Stuck in the Boom: The Unrealistic Financial Views of Older to Younger Started Long Before the advent of Millenials
9 min readJan 30, 2024
It was 1995, and I attended a school near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Tuition without financial aid was $11,000 a year, and the college fund my grandmother had established for me tapped out at $6k. It was all she could do. My parents had encouraged me to save myself for college. Still, they would then harangue me with “your first job is school,” school became my second job when there were chores around the house that they didn’t want to do themselves.