For context, I am a M (21) and live in Italy, a country that's currently in decline due to the insane numbers of old people living in it, giving boomers a disproportionate amount of voting power.
It is impossible to find a decent job as a young person.
Every job is either full-time employment for pay that's the equivalent of legal slavery that they can get away with because they write it off as an apprenticeship, companies making so-called “marketing projects” for young people that only guarantee one or two months of employment and give no prospects of a long-term job, or obvious life improvement pyramid schemes that offer no monthly salary but pay through “sales percentages,” and their selling strategy is to literally annoy everyone in your life by constantly pestering them about your dumbass company until they stop being around you or buy a mattress.
I've even done under-the-table work, and the employers treat you like a disposable slave by making you do everything and pay miserably.
I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to get hired anymore.
I have a graphic design certification and even want to pursue a full-on diploma, but it's like these employers see my CV, notice that I'm a young person, and decide they want to exploit me by paying next to nothing or paying decently but giving no long-term prospects.
The worst part is that the people in my life, like older friends, are telling me this type of work is necessary because it provides “experience” and I should let myself be exploited to “get my feet wet” and “build me a CV” yet the same friends are approaching thirty and still live with their parents because our economy has made it impossible to rent a home to the point that a single bedroom costs your entire month's salary, and food and gas are priced double every year.
I'm exhausted.