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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