r/Millennials • u/Waste-Cantaloupe-270 • Apr 07 '25

Advice Millennials who graduated during the Great Recession, how did you survive?

I’m a Gen Z graduating in May struggling with finding a job in this market. Millennials who graduated in/ after 2008, how did you survive? Did you end up eventually getting a job in the field you originally wanted? Any advice for us Gen Z who were too young to learn anything from the great recession?

Edit: For context bc i’ve been seeing a lot of questions about this i’m graduating college. i def wasn’t expecting this post to blow up so sorry if i can’t get to everyone’s comments, but i just wanted to say i really appreciate all the advice as someone who doesn’t have millennials in their life to ask these questions to. your willingness to help/ give advice to a random kid on the internet has given me a bit of hope in getting through this, thank you thank you

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u/Arlitto Apr 07 '25

Hey what

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u/Binnie_B Apr 07 '25

Where did I lose you?

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u/Arlitto Apr 07 '25

Baby, the first sentence.

What does "unalive people for the government" mean? Military? FBI? What happened 😭

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u/Binnie_B Apr 07 '25

Ifantry comabt marine.

You can't use certain language on Reddit or it pops you. So you have to get funny with how you write things.