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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]Silver Gaia
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I'm a Boomer, too, but wasn't able to go to college until I was in my early 50s. It took me from 2001 to 2010 to get my bachelor's and my MA. I have work related to my degree, but it's part-time contract work with no benefits, and this is the BEST thing I could find. I feel damn glad to have it, but it isn't what I had planned on. I was unable to get anyone around here to even consider me for retail, restaurant, or other similar jobs because they all said I'm "overeducated. So, I'm in the same boat. I'm actually nearing retirement age now, but I don't see ANY remote possibility of that happening anytime within the next 10 years... unless I win the Lotto or have some other fantastic stroke of luck. You're right. It sucks.
ETA: And I did not vote for Reagan. Ever. I remember trying to talk my grandmother out of it, but she was star-struck, and enthralled with the idea of a movie-star as president. Nothing I could say would have swayed her infatuation with this idea.