It is not nostalgia. It is the loss of the path: broken social contracts, an AI transition that is hollowing out work, and a future our generation was not promised.
Thank you for writing this Collette. I am a “younger millennial” and I, too, am grieving the social contract. I always write about my grandfather who worked for one company for 35 years and retired with a gold watch and a pension. It turns out his lessons were the exception, not the rule.
Alex, thank you for reading. Amazing with your grandfather. My grandfather too retired from his company after many years with a solid pension (not the gold watch. Regardless if a younger or older millennial, receiving such a similar perk of work is unheard of these days. I have one Gen X friend that is set to get a pension upon retirement, but that is because she spent time in the public sector, with it's own trade-offs.
Different people will read this differently, I suppose. Many things were captured. What resonated with me was growing up in a different world.
The world has changed a lot, definitely. Some things for the better, some for the worse. However, the rate of change is crazy, technology and political climate evolve, it feels like, at triple speed compared to pre-COVID decade.
Things are indeed moving fast. Sometimes I use the analogy that it seems like time is moving like a freight train. In a short 6 years, I now engage with Claude almost daily and some of the things that I have witnessed happen in the world would have seemed unfathomable pre-COVID.
Thank you for writing this Collette. I am a “younger millennial” and I, too, am grieving the social contract. I always write about my grandfather who worked for one company for 35 years and retired with a gold watch and a pension. It turns out his lessons were the exception, not the rule.
Alex, thank you for reading. Amazing with your grandfather. My grandfather too retired from his company after many years with a solid pension (not the gold watch. Regardless if a younger or older millennial, receiving such a similar perk of work is unheard of these days. I have one Gen X friend that is set to get a pension upon retirement, but that is because she spent time in the public sector, with it's own trade-offs.
I know one millennial who has a pension from Disney! But they were grandfathered in from their earliest days at the company!
Let’s bring the Discman back! I still have all these CDs ready to go.
Likewise, I have a box of CD's in the garage!
Different people will read this differently, I suppose. Many things were captured. What resonated with me was growing up in a different world.
The world has changed a lot, definitely. Some things for the better, some for the worse. However, the rate of change is crazy, technology and political climate evolve, it feels like, at triple speed compared to pre-COVID decade.
Things are indeed moving fast. Sometimes I use the analogy that it seems like time is moving like a freight train. In a short 6 years, I now engage with Claude almost daily and some of the things that I have witnessed happen in the world would have seemed unfathomable pre-COVID.