and the world is right.
Being in my sixties, my impression is not that you are paid for your experience. Instead, at some points in time, you are doing well and sometimes you are not. When I was most productive in my skill set, I was viewed as a troublemaker and I couldn't be continuously employed. Earlier, I was very well compensated because the owner was trying to sell the business, and he didn't want people to leave prior to the sale, or before he was fully vested. In my personal experience, compensation and generating value are orthogonal for smart people. Einstein didn't make as much money as a slightly more than mediocre startup executive.
i'm sorry who raised her. yes a commute is draining but she still gets home at 6:30 she can prep meal or learn to make simple dishes. she makes me wonder if her parents did everything for her and that they didn't prepare for the real world. i was fully aware of the effort it took for my parents to get up early and care for us; and we were taught not to take our privileges for granted. that is why we had chores and had to help each other. when i moved out on my own i was already used to paying bills, cleaning, cooking ironing my clothes for the week; it's called adulting and schedules. all the tears, girl don't do it 🙄
gross nanny laws came into play in the late 90s... bi-partisan effort. People are always ready to trade away freedom in the name of saving the children from imagined monsters, even if those monsters are themselves. It'd been a long time coming, tho. Early 90s saw a shift in public education television for children, which they moved from basic education, life skills and current events to teaching empathy and sheltering kids from the real world and its heavier issues. . . funny how teaching empathy ended up becoming the least empathetic generation - another me, me, me generation. boomers 2.0. there's man parallels between the two generations, their resentments, expectations and also being heavily manipulated by the axis of foreign powers... (maoists, soviet communism, and the brotherhood.) - the mainstreaming of the postmodernist movement. the 60s ended with varied radical groups, rightly ousted from civil rights groups for their disruptions, hyper policing and eventual move to domestic terrorism. In the early 70s they were criminals, but by the 80s, both parties lessened their charges, by the 90s they were cleared... most with no changes in their viewpoints what so ever, tenured professors, their direct impact noted on campuses and off campus activism with the millennial and z generations.... most theorize the occupy movement as the tipping point, which went worldwide in 2012, but really started around 2008.. the far left protest and infiltration into the democrats and likewise, the manipulation of the tea partiers to the right, which stems back a bit further the religious right, televangelical movements.. which democrats played into as well. . . big money, big donors, many sheep to fleece. And of course, a public that always focuses on the soft targets... distracted by moral pissing matches and paranoia of their neighbors, community, society at large..,. leaving them ever desperate with dreams of a new world order (civil war, culture wars, viva la revolucion) filled with other authoritarians than ever giving two shts about the nation... even, tho, we have ample history of how often that has failed. . . but the worship of dictators remains. but I digress, the world had dramatically shifted, changed, in how parents could legally raise their kids... most of the laws were judicial overreach, especially as the fault of bureaucracy has been a model based on pass the law then build the infrastructure afterwards. That infrastructure still isn't built. and the public still plays into the partisan delusions of the two party system, with it's black and white thinking, this unrealistic duality of right or wrong, left or right, your kids, my kids... it's everybody's children and nobody was around to clap for the very poignant thing they said that shows the grandness of your parenting skills. . . just review the shift in child neglect and abuse reports late 90s to late 00s... the frivolous ones, of course, and the faults of the zero tolerance policies on bullying.... ("zero tolerance for bullying" parents without ever reading the small print couldn't push for it hard enough... anymore than women would race to end women's suffrage.. rationalizing that suffrage must be related to suffering, therefore it's bad and must end.)
Yup same here I was paying rent to my parents 15 percent when I got my first job I was 17. Taught me alot about money. Guess what no debt paid house off early no car payments all because my parents taught me the VALUE of work and money I own the money it doesn't own me
Liz Wolfe making $120,000.00 per year laughing and mocking a 19 year old poor girl who is now waking-up to the dead-end life she will have. Liz Wolfe is laughing at her...and all of you.
At 13 my mother had each girl work one summer in the bean field. 6:30 a.m. to noon. She wanted us to learn the value of money and hard work. I came home from teaching middle school yesterday and I was so tired I could barely fall asleep. Really. It doesn't end sweetheart.
Tech CEOs who most were born with a silver spoon in their mouths telling this young woman to suck it up wouldn't be able to survive a day of her typical work day.
GenX here, never had a pension, didn't have a DR till THIS YEAR. I worked 66+ hours a week in my 20's and more in m y 30's. Laid off twice. Lost my home in the housing crash of 2007-8 and started over. Got a degree in 2015. and had to start from the beginning at 40. I'm still commuting to work, I'm there at 6 am every day off at 3:30 in bed by 9. This is the BEST economy for the worker I've seen in my lifetime. Stop acting like it's horrible.
When I got out of college and started working I was amazed how easy it was. Worked while I was in high school, didn't work so much while I was in college because I did 18 credit semesters every semester, got my first real job and 40 hours a week left me with a lot MORE time than I was used to.
Poor kids these days have no idea what real life is like. Another reality check for her is that no one really cares (although they will pretend to because that's the fashion nowadays).
She should be thankful she has a full time job but didn't say anything about struggling to pay her bills. There are tons of Americans working many more hours in a given week and are still living in their cars.
As an older guy that started working in the early seventies, you have no idea how much harder work is now. Before I was out of high school I had a union job that easily paid for housing, food, transportation, all the basics, AND I could afford to go to college because college was so inexpensive. Boomers had it SO EASY compared to today - it's a very, very bad joke. In fact, it's wrecking our country.
I'm an older guy. When 2008 hit I lost my job . I had to go into debt to get a college education. At 56 I was competing with guys half my age . I finally got a job up by Portland and had to figure out how to pay those rents with a starting wage of $21 an hour. I worked every scrap of OT I could get and finally an opening came up in the Valley, which is to say, nobody has it easy. She could live in the city if she was willing to get room mates and live a little beneath her standards. Starting out is HARD, but if a 54 year old could do it so can she.
It’s almost as if a division of labour based on gender roles makes sense. This is the first time in history anyone has expected to live financially secure as an individual and in most countries that isn’t even considered an option.
The objection is valid. I remember being annoyed about how much time the commute was stealing from everyone, 15 years ago when I started my first job. I eventually got a place that was walking distance from the office. And have always maintained a policy of moving closer to the office when possible. Getting off at 5pm on your first job and not having to prove yourself much sounds nice. lol
GenX here, this is why I always tell my kids or anyone who is asking for advice about what kind of job they should have is find out what you love doing. 9 times out of 10 there is a job that fits into what you love doing. But if there is not be creative and create a new one. Don't go after money because most people are miserable who do that and if you love what you do, you will be good at it and in turn make more money. Big problem about this though is kids dont have jobs in HS or even Collage so they dont know what they like or not like. Kids need to work more during their school years to "find themselves".
I was homeless when I started looking for a job. I found a job. And it was one day a week. I was disappointed. I had to work two part times jobs. But my one day a week job became full time. I had to ride the bus to work. I couldnt afford a apartment. I had to rm share. My first car was a hand me down. I got married got a 500 square foot apartment. Had three kids. My husband and I worked years before affording a 1000 square foot house and a nice car. My kids have never been to daycare. We watch our kids ourselves. My kids are going to private school and we make minimum wage. I worked when I had cancer and went through chemo, I felt like crying.We had to work hard to get where we are and we had to be adults. Life isn't easy. Girl just find a way.
