America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future
Here&#x27;s my grim reality I&#x27;m just waking up to now as a millennial.<p>Married with $100k in student loans between the two of us. Her first job out of college paid $30k with no benefits. No matter, I had the money making tech degree, we&#x27;d be fine. My first job out of college was $100k, so I didn&#x27;t see a problem there.<p>Three year later I&#x27;m facing mounting healthcare costs incurred even with top notch gold plated tech insurance. Most of my salary the last 3 years went to my landlord and the government. The remainder went to student loans and medical costs, so I don&#x27;t have much in the way of savings even after earning $300k. And somehow I still owe $100k in student loans.<p>And my $100k tech job didn&#x27;t come with retirement benefits so I don&#x27;t have any retirement savings yet. It did however come with a generous stock grant. But then again, the company folded and now I don&#x27;t have a job or insurance.<p>And now I&#x27;m a full time caregiver for my wife, with no health insurance, trying to get a job, with $100k in non-dischargable debt, looking to get on welfare, but at the same time reading about how our government wants to take even that away.<p>So that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m doing this weekend.