My credit score at that point was in the 400's.
Were you at least debtmaxxing
Just because you're too young to remember Xanga and Myspace doesn't mean they didn't exist. I grew up with social media in my childhood too. We were totally ignorant and forced onto social media or else be isolated. You couldn't go to study groups in college without having a facebook account because that is where they were all organized. We had no awareness that our posts were going to be used in struggle sessions years later.
When I was a kid, there was this massive distinct split between the older and younger classes seemingly representing whether social media affected your development. The older kids seemed to chatter, form/break social bonds, and generally be happy-go-lucky and lighthearted. Everybody I knew who was my age was vaguely depressed, socially quiet, all of the noise came from conflict, insults, and misbehavior, which is a normal thing, but it's all there was, it was that or forced silence. Nobody knew how to form irl social bonds, everybody was extremely anxious about how others saw them, kids were getting groomed online by pedophiles. "Natural Socialization" was essentially missing, it was a lonely crowd from the start. I get that myspace and such existed, but even then those sites seemed to exist as an extension of a healthy social life, not as a full p&p drop-in replacement for irl human interaction.
The mental health consequences of this are obvious and overwhelming.
No dating apps was way worse. You were limited to the girls you knew in your social circles. The only single ones were batshit crazy and the good choices were paired up immediately. Men were extremely lonely then just like they are now, unless you were Chad.
This is not data-backed, young male celibacy and single-ness is through the roof compared to the 00s, and the harder you look the worse it gets. Millennials did produce the nihilistic columbone shooters, but they could never have produced somebody as twisted by modern youth social structures as the guy in my pfp.
(I get that this delves into "Waah my generation had it worse", however it is also meant as "Waah every metric is rapidly trending towards bad")
I didn't have the option of working remotely or of searching nationwide for work without having to pack up and move. So that means hours-long commutes into the city because I couldn't afford to live there.
I personally love timing my psychopathic commute into the city every day to come up with "strats" and such, but that's just me. You also didn't have a glut of (as in, almsot all listings) fake job listings complete with emails to lead you on and waste your time.
The only way I got in the door was by accepting comically low wages to gain experience.
It's still like this btw. The difference is you're now also competing against 300 gazillion doodoo people who took over the department and do not want to hire you because you eat cows and smell like old spice, instead of eating slop and smelling like cow piss, and who will work remotely in india for literal pennies.
I said and thought all these things about the boomers.
You... don't still? You don't see thousands of dollars coming out of your W2 to pay for a social contract you never signed, to keep them in vitamin pills, cpap machines, and abusive assisted living, money you will never see for yourself as the hulking system rather shortsightedly depends on rapid population growth?
