Here we have an epic meltdown rendered by a “teary-eyed Gen Z graduate” and former “influencer” who set out to paint the town red with her dual degree, only to find employers unreceptive to her extensive CV.
Via Fortune:
“This is the most humbled I’ve ever felt in my life,” a teary-eyed Gen Z graduate reported back to her TikTok fans while holding a stack of résumés after a disappointing day of job-seeking—and the brutal wake-up call has struck a generational nerve.
In the video, which has amassed over 23 million views, Lohanny Santos, a 26-year-old from Brooklyn with a dual degree and three languages up her sleeve, shared that she’d been going door-to-door to find work to no avail.
Santos, who posts under the handle @lohannysant, broke down in tears while admitting that she’d given up hopes of becoming a full-time influencer and needed a job with a full-time salary.
After her online venture didn’t generate enough income to pay the bills, she went into several coffee shops to hand them her resume—just like she did when she was 16 and was looking for a job. But it wasn’t long before the Pace University graduate realized that not even “two degrees in communications and acting” is enough to land a $16-an-hour job in New York in the current tough job market.
“It’s honestly a little bit embarrassing because I’m literally applying for, like, minimum-wage jobs,” she cried. “And some of them are being like, ‘We’re not hiring’ and it’s like, ‘What?’ This is not what I expected.”
“This sucks,” she concluded.
Gen Z grad with two degrees breaks down in tears sharing the responses she received from minimum wage employers after handing out her resume in New York. https://t.co/EzFthdJlS2
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) February 9, 2024
Thus, the intergenerational culture war rages on.
Related: Zoomers vs Boomers: Let’s Play the Generational Blame Game
Nothing sticks in my craw like claims that all of the blame for the state of Gen Z falls on the shoulders of Zoomers themselves as if they are not the products of the culture that their parents and grandparents fostered.
It’s highly fashionable in certain corners of media to lambast the Zoomers and their delicate sensibilities, for good reason.
Obviously, it’s easy and justifiable to reach for the low-hanging fruit, to blame this girl for pursuing an acting and communications degree (the latter being the most useless BS “field” of academia, populated by literally the dumbest people — students and professors alike — to ever mouth-breathe).
But where did these come from? Did communications departments magically pop up all over the country as if by some act of God?
Or were they the creations of overfed Gen Xers and Baby Boomers looking to graze until retirement off of overpriced tuitions for made-up academic pursuits, themselves financed by high-interest student loans guaranteed to subject borrowers in their late teens and early 20s into a lifetime of usury by bankers?
And who filled Zoomers’ pretty little heads with the pack of lies that a “communications” degree is worth the paper it’s printed on, when, in fact, it has negative value if it’s financed by student loans?
And who handed out participation trophies like candy at Halloween, even for last-place teams that never won a game all season?
And who fed them social media and processed food and identity-based grievance politics nearly as soon as they emerged from the womb?
And who locked them down for years, stunting their academic and social development, for no justifiable cause whatsoever, for which no Public Health™ criminal has ever been made to account?
