[tylerfontaine]

> There has been a ton of "we graduated into the worst job market ever!" propaganda pointed at millennials who have internalized it. It isn't true unless you were in finance or real estate.

It was true for a lot of us who weren’t in tech at the time. I graduated in December 2008. I was unemployed for a year, eventually finding a job as a bank teller. I applied for literally hundreds of jobs from waiting tables to retail to grant writing to substitute teaching.

I was either “too qualified” because I had a degree or I was “too inexperienced” because a lot of folks who had recently retired were going back to work because they just became upside down on their house.

When you’re freshly graduated and broke, a year is a long time. Worst ever of all time? Nah. But it was pretty traumatizing.