I’m about the same age, born in 62, and I grew up in England. It was the same there, youth unemployment was around 30% and we didn’t turn the corner till about 1986.
I don’t see that things are quite as bad as they were during the Carter years. The reverse problem seems to be true - lots of jobs out there, just no one qualified to fill those jobs - or able to pass a drug test, show up on time, have reliable transportation to work, etc.
We’ve allowed the Socialist Democrat Party and the COMPLICIT RINOs to create this current ‘utopia’ for us.
But then, I think about my Grandpa who had a wife, kid & FIL to support during the Great Depression. He took on any and ALL jobs he was offered - baker, swept streets, cut and delivered wood, farm work, butchering, collected trash, etc.
When things turned around he became a Machinist and it was all roses after that; he helped build parts of the bombs that ended WWII, and also parts of various space craft, back when NASA had a few nickles to rub together. :)
If he could survive and thrive through that, I’ve got NOTHING to whine about; though I still whine from time to time. ;)