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sea manup said:
good food and alcohol cost money. If you can't make money you are not entitled to the luxuries in life. Thinking luxury comes before wealth is a losers mindset.

Work hard so you can afford to spend money in the future. Too many excuses for not being successful these days, it's just being lazy.
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She is making money, she's working full time.  I've always enjoyed good food and alcohol no matter how broke I was and everyone I know out here does too.  It's not like it's an everyday thing.  People aren't robots.  
 
millenial said:
She is making money, she's working full time.  I've always enjoyed good food and alcohol no matter how broke I was and everyone I know out here does too.  It's not like it's an everyday thing.  People aren't robots.  
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She specifically stated that she can't afford basic groceries like bread. That $30 for a bottle of whiskey could have gone a long way for groceries. Bread, sliced turkey breast, cheese, chicken, pasta, some sauces, etc. I know from experience when I was being dumb and spending 75% of my food allowance on beer back in college :lol:

$1200 for rent? If you go on Craigslist right now, you can find some rooms for less than $1000 in the Sunset District.

It might be a little farther away from the Yelp Office, but that $200-$300 she's saving can easily be used towards bills, groceries, and transportation. Still not enough? Move to the East Bay and pay $600-$700 for a decent room in Hayward, get a job around there, and take a 30 minute BART ride to hit up SF any time you want. It's really not that difficult to live off lower wages in the Bay Area if you make some lifestyle sacrifices , but people want to say "I live in the city" to their friends while they can't even afford it.

Edit: Just did a quick Craigslist search right now.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/roo/5456228531.html

$775 for a furnished room near SFSU. That's an extra $425 she could be saving, but she's probably paying $1200 for a room closer to SOMA so she can brag to her friends about what a nice area she lives in (while making near minimum wage) :smh: :lol:
 
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Exactly. If you are going to spend money on excessive food and drink don't complain that you don't have enough for other things. That's how money works.
 
That's extra weird to me.

Females fresh out of college who were working and struggling would just mooch off of girlfriends, guy friends, and get fed and drunk via clubbing.

Somebody smart would take that money and spend it on food and other necessities. These females need to start watching Broad City.
 
College is promoted as a place to party and have a good time, when the time could also be used to get ahead in life.

Kids coming out of college after wasting 4 years on a pointless degree and parties wondering why they can't get ahead in life.
 
I left college, having majored in English literature, with a dream to work in media. It was either that or go to law school. Or become a teacher.
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:rofl: Mistake #1.

How do you even want to become such a wide variety of things?

Dathbgboy said:
we need to chill w/ this millennials are lazy and entitled gibberish :lol: I'm one as most of us and I'm sure that it's mainly those that are born after 1986-87 who act like this :lol:
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I was born in '91 and this lady is not an accurate reflection of most of the people I know. :lol:
 
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Mistake #1.

How do you even want to become such a wide variety of things?
I was born in '91 and this lady is not an accurate reflection of most of the people I know.
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What do you mean?  Most ppl change multiple professions in a lifetime.  Most ppl end up doing something other than what they majored in college
 
Stuntman Mike said:
i'm not disagreeing really but where do you get this stat? just by your observations or is it based on hard evidence?
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Multiple sites online I've seen stats where average person will have 5-7 careers during their working lifetime
 
millenial said:
Multiple sites online I've seen stats where average person will have 5-7 careers during their working lifetime
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Among the most-repeated claims is that the average U.S. worker will have many careers—seven is the most widely cited number—in his or her lifetime.

Jobs researchers say the basis of the number is a mystery. "Seven careers per person sounds utterly implausible to me," says Ann Stevens, professor and chair of the economics department at the University of California, Davis.

Yet the estimate has had extraordinary staying power. One reason is that no one knows for sure the true average number of careers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Labor Department's data arm, doesn't track lifetime careers.
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Millennials, we got to learn from the black community and start to say "get the eff outta there with respectability politics." When someone says that millennials are all spoiled and lazy and they deserve to live in poverty because they all got trophies as kids, there is no changing their minds. You can be as articulate and demonstrate as much grit as you want but you will be, at best, seen as one of the "good ones" and the exception that proves the rule.

There is no convincing or cajoling or changing hearts. When people have already made up their minds that another group of people are fundamentally unworthy of financial security and dignity, there is no changing of minds. What we need to do is to change laws and that starts with us showing and feeling some semblance of solidarity.
 
english major? shouldve been a stripper or even a dominatrix. them girls make bank and travel the world
 
DMan14 said:
english major? shouldve been a stripper or even a dominatrix. them girls make bank and travel the world
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I know more than a few english majors that are director level at these tech companies.  Granted, they graduated from Harvard and other similar type of schools as English Majors
 
everyone keeps saying english major and the first that thing came to mind as below...

 
 
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millenial said:
Yeah said:
:rofl: Mistake #1.


How do you even want to become such a wide variety of things?

I was born in '91 and this lady is not an accurate reflection of most of the people I know. :lol:
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What do you mean?  Most ppl change multiple professions in a lifetime.  Most ppl end up doing something other than what they majored in college
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This lady graduated from college not sure if she wanted to go to law school, become a teacher, or work in media. It'd be one thing if she graduated HS with those aspirations, but college? She should have had a better idea about what she spent the last four years preparing for.

Not saying you have to have life figured out when you get your degree, but saying "I want to be x, y, and z" is a lot better than saying "I want to be x, or maybe y, or maybe even z." imo
 
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This lady graduated from college not sure if she wanted to go to law school, become a teacher, or work in media. It'd be one thing if she graduated HS with those aspirations, but college? You should have a better idea about what you spent the last four years preparing for.

Not saying you have to have life figured out when you get your degree, but not having any idea about what you want to do shows a huge lack of forethought/planning.
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That's most ppl in life, I'm turning 32 this year and still not doing my dream job.  Just going to my job everyday for the paycheck, benefits, perks it offers and I don't hate it.  I think that's most ppl in life.  Not too many people are doing what they always wanted and some ppl find out it's not even what they wanted once they get there and that's why they change to another industry
 
Pssssh!

This chick is tripping. You can't stunt in one breath and cry broke in the next.

Hopefully she learns and does better. Doubt it though.
 
Another thing that is wrong with the whole "participation trophy" meme is that the millennials who were the most likely to receive participation trophies and be placed in gifted and talented classes and have wealthy and highly involved parents and enjoyed lavish birthday parties as kids are the ones who are doing the best as adults. White, upper middle class and upper class kids had the easiest childhoods and are now those rare millennials who have good jobs and home ownership.

The working class whites, the Latinos and black millennials who were much less likely to receive participation trophies, the ones who did work during high school and college, those whose childhoods and college years were much more gritty, they are the ones with the most debt, the bleakest career prospects and the smallest chance of ever owning a home.

It is, as it always has been, about who has the most money and social capital and not who had the roughest upbringing.
 
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