This take is US centric, because that’s where I’m from.
I’m a millennial. I feel like I got on the last boat boat out of 'Nam. I graduated college and got my first job just before that mini recession in 2014.
I do feel like if you were mid 20s around 9/11 you got to ride the crest of the last surge of “greatness” in the US; old enough to get your bag while the world changed everything for the people coming after.
In reality, there’s almost always been a 2-4 year period every 10-15 years where it’s actually pretty great to enter into adulthood compared to surrounding age demographics. I feel like I was in the last one, and the next one hasn’t hit yet.
Seemingly great times to be a 24 year old college graduate (comparative to other years):
2011-13 - you narrowly avoided 08 and 14 recessions
1997-99 - you got job experience before the dot com bubble popped
1988 - you’re starting your career with a straight decade of prosperity
1967-73 - you went to college and avoided the draft; you got career experience before inflation and the gas crisis hit in the next few years
1948-50 - too young to go to war, early enough to participate in the largest economic boom in human history
This take is US centric, because that’s where I’m from.
I’m a millennial. I feel like I got on the last boat boat out of 'Nam. I graduated college and got my first job just before that mini recession in 2014.
I do feel like if you were mid 20s around 9/11 you got to ride the crest of the last surge of “greatness” in the US; old enough to get your bag while the world changed everything for the people coming after.
In reality, there’s almost always been a 2-4 year period every 10-15 years where it’s actually pretty great to enter into adulthood compared to surrounding age demographics. I feel like I was in the last one, and the next one hasn’t hit yet.
Seemingly great times to be a 24 year old college graduate (comparative to other years):
2011-13 - you narrowly avoided 08 and 14 recessions
1997-99 - you got job experience before the dot com bubble popped
1988 - you’re starting your career with a straight decade of prosperity
1967-73 - you went to college and avoided the draft; you got career experience before inflation and the gas crisis hit in the next few years
1948-50 - too young to go to war, early enough to participate in the largest economic boom in human history