The joys of the job hunt.
No one wants to hire you if you don't have the experience they're looking for.
No one wants to train so they can have employees who have the necessary skills.
There's tons of jobs available but only to experienced people of whom there's very few of; thus the majority of job seekers in my area will never get them and they will remained unfilled because these job seekers have been forced to take cashiering or burger flipping jobs for years and were never given the opportunity to acquire higher end job skills.
End result? A near generation's worth of job seekers in my area who's main claim to fame is being the meanest burger flipper in town in an area where all the burger flipper jobs are taken and no one's willing to teach them higher skills, nor can they afford the schooling that would otherwise give them those skills.
Wake up, employers- you're losing that oh so lovely, ready-made babyboomer employee pool. They're getting older, moving on to well earned retirement and guess what? All you're getting left for the majority of the generation after them is a group of people you've refused to train and that honestly only a very small percentage of HAVE been able to find alternative sources of training due to lack of funds from being stuck in the low end racket while you kept calling on the babyboomer pool.
Go to college? Sure, hire us so we can afford to PAY for it and we will! Get training? Hire us and GIVE it to us and we'll happily do it! If you won't give us a chance, what do you intend to do when the last of the babyboomers goes off to the golf courses?
This is the majority of Generation X who haven't been able to live up to the starlet poster boys and girls signing off, saying "thank you so much for sticking it to us; would you like fries with that?"