“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.”
Job seeking is it's own job but so much more intense, tiring and unpaid. I'm so sorry. On the rare occasion I can muster some energy, I job seek and it's soulcrushing.
I've been unemployed for over 10 years if the last 20. You actually almost get used to it in a sad and depraved sort of way.
The only reason I even went to college was as an attempt to land a career instead of dead end jobs yet here I am.
Well no careee landed but it's at least partially right blame for my radicalizing so there is that.