My parents are gen xers if I'm not mistaken and they're in the mindset of “you don't have the experience you can't do that job, they won't even look at you” blah blah blah. And Their advice to get the experience I supposedly need is to volunteer, take a pay cut even though I'm all of only one days pay from not being able to afford rent or some other typical boomer shit that wouldn't actually pay the bills. It's sad because they think this would actually work when in fact I've done this before and most of the time it was simply because I was too young(no literally one manager said he was looking for someone in their late 20s early 30s). I'm friggin 33 with managerial experience, leadership skills from JROTC and ROTC and military along with having jobs that have managing myself. I mentioned maybe a office coordinator position because the pay was 2.50 more than what I'm making working retail and they said no because I've never technically sent out memos or emails or spearheaded office functions nor have I directed people on their new equipment yet for three years I was coordinating and managing 300 plus inmates at one time while I was a corrections officer. What's worse is they both have senior level experience, been at the same place for years and are making way below what the average wage is for their positions. I mean I may have never worked in an actual office setting but is this really how they operate?