tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488879425900650696.post4675759806413351159..comments2023-08-09T04:33:01.170-05:00Comments on The Hourglass Blog: The New Lost Generation?Eric Lankehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955772930132857028noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488879425900650696.post-56834812858541350022010-01-05T10:36:22.662-06:002010-01-05T10:36:22.662-06:00I tend to agree, Elizabeth. In case I wasn't c...I tend to agree, Elizabeth. In case I wasn't clear in the post, I thought the Business Week article was a little alarmist. To extend your metaphor, I suspect the Millennials will do more ladder building than ladder climbing.Eric Lankehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00449320263122144776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488879425900650696.post-34181440778880201662010-01-04T13:27:08.873-06:002010-01-04T13:27:08.873-06:00Speaking as a Gen-Xer who graduated during the Bus...Speaking as a Gen-Xer who graduated during the Bush 41 recession and held two minimum wage jobs to pay the bills before starting grad school (when I switched to one minimum wage job and student loans), they'll get over it - we did. And they'll either claw their way onto the ladder eventually or they'll build their own ladders, to extend the metaphor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com