Are we the first generation that couldn’t / can’t truly use advice of previous generations due to immense society transformation?

I feel everything I ever heard from older gens about jobs, housing, money, doesn’t apply at all anymore.
I think a lot about effects of this on mental health of millennials. Also confidence. Basically, many skills your parents & advisors were to transfer to you, weren’t applicable anymore. Example: go to a company in person if you want a job.

Today you would get escorted.
All from interviewing, thank you notes, education, getting loans, saving, making friends, dating, almost nothing is applicable other than the high level everyone would know this stuff type of things.
I wonder how different life was from 1940 to 1980 in relation to “how things were done”. From job search and so. Most of our parents are from then.

Are we thus ill-equipt filled with inadequate advice?
Could this be why so many feel lost in their journey?
Think about it, we are LIVING during a digital revolution. A point in history that will be tracked as much as industrial revolution.
Remember how people used to be with one company for 20-30 years?

Is that even possible today? I believe average tenure is 5-6 years now.

Things like this completely shifted everything around work, progression, position & status.
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