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(Bloomberg) After being dismissed from her job as a Midtown Manhattan securities attorney in October 2009, Christina Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trailer to her Dodge Ram pickup and drove 1,628 miles to Texas.
The 32-year-old lawyer sold skin-care products in Houston before finding work as the assistant general counsel of a futures-trading firm where an irate customer punctuated a recorded voice-mail message with gunfire.
No one was left with the impression that he just happened to be phoning from a sporting clays range, she says.
Eighteen months and two busted jobs later, the daughter of a retired physician and a former editor at Vogue circled back to upstate New York and hunkered down at a small legal office that pays about one-quarter of her former $165,000 salary. ..................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-21/american-dream-fades-for-generation-y-professionals.html
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)I think unless you were born with a silver spoon up your nose you are not liking this dream as well.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)I will never give up. I will never give in.
I am 60 years old and have never had what most would call a "real job". I have never enjoyed a "paid" vacation or employer-provided insurance.
I have had - at times - more money than I could spend and I have slept on people's floors. I have played for tips.
But, somehow, I have locked down the Next Big Thing in the #1 most popular and expensive hobby in the US (Home Gardening). It took three years of nothing but hard work, but I got it done.
I will never give up.
That being said, I totally agree with you, Vincardog, most Boomers have no fall-back. They were raised with certain expectations and not trained to react to realities. Everyone thought a degree was all it took, that everything would always be just fine. The Security Blanket that would take care of anything just walked out the door with Linus.
DBH