Yeah, well, when I was employed full-time by a media-conglom-owned daily thirty years ago, I made a whopping $18K my last year—and had to pay for a parking space on the building’s grounds. And was taken from my beat because I developed rapport with the people on it by being honest with them. And prohibited from covering any story where I had a background of knowledge because clearly I wouldn’t be able to be unbiased.

Trust me, it’s not just your generation.