“I was so upset and disappointed in myself because growing up, I was told that if I get an education, if I go to college, then I’ll be successful,” Santos told Business Insider—and she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.
Just last month, 27-year-old Robbie Scott similarly went viral on TikTok for insisting that Gen Z isn’t any less willing to work than generations before. Instead, he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”
When I was job hunting I probably sent out 100+ applications
I heard back from around 10 companies, around 5 rejections and 5 interviews
I got lucky enough that one of them got me a gig
And this was back in 2015 too, with me hot off the degree line and in the top 10% of my class
It's bad
ed. Remembered that one of the companies I interviewed with sent me a rejection letter after I'd been working at my current job for around 6 months