I have experienced the exact opposite. Its rare to find a 'millenial' that truly believes they're going to get that dream job. If anything, they know they'll be

I have experienced the exact opposite. Its rare to find a 'millenial' that truly believes they're going to get that dream job. If anything, they know they'll be working retail for a long time, and maybe they might get something they like better, but the jobs and lives that they looked up to when they were young are quite far away. Its the parents and age 40+ that think everything will just 'work out' for them, because they're 'hard workers', who are themselves stuck in manual labor/retail and do not have any career or education outside of that. They ignore job trends and stick to what they've been doing, then cry when they're retired after 5-8 years of working there, scapegoating with leftist politics and 'millenials who don't know anything.'. Even my own parents succumbed to that one. If I had my own kids, I would tell them that things /will/ work out for them, if they put in the effort, because I know my parents were quite wrong. On the flip side, even if you don't get what you want, atleast you put in a lot of effort, and that will get you something.