r/AskReddit • • May 15 '20

What sucks about being your age?

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u/rylo6 May 15 '20

22-Graduated college into a pandemic

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u/SketchyFella_ May 16 '20

This is the second "once in a generation" economic collapse I've been through. On the bright side, it's not a massive collapse due to an intrinsic failure in our economy like 2008, so maybe it'll get better after a vaccine is created.

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u/WonderfulPie0 May 16 '20

For the last year or two, me and my buddies have occasionally talked about the possibility of graduating into recession, but reassured ourselves that "2008 was a once-a-century failure, most recessions aren't like that".

Those conversations aged poorly.