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This take is US centric, because that's where I'm from.
I'm a millennial. I feel like I got on the last boat boat out of 'Nam. I graduated college and got my first job just before that mini recession in 2014.
I do feel like if you were mid 20s around 9/11 you got to ride the crest of the last surge of "greatness" in the US; old enough to get your bag while the world changed everything for the people coming after.
In reality, there's almost always been a 2-4 year period every 10-15 years where it's actually pretty great to enter into adulthood compared to surrounding age demographics. I feel like I was in the last one, and the next one hasn't hit yet.
Seemingly great times to be a 24 year old college graduate (comparative to other years):
2011-13 - you narrowly avoided 08 and 14 recessions
1997-99 - you got job experience before the dot com bubble popped
1988 - you're starting your career with a straight decade of prosperity
1967-73 - you went to college and avoided the draft; you got career experience before inflation and the gas crisis hit in the next few years
1948-50 - too young to go to war, early enough to participate in the largest economic boom in human history
Not US, but I was 24 in 2008. It was definitely an interesting time in many aspects. My dad was 24 in 1978 and that was also not great. And my grandfather was 24 in 1944. (also he was in Germany)