What should you do in your 20s for a better future
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Just read an article from Fortune about people feeling too burnt out to apply for jobs. Is that you? I get it. This paragraph really summed it up for me: "Compounding the immobility: job seekers are being ghosted at a three-year high, with more than half of applicants reporting no response from employers in the past year. Hiring experts connect the trend directly to AI-inflated application volumes overwhelming recruiters — the same feedback loop burning candidates out. [...]"
Have a second interview Thursday. Definitely not my first rodeo but the longer I go unemployed, the less confident I feel. That being said this company is specifically going to use the STAR interviewing Style. I've done my research on the history of the company, etc but I am finding it so difficult to memorize my answers in the STAR format, I'm going to have to use my notes. Tell me I'm not the only one struggling w/this 🙏🏻
Can someone hire me without an interview? I can do the job, but I can't handle interviews. 😭 I have experience in Customer Service and Back Office roles, but since I graduated last year, I've found it difficult to apply for jobs. The interview process makes me really anxious, even though I know I can do the work.
Learn a trade that can’t be replaced by AI - electrician, plumbing, mechanic, engineering, welding, mortuary science…
Most in their 20s should be able to unless disabled. I guess my other advice would be to invest in life insurance with cash value.
Save, learn a trade that can’t be replaced by AI like plumbing, electrical… invest in secondary income like real estate… laundry mats, storage units…farm ground
Probably move to a country that is NOT the USA because people here are morons.
Been overseas, way worse elsewhere
Invest in your retirement now. Try to add as much as you can every year to your 401k and IRA. Do Roth options if you can. Do not go into debt.
High yield savings
Definitely invest all my beer money in mutual funds. Then pay attention in school. If I remembered even 25% of what the taught I might be further ahead.
Chose IT when I enlisted. Would be further along and employed.
start your electrical apprenticeship, ask at your local IBEW hall.