Whoa, people are considering as early back as '77 "gen-y"? Since when? I was '82 and people have always told me I was "too old to understand gen-y, the gen-x-er that you are."
My wife was '78, and I know she doesn't consider herself gen-y.
But I do commiserate. Actually, I think we have it a site worse. At least our youngers should have had the chance to see the college-degree-bubble-writing-on-the-wall. We were the first to get fed into the meat grinder.
I was born '80 and consider myself to be in the nebulous area. My sister is '83 and is firmly 'Y'.
I saw the college bubble popping. It's why I went to night school and graduated debt free from a state in-state urban public university with a solid, practical program and a degree in business. It was a tough few years, but it also set the expectation that life would suck for a few years and then would get better, and I would find a way to do what I wanted after I met the goal.
Too many people, the author of the linked rant (I won't dignify it by calling it an article) seem to have been sold a promise of a fulfilling fun college experience and fulfilling fun career if only they mortgaged themselves. Mortgaging yourself never is a good idea. That is a horrible approach. I hope that the generation now in high school learns from their errors.
very few sees the bubble popping until it's popped. The worst off are approximately 2010-2013, because we're at 'peak undergrad' right now. Best time to go to college will be in about 10 years.
My wife was '78, and I know she doesn't consider herself gen-y.
But I do commiserate. Actually, I think we have it a site worse. At least our youngers should have had the chance to see the college-degree-bubble-writing-on-the-wall. We were the first to get fed into the meat grinder.