Is life easier or harder now? Both at the same time!
Life harder example. I did a degree in an obscure field where there was limited application in the UK. No problem even 15 years before I graduated. I know because I met people with my first degree who graduated 15 and 25 years before me. Both had very good careers based on the degree. The 25 years older in the UK the 15 years older than me overseas. But said they graduated and their course mates could simply fly into South Africa, Zambia, Botswana with no job and they'd find people head hunting young graduates to help run mines and processing plants. One of the guys I knew ended up running a few mines in Zambia.
Other examples include my dad and uncle who both graduated when it was almost guaranteed a British graduate would get a good "graduate job". I've known many graduates of my generation and younger doing jobs that in older generations school leavers took up.
Life easier examples. Communication, finding information/ services, acceptance of the alternative, etc. You need to find something out the Internet can be at your fingertips to help you. You do need to be able to define your criteria and be critical with what you find or you'll get bad answers. That's not something that's a universal ability though. You'd think schools would teach it better by now and hope those long since left school can work that out themselves but perhaps I'm too optimistic.
I guess we can all find examples that are better or worse now so perhaps we can only say it's widely different not better or worse.
Life harder example. I did a degree in an obscure field where there was limited application in the UK. No problem even 15 years before I graduated. I know because I met people with my first degree who graduated 15 and 25 years before me. Both had very good careers based on the degree. The 25 years older in the UK the 15 years older than me overseas. But said they graduated and their course mates could simply fly into South Africa, Zambia, Botswana with no job and they'd find people head hunting young graduates to help run mines and processing plants. One of the guys I knew ended up running a few mines in Zambia.
Other examples include my dad and uncle who both graduated when it was almost guaranteed a British graduate would get a good "graduate job". I've known many graduates of my generation and younger doing jobs that in older generations school leavers took up.
Life easier examples. Communication, finding information/ services, acceptance of the alternative, etc. You need to find something out the Internet can be at your fingertips to help you. You do need to be able to define your criteria and be critical with what you find or you'll get bad answers. That's not something that's a universal ability though. You'd think schools would teach it better by now and hope those long since left school can work that out themselves but perhaps I'm too optimistic.
I guess we can all find examples that are better or worse now so perhaps we can only say it's widely different not better or worse.
