{"id":2084210,"date":"2023-10-30T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-startling-reality-for-gen-zs-that-working-an-adult-job-is-hard\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:09:49","slug":"the-startling-reality-for-gen-zs-that-working-an-adult-job-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-startling-reality-for-gen-zs-that-working-an-adult-job-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Zs face harsh reality: Adult job is tough."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-startling-reality-for-gen-zs-that-working-an-adult-job-is-hard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2084210&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Why Coddled Kids Will Eventually Embrace Conservative Principles<\/h2>\n<p>As I have made abundantly clear, I cannot get \u200con board with coddle culture or new-age parenting. New-age parenting has effectively created a society of young adults who\u2062 cannot come to terms with reality because they have been coddled \u200dtheir entire lives. But it\u2019s all they have ever known. College \u2062campuses \u2062are full of \u2063students who don\u2019t have any idea what hard work is and they walk around actively pursuing victimization, as oxymoronic as that seems. Not only do I not support coddle culture, but I also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kids-entertainment-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speak out against\u200b it<\/a>. However, what I do support is coddle-cultured kids\u200c entering the real world.\u2064 When these kids are met with reality and forced to leave the made-up world they\u2019ve been living in, I \u200bpredict they will develop more conservative principles. All\u2062 it will take is their past and all its beliefs crashing down around \u200dthem as they\u2064 get hit with a tidal wave of reality.<\/p>\n<h3>Gen Z&#8217;s Wake-Up Call<\/h3>\n<p>Gen Z has taken to TikTok to speak out about facing reality, and after listening to what some of them have to say, I stan Gen Z. Take 25-year-old \u2063Alison Johnson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fitnesswithalison?lang=en\">@fitnesswithalison<\/a>), who lamented \u2064her marketing degree since it\u2019s gotten her\u2064 absolutely nowhere in \u200ccorporate America. Where\u200d it has gotten her is $80,000 in the hole of student loan debt. On top of that, she\u2019s discovered she doesn\u2019t stand a chance of landing a job that \u2064pays $150,000 because the degree, as it \u2064turns out,\u200b isn\u2019t enough. She doesn\u2019t have any experience, as is required by all jobs in that pay range. \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fitnesswithalison\/video\/7280712734843538734?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marketer here. Made 30K in first role. Lived in a tiny apt \u2064where nothing worked \u200dshared w\/friend met online who was also broke at the time. One of most fun times of my life tbh. You don&#8217;t make 200K at your first gig. That&#8217;s fine. Money will come, kids\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fv7Y3MWrv8\">pic.twitter.com\/fv7Y3MWrv8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Singer (@AdamSinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSinger\/status\/1714673722739613724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This TikTok is \u200djust comical. In her defense, Alison was told to go to university, have some fun, and everything will be great. Alison has &#8220;her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-startling-reality-for-gen-zs-that-working-an-adult-job-is-hard\/\" title=\"Gen Zs face harsh reality: Adult job is tough.\">literal business marketing degree<\/a>.&#8221; How is she not making $200,000 a year by now? That is stressful for Alison, she is \u200bfrustrated, and I feel Alison\u2019s frustration \u2014 because these kids are <i>deluded<\/i>. They have been made to believe that life is just going to be really easy. They\u2019ve been told \u200call their \u200dlives\u200d to follow the right steps: go to college, get a degree, \u200cand watch your life fall into place. They don\u2019t want to work\u2064 hard. And why should they? They\u2019ve never had to.<\/p>\n<p>Situations like this always remind me of a young woman I went to college with. She came from an extremely wealthy family, and her parents paid for \u2063absolutely everything \u2014 while I worked a full-time job as a full-time student\u200c because my parents paid for nothing. They didn\u2019t have the money to send me to college, \u2064so I worked and \u2063took out student loans to be able to go. This friend and I became fast and best friends back in \u200dmy liberal days.\u2064 We moved into the city after graduation, \u2064and we had both started working.