What best describe the group categorized as "Millennials"? Beards and flannel shirts without the ability to change a tire? Wanting to "make a difference" without having to put in any effort? Those who are depressed but who have a Facebook persona that is "fantastic!" Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Every bearded millennial I know can change a tire. So can the unbearded ones, if they are female. I suspect - not sure, but maybe - that a couple of the unbearded male ones would have trouble changing a tire. They are all on Facebook, though, and none of them have depressive Facebook identities afaik (not on myself, so that's secondhand).
That's the point (to the extent that I have one Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ) Their FB identities are upbeat even when they aren't actually up beat. It's more like they have to show the world that everything is great all the time even when it isn't. I do agree that it's more likely than the females are more likely to be able to change a tire than the males. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Just checked with the SO, and am informed that at least two of the millenials in my circles have kind of downbeat, depressive, life-sucks Facebook pages. She's worried about them. So she is making special efforts to involve us in their lives. Which may, if it's a common response of aunts to such things, explain the prevalence of upbeat Facebook profiles.
I have both a beard and a flannel shirt and I know how to change a tire but I don't have a vehicle. Mind you, I'm from a completely different millennium.
Milennials: grown up and obsessed with technology and the immediacy of everything; generally unequipped to deal with the hardships of current reality; strong sense of self-entitlement; more socially aware but tend toward "political correctness"; acutely aware that their future will not be a better version of the previous, but potentially radically different. Yes, gross generalisations all, but they're what spring to mind.
They are working harder and getting less for their efforts. If they are lucky, they might share a studio apartment with only two other roommates. We've screwed them pretty good over these past 20 years. Yep, their expectations are high, which is a good thing considering what they've been give
People born somewhere between the early 1980s and the late 1990s/early 2000s. There are no clearly-defined birth-year boundaries for this group.
I guess Millenials are like the 90s, end of 80s, beginning of 2000s. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Who says they are working harder? I wouldn't necessarily say they are working less hard, but harder? Not at my workplace, they're not. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! And they're paid the same as any other person doing the same job, millennial or otherwise. Depends where they want to live, to be honest. If I wanted to live where my parents did then I'd have been in the same boat as that. But I found somewhere that I could afford at the time. But it is harder now, for sure, if they want to own property. But renting remains an option for most, albeit unlikely to be a long-term route to saving enough to own your own. I don't think we've screwed them over at all. Things happen, people do what they can at the time to get ahead, or at least to a point they are comfortable, and work with what they have at that time. One generation may have one thing at the expense of closing off that opportunity for the next generation, but it works both ways. I can imagine where they lose in some areas they gain in others. High expectations are all well and good, but when they border on the delusional yet still inform one's attitude, that gets worrying. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Millennials - disenfranchised, disillusioned, and disgusted. Grossly generalized, we have seen the greatest economic booms get squandered by the prior generation, with vast swathes of wealth hoarded among a small slice of individuals. Meanwhile, our parents and grandparents are increasingly without a proper retirement plan, relying on us to be their "retirement safety net" when they inevitably cannot work any longer and are unable to afford their nice houses. Meanwhile, we are increasingly left with only the option of renting, due to ever increasing student loan debts (which we were told since elementary school we HAD to "go to school to get a good job"... well, we went to school... where are those good jobs?!) We millennials are the first generation in... well, modern times really, to enjoy a lower standard of living than our parents. Yay! As a few citations: Millennials earn less, despite having higher education http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/were-making-life-too-hard-for-millennials.html?_r=0 (see image attached) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://www.theatlantic.com/business...d-and-more-diverse-than-their-parents/385029/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/millennials_report.pdf No doubt, this has had far reaching implications in the housing industry... and much of the more affordable / available housing is being bought up by Foreign Investors... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ities-tax-them-for-it/?utm_term=.b14aadc0a751 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-danger-of-foreign-buyers-gobbling-up-american-homes-2015-10-08 Yay for having thousands of houses sit vacant, owned by people who aren't even IN THIS COUNTRY while we have tens of thousands of people homeless on the streets, and untold thousands of young married couples paying exorbitant prices for rent because the "starter homes" they would have otherwise been looking at are owned by people who simply aren't using them, or are renting them out! Simply put... yeah, we Millennials have been rather screwed over, and quite efficiently. Tack on top of all that the fact that we as a nation continue to peddle this "trickle down economy" bullshit that has failed over and over again; we will have to pick up the slack to try and keep Social Security solvent (thanks primarily to continued "borrowing" (without intent to return) from its funding), our students are increasingly at risk of profit-hungry "institutions" posing as legitimate schools (Trump University anyone... or Corinthian?)... and some of the wealthiest of the prior generations outright BRAG about how adept they are at avoiding paying taxes via sheltering and other "creative accounting" methods... yeah, no wonder we Millennials are pissed.
There! You see! An overinflated sense of entitlement, encapsulated right there! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Not in my experience (and I employ a bunch of them.) One has a two bedroom apartment he shares with his fiance and dog. Another has a two bedroom apartment; she lives alone. A third just had his first baby - he has a house.
Neither can their parents, by and large - it's getting to where I can't even find a stick to buy as a winter truck.
