I’m soon going to be a freshman, and I’ve always found myself doing this; when I find something I’m interested in knowing more about such as college tuition, debt, job growth over the next year… I end up reading too much because I like knowing this information, and then I start thinking about all the problems my generation is gonna have to face such as dealing with the US national debt, rising tuition costs, global shift in power, job growth for what I’m interested in when I grow up, and all these other things. I just find it interesting how I worry about these things sometimes and just wanted to know if some of you feel this way too? And also I’m just curious but how do you deal with it, to keep motivated in studying as hard as you can when all these problems face us?
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My personal belief is that these current problems are not fundamentally different from problems faced by past generations and in many ways (but not all ways) we are better off. The problems might be slightly different but were still there. BTW, are you going to be an econ major? Because the topics you list are are if great interest to economists.
I like the way you think about this stuff! haha, and nah. I’m actually interested in becoming a surgeon ever since I was 5 years old… I find economics really interesting, but I like the idea of the amazing machine our bodies are and how we are able to adapt and thrive in the most diverse situations, also the idea of helping others and seeing their happiness closely.
I’m 46 and still do this. 
At our house we call it the youtube worm-hole. You go to learn more about a certain physics concept and end up listening to an hour-long presentation on fiat currency.
I’m 54, and I remember my father-in-law saying to me when I was 25 or so, “I worry so much about your generation - things are so bad, I don’t know how you guys are going to do.” When my husband and I got our master’s degrees in engineering in 1986, there was literally NO work in Texas, because oil prices had collapsed. We sent out 271 resumes all over the country, from Hawaii to Maine, and got only a few responses. We ended up in Maine.
In the early 1990s, we were laid off the same day from the same company, and ended up on unemployment for months. So when I hear about how bad things are for the newest generation of workers, it makes me chuckle. It wasn’t a bed of roses for us. Oh, yeah, and after I had stopped working before the birth of our second child, my husband was laid off five days before our son was born.
Having said all of that, we’ve always come through OK, so now when things look bad, I don’t worry as much. If you get a good education and work hard, you’ll do fine. Now we have a beautiful house and also a cabin in the mountains. We don’t have extra money, but we do OK.
I wouldn’t spend too much time worrying about it. We’re all going to get squished by a giant asteroid, anyway.
May as well do as much good as you can while you’re here, and not worry too much about what you can’t control.
On balance, this is the most prosperous period to date in human history.
I do this toward medical related things, I am such a worry wort. You can’t perseverate over anxiety or what if’s, I feel we should all live our lives, stay educated with some boundaries, and if something were to happen, we’d have an idea of what to do, without being a hyperventilating wreck.