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/i-m-literally-a-gay-icon-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: Candace Owens<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Neither one of us had in money, but her parents were paying for her apartment \u200din Manhattan,\u2063 until she they called her one day to give her an update on their future payment plans: For six months, they would continue to pay for everything in the city; after six months, they would begin weaning her off, only paying for 75% for a few months, then 50%, then 25%, until they would stop paying for anything at all. I was at the apartment after she had this phone call, and as we sat and talked it over, she cried and cried. She was\u2062 devastated but\u2063 she was also angry at her parents for doing this to her. \u2062(\u201cDoing this to \u200dher\u201d was how she viewed it.) I will never forget what she said to me:\u200c \u201cIf they wanted to \u2062teach me responsibility, they shouldn\u2019t have gotten me an f-ing pony when I turned two.\u201d I felt \u2064bad for her because she had a point. How could they expect \u2064her to understand the real world when they had gifted her a pony at\u200d two-years-old? Whereas I was a little rough around the edges, so to speak, I\u2019d had a job since I was 15. And I was much better equipped for the real world.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u200b comes to some of the Gen Z videos\u2062 on this topic, your instinct may very well be to laugh, and you may have to stifle that laughter while watching Brielle (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@brielleybelly123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@brielleybelly123<\/a>). In\u200b one of Brielle\u2019s TikTok, she is crying because she is finding that working nine to five is quite a bit harder than\u2062 she expected. She admits she is probably \u201cbeing so dramatic and annoying,\u201d but she is in her first \u200dfull-time job \u2062after college, and she is commuting to \u200dthe city which \u201ctakes forever to get there\u201d but there is no way \u2064she \u2064is \u201cgoing to be able to \u2063afford living in the city\u200d right now, so that\u2019s off the table. Like, duh!\u201d She says \u200cshe gets on the train at 7:30 a.m. and doesn\u2019t get home until 6:15 at the earliest because \u201cyou \u200bdon\u2019t \u200cget \u200coff at 5:00 \u2026 but like, I literally get off, it\u2019s pitch black, like I don\u2019t have\u2063 energy.\u201d She doesn\u2019t\u2062 have time or energy to workout, cook, or see friends, and she definitely doesn\u2019t \u2063have\u200c time to meet a guy. She gets home, wants to shower, eat dinner, and go to sleep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@brielleybelly123\/video\/7291443944347405614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch\u2063 HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/4HL?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#4HL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EgjT8KDWdA\">pic.twitter.com\/EgjT8KDWdA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cold \ud83e\udd51\u200d (@coldhealing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coldhealing\/status\/1716633986460463405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would \u200dactually like to give Brielle a hug. I can sense her sincerity. \u2063We make fun of Gen Z, but it\u2019s our fault we are producing a generation who cannot handle the real world because we made everything so comfortable for them. They aren\u2019t prepared. Long gone are the stories of our grandparents who told us they walked to school \u2062in the snow uphill both ways. My grandfather got up before 5:00 a.m.\u200c to \u200bwork on the \u200cfarm. \u200cBrielle is having a hard time getting to the train by 7:30 a.m. \u2063for\u2062 her commute to work. She \u2064feels like her life \u2062is over because she actually has to work, and we have conditioned her to this. So we can laugh all we want, but\u200b it\u2019s \u200cnot her fault. It is the generations before Gen Z who have produced these individuals\u2064 who have just been weakened to the point they have no sense\u2063 of reality.<\/p>\n<p>But I believe if \u200dwe \u200bgive these people some \u2063time to meet the real world, to get acquainted with it, and to suffer\u2062 in it, the things we conservatives are saying will sound much more appealing to them. They \u200bwill eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/candace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">come across a \u200bpodcast<\/a> episode and realize\u200b that had they \u200bbeen realistic with their degree and debt and what that would mean for them in the world, they might have chosen a different path. Soon enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lifes-tough-get-a-helmet-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatives who sounded so harsh<\/a> are, instead, going to sound like people they should have been listening to all along. We \u200cwill have people we can convert. That\u2019s my opinion and prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Give them some time\u2062 in the real world, \u200band