I haven’t held a strong opinion on anything in this app in a while but in this, I disagree with Noble Igwe 1000%. YES! Millennials have it easier than GenZs. Gen Zs are working harder, and doing multiple jobs is not a flex. Let’s do a quick root cause analysis. Why do people have to do two or three jobs in the first place? Yes, there are more tools and opportunities now, but the world is far more competitive. Inflation is wild. The cost of living keeps rising while salaries stay almost the same. Entry level folks are struggling to even get interviews. Layoffs are happening everywhere. Remote work opened up the market globally, but do you know how many people consistently get rejected for those remote jobs simply because their location is Nigeria? Today they’d tell you frontend development is the skill to learn. You learn it. Then it gets competitive. You go and pick up web3, problem. You move to product design, suddenly “there are too many of you.” It’s exhausting. If you had ₦3 million some years ago, you could buy that Camry muscle. Today, even if a Gen Z earns ₦5 million from a freelance gig, that same car is out of reach. I know the world is bad for everyone, but Gen Zs are feeling it the most. They’re starting adult life in a time when everything costs more, opportunities are fewer, and the pressure to “make it” early is intense. So no, millennials don’t have it harder. Y’all had more stability, clearer career paths, and a (somewhat) economy that rewarded consistency. Gen Zs are figuring out survival in chaos, juggling jobs, building skills nonstop, and trying to stay sane through it all.
EBUKA: Do we (millennials) have it easier than Gen-Zs? SEUN KUTI, NOBLE IGWE:

Nov 2, 2025 · 1:52 AM UTC

Pls when you say “millennial” use “older” millennials; cause 90’s millennials are feeling it as much as Genz
Replying to @AdoraNwodo
I don’t agree with this at all. Millennials also worked multiple jobs and many in that age group have never even had stable employment since they graduated. Things have been tough for a long time. Most millennials in Nigeria grew up during periods of military rule, economic instability, mass unemployment, limited private sector growth and sanctions. The only decent jobs available back then were government jobs and even if you got one, it took years to grow or earn real progress. They went through endless university strikes,some spent up to 8–10 years completing a 4-year course. By the time they finished, the system had already delayed their lives. Women in that era also faced far fewer opportunities than they do today. Many were boxed into limited career paths or discouraged from chasing ambition altogether. The real difference today is access. Gen Z has more tools, global exposure, and online income options. People like Peller and others without formal education can now make money online. Millennials never had that. So yes, things are tough now, but let’s not pretend millennials had it easy. They struggled too just in a world with fewer chances, slower systems, and limited freedom to dream big.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Millennials built in an era where effort compounded at least to some degree. Gen z effort gets inflated away instantly
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Your point is valid. However, I believe every generation has its own advantages and challenges that somehow balance out. For Millennials, opportunities were fewer, but there was a sense of stability and a lower cost of living. We witnessed massive transitions, having to unlearn old systems and relearn new realities after university when we discovered that “automatic employment” was just a myth. Many of us had to pick up vocational skills as early as NYSC to stay relevant. On the other hand, Gen Zs have access to far greater opportunities, thanks to social media, technology, and the rise of remote work. Yet, their world is far more competitive, and the cost of living has skyrocketed, making success even harder to sustain despite the abundance of options.
Replying to @AdoraNwodo
My mum trained herself through uni and law school while paying for her siblings school fees... small delayed salary and I can't afford data
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
I don't agree, as a Gen Z, atleast alot of you understood the vast changes during UNI or before leaving UNI , but for a millennial, we were told the way life will pan out, only to finish UNI, and the parameters change so abruptly before our eyes, you have to unlearn and learn...
