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>>16866491
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If you have a degree you should unironically consider joining the military. Exercise and get in shape, become a chad, get paid as an officer and avoid the shittiest jobs the zoomer enlistees have to do.

The thing you have to remember is that around 1942 all the dudes in America got shoved into the military and told to fight. Those that survived got a big fat paycheck and free college and veteran's preference (which was a bigger deal back then). All of this spiraled into them getting propelled into jobs only rich kids used to work.

Until the 1990s this was basically the entire social structure of the USA- be GI generation, Silent Generation, Boomers and the early part of Gen X and just join the military and get sent to Japan/Korea/'Nam/Iraq. That was how all these old guys got established with money and connections. In the 1990s there was a sharp shift in emphasis away from military and manufacturing jobs as good career paths for men, coupled with a massive rise in outsourcing and decreased funding for the military.

Most of the troubles the 70s-born Xers, Millennials and Zoomers face stem from the fact that having Vet Preference negates the normal handicap you get from being white or male in hiring, enabling you to compete on even ground with Shaniqua Jimenez. Boomers will be glad to hire a milfag, not because they like you but because they like to FEEL like they're being patriot for doing so.

The military is one of the few age-restricted jobs that basically says "no boomers at the entry level" meaning you won't lose your position just because 70yo boomer bill is friends with 68yo boomer bob who is the manager or whatever. Throughout the market the economy never really recovered from the Web 1.0 recession and the Housing Bubble Recession was just people waking up to that fact. Boomers will die at 79 working their entry-level job that a Millennial should have been working. Things won't get better until then.