If you're young, just graduated college, and think the system is gamed against you, you're right, and here's three reasons why

1. Entry level jobs are no longer entry level. No-one is hiring recent graduates anymore, insidious, exploitative employers (i.e. everyone who is currently offering a job anywhere) are working to make sure that people laid off in the last few years who merit Associate-level experience are bumped back to entry level, while those of us who are really entitled to those jobs get shit

2. We can't afford a roof over our heads. So the employers exploiters offer us "internships," an attempt to string us along for a few months as slave laborers, and we have to compete with one another for the privilege to do so, but how do you move to where the internships are? Sorry, you don't. The depressed economy means no-one wants to buy houses, so the people who *should* be buying houses are buying apartments, making requirements rather stringent. For a $1600 a month studio apartment (which is just wtf in and of itself) you have to be making $50,000 a year or fuck you, because someone who does have the money will take it. These entry-level jobs (which aren't even entry-level) pay only a third of that

3. Baby boomers refuse to retire. So the baby boomers screw us from both above and underneath: from above, because they are the exploiters who run this whole rigged game now, and from underneath because they're taking the minimum-wage and low-end jobs that should, by all rights, be ours and not theirs. Enjoy your golden years already and quit taking food out of our mouths.

This post contains 450% of your recommended daily allowance of bitterness.

Truer words are hard to find!

Yes, this sounds a lot like the problem's I see today. Only where I am from it is even worse than in the USA. We call the "baby-boomers" the "lid generation" because they put a lid to good jobs (I don't know if this makes sense translated to English but I hope you get the idea).

Thankfully where I live now society is still organised in a way that young people can access good jobs and career prospects.

This pisses me off no end.

I have a friend who has graduated with a Master's degree in neuroscience, (with Honours) and she's working as a waitress because it's the only job she can get, and can barely afford a one room apartment.

In Japan it will work out eventually, just because there are very few young people so there's a constant labor shortage, and they'll need everyone doing everything, it'll just take 15-20 years to get there.

It works alright now I think. There is a culture of trusting employees here, companies will hire people with little experience and train them, and they trust these young people will be great employees one day. Most Japanese people look for jobs a year or two before leaving university and the companies offer them jobs two years in advance. It's great.

In Spain it seems you need a masters and 10 years of experience just to have the shittiest job in the company. But of course if no one gives you any experience you can't get experience so...

Oh, right, that's the 4th tier:

The joys of "overqualification." I can't get any damn minimum wage jobs because unless i lie through my teeth on my application, they're going to know that i'm going to leave that job as quick as possible. Jobs barely train anymore because of high turnover (another reason why i feel employers are idiots), and yet they seem to lament that they can't get any loyalty.

If I default on my student loans, it's going to be everyone's fault but mine.

I guess you just have to be in the right place at the right time and trying your hardest now?

My cousin graduated from College, she went to UCF's Medical School, and she already had a job in the ER right after she was done. (Granted, she has to take observation and a few more lessons before she can actually work there but her job is secured so when she's done it's all ready for her.)

What are Baby Boomers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer

Every generation has had distinct advantages and struggles ...

While Generation X was raised in a world where the Baby Boomers were struggling against the philosophy of their parents, Millennials are a generation that has been raised in a world that embraced the flawed ideology of the baby-boomer generation. Confidence was determined to be more important than competence, chasing a dream was more important than planning for the future, owning luxuries was more important than having cash on hand, discovering your independence was more important than having a strong support system, getting the college experience was more important than getting a decent education, and so on ...

Unfortunately for the Millennials, everything that they have been "taught" is wrong.