Not to start a generational poop flinging match...
Who raised millennials?
Who educated millennials?
Who ruled corporal punishment as child abuse?
Who told them they absolutely needed a college degree?
Who then told them that in order to qualify for a job, needed 3-5 years worth of experience?
Keep it up, you'll need a college degree to be a janitor and with the boomer corporatist mindset combined with the OG liberal hippy PC movement- call a janitor a sanitation technician.
I practice what I preach, I don't require a degree. I don't require experience.
I aim to give opportunities boomers took for granted, you know. Like walking in at age 16, getting a job in a company, and staying there until retirement...
Judge us all you want. I don't fit the millennial mold. Saving money? Operating on a budget? I do both. I was on my own at 20. College paid for in full at age 20. My first house 15k down payment renovated and paid for in full at 25.
I didn't buy into the schemes boomers preached. But before you do go pointing fingers, better make sure your hands are clean.
Want to know why so many 20-30 somethings live at home and play house in their parents basement. You screwed them up by pumping their heads full of crap prepping them for a utopia that doesn't exist. They cant cope in the real world. They doubled down on your prerequisites and all signed up for college, got into over saturated job markets because you all preached skilled trades and such were beneath them, enabled and coddled them cradle to adulthood and grave if you had it your way.
Gee I would move back in with my parents too if I went along like the rest of the lemmings of my generation. When boomers vote democrat and property taxes on a starter home is 5-10k per year, tax the rich, you get an apartment in the bad side of town for 800-1k per month if you're lucky, asinine health insurance deductibles to be met every calender year plus a 200% increase in health insurance premiums...
Boomers broke them. They didn't prepare them for the real world unless they had parents like mine who were old school.
At least we don't eat tide pods and snort condoms like zoomers behind us do.
I will give credit where credit is due.
You may have had to finance your first house when interest rates on houses were between 10 and 20%
But that pales in comparison to what you paid for college what we paid for college.
I've seen 2 of my uncles that went to SUNY Brockport back in the early 70s to get degrees to become teachers. For 4 years, room board and tuition and books. Grand total of 800 dollars.
My associates degree I paid for up front in cash. 8k dollars. 4k per year. That didn't include books, tools, nor lab fees.
Colleges claim they're not for profit? BS! I bought all of my books new on amazon for a third the price the school was getting for them. Copied the ISBN numbers. Found them.
Go ahead and scoff at them. Afterall you all told them don't take metal or woodshop. It's dangerous. Skilled trades are beneath you. That's why if/when they look at houses, they look for move in ready 200k-300k houses. I have to teach guys how to read a ruler that are 19-28 years old. I'll admit I find that to be pathetic. But can I blame them? Not really. Not when they were sheltered and coddled.
You really think millennials as a whole can roll their sleeves up grab a ladder and do a roof in a week's time on a simple 1500sqft ranch?
Think they can hang sheet rock?
How about repair their own vehicle? No of course not. Most boomers who raised millennials were buying their cherubs their first cars granted little econoboxes, but they were new and had a maintenance plan and new car warranty. Not mine. Me I had to buy maintain and repair my own. And pay for the insurance too. Another hindrance to my generation and the one behind mine don't even want to get a driver's license for the most part because their parents bought them video games and smart phones when they were 9 and 10 years old and are used to being carted around by mom and dad. You're lucky the majority of them can spell their own name and dress themselves.
That's what happens when you coddle and shelter and make pathetic lemmings out of kids, and don't prepare them for reality but a non existent utopia. They cant cope. They find video games better than reality. Social media filling a void created due to not getting the attention from a functional family.
My generation is guilty of that. Go to a bar a restaurant a nightclub with the girlfriend and damn near everyone 25-35 has their head tilted down face illuminated by the glow of a phone. They'll all be hunched back by 40 I guarantee it. So I'm with you there being critical of my generation.
But you reap what you sow.
I don't know how many times I was mistaken for a boomer here in the POC... because like boomers, I tell it like it is. I don't sugar coat anything.
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