Millennials compared to your generation
Bry_Fitness70
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What are some of the glaring differences between your generation and Millennials (or vice versa)? This isn't an invitation to bash, I'm just curious about what others have observed. This is anecdotal, so no hurt feelings if any generalizations don't apply to you 
A big one I have noticed is energy drinks consumption. Gen X and Baby Boomers largely prefer coffee while it seems like Millenials are buying Monster (or similar brands) drinks (as observed in our work cafeteria).
A big one I have noticed is energy drinks consumption. Gen X and Baby Boomers largely prefer coffee while it seems like Millenials are buying Monster (or similar brands) drinks (as observed in our work cafeteria).
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Well for starters we can’t afford houses because of avocado toast27
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They are younger than me11
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eccomi_qui wrote: »Well for starters we can’t afford houses because of avocado toast
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My older sisters were married and gone before they were 18.
My younger daughters aren't interested and aren't planning to leave.5 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »My older sisters were married and gone before they were 18.
My younger daughters aren't interested and aren't planning to leave.
What kind of dowry are you offering?14 -
CoffeeAndContour wrote: »I didn’t walk 5 miles to school during a snow storm.
My parents bought their gorgeous house for $149k yet the ones I’m looking at are more like a mil. How the shiz is that fair?
Also that...I’m a millennial and we grew up in the generation of “fairness” you know attendance awards
People take a lot longer to poop these days. Cause smartphones. 2 bathrooms is now a necessity.
I blame everything on Baby Boomers (maybe not the extended pooping issue), all of the good stuff fell apart under their watch...2 -
CoffeeAndContour wrote: »I didn’t walk 5 miles to school during a snow storm.
My parents bought their gorgeous house for $149k yet the ones I’m looking at are more like a mil. How the shiz is that fair?
Also that...I’m a millennial and we grew up in the generation of “fairness” you know attendance awards
People take a lot longer to poop these days. Cause smartphones. 2 bathrooms is now a necessity.
Ha! I don't know, my Dad liked to do crosswords while on the toilet. I never understood it.0 -
eccomi_qui wrote: »JeromeBarry1 wrote: »My older sisters were married and gone before they were 18.
My younger daughters aren't interested and aren't planning to leave.
What kind of dowry are you offering?
hahahaha, you're my favorite @eccomi_qui0 -
You can’t use the phrase “gag me” to both generations without getting wildly different responses.14
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Aside from the technological issues, which makes Millennials more likely to have their noses in their phones and always taking selfies, tweeting, instagramming and texting, I think Millennials feel they are more entitled and don't have to work their way up to a level of comfort that they had at home.
I moved out in 1972, joined the Marines and when I got out 4 years later and got my own apartment, I worked 60+ hours a week. My home was furnished with a bean bag chair, a mattress on the floor, shelving for my stereo on cinder blocks and bricks. I had a hand-me-down TV that my Grandma gave me.
When my daughters moved out, they all had big-screen TV's, new cars, fully furnished apartments, the latest cell phones (which they exchange every time the next generation comes out).
I think the biggest reason that they can affect this step up in comfort is credit. I had no access to credit cards when I was their age, so I had to save up for everything and pay in full. Credit Companies are shoving credit down Millennial's throats now. It's a shame.9 -
CoffeeAndContour wrote: »Bry_Lander wrote: »CoffeeAndContour wrote: »I didn’t walk 5 miles to school during a snow storm.
My parents bought their gorgeous house for $149k yet the ones I’m looking at are more like a mil. How the shiz is that fair?
Also that...I’m a millennial and we grew up in the generation of “fairness” you know attendance awards
People take a lot longer to poop these days. Cause smartphones. 2 bathrooms is now a necessity.
I blame everything on Baby Boomers (maybe not the extended pooping issue), all of the good stuff fell apart under their watch...
It is a worry (at least where I live) that there may not be enough pension for the next generation because the baby boomers are taking all that too.
