r/Millennials • u/bookflow • 10h ago

Discussion Are you tired yet?

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u/72chevnj 9h ago

Same, I grew up believing i could support a family selling shoes

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u/ChickenNPisza 8h ago

What sucks is every time I seem to get over a salary plateu some crazy world changing event happens and the price of goods goes up to where I feel like I haven’t gained a thing.

Chased $100k salary my whole young adult life. I am finally achieving it and that number. Which is great don’t get me wrong, but it’s not the finish line I saw at 16

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u/0069 8h ago

Samesees. I know I'm not poor, but I'm so much closer to it than it felt like I would be when I got to that number.

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u/Deep_Distribution_31 8h ago

Hey doing better than many of us, I've been excoted for my new job making 32k a year, my old one was only 27k a year

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u/ChickenNPisza 7h ago

This is what I was trying to avoid with my comment. I almost didn’t post it because I don’t want to gloat.

I am incredibly grateful to make the money I do, and it pains me to see others struggle more that work just as hard as I do. Millienials are now the glue at a lot of small businesses…It’s just wild how far the goalpost has moved for all of us.

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u/zxcv4-2 6h ago

Today it’s 32. Then next up is 50. You got this. Remember. At least 1 random Redditor believes in you.

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u/citizen-slain 5h ago

Make it 2.

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u/itsmiddylou 5h ago

I know that feel I stayed somewhere for 18 years and I left making $36k to go to a job making $38k 😅

Now I make $56k, but I work M-F and 7a-3p, which I will fight tooth and nail to keep that schedule. I don’t even have kids. I just like being able to do shit and get home before it gets super late

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u/Ursa_Mino 4h ago

My exes Boomer parents tried to relate - about how they didn’t feel they had breathing room until breaking $30k a year in their second or third year working after graduation - in 1973

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u/Then-Departure4896 3h ago

I’d never made $30k in a year before, and this year I’ll make around $75k, and I only got my promotion in July. Shit can change quick. I went to a community college.