Millenial men from 25-34 are less likely to work than before.

[Gold]

You don't even see the hiring manager now unless they want to bring you in for an interview. By design, of course. You can't have the wrong "type" making a good impression on old Bob who might give them a chance. Let the buzzwords, Susan and LaTasha in HR handle all of that.

Exactly, impressions can be everything.

The biggest pay increase I ever got in my life came from playing top golf with a VP of the company and we chopped it up about D1 Football.

Did I learn any more job-related skills in that night? No
Did I earn any more degrees or certs in that night? No
Did I complete a huge project or do something big for the company? No

I just talked to the right guy and next thing I know i'm up for a raise


This is how it is sadly.
If I was sick or something and never made that Top Golf night, I would not have gotten that raise, period.

But so many people who have been in the same situation I was in and benefited from it.... they will turn around and tell others brehs coming up "You gotta work hard to get where I am, you gotta get your certs and degrees, You gotta do it the way I did it"

Man i could go on and on... lowkey this shyt annoys me sometimes.
I'm just lucky and blessed, I could have literally done the exact same shyt and I could be making half of what i'm making... EASILY.

That's why I never shyt on someone for their income. Income =/= effort

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Hard to get an office job as a man, 95% of the decent roles seem to be filled by women even at the entry level


Job hunting fukking blows salute to everybody holding on to that 8-5 and those doing manual labor

 

[The Oracle]

How y’all jobless brehs eating out here because I’m trying to quit the ratrace

tl;dr: started saving money while I was working, lived way below my means, even lived in a truck for awhile. once I had $5,000 saved, I started investing. kept saving and adding funds to it, the rest is history

it takes sacrifice and discipline to retire at 40, that's why most people don't. but it's entirely doable, even on minimum wage.

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

this is a disaster waking fo happen. A bunch of broke idle minded young men can only lead to violence

Waiting to happen, it's already happened breh it's just in addition to all the other shyt cacs been falling victim to recently.

 

[#1 pick]

A lot of these office jobs (entry level, lower management) prefer women; you can pay them slightly less (those savings add up over thousands of employees), they don't seem to stay as long (meaning they never reach max pay and you can replace them with a cheap alternative), they are "more educated" (filling degree requirements), and they count as a minority hire. HR Depts are filled with women hiring women at the directive of white men. A lot of these jobs are so low skilled even a teenager could do them yet they require a degree or a degree holding candidate will get preference; this pushes a lot of black men out of the running straight away. We're in fierce competition with women for non management office jobs and Mexicans for labor intense jobs. I have no idea what white men are doing to be in this predicament but black men.........man, just don't give up but you will feel like it. Also, more black men need to go to school to get bullshyt degrees as you'd be surprised how many jobs use the need for those basic degrees to bar you from consideration.

Skill degrees are more needed but those are hard, usually got to take and pass a test. If you don't have the academic fundamentals, all of this will be hard for you.

The most difficult is you gotta be willing to relocate. Sometimes your city just might be dead.

 

[#1 pick]

Yeah its alot of roadblocks out here where even getting a job is a privileged lol. I remember when I was 19 in 05 and first started working I would go on retail job interviews and they would not fukk with me lol. I finally had to plead with the manager when I caught him for a job a dollar general and had to clean the hell out of the floors just to get the job. Im glad I did that though always had a job after that not sure where I would be if I did not take that risk.

I applied to so many jobs and never got hired. My first job outside of my family was work study in college. That's how I got on.

 

[#1 pick]

You are speaking to the choir on this one breh.

I have religiously pointed out how college tuition prices have increased like clockwork despite the fact that the salary for the positions you get post-grad have not.
How can my education cost more and more if the workforce is not valuing it more???

shyt is a travesty. I'm probably one of the most anti-college brehs on this forum, despite going to a pretty good one myself

Add me too. Anti college as it is but that said, it has tremendous value.

 

[Elim Garak]

I applied to so many jobs and never got hired. My first job outside of my family was work study in college. That's how I got on.

Real shyt you have to be persistent and you still need some luck on your side.

 

[DamienWayne]

tl;dr: started saving money while I was working, lived way below my means, even lived in a truck for awhile. once I had $5,000 saved, I started investing. kept saving and adding funds to it, the rest is history

it takes sacrifice and discipline to retire at 40, that's why most people don't. but it's entirely doable, even on minimum wage.

I got 8 grand show me the game breh

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Let me get this straight, you're mad I didn't automatically assume black men would be stereotyped as broke? That's a new one even for the Coli. I came from a logical perspective of all men in said demographic, not an ignorant assumption but okay it's about programming. Ridiculous! Not suburban either. DC born and bred. Are you finished or are you done?



How many L's can one man take?

return to sender, you didn't stamp your postage.
You're not qualified to hand anything to anybody.
I bodied your thread.

Where in DC you from?

30 sec no google.

 

[Zach Lowe]

Requiring a degree in public administration (with experience) for an entry level staffing position at city hall.

hiring for a lot of dumb local (especially government) jobs is idiosyncratic they already have someone in mind, probably a girl who got a 3.3 from the local state u, smart enough but will fall in line, has ties to the community, etc, basically a clone of everyone who already works there

you're better off targeting careers with structured recruiting / paths to entry where you're not at the mercy of one idiot's hiring preferences

I'd much rather fall short of {a good med school, Wall Street, engineering at Google} and land somewhere below that through the same basic path {carribean MD or DO school, some kind of corp finance gig, a startup} than be tryna figure out how to get into basic, small companies and gov offices who have opaque criteria and hire people's nephews

 

[Swirv]

It’s all good we have video games to pacify these men. Fort nite, call of duty, 2k and GTA are like a full time job

 

[WaveMolecules]

Im not sure how people survive without working. I legit dont understand.

Been working since i was 14, and i cant imagine not working.

 

[Elim Garak]

Wait until this automation comes through and crushes the buildings shyt is really gonna get scary.

 

[David_TheMan]

Men are less likely to work and women are more likely to work.