She doesn't communicate like someone with a college education, so it's nice that she found a job. I had a similar reaction to the 9-5 when I was young, but I didn't have a pocket narcissism absorber to talk to. I've mostly worked part-time as a result, and it gave me the chance to develop skills on the side and keep my options open. Job commutes do suck, which trains us to live smart and work towards shortening or eliminating them! I've gotten my commute down to 4 mins and it has a huge impact on my job satisfaction! :)
Layers to this There was a book years ago “Your money or your life “ Bottom line : You go to work -to pay for your money -with your time The internship carousel 🎠 for cheap labor is real Those used to be entry level jobs often The lack of job security makes it worse for sure The cost of living is out of control Learn to live with less , you can still have joy in life it’s a choice Either way you gotta figure it out
It is a beating to go from college where virtually everything is provided and you have a large amount of free time, to suddenly sitting in a cube 9 hrs a day. That’s compounded by the fact that most starting positions aren’t exactly stimulating. You get hit by “this is my life?”
It’s about expectation. Her expectation from living with mum and dad with everything easy and a good standard of living. As a boomer when i got my first job, I worked 7 days a week, my Dad was simple if there is overtime you go in no excuses it was not even an option to call in sick. My parents never called in sick ever so that was the expectation. When i bought my first house every pice of furniture came from my bedroom at home and my wife’s and everything else was contacted to us, we both worked 7 days a week my wife had 2 jobs to do this, we accepted this was how it had to be. We were just happy to have bought a house.
This girl is totally right about commuting! Tons of energy snd resources are wested on this - while rich non working people are living downtown. Commuting from the suburbs is not new - but the heavy traffic is.
my son just started an electrician apprenticeship so he's been working outside in 95 degree weather all summer. some of the worksites are nearly an hour away and he doesn't complain. he gets up at 5 am and works his butt off instead of making videos about how terrible life is
We have to realize that having lived with their parents for their whole lives they would expect to maintain the same standard of living when they move out and start their career.
We called 9 to 5 a part time job. Today’s youth don’t understand how easy they have it compared to older generations. We didn’t sit around and whine about it 😂
I can agree with the young lady on the time it takes to prepare for work and travel. With inner city prices being so high and many jobs not able to pay enough to afford living near it’s a real concern. I’ve worked office jobs the last two decades so I’m aware.
Liz is talking about “expectations” but the numbers don’t lie - the ratio of average cost of living VS average income has gotten continuously worse for decades. It’s okay to complain. Our country is getting worse and worse every year. And it’s okay to want different and better conditions. She also acts as though people only have bad jobs for a few years after but many people suffer through terrible jobs their entire lives.
Just because this is the work life cycle doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be improved. For the longevity of our society we need to figure out ways to improve family formation and reduce barriers to it. One of the ideas I heard recently that might help with all this is no/significantly reduced income tax for young people (who make the least vs their senior colleagues). If you can save $1000-$2000/mo on taxes you can live closer to the office, pay off debt quickly, stand on your own two feet more easily and have time to take care of your health and meet people you might form a family with. Small change in how we view the tax burden, but massive ripple effects on society long term.
Gen Z works hard. I'm Gen Z. My parents told me how they worked factory jobs for a strong wage plus overtime and/or time and a half one weekends. Boomers could pay off their student loans faster, their economy wasn't as globalized, and they had one of the longest and strongest bull markets. I'm employed, I work hard, and I'm happy at my job, but I have many friends my age who have sent in hundreds of resumes only to get an automated message back every time. I have friends who had to go through multiple round interviews, just to get booted in the last round. All of these people have good degrees and hands-on experience from taking on internships in their college years. They have to deal with "ghost jobs" and AI hiring managers, too. Don't even get me started on the "entry level" years required bloat. Many of us are working just as hard as previous generations but getting undesirable outcomes. That's where the disillusionment comes from.
I commuted to NYC from NJ for 28 years. The commute sucked. I never liked it, just accepted it. I’m glad people can work from home, should make it a little easier for them.
A piece of advice for the upset young lady. Crying about something has never fixed the problem. Instead, identify the problem, then make a list of possible solutions and pick one. If that doesn’t work, pick another option. Keep trying until you find the fix that works for you. Crying only causes headaches, puffy red eyes and doesn’t solve anything.
The “economist” must be really young or doesn’t study pensions or investing. Only a minority of people had access to pensions and they were not very generous. My dad was in THE most powerful union in the US and his pension collapsed after an embezzlement scandal. He got 33 cents on the dollar after working from 1936 until 1980.
It’s because she’s coming out of college where you get to do whatever you want all day on someone else’s dime. Late classes, skip classes, parties, loads of people your age around you 24/7. That’s a big shift.
Welcome to the real world. It's different when you're just starting out and have nothing and your name is on the bills. Most of us have had to sacrifice to make ends meet when we first lived on our own.
I don't understand why people make fun of Generation Z for having issues with things previous generations, like Boomers and some Millennials, didn't have to face. While getting up and going to work is one thing, the fact that Gen Z can’t afford basic necessities and that their entire paycheck often goes towards the external costs of working is peculiar. Boomers were generally able to live closer to cities, or their paychecks stretched further, even if they chose to live outside the city. She definitely has a point about commute time. The time it takes to get to and from work is labor too. When you live far away from your job, that's additional labor you're expected to do, which ultimately takes away from your paycheck. Plus, that extra commute adds time to your workweek, so if you live far away, you're well outside the bounds of a 9-to-5 when you spend two or more hours commuting. This is where you begin to see a bigger correlation between pre-liberal consensus labor practices-like those before 1937 under unfair working conditions-and post-liberal consensus work conditions that Boomers experienced. Most of the people making fun of this girl likely gained their labor experience in the latter system, where paychecks went much further.
My first "9-5" job after college started at 7AM and ended at 6:45PM. Then, after work, we were expected to go out and get blitzed with coworkers and I would usually get home by 10PM at least 2 nights a week. Welcome to the real world. Learn what you need to learn from this job, gather some skills, and then look for another job. Then repeat until you have enough skills and ability to either command what you want or you can figure out how to do it without an employer. College is not your education. Your education starts now. I also advise her to get an education regarding financial matters. These will help immensely. She could start with Dave Ramsey and then seek other people to teach her. I am curious if she worked during high school.
In response to Liz Wolfe's comment that you gain more leverage over your working life as you age, how do you explain 55 years old that are suddenly laid off and can't find a comparable job because employers don't want to pay them more, so they are then forced to work low paying jobs until they are able to somehow retire?
I think that her feelings towards her job are exacerbated by inflation. She works as many hours as older generations did at her age, but when they were her age, the buying power of the money they worked hard for had much more purchasing power. The juice is no longer worth the squeeze. The goal posts have moved further away from where they were 1, 2, 3 decades ago.
We definitely need to design a system where people work a bit less. The way its set up now is extremely unhealthy and can lead to serious health issues down the road. Ive worked a high stress job for 20 years now and its taken its toll. Ive accepted that working like this, no matter how healthy i try to be, will likely take me out early.
I know this isn't the audience for this. But it sounds like the city she is living in could use some PUBLIC transportation. It would save her, and I'm sure other people lots of time. And as an added bonus she could chill while being transported to work.