That and remaining in the workforce until they almost literally drop. "I don't understand why my 30-something-year-old millennial child can't find a decent paying job and move out of the house, that slacker! Ok, I'm off to work to put in a half-assed effort at the high paying office job I landed without a degree right after high school and have squatted at for 30-40 years with no intention of retiring from anytime soon."10 -
I think people are mostly the same regardless of generation. Superficial things change and every generation likes to think the ones younger than them suck.13
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Those YouTube stars took a chance, man. It paid big for some of them. No different than actors and actresses who have been around forever.2
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TeacupsAndToning wrote: »TheRoadDog wrote: »Aside from the technological issues, which makes Millennials more likely to have their noses in their phones and always taking selfies, tweeting, instagramming and texting, I think Millennials feel they are more entitled and don't have to work their way up to a level of comfort that they had at home.
I moved out in 1972, joined the Marines and when I got out 4 years later and got my own apartment, I worked 60+ hours a week. My home was furnished with a bean bag chair, a mattress on the floor, shelving for my stereo on cinder blocks and bricks. I had a hand-me-down TV that my Grandma gave me.
When my daughters moved out, they all had big-screen TV's, new cars, fully furnished apartments, the latest cell phones (which they exchange every time the next generation comes out).
I think the biggest reason that they can affect this step up in comfort is credit. I had no access to credit cards when I was their age, so I had to save up for everything and pay in full. Credit Companies are shoving credit down Millennial's throats now. It's a shame.
I will agree that some people do think they are entitled to things but for the most part I disagree that millennials feel this way. I certainly don't. I think that the issue is that people are now understanding that everyone deserves a fair chance at life and it's become more glaringly obvious that the amount of money millennials are making isn't enough when you compare it to the cost of living.
The cost of getting an education continues to increase. The cost of purchasing a home is absolutely ridiculous - my grandparents, in 1975, purchased a home for $40,000.00. My dad and step mom bought their house (in 1999) for under $150,000.00. If I were to buy the same house today, in the exact same location, I would need $450,000.00 - $500,000.00.
It's very hard not to feel down about this and to desire more. I might pay a lot of attention to my phone but tbh, part of that is because I don't want to think about where I'll be in ten years, because I have no idea.
ETA: In terms of your daughters' tvs, cars, furnished apartments, did you buy those things for them? Because then that's your fault
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My daughter's (3 of them) all were responsible for their own cars, apartments and insurance. We DID help them out with furnishings. The only one we spent the most on was the youngest. She skipped a grade and then went to college at 16. At that age, she couldn't sign anything without our backing.
And, while I know that their level of comfort was paid for by me, I guess I should have said, I am pretty sure my parents' would have helped me too, but they were poor and struggled to make ends meet.2 -
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My generation was never consistently shat on the way millenials are.4
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TheRoadDog wrote: »Aside from the technological issues, which makes Millennials more likely to have their noses in their phones and always taking selfies, tweeting, instagramming and texting, I think Millennials feel they are more entitled and don't have to work their way up to a level of comfort that they had at home.
I moved out in 1972, joined the Marines and when I got out 4 years later and got my own apartment, I worked 60+ hours a week. My home was furnished with a bean bag chair, a mattress on the floor, shelving for my stereo on cinder blocks and bricks. I had a hand-me-down TV that my Grandma gave me.
When my daughters moved out, they all had big-screen TV's, new cars, fully furnished apartments, the latest cell phones (which they exchange every time the next generation comes out).
I think the biggest reason that they can affect this step up in comfort is credit. I had no access to credit cards when I was their age, so I had to save up for everything and pay in full. Credit Companies are shoving credit down Millennial's throats now. It's a shame.
Actually Millennials are significantly less likely to use credit cards or buy things on credit. I'm a Millennial (30 years old) and I almost never purchase anything on credit. The only reason I was able to buy a house with almost no credit history was because I made a 60% down payment.
It's not just me either, this is a measurable trend:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/09/pf/millennials-credit-cards/index.html
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denversillygoose wrote: »My generation was never consistently shat on the way millenials are.
If you are Gen X I totally disagree. Where Gen X was disillusioned, Millenials weren't, because to be disillusioned, you had to have had expectations in the first place.
