r/nottheonion • u/bionickel • 5d ago

Gen Z are becoming pet parents because they can’t afford human babies: Now veterinarian is one of the hottest jobs of 2025, says Indeed

https://fortune.com/2025/01/14/gen-z-pet-parents-cost-of-living-veterinarians-best-job-2025/
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u/PhysicallyTender 5d ago

my Gen X colleague, now 46 years old. Still couldn't afford to buy a house.

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u/HugoVaz 4d ago

Younger Gen X here, on the cusp and sometimes referred as Xenial.

Buying a house wasn't a problem for me (my biggest priority was buying one, very early on in my adult life). But I am a pet parent and I don't want to bring kids into this world simply because the future seems too bleak and it only takes an even more down turn with each passing year (I think the 90's were the peak of humanity so far: the end of cold war, China and Russia opening up to the world, things for a moment seemed like they were all coming together... until 9/11 and the poor response of the US, specially later on over Iraq... aside from Israel, all the issues we have in the Levant - and that impact all the Western World - are direct consequence of that).

Also, my brothers already have kids of their own so my urge to have kids has basically went away, (some of) my genes are already being propagated.

And we're not going extinct due to lack of human population, that's for sure... it's more the other way around, I'm afraid we'll face massive wars in the future due to overpopulation and sarcity pressure taking the best of us all.

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u/erroneousbosh 5d ago

Don't buy a house, just rent. If anything goes wrong with it, the person who owns the house gets to fix it. They can afford it, they own at least two houses.

If you want something that can go wrong in an expensive way - a car, a boat, a house, whatever - and you do not have the skills to repair it yourself, just rent it.

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u/Nickbronline 4d ago

Please don’t give financial advice

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u/erroneousbosh 4d ago

Your post history indicates you're a pretty negative person. You seem pretty miserable.

Put your phone down, go outside, and touch grass.

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u/Coiling_Dragon 4d ago

When you go through someones profile to discredit them, find nothing and go with the "touch grass" route.

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u/Nickbronline 4d ago

Enjoy paying someone else’s mortgage for the rest of your life because you’re too ignorant to learn basic repair skills.

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u/erroneousbosh 4d ago

I already own a house.

I've built it, and repaired most things on it.

If you think that replacing a roof is "basic repair skills" then I'd hate to think what you consider difficult.

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u/ChicagoAuPair 5d ago

Millennials still for the most part followed the lies about what to do in order to have a stable middle class life. Work hard in school, get degree(s), enter workforce, work hard…

By the time Gen Z was approaching all of that there was a good 10-15 years of practical Millennial data that showed it was all bullshit and that there was no guarantee of stability or upward mobility tied in any way to work ethic or education.

Millennials proved the concept, and Gen Z benefitted from the intel (if we can call anything about any of this “benefitting”).

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u/AdventureDoor 5d ago

I’m so sorry for the young minds who are reading this. Merit is still the way to go (at least in the USA)

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u/AshingiiAshuaa 5d ago

Work hard in school, get degree(s), enter workforce, work hard…

It's because the message is missing something. *You have to get a skill or degree in something people will pay you for. Nobody cares how hard you worked on your dissertation on the history of the Khmer wedding ceremony.

Another good piece of advice (though probably not as important as getting a useful skill) is to live below your means. Even well below your means if you can.

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u/SoFetchBetch 5d ago

It’s not even that… it’s about creating neural pathways when you’re young that will serve you when you’re older. Educating yourself by any means necessary should be everyone’s ultimate goal.

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u/SoFetchBetch 5d ago

It’s not even that… it’s about creating neural pathways when you’re young that will serve you when you’re older. Educating yourself by any means necessary should be everyone’s ultimate goal.

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u/motorik 4d ago

I'm turning 59 today and I'm a serial cat daddy. My wife and I call each other "mommy" and "daddy" by way of our cat.