>>514718753
You say it like there's a choice. With mass immigration flooding our countries, if you didn't get something set up for you by your parents in your 20's, or scored a lucky hit on an actual career after/during university, you've simply been fucked for the past decade and a half.
It's not about having a job and working - though it's a stretech for a white guy to even get a mcdicks job at this point considering the government will cover half the wages for an east indian who'll also take a 50% paycut to what a white employee would - but having an actual career you can build into having a family on is itself difficult to achieve. Even when you land a decent job in whatever, everything is cutthroat now - all the jobs are unstable, you're always in danger of replacement by migrants, if you want higher pay you have to fish around for a new employer and leave your current one. Nothing is stable enough to begin building a family on for huge swathes of the population - neet and employed alike; it's *risky* not safe.
Then you've got the massive inflation that's outpacing wages, even if you've got a stable career, you're looking at 30-50 years to pay off your home. Your kids (if you've even had any) will probably have to help pay it off.
If you didn't wedge into a career 10-15 years ago, you are effectively permanently shut out, especially if you've got 10-15 years blank on your resume. Society doesn't even make an attempt to let you back in if you stumble, if anything it makes people angry that you weren't working for so long and they do everything they can to slam the door in your face further.
Millenials had ~5 year window from when they graduated to get their career going.
Zoomers, a significant maybe majority portion I don't think even have a chance at a career at all, especially not if they've got the kind of careless and disinterested parents a lot of millennials had
It's a systemic problem, not an individual one.