2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Baby Boomers Don’t Get Bernie Sanders [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)I think that you are correct that we had a far easier time getting jobs out of college. I am 65, so near the beginning, but not the beginning of the baby boom. The economy was expanding when I left college and - at least in math science - there was actually competition to get competent women. Even then, it was easy to see the people slightly older than us at an even easier time because the beginning of the baby boom followed the war babies, where there was a dip in the number of children born. The later babyboomers faced a different reality.
Many of us babyboomers understand quite personally how the economy has changed. For some, it was reflected in jobs that they long assumed were for a lifetime, ended when they were downsized in their late 50s or in their 60s. Additionally, many of us have kids in your generation. We personally know how so many of you, worked harder in high school than any of us, taking AP classes and doing lots of extra curricular things to put on the resume for college. They accepted loans that made sense with the likely income they could get after graduation. Then things changed and in most fields, the number of jobs with salaries that would support a middle class life style was far less the number of people seeking those jobs.
Even if our own kids were lucky, we know their friends. We are not disconnected from your generation.