[lifestyleguru]

> Whats even worse is all the people in your life who are older can't understand this at all.

That's people over 50. Millenials are basically out of job market once losing the current job. I haven't heard anyone from younger generations in my vicinity getting a serious stable job either, and there is nowhere to emigrate to this time.

> I tried to explain getting ghosted, ghost jobs, online applying, multi-round interviews to my grandma. It just does not make sense.

There is no job.

[fuzzfactor]

>That's people over 50.

50 is not well-enough experienced.

You're talking to the ones who were not among this category of unemployment statistics.

Their experience is just as real if they never faced as tough a market personally, but it is pure survivor bias.

For many of the other over-70's now, the ones who are still living could often tell you how in the 1970's there would be hundreds of applicants for every entry-level job of any kind. Many with advanced degrees.

You want to work for minimum wage, bus tables in a restaurant or collect trash for the sanitation department? Too bad, the odds are overwhelmingly against you whether you have current experience in the field or not.

>There is no job.

Exactly. That's the way it was, only much worse then.

Still, right now things are looking gradually worse as misguided financial macro forces are gathering steam, without the more mature influence that would make a positive difference.

As for "status-quo" that actually can be something stable, and worth working your way up to reach sometimes. Although very often regarded as mediocrity OTOH.

This type of financial malfeasance is so familiar that I think the better terminology is the SNAFU.

Roger. Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.

There's just a new normal now you're expected to accept.

Same situation though :(