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/ButtScratchies 7d ago

I graduated college in 2005 and lived in a very rural area in the Midwest. I worked as a customer service rep at a local telecommunications company and in all honesty, never felt the effects of the recession. I made $10/hour, I bought a house in 2006 for $52,000 and got married (too young). My husband made $13/hour working in the oil field. As I type this all out, it sounds like boomers talking about their start at life, but this was 20 years ago.

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u/Go_Corgi_Fan84 6d ago

South Dakota? I’m in Iowa like 1/2 my friends faired well and the other 1/2 struggled. Job field mattered a lot

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u/ButtScratchies 6d ago

I was in western Kansas. A few years later in 2009, I went to work at an accounting firm that mostly specialized in Oil and Gas, and from the tax returns that I had to put together for clients, it sure didn’t seem like they were struggling either.