“I was so upset and disappointed in myself because growing up, I was told that if I get an education, if I go to college, then I’ll be successful,” Santos told Business Insider—and she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.
Just last month, 27-year-old Robbie Scott similarly went viral on TikTok for insisting that Gen Z isn’t any less willing to work than generations before. Instead, he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”
Or get a degree to do a soulless email job like I did
But I still only got my current job because I knew someone
The only reason I was able to escape grocery is because my brother put in a good word for me at the job he was already a manager at, and for that same reason I might be moving to a different department so I don’t explode from stress
MFW I already feel like a loser for mooching off my parents, and it looks like I’m going to have to mooch off my more successful family members just to get the porks to even consider me.
I hate it here.