Reply #64: I'm 30 nobody is speaking to my generation, our morale sucks.

[newportdadde]

I think secretly many of my generation wish we were our parents, to live through those periods of growth in the 80s and particularly the 90s. I see coworkers in their 50s with good pensions and the ability to retire at 55 with health-care. Some of them actually want layoffs so they can get bought out.

Meanwhile my generation who should be becoming more valued as our higher number of coworkers leave open jobs for us see those same jobs being filled by workers from India. We see raises getting literally eaten alive by increases never seen by the previous generation in things such as health-care. In the past 6 years my health-care has gone up 352%. When I think of my children and paying for college it boggles my mind what the costs will be.

I remember hearing on the radio that I believe Generation X was the first generation to poll that they believed they would not be as well off as their parents.

I honestly wonder what the hell my kids will do when they grow up. I was lucky to get into IT back in 99 but for the past 6 years no one from college has been brought on instead its all onshore and offshore. I can walk into a department meeting of 100 people and be the youngest person there and I'm 30.