I'm open minded about the future. I think the problem for people my age (30-ish) is that the entire time we've been working real wages are flat or negative. We've never had a chance to get ahead of the game. I make more money than most of my friends, lots of them have student loans to deal with too, and it's hard to project a way to save even $200k-$300k over the next 30 years. Of course I could cut my expenses, move into a cheaper place, eat lots of ramen, but that's just choosing to live poor now instead of later. So for now I'm making the choice to be poor later.
Yep, this is it. I have at least two friends from college that have spent over a year trying to find work. "Defeated" doesn't even begin to properly describe how they feel.