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
After they'll be asking why GenZ look older than their age With all the stress to make it and find a career. Most GenZ don't even have enough rest
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Bro people don’t sleep no more. I can text 5 of my guys by 4am and 4 would respond immediately. Everybody is up learning something or doing a gig just to make ends meet
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
I don't know you But this your response should be framed and put in the museum, no be life we dey live currently
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Maybe older Millennials had it easier because 90s millennials are having the same struggle as the Gen Z
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
90s millennials are the ones in the middle of all of this, we faced everything yet Gen-Z or even millennials won't accept us. Everything started with us in the middle
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Each generation had their advantages and downsides which balances out. Millennials had lesser opportunities, but there was a bit of stability, and lower cost of living. Gen Zs on the other have more vast opportunities due to social media and remote work, but the world is much more competitive, and also cost of living has increased by a mile.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Can I add, that millennials went to school when schools are cheap they literally pay university fee at 15k to 23k during their time now we pay university fee at the rate of 150k to 200k and most of us neither work run a partake program.. they had PRIVILEGES but they don't know
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Spot on.. you see that learn tech thing. After 3 years, I feel like I'm a failure and stuck. I constantly tell myself to keep pushing.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Omah lay, Rema, Tems etc didn’t trek from the breadth of Lagos to submit demo to DJ, that won’t play it Tuface and his generation did Peller, VDM, Geh geh are super Rich and have no real craft Gen z have it easier abeg
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
I wish I could give more likes. This needs a million likes and reposts. You've said it all. Thank you Adora. I am amazed that you understand the situation of being in tech and living in Nigeria. It is almost a mission impossible to get remote opportunities.
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Gen Z are having it harder then Millenials oo. Millenials was having it easy and now hard. They are going through 2 Era, if as a Millenial you did not break out of your situation pre- Buhari. Omo you go dey get am hard now with gen Z oo.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Its so sad, i know a lot of millennials who got a good paying software engineering job after learning few skills, but now it is never enough, you got to keep learning with no job in sight.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
This is what I understand Noble Igwe was trying to say . Millennials "Career & Economy " wise came of age during or right after the 2008 global recession. Jobs were scarce, and many started adult life with student debt and low wages.. And the GenZ entered the workforce during
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
We Millenials definitely have it easier... and the Gen X folks had it easier than us... and boomers easier than Gen X.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Do we realize the amount of respect a 30 year old had 10 years ago? It’s not the same now. There’s no way Gen Z’s have it easier. Every solution comes with multiple layers of new problems.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Period. Speak on it, Adora! For the slow people at the back!
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Tbh 3M was easy years ago.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
This doesn't prove millennial have it easier. You spoke about layoffs like companies are laying off only genz. The cost of living is increasing for everyone not just genz. We now see a lot of people in the 30s and 40s (millennials) unmarried due to financial issues. You spoke..
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Gen Zs have it a lot easier. They have more access to information than Millennials, and there are more opportunities now than before. Every generation has basically lived with economic realities and inflation.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
I was confused & wondering which millennial are they referring to 😫 we na GenZ millennial ooo. I almost thought I was living in a different world
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
I wish I could articulate my thoughts in words the way you penned down this. Easy to Understand Submission 💯💯
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Maybe in the entertainment industry. GenZs have it easy. But in the corporate world I strongly disagree as well. I think millennial had it easier for them.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
You have made a good point there. I believe Millennials and Gen Zs both have something in common and that is the direct proportion between the difficulty of getting opportunities with time. As time goes by, the difficulty increases as every market becomes saturated
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
well here's my two cents, y'all forgot when the GenZ trend of quiting jobs with one liners started? Who do you think has been sitting still grinding? who stands by the road hailing cars? who talks anyhow on tiktok and they still gets paid, GenZs saw the script and adapted...
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Okay... I'll bite, so which is more idle- no job 15yrs after skul or 3 jobs as a fresh graduate?... Still leaving wit ur folks at 30 or being able 2 afford at some point a trip 2 accra wit a friend at 24?. Zss may not have it easy but they Sure as hell don't wanna trade places
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Well, I’d agree to this point because it pertains to Nigerians. And the conversation is within the context of Nigeria. But in some other parts of the world , I don’t think so.
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Millennials have it easier than Gen Z? Looool who told you this? Back then there wasn’t mobile phones or even social media. How many millennials did you speak to before this conclusion? This cannot even be more wrong my dear. You know weytin Millennial eye see?
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Replying to @AdoraNwodo
Hmmm... I have thought of why we are trying to make ends meet with this mentality ma We mumbo-jumbo alot now You see Gen Z doing designs plus trading plus Agriculture and so on
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