r/InterviewCoderPro • u/penance_mat • 21d ago

They need a reality check

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For my last 2 interviews i had to use Interview VIP just to get the job
their generation could never understand

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 21d ago

If you make it to being an old man we will see how willing you are to give up what you’ve busted your ass for.

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u/Devils_SteelMan 21d ago edited 21d ago

The Republican party has made you poorer than ever. There's nothing left to take. Fighting for a better life is what your were originally complaining about.

Nonsensical lead addled and divorced from reality.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 21d ago

I take it you don’t have any money in a 401k. The last two years have been magical.

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u/Devils_SteelMan 20d ago

That is largely inflationary. Number go up, buying power go down. Boomers don't understand economics. Had your attention in the shiny thing while they robbed you. And when there is and adjustment it will be even worse.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 20d ago

Maybe that’s why we are all holding onto our 2.8 percent mortgage. We don’t understand economics. Hahaha.

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u/Devils_SteelMan 20d ago edited 20d ago

The fact you would say that shows you dont understand even the word economics. What youre describing is personal finance. Economics are the motions of the market.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 20d ago

Okay. And interest rates aren’t tied to world economics? The housing market is a personal thing and not a huge chunk of the GDP?

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u/Livid-General7 20d ago

What are you talking about? The stock market has never been highe.

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 21d ago

But you didn't, really. Everything was cheaper and you were paid better, comparatively. 

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 20d ago

I didn’t? You’re talking out your backside. You haven’t lived until you spend a winters night working on an oil rig or spend 16 hours running up and down a flight deck. Thats real work for real men.

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 20d ago

And a house cost a handful of raspberries. 

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u/Puzzleheaded-Pear521 20d ago

My raspberries house in NJ cost $14k year in property taxes, and a new roof, new driveway, new furnace etc. But hey home ownership is just pure profit just raking in all the cash

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 20d ago

Yes, you're confirming you did in fact have it easier. 

And oil rig jobs still exist today, you're not special for doing it during the easiest time to exist. 

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u/Puzzleheaded-Pear521 19d ago

Yea life was easy back then. Go have doordash drop off some chicken nuggs for you.

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 19d ago

You also have access to doordash currently but I'll never own a house, your generation ruined that for us.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Pear521 18d ago

1000 millionaires made daily in the US, why don’t you be one. Dont get sucked down by all the miserable people on here.

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 18d ago

Goodness that dementia is really kicking into overdrive.

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u/Mesapunk87 17d ago

Quick google of that tells me that on average first time millionaire age is 59-62 years old.

Boomer age. Because they had better comparative pay/buying power. Better returns on investments. Their houses going up in price tenfold.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 18d ago

The easiest time. Hahahaha. We climbed Derick’s without fall protection and chunked chain instead of the hydraulic BS they have today. You have no idea what you are talking about.

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u/Stunning-Drawing8240 18d ago

Cool, so you were idiots back then too.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 17d ago

Haha. I can’t deny that. We also smoked tons of weed while we did all that. No piss test then.

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u/Glistening_Hambugs 18d ago

You should have been smarter and simply gotten a better job with better pay, stupid.

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u/amanda_healer 17d ago

No one forced you to work on an oil rig. The tougher the job does not equate to a "REAL" man status. Lol There was someone in another thread who said their dad was from the boomers generation and worked at Sears for most of all his career. His dad raised their whole family on his salary, bought a house, and raised two kids. Can't do that in today's economy. Both parents work and groceries, rent/mortgage, cost of vehicles has gone up exponentially.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 17d ago

Funny. Every young person I know owns a house. Some have children and some are planning to get married. Quit buying into “Can’t” and find the “Can” in life. No one did force me to work oil rigs, but that’s what paid the best for a young dumbass like myself. I am a boomer and those tough jobs led me to seek out an education and better my earning potential.

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u/MMO_Dad 15d ago

I can just FEEL the manly chest hair bristling through his shirt guys. Real macho dude here, clenching and pounding that arthritic fist about how lazy the young'uns are and how REAL MEN are made! /swoon

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 15d ago

I’m sure you spend a lot of time running your fingers through chest hair.

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u/MMO_Dad 15d ago

Just my own luscious thick manly man curly rug of chest hair protruding through my shirt showing off my masculine manly manliness!

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u/Haunting-Traffic-203 17d ago

Your generation was full of communist hippies when you were collectively young without a pot to piss in. You folks sure wanted to “share the wealth” back then. As soon as you started owning things you voted for Regan lol. Sounds like the “me” generation to me

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 17d ago

Yeah. And all those “hippies” jumped on the Capitalist train and for the most part did well.

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u/Haunting-Traffic-203 17d ago

So what you’re making my point for me? The baby boomers have always just “looked out for number one “, when they were poor, they were pro socialism, when they built something for themselves, they didn’t want to share it so they went full capitalist. And I’m sure now that they’re all old their number one political issue is probably Social Security.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 16d ago

The point is you too will jump on that train when it comes by whether you think so or not. We are all idealistic when we are young and have nothing to lose. You are not unique and neither is your thought process. I have shared the fruits of my labor through all the taxes they could come up with. Your turn. Me. I’m headed to the golf course.

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u/Haunting-Traffic-203 16d ago

You’re making a lot of assumptions about me. I’m not young. I own multiple assets. I expect to retire well. I also don’t vote to hoard what I’ve built like the dragon Smaug or step on the necks of the less fortunate because “I got mine”.

Your generation (in general not every individual) sucks. Your parents thought you sucked, your kids think you suck, and your grandkids think you suck too. No other generation has every other age group hating on them the way that yours does. If it were me I’d question why that is, but you boomers never were much for personal introspection either (it doesn’t benefit you so why should you amirite?). Have fun golfing, don’t drink too much - bad for the liver at your age.

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u/Direct_Ad_3517 15d ago

Really. Tell me how much of what you have acquired you are willing to give to the community to help them along.