When you graduate college and work your first job you do it gain experience and develop skills that you can later market for a higher position with higher pay. It's been this way for centuries because your employment is directly dependent on how much value you bring to the market.
Problems with 9-5 in the US: -have to drive (no good public transit) -doesn't pay for cost of living -0 vacation days or Holidays (25 here in NL) -actually 8-6 -no prospect of saving for a home to start a family -doesn't pay for health insurance -doesn't pay for car and maintenance thats required for work -doesn't pay for expensive college debt -monopolies dominate the markets (no competition, hard to start business) -no unions or antitrust to remedy situation
2:32 It wasn’t solid for boomers! Oil field workers suffered layoffs back in the day, automotive workers saw their jobs leave the country. I’m Gen-X and worked for startups that failed, etc. The younger generations aren’t the first to suffer. At lest they haven’t been drafted like men were to fight in Vietnam.
I’m 43, I’m still waiting on my dream job and dream living situation. For some of us it just doesn’t get to happen.
47. Same.
@@napoland9676 the key to survival is finding ways to cope with it. Hobbies are a good way to deal.
What kind of jobs did u do until now? there is still an opportunuty to change your life in this age. Still has about 20+ years of work. What would you like to do?
@@HilariusgamerI want to host "The Price is Right" or maybe "Deal or no Deal" the reboot.
You’re forgetting she’s a pretty blonde girl. She’s supposed to have life on easy mode
This is also exacerbated by colleges that sell the idea of get this degree, this is the average salary in your field. Great, but so many variables are at play - the city you're in, the companies you want to work for etc.
If she eliminated "like" from her discourse, she would add 2 hours of free time per day.
***like add two hours
@@squeegee_soj 🤣
Women dont have to work. Especially if they are good looking. Just find a man and let him do all the work.
Lmao the “like” index!
Totally! Like I was soooo like thinking the same thing.
The thing is she's not wrong. Working is essential to life but her complaints are very real. The modern realities of work are extremely detrimental to overall mental health. Couple that with the insain inflation over the last 5 years and stagnant wages and many people feel this way. Why are we grinding away just to have no life and dies poor and alone?
I agree
@@letsgobrandon416 The market rewards you for doing work that is valued, not for showing up. Work in a lucrative field like engineering, law or medicine instead of a field where wages keep going down.
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582 you're missing the point. Due to government spending, regulations, tax policy, and Fed interest rates, the average cost of living is now beyond the average salary in many parts of the country. Indeed it's worse than that, in many parts of country, cost of living is double, and triple average wages. USA average wages is $75k. Average cost of living is now $140k. In my area, average cost living is $210k. Good luck finding a $140k job, let some a $210k one. Oh and that is middle-class average which is the salary necessary to own/rent, own two cars, have two kids and go on one modest vacation a year. $140k just to be able to do that.
Thus, even in a lucrative field, most are struggling, and the lucrative fields are over saturated. To many people seeking too few jobs. That depresses wages further, it's an employers market.
So now you have to be a top performer in a lucrative field to get and keep your job. And the law of normal distribution means that most of can't be the best. In average you well be average, and that's with all your efforts aligned correctly.
Put that all together and one would expect that only the top 10% and above of earners are doing well, and that's exactly what is going on. Thus 90% of the county is struggling financially to one degree or another.
Unless you're naturally brilliant in a way that's highly profitable - or a boomer who's lived through the greatest period of economic growth the country has ever seen and was wise enough to take advantage of that, your struggling right now, and is impossible to get ahead on you're own merit.
And that's not a dig against boomers. It's just a happenstance of history. Heck, if you bought your house before 2005, or just after the 08 crash, you're probably doing better than most people, even on an average salary. I now several people makes less than me who are better off because they got their house right after 08 and their housing costs are a third of mine for a house twice the size. It's just a timing issue you can't control. Most born after the 80s just didn't get that chance.
So is living on the street. Easy times make weak people. This generation really needs to find a spine.
@@Jonasbarbury I don’t think it’s a generational thing, there are plenty of young lawyers and doctors working 70 hour weeks making bank. Some people are just inferior human beings and social media gives them an outlet to project that.
It's normal for the crying girl to have this disappointment. Many of us have been raised to have false expectations.
Is it normal to record that disappointment and post it to the entire world? Should it be?
Unfortunately. There's a lot of poor or just plain bad advice and practices given to kids and they end up not being able to cope.
Many are told a job is 9-5, you need to live this way, and here are your social responsibilities. All three of those are at odds with one another and they aren't learning the reality early enough to develop coping mechanisms. If your first job is when you leave college, then you missed six years of formative growth.
False expectations?
Go to school
Work Hard
Save Money
And What will be, will be.
I got no sympathy for her. She's got a college education and a job. After that, everything is on her.
@@spadeespada9432you see my friend, imagine being told and see a world full or possibility then learn only a few people get them and fewer people get to take advantage of it, and so you already have a group of young adults with low expectations of the world around you, and here the fun part, inflation is so bad right now how can anyone get a house when they are on average 450-500k for a do upper
I myself have seen how bad it is now, I worked for a company and if you use the phase boot straps, I have big businesses all my energy time and commitment I woke up at 5 stopped working at 5 got home at 7-8 for terrible pay, I developed a stutter because of toxic work place culture is normal towards my generation and the sentiment you folk have, I was overworked so bad I would stress eat or not eat and loose a lot of weight, my brain can’t handle being yelled out anymore due to the fact that I would be yelled at for simple mistakes like dropping a paper clip and not seeing it straight away, I can blasted so often for such mistakes whilst working all day every day for crumps and come home and puke from stress, this is why my generation is giving up, people speak of entitlement, how are we entitled when everyone I know shares the same experience go ahead call me lazy
There's a support group for this. Its called everyone we meet at the bar.
I loved Kyla’s response, it summed everything up perfectly. I think looking at a 9-5 and thinking “this is my life now” and being honest with the fact that it sucks is fair, especially when you figure you won’t get a house out of it, you might not be able to afford to have kids, go on vacation, etc. you start to question “what am I even doing this for? To survive?” That’s a terrible life. And she posted it on social media because that is how Gen Z communicates. Who cares if she’s crying, she’s being honest and voicing something that if left silent wouldn’t be talked about right now, and other Gen Z who are also entering the work force can feel validated that they are not alone in those feelings.
I’ll say this on the other side: welcome to reality. Most people throughout human history have worked jobs they hated to survive and never took vacations or wore fancy clothes or anything even remotely like that. The problem is that so many of us were raised like royalty and are first finding this out after going to college (assured by teachers that our passion was economically viable) and sure, it’s a shock to the system. You were told that your birthright was an upper middle class lifestyle in which you do a fun job, own a big house, and take lavish overseas vacations.
Even in America in the 21st century, this isn’t the median experience. Most people don’t own large homes. They didn’t get to follow their passion and go to college for a degree in whatever they wanted. They work in restaurants and stores and repair shops and as skilled labor. They vacation to local fishing holes or whatever is close by. The PMC is fairly sheltered and doesn’t know this, and their kids aren’t introduced to this, but yeah, a lot of the “paying your dues” jobs those people take for fun money are things lower class people do for a living.
