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>The world really was different for Baby Boomers, and there's more than a grain of truth that a BA in any subject would be your (upper) middle class meal ticket
by tsotha 11y ago
>The world really was different for Baby Boomers, and there's more than a grain of truth that a BA in any subject would be your (upper) middle class meal ticket.
I'm not sure I buy that. In the mid '80s my dad's secretary had a graduate degree in marine biology, and the attitude was "Yes, she has a graduate degree and she's working as a secretary. But what do you expect? Marine Biology."
The past wasn't as comfortable as people make it out to be.
- CapitalistCartr 11y agoYeah, they have the time period off. It wasn't so much us Baby Boomers as the prior gen, after the War, that experienced that in 46-72 time period. When too many of us Boomers tried to follow their lead, it didn't work out so well. The prosperous era of 82-07 was far less egalitarian than 46-72.