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I suppose when most folks get old, they like to gripe and grouse about the young folks. It's probably been that way forever. But after teaching in large public high schools for the past 20 years, I'll just say that I think the future is in good hands. Grumpy old farts aside, today's kids are better informed and more open minded than we were back in the day.
You sound awfully angry at a large group of people who are better than you..... maybe if you didn't act like a child you would get somewhere in life
Just a thought....
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I am doing quite fine in life, thanks. I have a full time job, a college education, good friends and family, and I even have a decent amount of money saved up.
I really like to defend my generation from the rants of boomers though. Their lives were so much easier than ours yet they are now wanting to gripe about us in their old age?
Yes, I don't think they can even fathom growing up without iPhones and XBox's and feel deprived if they can't have a video game as soon as it's released.
The work ethic is what's missing in many cases. Previous generations thought nothing of working a summer job, helping to bale and bring in hay, mow a lawn. This generation would gasp at even the suggestion they do any of that.
Funny. Me, my brother, and every one of my millennial cousins had to do those things. Do you even know any mellinnials?
I am doing quite fine in life, thanks. I have a full time job, a college education, good friends and family, and I even have a decent amount of money saved up.
I really like to defend my generation from the rants of boomers though. Their lives were so much easier than ours yet they are now wanting to gripe about us in their old age?
You can't possibly know that since you didn't exist. Just like I can't really say that my life was harder than my parent's or grandparent's life. I didn't live their life, I didn't see any of it first hand.
Can you even imagine how difficult life must have been when people had no cell phones or video games to play? No computers much less internet. There was a time when everyone didn't have refrigerated air conditioning. Imagine temperatures over 80 and no air conditioner to turn on.
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Yes, I don't think they can even fathom growing up without iPhones and XBox's and feel deprived if they can't have a video game as soon as it's released.
The work ethic is what's missing in many cases. Previous generations thought nothing of working a summer job, helping to bale and bring in hay, mow a lawn. This generation would gasp at even the suggestion they do any of that.
Umm can most millennials even find summer jobs these days? Also, I live in the city. I see no hay here, hell a lot of people don't even have lawns here.
Millennials are different because many, if not most of them grew up in affluent homes where their parents bought them everything their hearts desired. They had the nicest clothes, the newest video game systems when they came out, and their car of choice when they turned 16. Most of that was bought on credit. Millennials are going to have to come to realization that the real world works differently than how they grew up. Unemployment is high among this generation but it isn't all because of the economy. Many college educated Millennials are underemployed or unemployed by choice. Go to any coffee shop in Portland and see. The priorities of this generation are different than the 80s yuppies. This generation is more like the '60s hippies, except with iPhones and from more privileged homes.
Umm can most millennials even find summer jobs these days? Also, I live in the city. I see no hay here, hell a lot of people don't even have lawns here.
Sure they can if they weren't so arrogant about the kind of work they can do.
Why is it that millions of illegals can come here not speaking a word of English and have no education of any kind yet have zero trouble finding plenty of jobs?
Americans have now become so lazy they envision a nation where most everyone is cared for by the government, has more than enough food stamps -- can even dine out in restaurants on food stamps, has unlimited health care provided by tax dollars and all the work is done by cheap labor immigrants. Only those Americans who can earn a big six figure salary might consider working for their living.
That's not doable really. In fact it's pretty messed up.
I was just in ak
I saw some of the best 19 year olds I have ever seen running trains hotels and food service
They come from all over america and they all got a plan usually vocational and military with short term realistic goals
Not one of them planning to go to school for the next 20 years while deciding what they want to be when they grow up
They are grownup
Hats off to the ak kids
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Sure they can if they weren't so arrogant about the kind of work they can do.
Why is it that millions of illegals can come here not speaking a word of English and have no education of any kind yet have zero trouble finding plenty of jobs?
Americans have now become so lazy they envision a nation where most everyone is cared for by the government, has more than enough food stamps -- can even dine out in restaurants on food stamps, has unlimited health care provided by tax dollars and all the work is done by cheap labor immigrants. Only those Americans who can earn a big six figure salary might consider working for their living.
That's not doable really. In fact it's pretty messed up.
Because they are willing to work for wages and conditions and are not knowledgeable enough to demand better.
Millennials are different because many, if not most of them grew up in affluent homes where their parents bought them everything their hearts desired. They had the nicest clothes, the newest video game systems when they came out, and their car of choice when they turned 16. Most of that was bought on credit. Millennials are going to have to come to realization that the real world works differently than how they grew up. Unemployment is high among this generation but it isn't all because of the economy. Many college educated Millennials are underemployed or unemployed by choice. Go to any coffee shop in Portland and see. The priorities of this generation are different than the 80s yuppies. This generation is more like the '60s hippies, except with iPhones and from more privileged homes.
Certainly not most of them. Not even many of us grew up in affluent families. Affluent people are the least likely to have children in this world. How could most millennials come from affluent families?
What about the 20% of us that were born to immigrant parents, which tend to be less affluent? What about the enormous percentage of millennials that grew up in broken homes, which tend to be less affluent? Our parents had a 50% divorce rate you know.
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Also, I live in the city. I see no hay here, hell a lot of people don't even have lawns here.
wages and conditions and are not knowledgeable enough to demand better.
