lowest level / teenage / college kid level jobs are cushy af right now. you can make like $18-$20/hr at a fast food or retail. that's not a lot, but enough to pay rent assuming you have roommates (you want roommates at this age anyways). fast food means hustling during the rush, but it's an otherwise chill job. retail gets boring at times, but otherwise also a chill job. older people often have some nostalgia for their days working these kinds of jobs because the jobs were more chill than they realized. if you're 30+ they don't pay enough and they're embarrassing to have, but when you're young they're not bad. add the high pay we have now, and young people working these jobs have it cushy af. not saying gen z doesn't have other problems older generations can't relate to, but on the job front they have it soooo much better than millennials who were making $8/hr for this kind of stuff.
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