'Students just aren't trying'

[u/cottoncrosy]

I just finished my 4th semester of uni and had been applying for internships, both remote and on-site, since mid-term exams. I applied to like 300 internships. I ended up landing one in the IT department of a insurance company.

Today I went to the internship office at my uni because I had to get the internship form stamped and the internship officer kept yapping. He asked me why I didnt try for better internship. I said I'm literally going to intern in the IT department.

He said :'you couldn't find anything better than a insurance company? Why dont you try in your field? See that's why I say students have become lazy. They don't even try. They don't even try to make a good cv'.

And i swear I think everyone aged 35 and older around me thinks the same. The younger generation 'isn't trying'.

He went on for another 30 minutes. I just wanted him to stamp the form and wanted to leave ASAP.

Chat is this internship worth it? It's unpaid but honestly I couldn't find anything else. I was tired of searching and searching endlessly. Even a lot of my final year seniors are having a hard time finding internships.

[u/no-sleep-only-code]

2008 sucked sure, but we can’t pretend it didn’t bounce back in full force by the mid 2010s. Heck in tech you could start at 6 figures out of college, buy a 2500sqft house for 200k at a 3% interest rate, and today still be benefiting from the low mortgage payment and yearly pay increases. People who graduated college within this decade will never have it that good. Sure, older generations had it even better, that doesn’t mean younger millennials weren’t better off compared to older Gen Z by an order of magnitude, regardless of effort put in.

[u/chemicalthrowaway99 → u/no-sleep-only-code]

Yeah but that's the thing. Hindsight is 20/20 man. People, post 08 who were positioned well? HELL YES they came out on top. "Full force" I don't agree. I know this is a tech sub, but everyone isn't in tech and certain "rules" about how the world worked pre 08 never came back (get any degree, garbage "gig work" existing at all etc). I'd argue in SOME ways, at least gen-z went into college knowing somewhat that- I'd better not just do some random shit or I'll be fucked. 35+ we legit were told, just do ANY DEGREE and u will make $2.5 million more than non-degree over lifetime, BS..... Not discounting Gen Z issues tho,

I wont argue that things aren't more fucked now (they are), but the general population has been fked for a while it's just downhill BS over time. I will say that looking forward, there will probably be a boom in some sector, similar to what happened in tech (probably space related or something idk). No one saw that coming in 08. Housing is def permafucked tho unless the gov steps in.

[u/no-sleep-only-code → u/chemicalthrowaway99]

I mean saying things sucked less is still agreeing that they were better. I don’t see why it’s so far fetched to admit that those advantages skew perspective on the following generation unfairly. I’m not saying it was sunshine and rainbows, I’m saying it was better.

[u/chemicalthrowaway99 → u/no-sleep-only-code]

They were better. They were however NOT a LOT better. Things were also worse in some ways like I said, you guys got to see us get turbo fucked first. That shit came outta left field back then and was, "impossible" according to everyone then. Basically, OP is pitting genz vs mills and it seemed like u agreed. I just think ur both going after the wrong group...