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“I was born in ’98, which I believe makes me a Gen Z’er, but I never knew what Gen Z was until the last five years or so. We were always told we were millennials. Anywho, whether I’m one or the other is irrelevant. The fact is I’ve held three jobs at once, where one was part-time and the other was full-time. During my time doing that I literally worked at least 85 hours a week, but because I got paid minimum wage at all of them and was still broke. I did this for maybe six months before it got to the point where I was not sleeping for days at a time, falling asleep behind the wheel. The fact is that I, a Gen Z’er or millennial, worked myself quite literally to exhaustion at the age of 18. Truly I’d been providing for myself since I was 15, and on my own since I was 16…”
“…I think this shows that while there are some Gen Z’ers that don’t care about work ethic, some of us do. However, my working three jobs wasn’t something to be proud of, it was something this country should be ashamed of. It should not be necessary to work that many hours a week. If jobs paid better, I wouldn’t have had to do that, but that’s not being considered by the people in power. No, the people in power will say I’m entitled.”
—jeremycady
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daniellaemanuel/every-generation-defending-gen-z