they come around to see our perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What are some of the consequences of the policies and ideologies that Gen Z\u200c once championed, and how are \u200dthey contributing to a greater receptiveness towards conservative principles such as limited government and individual freedom<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2064 Hear \u200cthat in reality, it takes hard work, experience, and determination to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>But the wake-up call for\u200c Gen\u2062 Z is not limited to just the job market. They are also facing the\u2064 realities of politics\u2064 and social\u200c issues. \u2063Many of them were\u200b raised in a bubble, shielded from differing opinions and a diverse range of perspectives. They were taught that certain ideas\u2064 and beliefs were inherently bad or \u2062offensive, without ever being encouraged \u200dto think critically or engage in open dialogue. This \u2064has created\u200b a\u2062 generation of \u200cyoung adults who are unable to\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-oconnor-twitter-censorship-was-never-about-safety\/\" title=\"Larry O\u2019Connor: Twitter Censorship Was Never About \u201cSafety\u201d\">handle opposing viewpoints<\/a> and resort\u200c to cancel culture and silencing tactics\u200d instead.<\/p>\n<p>However, as\u2062 they venture out into the real world, they are coming face-to-face with the fact that not everyone thinks like\u200c they do. They are encountering people \u200dwho have different beliefs and\u200b opinions, and they are realizing that the world is not black and white. This \u2063clash of perspectives is forcing them to reconsider\u2063 their own \u200cbeliefs and evaluate whether they truly stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Gen Z is\u2062 beginning to \u200dunderstand the consequences of the policies\u2063 and ideologies\u2062 they once championed. They are starting\u200c to see the\u200c effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-plan-to-cancel-10000-in-student-debt-would-not-be-enough-for-black-borrowers-naacp-chief-says\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Plan To Cancel ,000 In Student Debt Would Not Be Enough For Black Borrowers, NAACP Chief Says\">excessive government intervention<\/a>, high \u2062taxes, and\u200d an entitlement mentality. They are witnessing the stifling of free speech and the erosion \u200dof individual rights. \u200dAnd as\u200c they experience\u2063 these negative outcomes firsthand, they are becoming more\u2062 receptive to conservative principles such as\u200c limited government, \u200cpersonal \u2064responsibility, and\u2062 individual freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately,\u200d the coddled kids of today will eventually \u200bembrace conservative principles because they will have no choice.\u200c They will\u2063 have to confront the realities of life, work, \u200cand politics, and they will realize that the ideas\u2062 they\u200b once held dear are impractical and unworkable. They \u200cwill see that hard work and personal responsibility are the keys to success, and they will reject the victim mentality that has been ingrained in them from a young age.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to\u200d note\u2062 that this shift towards conservatism is not a guaranteed outcome for \u2062every coddled kid. Some may continue to \u200ccling to\u200d their idealistic beliefs and reject any new information or perspectives. But for many, the harsh realities \u200dof the\u200d real world will serve as\u2064 a wake-up call, leading them to question\u2064 their previous assumptions and ultimately embrace conservative principles.<\/p>\n<p>So, while I \u2063continue to speak out against coddle culture and new-age parenting, I also believe that the eventual embrace\u200b of conservative principles by coddled kids is a natural\u200c and necessary\u200d progression. It is \u200bthrough these experiences\u2064 and realizations\u2064 that they will grow,\u200d learn, and become well-rounded individuals\u2064 capable of critical thinking and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-war-pence-rejects-trumps-characterization-of-hezbollah-as-very-smart-and-says-it-is-evil\/\" title=\"Pence dismisses Trump's praise for Hezbollah, deeming it 'evil' in Israel war.\">independent decision-making<\/a>. And in the \u200dend, that is what will \u2063truly prepare them\u200c for the challenges and\u2064 complexities of the world \u200bthey will inherit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>who struggle with basic life skills and are unable to handle adversity. This coddle culture has hindered their growth and independence, leaving them ill-prepared for the real world. It&#8217;s time to break free from this damaging trend and encourage resilience and self-reliance in our youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":2084211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}