If you were born during the 1980s and grew up between the 1990s/2000s, chances are you are unemployed or underemployed.
Unemployed Millennials may be depending upon minimum wage work, credit, parental support, partner/family support, social assistance and any combination of the above.
Millennials are not frittering away our earnings; rather we are subject to realities of our time. We have student loans (OSAP ranges from $7000-$70 000, owing plus interest 6 months after graduation) depending upon program and degrees. We have entered the market at a time of government austerity and job entrenchment; reflected in cutbacks in state labour hours and wage stagnation in both the public and private sectors.
Some of us are underemployed, working at the same retail positions we held as high school or undergraduate students. Some are unemployed, depending on family, friends or social assistance for support until an agency decides to offer an employment opportunity.
How are you dealing with the unemployment crisis? As a Millennial, what is your strategy? If you are a working non-Millennial, what do you think about current employment opportunities for those in your workplace/field?
Please post your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Welcome to Unemployed Millennial
This blog is a space for those of us in the Millennial generation (roughly, born from 1982-2000) who have volunteered, studied, attended college/university and achieved diplomas and degrees - only to have found ourselves after graduation overqualified for the low-skilled, minimum-wage jobs that await us and our student loan payments.
Millennials need to know that the world we came of age in is not the world we were raised in.
Back in the 1990s, every kid was special and could be anything he or she wanted. If we worked hard in public school, got into college or university, then we would be set for life. The requisite student loans would work themselves out with the cushy salary we'd land with our first "real" job.
But then, reality hit: for those of us who graduated pre-2007, we were lucky to land entry-level jobs in a field related to our college/university major. Then came the Great Recession which began in late 2008, and it took with it the remaining permanent, full time jobs for which we had worked years to obtain.
So where does this leave us, the Millennials? Are we blessed with unparalleled opportunity or cursed by our place in history? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Millennials need to know that the world we came of age in is not the world we were raised in.
Back in the 1990s, every kid was special and could be anything he or she wanted. If we worked hard in public school, got into college or university, then we would be set for life. The requisite student loans would work themselves out with the cushy salary we'd land with our first "real" job.
But then, reality hit: for those of us who graduated pre-2007, we were lucky to land entry-level jobs in a field related to our college/university major. Then came the Great Recession which began in late 2008, and it took with it the remaining permanent, full time jobs for which we had worked years to obtain.
So where does this leave us, the Millennials? Are we blessed with unparalleled opportunity or cursed by our place in history? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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