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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]DFW
(54,370 posts)129. Where are you located?
My nephew graduated from Stanford Engineering and is finishing up his PhD, has interned with NASA, but has no big job prospects on the horizon. He is still in Palo Alto, probably will be for the (very) short term, until his PhD comes through, but that is probably in the VERY near future, and he doesn't know what's next. He just turned 30 this year.
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As a boomer, I can appreciate what you're writing. Too many of us don't get it ....
Scuba
Dec 2013
#1
used to be, you could have a single breadwinner in a family with just a high school eucation, and be
dionysus
Dec 2013
#6
You're preaching to the wrong folk, cuz most of us here despised Reagan
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#2
OK. Where I come from, "I don't blame you for ..." means "I know you did that but I understand why"
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#36
I certainly appreciate the fact that you fought against Reagan and supply-side economics.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#63
My experience of politics is that often one must choose between doing the work and
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#75
It's just advice about a certain style of political work, that "choose between doing the work
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#194
I earned my PhD in math years ago, then taught for years, so I guess I've met lots of 13ers.
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#132
Did you also spend the Carter years and the Clinton years fighting supply side economics?
merrily
Dec 2013
#255
IIRC I spent some of the Carter years blaming everybody older than me for fucking everything up
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#256
I agree. Reagan was just a harder turn right. I remember during the 80's discussing how long it
adirondacker
Dec 2013
#312
Correct. I would never vote for Reagan, and btw, my greatest generation parents HATED him!
whathehell
Dec 2013
#83
Boomers were about 30% "Hippie", 40% "Nixon Youth", 30% "Centrist" in the late 60s.
jeff47
Dec 2013
#174
Yep, but even then, what was considered "centrist" was a lot more liberal than what it is now..
whathehell
Dec 2013
#200
ROTC saw a resurgence after most other sources of Federal financial aid
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2013
#327
Telling a story about your husband isn't "first hand experience". It's second hand.
JBoy
Dec 2013
#67
Your whole story is what is doubtful. There is a SURPLUS of computer scientists
pnwmom
Dec 2013
#267
depends on the area. a college friend of mine had a degree in mechanical engineering but ended up
dionysus
Dec 2013
#8
Your compassion and sensitivity are a beacon to those of us lost in the wilderness.
Orrex
Dec 2013
#18
Maybe for clarity you could post the specifics of the job your husband is offering?
Maedhros
Dec 2013
#237
My advise to you is to stop trying to reason with under the bridge dwellers. It'll
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2013
#114
Maybe you should go give your husband some libertarian boot-strappy advice about
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2013
#286
you gave YOUR anecdote… now others are giving theirs. and they do not jibe.
nashville_brook
Dec 2013
#81
You want to know why? Post the details, we have a cadre of engineers that
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#214
Engineering jobs tend to be centered in specific city areas. And engineering degrees are expensive.
haele
Dec 2013
#422
Pissed her hubby isn't allowed to have indentured servants instead of employees.
Ikonoklast
Dec 2013
#157
Exactly. And I'll never understand why some people seem to think relocation is just no big deal
kcr
Dec 2013
#35
EVERYTHING has changed since the Sixties..Even the minimum wage was worth Three Dollars more in
whathehell
Dec 2013
#103
It certainly does, and this has been going on since the mid-nineties, at least.
whathehell
Dec 2013
#296
You betcha...He didn't start it, but he continued it with no problems...As Michael Moore has said,
whathehell
Dec 2013
#330
Additionally, assuming that you can sell your existing house in an economically depressed area...
Blanks
Dec 2013
#236
My field assumes up front anyone entering it will move several times a year. It's a bit annoying. nt
Posteritatis
Dec 2013
#239
Or they could just borrow $20,000 from mom and dad to start a business, right?
last1standing
Dec 2013
#99
I'll go further to say that her language is right out of the "Entitled Republican" playbook.
last1standing
Dec 2013
#124
It wasn't for my parents, thats HUGE for people. Family infrastructure makes SO Much of a difference
uponit7771
Dec 2013
#112
I'd guess over half of the boomers have had their own careers decimated while
elehhhhna
Dec 2013
#26
In my own time and on a few occasions, I have chosen love over money in my life.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#328
I am a Boomer who joined DU today (after lurking here daily for years) to reply to you....
zed nada
Dec 2013
#55
In the 80's I worked with guys that are now retired or were and have since passed away that
brewens
Dec 2013
#88
Good points but I think it can get better if government played a better role than that of bystander.
randome
Dec 2013
#149
I hear you about the infrastructure. Ours used to be the best. Now, not so much.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#342
That means I have fewer people to compete against for reasonably well-paying jobs.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#145
AMEN!!! My wife and I talked about this very thing this week. That OUR generation has to do things..
uponit7771
Dec 2013
#108
The problem is the idea that simply creating a whole bunch more exotic degrees
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#135
The OP illustrates one of the many reasons why it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE to ...
Martin Eden
Dec 2013
#140
Hang in there, kids! Times like this have happened before, just not as bad.
raging moderate
Dec 2013
#169
I'm Gen X (also with PhD) and almost everyone I know with a PhD has a decent job
aikoaiko
Dec 2013
#224
My stepdaughter is just finishing up her degree in microbiology and immediately after is
1monster
Dec 2013
#232
20 years ago was better than this, 30 years ago was just as bad (early boomer)
diane in sf
Dec 2013
#240
Well, it seems a Boomer like Garry Trudeau understands. But then, I'm not sure most understand....
Moonwalk
Dec 2013
#266
Really? You need older people to fight? Do honestly believe that the majority of boomers have
Luminous Animal
Dec 2013
#389
"Boomers lack a frame of reference to understand how much harder it is to live in this world now."
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#283
Boomer here - that not having a frame of reference? Bullshit. Born in 46, got one pair of shoes
djean111
Dec 2013
#302
Meanwhile we have overpaid assholes on TV telling us we don't deserve what we have.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#341
I am so sorry - I didn't mean to reply to your post - my life as a Boomer likely was
djean111
Dec 2013
#325
A LOT of us boomers were the product of the flood of divorces in the 60s and 70s...
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#340
In California apartments that used to go for $350 a month shoot up to $1,100 in 15 years....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#359
The joblessness of those who have very good educations is very rarely discussed
truedelphi
Dec 2013
#355
You might as well be yelling this into a wishing well. If the Boomers were capable of
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#415
Just look around. We can't get enough debt, yet it is the very thing that is killing us.
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#417