@@TheresaReichley Did anyone even listen to the clip? She literally isn't even complaining about the vacations or the pay or the job. She is saying that she only has time to eat, sleep, and work. If she has to get up at 6 AM, she probably needs to go to bed between 9 and 10 PM. If she gets home at 6:15, that isn't a lot of time left to do anything.
9-5 jobs ARE stupid. Being required to commute long distances is also stupid. The earth has so much more to offer than slavery n "pay your dues, stupid peasant" jobs.
@@TheresaReichleythank you for posting this.
@@user-sx9hq7qwert she’s also just out of school, has no work experience. Until you have work experience that tells a future employer that you are not a flake and are actually competent at the job, you really don’t get as much choice as someone who has lots of experience.
@@TheresaReichley U don't get a choice at all anyway, unless u work for urself.
N she is literally posting ab the commute, not the job or the pay. Seniority doesn't change a commute.
If it was unhealthy when Gen X did it (commuting), it is still unhealthy now; Gen Z is just refusing unhealthy. :)
Gen x here. In college i had 2 jobs(3 if you count national guard) to pay for school, apartment, groceries. After graduation i had a full time job as a research assistant in a lab in the city with a long bus commute, and a part time job after that at home Depot. This was to pay for my apartment, car, and food. Suck it up Gen Z, entry level work sucks, and the pay is shit, ita because the expectation is really low. Demonstrate you can do better and demand more
Why does Kyla keep reaching to the Boomers for her comparisons? The Boomers entered the workforce 50 years ago, in a totally different world and economy. Those conditions haven't been true for at least years - not for GenX and not for the Millennials. We all worked crappy jobs and slowly found our footing in the world. Nobody expected to work for a single company their entire lives. Everyone waited and scraped to afford a home.
The problem is honestly going to college to then getting a job taking calls and using spreadsheets.which is a job thay needs doing. The problem was sending 70 percent of kids to college. Delaying them entering the workforce and giving them a false sense of the world
I’m GenX, and having started working at 14, I went to work before most Boomer college grads in the last cohort. Then, I entered the military when promotions were the slowest ever, but had to work for Boomers who had been promoted twice as fast and would never have made it to Captain as a GenX officer.
I don’t know where you get off saying GenX had it easier.
Frankly, I think this whole generation thing is total BS and racism adjacent anyways.
Go take a nap, Boomer.
Zoomers are the most prosperous generation in history.
You can't do math or don't know what the boomer generation covered. I'm a late, but not last of the boomers, and I started work 44 years ago. You might want to rephrase that as some of the boomers entered the work force more than fifty years ago.
@@richdobbs6595 You talking to me?
I’m in the first year of X, and since a lot of college grads never had real jobs until after college, and since a cohort is 6 years, I beat a lot of them to the workforce. I ran a restaurant before my 17th birthday, and supervised multiple restaurants before my 18th birthday.
Also, I got a scholarship due to my high SAT score. My math is fine.
I started working on the late seventies, so I beat you to the work force.
But hey, why bother with the details? Y’all tell me about my life, and I won’t talk about yours.
People who are shocked by a 9-5 job after getting out of college didn’t work that hard in college.
There may be an element of truth to that. But I will add that as Kyla pointed out, for younger people the value of giving up those hours isn't what it used to be. You give up everything just to scrape by. At least before you knew you were working toward owning a home and a retirement. Now you give up all your time, social life, mental health.. to live?
Well I guess it's all a choice. Time to drop out of the corporate world, for some. The value isn't there like it was in the past. We're kinda going 'backward' in a way. Its now more efficient, economically speaking, for some couples to keep one parent home instead of paying for child care while working full time. That's counter to the last 60+ years where we've adjusted to men and women both working full time. Society is atomized now though so until you find (if you do) a partner who you can trust, you're on your own. Everything has a high cost.
@@DooridoJones Wages have just been going down for certain fields. If people would go into a profession that the market values like law, medicine or engineering they shouldn’t have difficulty paying for things.
13, 14, 15th grade 😂
Nothing but glorified high school for people who can't deal with life.
If folks don't like 9-5 then they would lose their minds with the Chinese 996 (9am - 9pm 6 days a week).
I did that at 16. 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. This was typical for older generations
Yeah because that’s a shit life
One thing that you all missed out on is that her parents seem to have failed her. They didn't prepare her for the real world. Had she worked a job prior to going to college or better yet while in college, she would have figured out all that.
I'm 42, worked 80+ hrs a week in my 20's. Started a business, lost everything in the great recession. I'm just now starting to get back on my feet. I'm old enough now burn out is starting to set in.
2008 was brutal.
Obama gave all the money to Wall Street and the banks.
I'm just starting to recover as well from that.
I'm 50.
Talk about burn out...
I think all of us felt a little frustrated when we started "grownup work", especially if we had long commutes (I had to spend 2 hours a day in traffic). Being GenX, I don't think anyone whined about it, because no one would have cared if we did. I saved up and got a raise, and got an apartment closer in that cut my commute in half. You get used to it, get better at managing your time, and pay increases. But it's still work--I've been grinding away for over 30 years now.
@jackuzi8252 Just a few questions about your post... what is GenX? What is a raise and pay increases? Just kidding, I'm GenX and barely living paycheck to paycheck (with no kids and no mortgage, or massive debt). My salary today is actually less than the salary I started with 5 years ago when adjusted for inflation (with no chance of getting a "raise" anytime soon.) Hey crying blond girl (with manicured nails) life sucks, get used to it.
Kyla talked about boomers having had stable jobs with pensions, but many of them didn’t have that experience. The boomers’ parents had that experience.
Yeah pensions died in the 80s. Most boomers have little or no pension unless they work government jobs.
It existed for older boomers. Also the younger you are the worst it gets. At least Boomers had the opportunity to have stable jobs and normal priced homes. I remember my mom used to have unlimited overtime. For Millenials and younger OT likely doesnt exist.
Yeah, they romanticize the past. My dad was born in the 40s, volunteered for Marine Corps/Vietnam, then spent his life scraping by as a carpenter in Texas.
The younger generation doesn’t know how good they’ve got it. Maybe that is a good thing and they won’t have as tough a time but a little gratitude/grace you do them some good, IMHO.
Kyla's living in a fog ... far too young to define the experiences of previous generations - youthful ignorance nothing more
@@watamutha
Some boomers had their jobs move overseas or foreigners come here to take college grads jobs. Nobody can say it was better in the past-especially women.
I'm Gen X and we all thought the same thing when we got our first jobs after college. In college we learned pretty quickly to never even take morning classes! Now suddenly we had to be at one location 5 out of 7 days a week for all the daylight hours and then some? Of course it was a shock to the system. We just didn't have the ability to put it on the internet for all the world to laugh at our naivete. Yeah, it sucks to be 'paying one's dues' in those first jobs, and only gets better when you like the work you're doing enough to have that be the dominant force in your life, yet still be happy.
I agree. Another Gen-X here. The only difference I see is she has a platform to complain on. We didn't have that, but if we could have them it would have happened. She is young... Maybe 23? Naive. It will pass.
When I was her age I was personally offended that my comfortable suburban lifestyle I had always known since birth was now going to have to be downgraded, I have to pay my dues, only to get back up to parity with my parents after at a minimum of a decade. I did complain, but it was only to those in earshot.
