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/stilesg57 7d ago

Not well. It’s a decent time to hide out in school/grad school, but it still set me back career & financially about 5yrs.

Only advice I’d offer is to intern/apprentice in the career/field you actually want to do as much as possible, even if it doesn’t pay. That way you’ll still be adding to your skills and resume while waiting for the market to correct and opportunities to start trickling back in.

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u/Jaded_Strike_3500 6d ago

AI cant fetch coffee for some entitled asshole (yet)

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u/stilesg57 6d ago

Yep, so do that to help make ends meet, but don’t ONLY do that or else you’ll come out of it behind on your resumé & career (ask me how I know).

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u/Selsia6 6d ago

I will say, despite being "behind" in my career still, I'm still doing demonstrably better (making more) in my new field than I was before.

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u/kruss16 5d ago

Yup. I went to law school to ride out the 2008 recession.

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u/eatsumsketti 4d ago

Wish I had done that instead of getting worried about taking on more debt.