The way I see it, don’t let your superiors know you’re worried about that kind of stuff because if you’re working for a shitty enough company, they will probably hold that over your head.
Oh, you’re not performing well enough. You don’t want to be fired and homeless, do you?
Don’t know if that’s something they can legally do to you, but I wouldn’t put it past a lot of companies to do that to ensure you don’t leave or do anything they don’t want, like ask for a raise or looking for another job on company time.
My greatest fear is financial crisis. To an irrational degree where I expect to commit suicide in a panic. I’m in therapy, don’t worry.
Hugs, bruh
Can we avoid this by giving Gen X offhanded advice about their personal finances?
Get a roommate, stop buying lattes, learn to cook, etc.
Fear becoming? You mean ARE becoming
Why does the title claim the article is about gen z being “rich” (which to me would indicate either a high income or a lot of property), when the article only talks about employment numbers? Employment itself doesnt make one rich. The problem isnt the amount of jobs, but the income they offer.
Did you read? They make more and own homes earlier and in greater numbers than boomers. Millennials have had a much rougher time but that has largely been corrected.
Paywalled + you clearly didn’t read(Or understand) the article, it talks about employment and political positions in absolute numbers, especially ignoring how population in the US has boomed in the last few decades.
Talk about writing with a bias.
I moved back in with my parents. Fuck living alone if it means killing myself with work just to survive. Fuck that.
What… genuinely fear homelessness… such a new concept!
I have news for you, as an old millennial, it’s not just G Zers.
The cost-of living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers
genuinely fear becomingare homelessFTFY
Whole tent cities under the freeway routinely get raided by the police and “cleaned up”. And our political climate is increasingly moving toward the view that the non-homeless would be better off moving homeless folks into a prison camp or grave.
The amount of people living in their cars at the park near me in Long Angeles is astounding. It’s really sad.
I never understood of you have a car why not leave and try somewhere else?
There is no digging yourself out of a hole in Cali…you just can’t.
The weather, the jobs, friends and family in the area, many reasons.
Millennial here. Us, too.
Same and I was already homeless thanks to the W era and clawed my way back to mostly stable. It’s a traumatic experience I don’t want to repeat.
Gen X checking in. What happens when I can no longer work or no one will employ me, but I cannot afford to retire?
Pretty sure you just die. Of a heart attack. From stress.
I’ve been pondering this one myself for awhile. I knew a decade ago that, barring massive financial change, I would never be able to afford to retire. So these are the options:
- Work until I die
- Work until I can’t (or nobody will hire me/pay a living wage), live off of savings until I can’t, then die
- Stop working, live off of savings until I can’t, then die
The first two are the default and just kind of accepted by society as fair and just. The last one, strangely, gets all sorts of pushback, even though the only material difference is 20-30 years of mundane toil to make line go up.
Retire? Is that some kind of a car thing?
Ohhh so that’s why I was told I’ll never be able to retire, because I can’t afford a car! Makes sense now
As an unemployed millennial, I also fear this. I’ve been looking into how to survive as a homeless man and it doesn’t look very enticing.
Gym membership and a storage unit. Alternatively, meet a very nice woman.
Yeah I should get a sugar mama.
Gym membership for exercise and showering were legit part of my plan. And somewhere to store a laptop (locker) was vaguely part of it too.
But I don’t think I have the constitution for sleeping rough. Maybe I’d surprise myself. I feel like I’d get lots of reading and writing done.
I know boomers that are one injury/emergency away from being homeless.
I empathize for zoomers because they never had a chance of having a good time, but this instability isn’t currently unique to their generation.
As a single GenX, this is my biggest fear. I have never been homeless but I have been very close a couple of times. My rent is about half my take home pay and I’m sure it is going up again this year.
Vasectomy and shack up with a sexy roommate is my advice.
The answer was so simple, why didn’t we all see it?!
I’m Gen X with a masters and work as a computing director. I’ve been homeless 4 times, though I didn’t yet have a masters or this job. None of this has been fun.
At least I’d have my own time back. My life is not my own when I’m working 40+ hours a week.
The whole system is broken, we can’t fix it, we must tear it down.
Sadly the aftermath would be devastating.
Awww, capitalist oligarchy not to your liking? Eat cake, pleb.