Those, like Liz, that want people to shut up and go on with the current state of matters need to realize that this 9 to 5, 40 hour week, came about at a time when one income could afford a home for a family of 5 including a stay at home spouse, a car, food, healthcare, retirement, and education for their 3 children.
One of the reasons is expanding monetary base and that money do not have any value anymore. Now you can afford that only if you are earning in top 5%
If you actually look at the numbers, young people today are often better than their parents.
@@crissd8283The first union to have the 40 hour week was the IBTW- it was a very powerful union. It was able to impose this on every daily newspaper in the US in a fairly short time. The level of affluence you imagine was uncommon for union printers.
What you and everyone else needs to realize is the global service economy is upon us. The reason that old work week existed, with such high pay is we had no competition. Germany, Japan, China and pretty much all of Europe were decimated during WW2. We basically had a monopoly on manufacturing from that period until now, when they caught up and even surpassed the US.
Today, with technology, information is more easy to access than ever before. As a result, education globally has improved. Look at the top engineering universities on the planet. The top 3 aren't in the US.
Now that they're here, guess what, you now have HUNDREDS of MILLIONS more competition globally in both service AND skilled jobs. This is HUGE. Jobs ike programming. Finance. Sales. Customer Service. etc etc.
Basically this is the point, if the American workers start demanding too much they'll just outsource the labor. They're already doing it, a lot of my co-workers were laid off and they sent an email later about how they were "near-sourcing" to places with the same timezone, like Costa Rica while also "outsourcing" jobs to places India or China.
With easy translation software powered by AI the language barrier will slowlly disappear and then what? What do you bring to the table that can compete with someone who is better educated, more skilled and demanding a quarter of the pay you are asking for? THAT is the future of the job market.
Its called budgeting - my Dad, a professional, often would go work in a machine shop AFTER dinner with the family just to help make 'ends meet' - EVERYTHING has gone up since the 50's, including wages - btw the stay at home spouse held down the fort and contributed immensely - it was called perseverance and TEAMWORK - manup youngin's cryin' serves no profitable purpose
I'd like to know who actually works "9 to 5". Most regular jobs are 8 to 5 with a one hour lunch.
I also don't know very many people who worked for the same company for 40 years.
I did summer jobs during my high school and college years. I worked several different jobs, some office jobs, some fast food, and a few others. Several of my jobs had multiple shifts, so I was often not working 8 to 5. After many years of working, I stumbled upon a job that lets me work at home. I certainly wasn't looking for a work at home job. This started before the pandemic, so when it hit, nothing really changed in my work life.
I get that things have changed, and in some cases, changed a lot, since I entered the workforce nearly 40 years ago. But even today, people expect to get some value when they pay for a good or service. So you should always consider what are people paying you to do, and what value are you providing to them? This is true whether you work for a company or you work for yourself, whether it's an office job or not, and whether you work 40 hours or week or some crazy shift schedule.
You get an hour for work? Damn I wish I got that. I get thirty mins, and even then it's 50/50 I'll be able to take it since we're understaffed
@@ericdraper4023 Actually, no. I have a half hour lunch. I said most *regular* jobs are 8 to 5 with a one hour lunch.
@@macsnafupaid lunch? Are you really claiming most jobs are 45 your work weeks? So everyone is working overtime ? Really?
@@jamesbizs Um, no. I never said that. Try re-reading it. Maybe redo your math. 8 to 5 is 9 hours, minus a one hour lunch equals 8 hours. 8 times 5 is 40, not 45.
9 to 5 is just an expression though. Back when there were more industrial and manufacturing jobs, people used to work straight through because you couldn't stop.
Many people should realize that employment is a privilege and not a right.
First off, I think it is totally reasonable for this girl to have these depressed feelings just starting in the workforce and also being that time of month; we used to just suffer in private but she broadcast it to the world because that is what people do now. I also think it is the 90 minute each way commute that is the problem, not the job. Previous generations could afford to share an apartment in the city close to a job, but she couldn't. Three hours of commute every day is absolutely soul sucking.
You do have a point, actually. Still, Gen Z is a coddled generation. But joining the workaday world and its realities is an adjustment for most young adults. She'll adjust, hopefully, and maybe will move closer to her job.
Yes, the elephant in the room here is Urban design. She has to have this massive commute because the distance between (a) the job she could get and (b) the place she could afford to live is massive.
And why is that? Perhaps something to do with the fact that Boomer NIMBY's enacted 70 years of housing policy to make it impossible to build anything other than single-family homes in some of the densest, most economically productive cities in the US? Maybe that's a factor here?
We can't get into the trap of saying "ho hum, that's traffic, that's life."
@@Maquaker You might want to check you math, Clyde. I am a "boomer", and 70 years ago I was not even alive. The oldest boomers that were alive seventy years ago were teenagers! Teens did not make policy back then (but it seems they do now with WOKE ideology being so rampant).
Completely agree, I was going to comment on this. If she can't afford a place close to her job, she needs to either go remote if she can, or find a job closer to where she lives ASAP. Preferably within 15-20 minutes. Or just pick up and move to a different city/state altogether. I wonder if she lives in a blue state.
Complaining about the 9-5 schedule is pretty ridiculous. Complaining about a daily 3-hour round trip commute is not.
@@Maquaker Boomers also prohibited the creation of starter homes. They also put into place prohibitions on the creation of apartments to keep their taxes down. They were a generation that really didn’t think about the importance of prepping the way for the people coming after them. My dad fought tooth and nail his whole life to prevent housing from being built in our city. He wanted lower taxes. I get it, but now his grandchildren can’t afford a house.
I think her reaction is expected, and several people have likely had that same reaction without it being recorded and viewed by millions of people. Younger people see hundreds of thousands of people being laid off, corporations cutting costs to increase shareholder profits, usually at the expense of the employees, and "that grind" doesn't look like it will pay off like it did for older generations. Sure, it might pay off, but it's becoming less and less likely that hard work will equate to success. It's an amazing economy to live in if you own assets but becoming increasingly difficult to obtain those assets.
Work is not always fun and fulfilling. That's why they call it "work". People have toiled for centuries much harder than this generation.
1000%
So? Because people have struggled more in the past, you're not allowed to complain?
Long commutes haven't been around for centuries, and that seems to be her issue. I totally get it because entry level workers have mostly been priced out of cities, so people have longer drive to work and that creates a ton of traffic vs people just walking to their job.
@@fahrenheigh
It's ok to complain. Just reflect on past, people have always struggled so don't feel like " I'm the only one" to experience this at work.
It's too bad someone is holding her hostage and making her work in a city with a long commute. If only she was free to move to a smaller city or town where she could be home 30 minutes after leaving work.
9 - 5 is a light day where I work.
Even my high school was usually 10 hours so IDK what is the problem😂 I know people who work twelve or 16 hours
😂 lamo ppl are actually proud of long hors and low wages. I barely work and make 6 figures. Cheers from Europe.
I work 7 - 5.
@@Brakka86 before or after taxes?
@Brakka86
Good thing you have USA to pay for your defense. Otherwise you will be conquered as history has shown
20 years ago I left the house at 6am to drive 90 minutes to get to the office. I got home at 7pm and had to cook dinner for my kids. And clean and do laundry. I had no man or no friends. I was making $30 an hour. I never once cried over my situation. I felt blessed.
