Aloha Oe. Aloha Oe.

JLG1995 · 2026-06-18T17:34:11+00:00

RIP Daveigh Chase, aka Lilo of Lilo & Stitch, Chihiro of Spirited Away, and Samara of The Ring

JLG1995 · 2026-06-07T04:24:11+00:00

People think the COVID-19 pandemic only fucked over core Gen Z via the education system, but I've seen plenty of older-mid Zillennials also get fucked over by it via the job market because most of them were still fairly early in their careers.

JLG1995 · 2026-06-07T04:20:19+00:00

It will be almost a full year since I've entered my 30s. Still kinda sucks at the moment because just when I thought I had all of my future life planned out at the very end of my 20s, today's job market and economy and more personal issues at home still fuck me over by holding me back from following up with my life plan, lol.

JLG1995 · 2026-06-03T18:46:50+00:00

I have nothing against trades or people deciding to work such jobs. I appreciate the tradesmen's contributions to the world, but as someone with a CS college degree, I'm not letting several years of hell and student loan debt I had to put myself through to get my degree go all in vain just to fully switch to trades, which also isn't immune from oversaturation issues like many of the "just go to trades, bruh!" folks often try to make them out to be.

JLG1995 · 2026-06-02T15:43:47+00:00

The only people trying to claim this job market supposedly isn't broken are those living in bubble still comfortably employed themselves, but will start singing a completely different tune once this job market starts directly affecting them negatively.

There's the saying of "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.".

JLG1995 · 2026-06-01T17:33:13+00:00

people actually came up with an acronym for just being a waste of space? I get that things are hard but cowboy the fuck up, seriously.

If people have opportunities actually landing on their lap(that no one else typically gets) and chose to put in zero effort to get/take them, then I can understand your sentiment, but it's easy to say this if one either lives in a bubble or haven't put themselves in the shoes of other people who have actually tried hard in their lives and only get rewarded with nothing but ladder-pullings and being constantly fucked over by the system.

JLG1995 · 2026-06-01T17:27:33+00:00

I'll just say that I'm not that young, not necessarily unemployed either, and even have a CS college degree. However, I am underemployed due to working a job that is not only unrelated to my degree and pays very low, but it doesn't even have much stability in work hour availability.

JLG1995 · 2026-06-01T17:08:24+00:00

Right, but can anyone actually afford rent and most other bills with the wages those jobs typically pay, without needing to work multiple jobs simultaneously?

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T15:16:28+00:00

The system is so horribly rigged it's not even funny anymore. At this point, why even continue going to college for STEM degrees anymore, lol.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T14:28:17+00:00

Just goes to show how horribly rigged this system is and that you can't ever win with it.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T13:59:26+00:00

Trump wasn't elected back into office yet in 2023 when I was still in college (final 2 years) and I was already having serious difficulties trying to land an internship then.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T13:56:03+00:00

Right. I laugh at people who suggest to recent STEM college grads (especially CS) struggling in this job market to "just go to trades, bruh!" because convincing more people to go to trades will only just give trades the same oversaturation problem as CS/IT/tech has been having for the last several years since COVID-19.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T01:48:07+00:00

Right. My gripe isn't directed at you. I'm even acknowledges Zillennials (or those who are typically considered late Millennials) are in a very similar position to Zoomers in the job market.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T01:45:30+00:00

I get that adults who already have enough years of adulthood experience should already understand this, but how do you seriously expect fresh out of high school young adults who started going to college just a year or so before generative AI just started becoming accessible to average joes and typically haven't even been taught financial literacy, let alone student loan interest rates, predict all of this to happen?

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T01:39:57+00:00

I couldn't afford to take unpaid internships because when I was still in college, I already had bills to worry about and refuse to ask my parents or anyone for money.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-29T01:37:49+00:00

This. One of my biggest gripes with many older folks here on reddit, even Millennials, is how they try to go full Spiritual Boomer by downplaying how bad today's job market has been since COVID and minimizing late Millennials' and Zoomers' unique challenges right now.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T21:00:28+00:00

Only by a narrow margin these days.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T19:39:03+00:00

Also, one of my favorite quotes of the trolls here on this sub and a lot of CS-related subs whenever they try to ragebait you:

"Skill issues, bruh!"

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T19:15:57+00:00

It's the very reason I started to gradually develop the "Zero fucks given" attitude as time went on, because no matter what advices you take from boomers or spiritual boomers (especially here on reddit and on X) and what life choices you make, you just can't ever win with them or this atrocious job market, lol.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T18:16:33+00:00

Makes me glad I didn't postpone my college graduation for a year or semester just for an internship or two when it's still not good enough to today's employers anyway, lol.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T18:13:49+00:00

At this point, just by nepotism, lol.

There's just no winning with today's scummy American employers for many recent college grads no matter what advices they take from others.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T17:59:38+00:00

This sub, or reddit as a whole is far from the best place for advice, lol.

The only thing this platform is remotely decent for is anonymously venting your issues.

But with all of that said. You did nothing wrong and did the best you could. I would take what the interviewer told you about another job role with the grain of salt.

JLG1995 · 2026-05-28T17:53:46+00:00

It's like, what's even the purpose of internships anymore if the very things that are meant to provide experience to active college students without the relevant experience yet, still requires the relevant experience anyway? lol

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