First off, I should start by saying not all millennials are an embarrassment. It’s what the term millennial has come to mean that is embarrassing.
What is with this offended by everything, everything has to be fair, get a do-over, entitlement of the millennials? They are living in a world of unicorns and rainbows, but I’ll let you in on a little secret; life isn’t fair, there are no do-overs, and you are not owed ANYTHING.
Fast food workers think they should make $15/hr flipping burgers. Are you shitting me? EMTs make $15/hr. LPNs make $15/hr. Store managers make $15/hr. Burger flipping requires no skill, no education, no continuing education, nothing. You have no responsibility. Insert your argument about how minimum wage isn’t enough to live on. You need to go to school, get an education, and get a better job. You can go to school it just might not be easy. But not everything in life is easy. I had no financial help from my parents and I attended nursing school. I took out loans and worked through school. Many schools offer daycare. I’ll give you an economics lesson also; say if we raised the minimum wage to $15/hr or $30 for that matter – do you really think the cost of everything will just magically stay the same? Maybe in your dreamland. With an increase in the minimum wage comes this thing called inflation. Prices inflate to match the increase in minimum wage, so all it would do is drive prices higher.
In a world of participation trophies and handouts it’s time for a wake up call. There are literally 10s of thousands of teenagers and young adults running around not knowing how to function. They are clueless to real life because you can’t punish them or hurt their feelings. We have things like child led parenting. Try to have a conversation with one and it’s like dealing with a 3 year old who hasn’t had a nap. They honestly think something should happen or be a certain way simply because that’s how they want it, and will argue until they are blue in the face about it. They like to make invalid arguments about subjects they know nothing about. Let’s make marijuana legal but ban GMO crops. Yeah, makes perfect sense. Crops have been genetically modified for thousands of years, seriously have you ever seen what corn looked like in the beginning? We would have all starved by now. Farmers are feeding and clothing the world, and they need to be recognized for that not criticized. Especially from somebody who probably couldn’t grow a Chia Pet.
Do you know that the new thing now is that the millennial’s parent is accompanying them to their job interviews. You know for support because they can’t handle that on their own. Because maybe they won’t get the job and it will hurt their feelings and it won’t be fair. Boo-hoo. Recognition must be given for every little accomplished or they feel left out or underappreciated. You took a shit today, congratulations.
It is not anyone’s fault that you are too busy taking selfies, partying, or watching TV to live your life as an adult. The whole YOLO thing. Yeah it’s over. Done. Time to mature up. You do only live once so stop living like a child and take on life’s challenges. Please, please, please get off social media and stop watching channels like E! and MTV. Those ‘reality shows’ are not realistic at all. I am still trying to figure out how just about each Kardashian has their own show and that people what them. You can argue that you’re just a product of you’re surroundings, and that’s a bit true but stop comparing what is happening now and what you’re doing now to what your grandparents we’re doing 50 years ago. Because if you want to look at it that way; when your grandpa was 19 years old he was off in Germany fighting in WWII; you’re 19 years old live at home and dropped out of the local community college because they ‘we’re dumb’.
As a millennial myself (1991 model) I can speak on this subject. I’ll be honest with everyone I’m embarrassed to be considered a millennial. No doubt there are still plenty of millennials just like me, thank God. We are still hardworking, educated, and intelligent people. We work for a living and don’t expect handouts from anyone. Hopefully other millennials can look at this and see that with a little hard work and effort you can have your own life functioning as an adult.
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