I'm in my 40's, I have never worked an easy 9-5 job in my life -- in fact my entire working life has been 12 hour days or more. I worked as a trucker (14 hours days), construction jobs (16 hour days) etc! And no -- none of that included commute time! Wow, i would really love a 9-5 job!
Yeah young folks don't get it ... and then televise themselves whining - face it life is a bitch, grow some its all sink or swim
I’m 65 and have been working since I was 15. I remember my first 9-5 job and how exhausting it was. I went home and went to bed at 8 pm every night for the first week. By the end of the month I was ok, but the whole thing was shocking. I remember whining to my mom who basically told me to buck up. Zero sympathy. I made it through and was eventually doing some pretty solid 60 hour work weeks. All change is exhausting, but once you settle into a new routine, it’s much easier. I wish her luck.
I agree there are always going to be rising opportunities later on. I didn't really have hope but instead told myself to buck up and now I have an easier position after a few years. I have faith God but I believe if someone can behave and work with grateful thinking they will improve.
i remember my first job, i was shocked how bad my feet hurt. it got better
Liz doing a great job of covering the Thomas Sowell “constrained” vision of the situation and Kyla covering the “unconstrained” angle. One realizes life is hard, wear a helmet/ the other, life is perfectable if we just do it right. Guess which one will benefit generations more?
Thanks for bringing me up TS, and nice use of "constrained vision" ! Sowell also mentions, regarding wealth inequality, that people rarely stay at the income level of their first job. Over the course of a person's life, they will earn more and more, bringing them into higher income brackets -- and probably different working conditions, too.
Her name is Brielle asero. I found her after this video and followed her on TikTok.
What people don't understand about this video is that she's not complaining about the job itself which she actually says in the video. I don't even know if she's complaining about the hours necessarily. Her real problem is her commute.
If she drove 30 minutes to work and 30 minutes back home and worked an extra hour each day I guarantee you she would not be making this video
Thank you!
I do not have TikTok but I do have Instagram and was trying to find her on the latter app.
Anyway, I am so glad that people like Alex Clark, Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, the Lotus Eaters, and others skipped ragging on her and defended the poor girl.
She should try working 12 on 12 off seven days a week on an aircraft carrier . During your 12 hours off you may have to stand a four hour watch and attend to your collateral duties . And if you're sleeping in general quarters sounds you must go to your battle station .
bro it's not a competition. Being a welfare queen is NOT a flex.
Where do people get the idea boomers worked 9 to 5 in one location for 40 years. My experience was more like 6 to 6, being at no job more than 10 years, and relocating to 4 different states on two coasts.
Man, I needed TikTok to cry to! Thing is we did not feel burdened. We were excited and grateful.
Gen X here. Every generation is, on average, softer than the last until something terrible happens.
The key is on average. This kid is a nut, and you guys are nutpicking. Most of my nieces and nephews were raised with a perfectly decent work ethic.
Yeah my niece had like 7 jobs her last summer before college. She and her brother are going to do fine.
Suggestions for the young lady: (1) find a place to workout near your job, exercise will help relieve stress; (2) cook a few meals on the weekend and put them in the freezer; (3) grow up and realize this is real life. You made choices that led you here.
Couldn't agree more. Working out on your way home a batch cooking meals is a great way to manage limited time
In the US Army 1992-1994, I lived in Germany and I had to get up at 430am, run 30 minutes to the Frankfurt train station, ride 45 minutes to Hanau and then run 5 miles (40 minutes) to my Army unit. Be ready to work for the day, then at 5pm go home in reverse. I never complained, once, because there was a woman at home who loved me. I worked hard, made good life decisions and now I am retired at 58. Everything is paid for.
Aww cmon, cut the girl some slack.
I'm a boomer. After college I waited tables on the beach for two years and lived with 4 guys to pay rent. When I got my first job in advertising - my career - I used to call home and btch and moan to my mom and dad about how much i wasn't cut out for a career and how i should just be a waiter all my life because it was easier (and yes, I was paying off a 20k student loan in 1983).My dad loved to tease me about having to wear 'tight shoes' and how unfun it was being a grown up.
This wake up and welcome to the real world is age-old, and older generations always laugh at younger ones just entering the adulthood. Think of a baby deer or foal learning to stand up and walk...funny to watch, but by no means a sign of crippling weakness or paradigm shift to the future of deer.
Even baby birds fall to the ground when pushed from the nest. They learn to fly and the world is right.
Being in my sixties, my impression is not that you are paid for your experience. Instead, at some points in time, you are doing well and sometimes you are not. When I was most productive in my skill set, I was viewed as a troublemaker and I couldn't be continuously employed. Earlier, I was very well compensated because the owner was trying to sell the business, and he didn't want people to leave prior to the sale, or before he was fully vested. In my personal experience, compensation and generating value are orthogonal for smart people. Einstein didn't make as much money as a slightly more than mediocre startup executive.
i'm sorry who raised her. yes a commute is draining but she still gets home at 6:30 she can prep meal or learn to make simple dishes. she makes me wonder if her parents did everything for her and that they didn't prepare for the real world. i was fully aware of the effort it took for my parents to get up early and care for us; and we were taught not to take our privileges for granted. that is why we had chores and had to help each other. when i moved out on my own i was already used to paying bills, cleaning, cooking ironing my clothes for the week; it's called adulting and schedules. all the tears, girl don't do it 🙄
gross nanny laws came into play in the late 90s... bi-partisan effort. People are always ready to trade away freedom in the name of saving the children from imagined monsters, even if those monsters are themselves. It'd been a long time coming, tho. Early 90s saw a shift in public education television for children, which they moved from basic education, life skills and current events to teaching empathy and sheltering kids from the real world and its heavier issues. . . funny how teaching empathy ended up becoming the least empathetic generation - another me, me, me generation. boomers 2.0. there's man parallels between the two generations, their resentments, expectations and also being heavily manipulated by the axis of foreign powers... (maoists, soviet communism, and the brotherhood.) - the mainstreaming of the postmodernist movement.
the 60s ended with varied radical groups, rightly ousted from civil rights groups for their disruptions, hyper policing and eventual move to domestic terrorism. In the early 70s they were criminals, but by the 80s, both parties lessened their charges, by the 90s they were cleared... most with no changes in their viewpoints what so ever, tenured professors, their direct impact noted on campuses and off campus activism with the millennial and z generations.... most theorize the occupy movement as the tipping point, which went worldwide in 2012, but really started around 2008.. the far left protest and infiltration into the democrats and likewise, the manipulation of the tea partiers to the right, which stems back a bit further the religious right, televangelical movements.. which democrats played into as well. . . big money, big donors, many sheep to fleece. And of course, a public that always focuses on the soft targets... distracted by moral pissing matches and paranoia of their neighbors, community, society at large..,. leaving them ever desperate with dreams of a new world order (civil war, culture wars, viva la revolucion) filled with other authoritarians than ever giving two shts about the nation... even, tho, we have ample history of how often that has failed. . . but the worship of dictators remains.
but I digress, the world had dramatically shifted, changed, in how parents could legally raise their kids... most of the laws were judicial overreach, especially as the fault of bureaucracy has been a model based on pass the law then build the infrastructure afterwards. That infrastructure still isn't built.
and the public still plays into the partisan delusions of the two party system, with it's black and white thinking, this unrealistic duality of right or wrong, left or right, your kids, my kids...
it's everybody's children and nobody was around to clap for the very poignant thing they said that shows the grandness of your parenting skills. . .
just review the shift in child neglect and abuse reports late 90s to late 00s... the frivolous ones, of course, and the faults of the zero tolerance policies on bullying.... ("zero tolerance for bullying" parents without ever reading the small print couldn't push for it hard enough... anymore than women would race to end women's suffrage.. rationalizing that suffrage must be related to suffering, therefore it's bad and must end.)
