Remarkably SAD!
"...I’ve only recently realized how little I can do to overcome generational poverty. Even just having enough to save for my own retirement (let alone save for a house) feels impossible."
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"I don’t know a single person who isn’t dangerously stressed out in my school. Everyone procrastinates, nobody commits to after-school clubs or honor society because they’re too busy freaking out about everything else in their lives. None of our parents seem to get it; they just think we have it easy and are just lazy, or distracted with 'those darn phones.' Our student assistance counselors are always, always overbooked from students having panic attacks or mental breakdowns in the middle of the day. And to most of us, it’s just a new normal we’ve accepted."
Awful!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennial-burnout-perspectives
"None of our immediate family in the area can afford to retire and help with child care, even though they want to. My husband stayed home for almost two years after our youngest was born and we've struggled financially."
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"I want to go back home, but every time I visit I see how my friends and family are struggling just to make ends meet, let alone having money left over to enjoy their lives. Now I feel trapped in China (the culture shock is REAL) because I don't want to choose between the lifestyle I have now or going home where people my age can't make enough to buy homes or start families."
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"My boss would let me buy food from work and just take it from my check whenever I needed to feed my little brothers cause we were so broke...I went to college to better myself and try to have a better life and not have to worry about ever having my home taken away like my mom did. But to this day I can’t even buy a home if I wanted. I also am afraid to even get married because I don’t want to burden my future husband with any debt I still have."
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"Once I realized how bad things were for the family (I was 15), I started working 60-hour weeks as a lifeguard every summer and teaching private swim lessons during the school year so that I could pay for everything I needed and lessen the burden on my parents (food, gas and car insurance, clothes, etc)."
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"Although we're fine now, we both feel resentment toward the adults who set us up to pursue our dreams/work hard/do the right thing — only to be told by those same people that there’s nothing for you because they squandered it."
[Because the biggest spreaders of nihilism truly ARE the biggest deadweights who leave this world way WORSE than when they found it!]
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"University isn't for everyone, and there are so many jobs that require trade skills that make good money":
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/millennials-lives-changed-by-recession-2008-2018