Is being 18 supposed to be hard?

I've given up on humanity thanks to gen Y and the millennials.

I'm not sure if this was sarcastic ...
If it was a serious statement, please don't lump us all into one category and assume that none of us work hard to reach our goals. We already get enough people shaking their canes at us for being the generation that isn't able to get jobs, lives at home, etc...

Exactly. And which generation is responsible for the terrible job market and economy we're inheriting? Hmm.

Your government. The terrible job market and economy isn't everywhere in the world.

Your government. The terrible job market and economy isn't everywhere in the world.

lol. Really?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Our job market and economy isn't even "terrible" right now. The unemployment rate is only 6.3%. A good unemployment rate is 4-6%. Our economy isn't bad. The thing that's different is the culture. Not every culture had the counterculture movement like the Baby Boomers did, or the rise of technology as quickly as the Gen Xers had. The United States has a consumerist culture thanks to the gung-ho capitalist movement during the Cold War. If you disagreed, you were a commie. If the problem IS the government, it's because the Baby Boomers and Gen Xers elected those guys. My generation couldn't even elect officials until about 2008.

I'm just going to give my thanks to the Baby Boomers:
http://youtu.be/M4IjTUxZORE

Great reply.

Before an all out cross generational flame war erupts, this was meant to be a parody thread to skewer an 18 y.o. who started a thread (now locked) to:
- Lecture everyone on how easy it is to lose weight
- Followed up by the statement that if *you* found losing weight difficult it was because you weren't committed enough and were simply making excuses

Needless to say, not too many people took kindly to the wisdom.

Can't we all just get along?

Didn't think so...

I opened this thinking it was a teenager's rant about parents buying the wrong food or something. I was pleasantly surprised.

I forgot to add: it IS hard. When I was 18, I had to buy my own gas for the car my parents gave me. ????

Seriously, I had to work a whole 20 hours a week to afford the gas to put in the car my parent's gave me. That was a true challenge...er, excuse.

idk but i still get confused every day :ohwell:

I was living in the basement of my mother's rental house, NOT paying rent, going to bible school, and working at Build-A-Bear Workshop on the weekend. It was super hard, mm-kay? /sarcasm

No studying, no real work, and no bills to pay. Ah, to be three years younger. :laugh: Because now I'm suddenly 21 with a husband, a house, a real job, and a 5-year-old(HIS kid, granted, so it's not THAT much harder, but still).

Alright, I'll give y'all that adulthood is obviously much harder than being a teenager. And that there are certain things most teenagers get way easier than needed.

However, being a teenager isn't all video games and parties. High school homework rates are currently higher than they have ever been, and the stress level of an average teenager has increased astronomically. It is EXTREMELY difficult to maintain adequate sleep as a teenager while still achieving decent grades/test scores and try adding in extracurricular activities like sports or writing for a school newspaper on top of that. Then there's the whole issue of colleges and careers, not to mention that you know you will soon have to find some way to support yourself or be homeless, hungry, etc. Kind of a frightening prospect for most teenagers.

That being said, there are some freaking stupid and entitled teenagers in the world. Justin (or as I like to call him, Justine) is one of them. People like him do my generation a lot of harm.