Bubble generation
👏 Great history lesson and analysis, @@KieroSi.
How will she raise kids with that schedule. You should stop acting like a Chinese task master.
Yup same here I was paying rent to my parents 15 percent when I got my first job I was 17. Taught me alot about money. Guess what no debt paid house off early no car payments all because my parents taught me the VALUE of work and money
I own the money it doesn't own me
I can't help but laugh, I was exactly the same on my first job! The struggle is real.😂💕
OMG reality ... time to grow up, sink or swim kids
Liz Wolfe making $120,000.00 per year laughing and mocking a 19 year old poor girl who is now waking-up to the dead-end life she will have. Liz Wolfe is laughing at her...and all of you.
At 13 my mother had each girl work one summer in the bean field. 6:30 a.m. to noon. She wanted us to learn the value of money and hard work.
I came home from teaching middle school yesterday and I was so tired I could barely fall asleep. Really. It doesn't end sweetheart.
She’s right wage slavery is real😊
I felt this way, its not abnormal. There is a patience and a resilience that one develops as you get a bit older.
Tech CEOs who most were born with a silver spoon in their mouths telling this young woman to suck it up wouldn't be able to survive a day of her typical work day.
GenX here, never had a pension, didn't have a DR till THIS YEAR.
I worked 66+ hours a week in my 20's and more in m y 30's. Laid off twice. Lost my home in the housing crash of 2007-8 and started over. Got a degree in 2015. and had to start from the beginning at 40. I'm still commuting to work, I'm there at 6 am every day off at 3:30 in bed by 9.
This is the BEST economy for the worker I've seen in my lifetime. Stop acting like it's horrible.
Working to survive sucks, welcome to life.
Ah, the horrors of being in the 1%.
When I got out of college and started working I was amazed how easy it was. Worked while I was in high school, didn't work so much while I was in college because I did 18 credit semesters every semester, got my first real job and 40 hours a week left me with a lot MORE time than I was used to.
Poor kids these days have no idea what real life is like. Another reality check for her is that no one really cares (although they will pretend to because that's the fashion nowadays).
Oh boo hoo I'm 21 and I stay till 2 in the morning sometimes
9 to 5 is actually a privilege. They don't make you work an hour extra to compensate lunch.
In fairness, an hour and fifteen commute isn’t fun.
She should be thankful she has a full time job but didn't say anything about struggling to pay her bills. There are tons of Americans working many more hours in a given week and are still living in their cars.
As an older guy that started working in the early seventies, you have no idea how much harder work is now. Before I was out of high school I had a union job that easily paid for housing, food, transportation, all the basics, AND I could afford to go to college because college was so inexpensive. Boomers had it SO EASY compared to today - it's a very, very bad joke. In fact, it's wrecking our country.
I'm an older guy. When 2008 hit I lost my job . I had to go into debt to get a college education. At 56 I was competing with guys half my age . I finally got a job up by Portland and had to figure out how to pay those rents with a starting wage of $21 an hour. I worked every scrap of OT I could get and finally an opening came up in the Valley, which is to say, nobody has it easy. She could live in the city if she was willing to get room mates and live a little beneath her standards. Starting out is HARD, but if a 54 year old could do it so can she.
It’s almost as if a division of labour based on gender roles makes sense. This is the first time in history anyone has expected to live financially secure as an individual and in most countries that isn’t even considered an option.
Try 12 hrs a day, 6 days a week running a business.
Hopefully she doesn't spend 2-3 hours a day on social media as well...
The objection is valid. I remember being annoyed about how much time the commute was stealing from everyone, 15 years ago when I started my first job.
I eventually got a place that was walking distance from the office. And have always maintained a policy of moving closer to the office when possible.
Getting off at 5pm on your first job and not having to prove yourself much sounds nice. lol
Most of my working life I have been working swing and graveyard shifts. Most weekends and holidays too. A 9-5 job is bliss.
GenX here, this is why I always tell my kids or anyone who is asking for advice about what kind of job they should have is find out what you love doing. 9 times out of 10 there is a job that fits into what you love doing. But if there is not be creative and create a new one. Don't go after money because most people are miserable who do that and if you love what you do, you will be good at it and in turn make more money. Big problem about this though is kids dont have jobs in HS or even Collage so they dont know what they like or not like. Kids need to work more during their school years to "find themselves".
I was homeless when I started looking for a job. I found a job. And it was one day a week. I was disappointed. I had to work two part times jobs. But my one day a week job became full time. I had to ride the bus to work. I couldnt afford a apartment. I had to rm share. My first car was a hand me down. I got married got a 500 square foot apartment. Had three kids. My husband and I worked years before affording a 1000 square foot house and a nice car. My kids have never been to daycare. We watch our kids ourselves. My kids are going to private school and we make minimum wage. I worked when I had cancer and went through chemo, I felt like crying.We had to work hard to get where we are and we had to be adults. Life isn't easy. Girl just find a way.
The fact that they’re so walloped simply from working a regular job says everything about how colleges are just insulated resort towns now.
She doesn't communicate like someone with a college education, so it's nice that she found a job.
I had a similar reaction to the 9-5 when I was young, but I didn't have a pocket narcissism absorber to talk to.
I've mostly worked part-time as a result, and it gave me the chance to develop skills on the side and keep my options open.
Job commutes do suck, which trains us to live smart and work towards shortening or eliminating them!
I've gotten my commute down to 4 mins and it has a huge impact on my job satisfaction! :)
Layers to this
There was a book years ago
“Your money or your life “
Bottom line : You go to work -to pay for your money -with your time
The internship carousel 🎠 for cheap labor is real
Those used to be entry level jobs often
The lack of job security makes it worse for sure
The cost of living is out of control
Learn to live with less , you can still have joy in life it’s a choice
Either way you gotta figure it out
It is a beating to go from college where virtually everything is provided and you have a large amount of free time, to suddenly sitting in a cube 9 hrs a day. That’s compounded by the fact that most starting positions aren’t exactly stimulating. You get hit by “this is my life?”
There is no room for life in the modern world unless you have FU money.
It’s about expectation.
Her expectation from living with mum and dad with everything easy and a good standard of living.
As a boomer when i got my first job, I worked 7 days a week, my Dad was simple if there is overtime you go in no excuses it was not even an option to call in sick. My parents never called in sick ever so that was the expectation.
When i bought my first house every pice of furniture came from my bedroom at home and my wife’s and everything else was contacted to us, we both worked 7 days a week my wife had 2 jobs to do this, we accepted this was how it had to be. We were just happy to have bought a house.
Tell me she’s never done any real work without telling me… 😂😂😂😂
This girl is totally right about commuting!
Tons of energy snd resources are wested on this - while rich non working people are living downtown.
