Good article, so true. We (husband and I) experienced this/had an incredibly hard time getting decent jobs for years out of college (and fell into that graduation time frame) and were just super poor and it's screwed us a bit though starting to do okay now. Now it pisses me off how the younger generations now are just graduating and getting these jobs when I have more credentials (higher education/graduate degree, perfect GPA, etc.). Some of these 22 yous are lazy af too. I work with one which I don't understand why they haven't been fired (and a former coworker also my age didn't understand either but whatever that's a different issue). Anyway, when I was that age I applied to like 20 or more jobs a day, worked minimum wage part-time jobs, did gigs online for like $2 an hour and couldn't afford to eat ugh. Some of these people before and after me literally apply to like a few jobs and get one. Everything is very circumstantial in that sense. I like how it also addressed the feeling of a complete lack of job security that many of us feel (my husband has been laid off twice now) and the fact that we have to choose between ridiculous rents (we're in silicon valley so it's really bad) or low wages. Though we've actually done both at once before!