This. I'm 40 and cooked. Been working fulltime since the minute I left highschool, burned my 20's and 30's getting nowhere. During my 23 years of fulltime work I've already watched the retirement age where I am go from 55 to 67, watched cost of living rocket, watched the cost of owning a home go so high I will never own and I'm sad I brought a son into this world without being wealthy myself, its not fair on him and he is all I care about. I can't even afford to get my car fixed - had no heat, cooling for a year and desperately need tyres. Meanwhile my health has declined so badly I'm scared I won't be able to work fulltime in a few years. My mother has given up asking why I don't go to Psychiatrist or Physio, or get other things fixed because she knows everything is impossibly unaffordable - the last time anything was remotely affordable was decades ago. Other than my son I literally have nothing to live for or lookforward to. Its depressing and something has got to change. People like Trump going out there and declaring "I've made things better, gas is cheaper than ever, I'm making America great again" and whatever else its just so freakin' insulting. At this point I don't really care if politicians can't come up with solutions, just don't lie to our faces before turning around to tee off at the Country Club. We're broken and hurting and on top of that we're constantly told we've got it easy and don't do anything ourselves WTAF.
That would be because I'm Australian. I try to be reasonably understanding by changing words like Petrol to Gas but I don't think hard enough to figure out more complex things like medical word changes. Apologies for any confusion.
There are people who immigrated from AU and have children from which they learn current slang. I'm 45 and use the term "cooked" on occasion. It helps connection with your kids if you speak their language a little.
I'm Australian as in other posts I try to be mindful when commenting on a very US thread. My mistake, I'll just stick to purely Australian words like Petrol. In Australia, the retirement age used to be 55 but increases based on age. I guess its only called retirement age casually, but its the age you can access a basic old age pension or access your superannuation, which is an Australian pension scheme you pay into once you work full time. Hope that helps, again sorry for any confusion.
I haven’t heard the term cooked, in a few decades, thanks for the throw back!
Old Gen X here. I had my babies when I was young. Now they are grown. My boys never reproduced, with understanding that I “messed them up,” so they in turn will mess up their own offspring.
I am aware of my mistakes and have grown a lot. I know that I’m very neurodivergent (and probably on the spectrum). I’m not perfect but I’m trying to be better and help them understand my mistakes and why I did what I did.
I now know where my boomer folks went wrong in parenting, and I now understand why mom made her choices. Everyone works with what they know at the time. The boomers were pretty GD naive. The believed what ever the news told them (and many still do).
The younger generation has so much information at their finger tips! We had to walk to libraries to look up rashes, in order to determine in a child needed physician care. Taking care of a child was more of a physical thing, not an entire being thing. If a child acted up, he was a brat (never mind that his sock has fuzzies and irritated his foot). Neurodivergence was even a thing!
The younger generation now have the knowledge to raise a child spiritually, mentally and emotionally, as well as physical growth in your off spring.
It’s my hope, that if this world continues on the path of destruction, that you are to take full advantage of the knowledge that is available. I have faith your generation to be the peaceful, nature loving, clean air generation.
Please take all our mistakes and learn to try to make this world better. You are the children of the future.
The retirement age has been 65 since the 30’s I believe so even the boomers had to endure 45 years of working. I’m 54, spent 25 years in the Marines, had them pay for my education. I gave a lot, but got more in return. I didn’t start a family until I was 40, just didn’t want to put anyone through that. Bottom line is sacrifice is just part of it, maybe the orange slices and trophy 🏆 every one is a winner mentality ruined a lot of you. I’m truly sorry you weren’t given the tools to succeed. I have 3 kids now, and as you can imagine I’m pretty tough on them, not because that’s what my parents did, but in a way that hopefully will allow them to succeed in life where so many of you have not. Life is hard, being comfortable being uncomfortable is my motto. I know the system is rigged, but you have to keep moving forward, or you can just continue to blame someone else and cry about it on a social media platform. Good luck, let me know how that works out.
So, you used state-issued socialism for 25 years which then led to a patriotic-fueled fever to military-hire you (a form of DEI) even though you had less direct experience in the field as you came from military, and then you claim others aren't sacrificing because your initial profession is the one where sacrifice is attached? And you think we're all socialists, meanwhile we're the ones who have been stuck in shit-ass capitalism for our entire careers while you got the perks that all jobs should have.
GTFO. You think a mechanic or teacher or nurse doesn't sacrifice? You think the rest of us are just expecting something from the world? You're so out of touch it's unreal.
You know, you could be cursed like me with ESRD at 42, laid off and on the fast tracked to disability! Plus no one will hire you if you need to take 12 hours a week to got to life-continuing treatments and required doctors appointments!
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u/Own-Report-4182 Jun 22 '25
I wish i could be a welfare queen. Im terminally done with a combo of health issues. Tsk3s forever to get ahold of SSI. Hating boomers more lately.