give me something to sing about, please
Oct. 18th, 2011 10:08 amvia ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cofax, at New York Magazine, The Kids Are Actually Sort Of Alright: "'I am sad, jaded, disillusioned, frustrated, and worried,' said one girl I talked to who feels 'stuck' in a finance job she took as a stepping-stone to more-fulfilling work she now cannot find. Ours isn’t a generation that will give you just one adjective to describe our hurt."
... Between me, laboring frantically in grad school for - this semester - what breaks down to subminimum wage, for my boyfriend who's still underemployed more than a year after losing his last job - even for my students, who have all the technology and none of the prospects, who know that these are their last years on the parental gravy train and so enjoy both ridiculous material privilege and a sensation of the ground falling away beneath their feet, this rings pretty damn true.
cofax, at New York Magazine, The Kids Are Actually Sort Of Alright: "'I am sad, jaded, disillusioned, frustrated, and worried,' said one girl I talked to who feels 'stuck' in a finance job she took as a stepping-stone to more-fulfilling work she now cannot find. Ours isn’t a generation that will give you just one adjective to describe our hurt."... Between me, laboring frantically in grad school for - this semester - what breaks down to subminimum wage, for my boyfriend who's still underemployed more than a year after losing his last job - even for my students, who have all the technology and none of the prospects, who know that these are their last years on the parental gravy train and so enjoy both ridiculous material privilege and a sensation of the ground falling away beneath their feet, this rings pretty damn true.