Gen X grew up more idealistic, thinking that our lives would be like our parents in terms of jobs, the economy, marriage, religion, education, etc, and almost none of those resemble anything that we expected in the 1970s and 80s. That is why the music of our 20s was Grunge, a sort of colorless, dark, angry lashing out against what we realized life would actually be like in the 1990s and beyond.
I believe that Millenials have had a more somber outlook which wasn't really brightened by boy bands, participation trophies, and cool electronics, and that is why being a Youtuber or a dot-com billionaire is so appealing, it is winning the lottery, rather than working some crappy service job for minimum wage and paying off 6 figure student loans while living in a cheap apartment and driving a beat-up Honda Civic.4 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »
If you are Gen X I totally disagree. Where Gen X was disillusioned, Millenials weren't, because to be disillusioned, you had to have had expectations in the first place.
Gen X grew up more idealistic, thinking that our lives would be like our parents in terms of jobs, the economy, marriage, religion, education, etc, and almost none of those resemble anything that we expected in the 1970s and 80s. That is why the music of our 20s was Grunge, a sort of colorless, dark, angry lashing out against what we realized life would actually be like in the 1990s and beyond.
I believe that Millenials have had a more somber outlook which wasn't really brightened by boy bands, participation trophies, and cool electronics, and that is why being a Youtuber or a dot-com billionaire is so appealing, it is winning the lottery, rather than working some crappy service job for minimum wage and paying off 6 figure student loans while living in a cheap apartment and driving a beat-up Honda Civic.
Yeah for people my age (30) our outlook is very much colored by the Great Recession so we have low expectations and don't trust most promises of future prosperity "if you only do a, b, c and follow the rules." We know that things that were once considered "guarantees" like long-term stock investments or Social Security are actually not guarantees at all and are in fact quite unreliable. I'm planning for retirement with the guiding assumption that I will receive zero income from Social Security.
We also know that automation is a looming threat to long-term job security in almost every field and so we try very hard to stay one step ahead of the game when it comes to jobs - this is why "employer loyalty" is a thing of the past.
The sense of insecurity has an odd double effect of leading to both "YOLO culture" (because people want to have fun now just in case the bottom falls out tomorrow and the economy crashes) and to increased financial restraint.
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Gen X-er here. I get annoyed when people bash on millennials as if they there is something innately superior about themselves and their generation. The perceived weaknesses (and strengths) of millennials are mostly products of the culture and events.2
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TeacupsAndToning wrote: »denversillygoose wrote: »My generation was never consistently shat on the way millenials are.
It's all those gen x-ers being on their damn computers and smartphones!
And some of us baby boomers to, guilty!!1 -
traynortransportation wrote: »TeacupsAndToning wrote: »denversillygoose wrote: »My generation was never consistently shat on the way millenials are.
It's all those gen x-ers being on their damn computers and smartphones!
And some of us baby boomers to, guilty!!
Growing up I rarely saw my dad and grandfathers' faces at the breakfast/dinner table because they were buried in a newspaper. My grandfather also spent a lot of time whittling nothing in particular, just cutting chunks off of a piece of wood until there was nothing but a pile of shavings. I'm not sure how staring at a newspaper or magazine (or aimless whittling) in the old days is preferable to staring at a screen today.4 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »denversillygoose wrote: »My generation was never consistently shat on the way millenials are.
If you are Gen X I totally disagree. Where Gen X was disillusioned, Millenials weren't, because to be disillusioned, you had to have had expectations in the first place.
Gen X grew up more idealistic, thinking that our lives would be like our parents in terms of jobs, the economy, marriage, religion, education, etc, and almost none of those resemble anything that we expected in the 1970s and 80s. That is why the music of our 20s was Grunge, a sort of colorless, dark, angry lashing out against what we realized life would actually be like in the 1990s and beyond.
I believe that Millenials have had a more somber outlook which wasn't really brightened by boy bands, participation trophies, and cool electronics, and that is why being a Youtuber or a dot-com billionaire is so appealing, it is winning the lottery, rather than working some crappy service job for minimum wage and paying off 6 figure student loans while living in a cheap apartment and driving a beat-up Honda Civic.
Oh but we had boybands!1 -
What is a millennial?
Demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.
I'm not sure some of you know you are millennials if this is true.3
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