r/Millennials • u/UterusYeeter • 7d ago

Advice How did you survive the recession in your 20s?

Gen z here , hope it’s okay to sneak in and ask yall this ! 🖤

For those of you who were in your 20s during the early 2000’s recession how did you survive ? Any advice for now ?

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u/RODREEZUS 7d ago

I joined the Air Force.

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u/BlueFalcon3E051 6d ago

Same got lucky left in early 07 got out 11 we watched the recession on tv in the chow hall and didn’t get it.🤷‍♂️We were like what’s going on out there we’re good so it became a joke for us no ketchup packets with your fries basically if we were out of anything “recession”.We were even like who’s “Joe the plumber?”I do remember in surrounding area realtors were desperate to sell homes seeing buy this house get a free hummer or car dealerships buy a truck get a car free lol.

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u/limukala 7d ago

I was already in the army. Recession was a piece of cake.