Commuting from the suburbs is not new - but the heavy traffic is.
my son just started an electrician apprenticeship so he's been working outside in 95 degree weather all summer. some of the worksites are nearly an hour away and he doesn't complain. he gets up at 5 am and works his butt off instead of making videos about how terrible life is
You know who doesn't complain about long hours? Drug dealers, but they get paid.
We have to realize that having lived with their parents for their whole lives they would expect to maintain the same standard of living when they move out and start their career.
We called 9 to 5 a part time job. Today’s youth don’t understand how easy they have it compared to older generations. We didn’t sit around and whine about it 😂
I can agree with the young lady on the time it takes to prepare for work and travel. With inner city prices being so high and many jobs not able to pay enough to afford living near it’s a real concern. I’ve worked office jobs the last two decades so I’m aware.
Liz is talking about “expectations” but the numbers don’t lie - the ratio of average cost of living VS average income has gotten continuously worse for decades. It’s okay to complain. Our country is getting worse and worse every year. And it’s okay to want different and better conditions. She also acts as though people only have bad jobs for a few years after but many people suffer through terrible jobs their entire lives.
Just because this is the work life cycle doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be improved. For the longevity of our society we need to figure out ways to improve family formation and reduce barriers to it. One of the ideas I heard recently that might help with all this is no/significantly reduced income tax for young people (who make the least vs their senior colleagues). If you can save $1000-$2000/mo on taxes you can live closer to the office, pay off debt quickly, stand on your own two feet more easily and have time to take care of your health and meet people you might form a family with. Small change in how we view the tax burden, but massive ripple effects on society long term.
Gen Z works hard.
I'm Gen Z. My parents told me how they worked factory jobs for a strong wage plus overtime and/or time and a half one weekends. Boomers could pay off their student loans faster, their economy wasn't as globalized, and they had one of the longest and strongest bull markets.
I'm employed, I work hard, and I'm happy at my job, but I have many friends my age who have sent in hundreds of resumes only to get an automated message back every time. I have friends who had to go through multiple round interviews, just to get booted in the last round. All of these people have good degrees and hands-on experience from taking on internships in their college years. They have to deal with "ghost jobs" and AI hiring managers, too. Don't even get me started on the "entry level" years required bloat.
Many of us are working just as hard as previous generations but getting undesirable outcomes. That's where the disillusionment comes from.
I commuted to NYC from NJ for 28 years. The commute sucked. I never liked it, just accepted it. I’m glad people can work from home, should make it a little easier for them.
A piece of advice for the upset young lady. Crying about something has never fixed the problem. Instead, identify the problem, then make a list of possible solutions and pick one. If that doesn’t work, pick another option. Keep trying until you find the fix that works for you. Crying only causes headaches, puffy red eyes and doesn’t solve anything.
Perhaps a generation showered in instant gratification from birth may never find contentment.
God help this country.
The “economist” must be really young or doesn’t study pensions or investing. Only a minority of people had access to pensions and they were not very generous. My dad was in THE most powerful union in the US and his pension collapsed after an embezzlement scandal. He got 33 cents on the dollar after working from 1936 until 1980.
It’s because she’s coming out of college where you get to do whatever you want all day on someone else’s dime. Late classes, skip classes, parties, loads of people your age around you 24/7.
That’s a big shift.
Or do dirty, dangerous, tedious, low paying work.
Welcome to the real world. It's different when you're just starting out and have nothing and your name is on the bills. Most of us have had to sacrifice to make ends meet when we first lived on our own.
I don't understand why people make fun of Generation Z for having issues with things previous generations, like Boomers and some Millennials, didn't have to face. While getting up and going to work is one thing, the fact that Gen Z can’t afford basic necessities and that their entire paycheck often goes towards the external costs of working is peculiar. Boomers were generally able to live closer to cities, or their paychecks stretched further, even if they chose to live outside the city. She definitely has a point about commute time. The time it takes to get to and from work is labor too. When you live far away from your job, that's additional labor you're expected to do, which ultimately takes away from your paycheck. Plus, that extra commute adds time to your workweek, so if you live far away, you're well outside the bounds of a 9-to-5 when you spend two or more hours commuting. This is where you begin to see a bigger correlation between pre-liberal consensus labor practices-like those before 1937 under unfair working conditions-and post-liberal consensus work conditions that Boomers experienced. Most of the people making fun of this girl likely gained their labor experience in the latter system, where paychecks went much further.
My first "9-5" job after college started at 7AM and ended at 6:45PM. Then, after work, we were expected to go out and get blitzed with coworkers and I would usually get home by 10PM at least 2 nights a week. Welcome to the real world. Learn what you need to learn from this job, gather some skills, and then look for another job. Then repeat until you have enough skills and ability to either command what you want or you can figure out how to do it without an employer. College is not your education. Your education starts now. I also advise her to get an education regarding financial matters. These will help immensely. She could start with Dave Ramsey and then seek other people to teach her. I am curious if she worked during high school.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with feeling like it’s a trap and for craving freedom.
That blond to the right has had some serious privilege judging by the way she speaks
In response to Liz Wolfe's comment that you gain more leverage over your working life as you age, how do you explain 55 years old that are suddenly laid off and can't find a comparable job because employers don't want to pay them more, so they are then forced to work low paying jobs until they are able to somehow retire?
Welcome to adulthood. Only 40 more years to get through before retirement.
I think that her feelings towards her job are exacerbated by inflation. She works as many hours as older generations did at her age, but when they were her age, the buying power of the money they worked hard for had much more purchasing power.
The juice is no longer worth the squeeze.
The goal posts have moved further away from where they were 1, 2, 3 decades ago.
We definitely need to design a system where people work a bit less. The way its set up now is extremely unhealthy and can lead to serious health issues down the road. Ive worked a high stress job for 20 years now and its taken its toll. Ive accepted that working like this, no matter how healthy i try to be, will likely take me out early.
The over generalization about Boomers and Gen x/z Millennials is troubling.
I know this isn't the audience for this. But it sounds like the city she is living in could use some PUBLIC transportation. It would save her, and I'm sure other people lots of time. And as an added bonus she could chill while being transported to work.
When you graduate college and work your first job you do it gain experience and develop skills that you can later market for a higher position with higher pay. It's been this way for centuries because your employment is directly dependent on how much value you bring to the market.
What the hell were women thinking? Work is hard and unpleasant. Btw 9-5 office work is easy.
That girl is in for a shock, what the hell is she going to do when she has kids?.
Problems with 9-5 in the US:
-have to drive (no good public transit)
-doesn't pay for cost of living
-0 vacation days or Holidays (25 here in NL)
-actually 8-6
-no prospect of saving for a home to start a family
-doesn't pay for health insurance
-doesn't pay for car and maintenance thats required for work
-doesn't pay for expensive college debt
-monopolies dominate the markets (no competition, hard to start business)
-no unions or antitrust to remedy situation
2:32 It wasn’t solid for boomers! Oil field workers suffered layoffs back in the day, automotive workers saw their jobs leave the country.
I’m Gen-X and worked for startups that failed, etc.
The younger generations aren’t the first to suffer. At lest they haven’t been drafted like men were to fight in Vietnam.
When you’re going through hell… keep going. - Gen X
ReasonTV, this videos deserves all the views
Nothing ever really changes, your 20's are difficult. I've known many successful men, that were fired in their 20's.