Millennials compared to your generation

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  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    They know who they are and aren’t afraid to assert their identities and demand recognition. I find that admirable. A generalization, of course, but I work with a lot of millennials. They’re smarter about a lot of things people in older generations took much, much longer to understand.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    edited January 2018
    cbohling1987 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.

    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

    This is my experience as well. Hubs refused to get a credit card for a long time, I have one and use it for everything, but that's because why not take advantage of getting 2% back on my life. I pay it off every month so I am not spending money I don't have with it.

    In my experience the credit millennials seem to struggle with the worst is student loans. I suspect there will basically be some sort of collapse in the higher educational system in America in the next few years.
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  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    cee134 wrote: »
    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.

    yeah, its a much wider net than most people realize. People tend to only think of current college students as millennials, but most of us have been in the workforce for 10 years or so
  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
    I flirt by recording ten minute asmr videos and sending it to people to help them sleep and i was told this is veeeery millenial of me
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  • Caporegiem
    Caporegiem Posts: 4,297 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    BR_549 wrote: »
    We don't look at our jobs the same way. It's a 2 to 3 year adventure then we're ready for the next one.

    This is as much the employers fault as the generation's. Employers don't offer pensions anymore, or really any incentive for company loyalty.

    If they liked me then they shoulda put a ring on me.
  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    I flirt by recording ten minute asmr videos and sending it to people to help them sleep and i was told this is veeeery millenial of me

    What is an asmr video?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb27NHO_ubg

    This video makes me laugh
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    BR_549 wrote: »
    We don't look at our jobs the same way. It's a 2 to 3 year adventure then we're ready for the next one.

    This is as much the employers fault as the generation's. Employers don't offer pensions anymore, or really any incentive for company loyalty.

    and no more upward movement, if a manager leaves they don't move up a good worker drone, they hire from the outside. So you gotta be the outside person
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  • Horndave22
    Horndave22 Posts: 25 Member
    Trade schools were more of an option to go into a specific field without having to spend an arm and a leg to go to a university.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    newmeadow wrote: »
    TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    BR_549 wrote: »
    We don't look at our jobs the same way. It's a 2 to 3 year adventure then we're ready for the next one.

    This is as much the employers fault as the generation's. Employers don't offer pensions anymore, or really any incentive for company loyalty.

    What do you mean you don't want to work a minimum wage job that requires two degrees?!

    You guys just have to start saying no. Minimalistic wages, part time hours and no benefits are the future for most workplaces, at least in the U.S. Stop going to college. Just stop until they make it worth your while again - meaning there has to be a reasonable return on your investment in the short and long run. Read Hemingway and Nietzsche in the bathtub independently if you want to get liberal artsy. Academe is an industry like any other and degrees are commodities no different than pork bellies. Any industry or service is boycottable and higher education needs some serious slap back.

    whoooo! (how do you make the freaking cheering/whistle face, I can never figure that one out!)
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  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    no no no, one of the smiley faces
  • CaptainFantastic00
    CaptainFantastic00 Posts: 4,619 Member
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    I flirt by recording ten minute asmr videos and sending it to people to help them sleep and i was told this is veeeery millenial of me

    What is an asmr video?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb27NHO_ubg

    This video makes me laugh

    I hate you
  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
    edited January 2018
    CaptainFantastic00 wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    I flirt by recording ten minute asmr videos and sending it to people to help them sleep and i was told this is veeeery millenial of me

    What is an asmr video?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb27NHO_ubg

    This video makes me laugh

    I hate you

    Wait until I whisper in your ear tonight and nibble on your ear lobe
  • CaptainFantastic00
    CaptainFantastic00 Posts: 4,619 Member
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    CaptainFantastic00 wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    I flirt by recording ten minute asmr videos and sending it to people to help them sleep and i was told this is veeeery millenial of me

    What is an asmr video?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb27NHO_ubg

    This video makes me laugh

    I hate you

    Wait until I whisper in your ear tonight and nibble on your ear lobe

    Standing at attention
  • Judithmendoza12
    Judithmendoza12 Posts: 3 Member
    Absolutely no respect for elders, want everything for free. Don't appreciate hard work. Drink waaaayyy too many energy drinks. Have mountains of debt and worthless degrees& don't know what taxes are. Thing is that I think this is all as a result of the first 3 things not being taught at a young age, we are too busy to teach them because we need a house that costs way too much and both parents need to work to pay for the house and everything they don't need. yup! about sums it up! I'm 25 and my parents disciplined me as a kid, got my first job at 14 cause my mom told me that by then If I wanted something I had to pay for it myself. Almost everyone younger than me has every single thing paid for by their parents. This is why they never leave home. 10 year olds have cell phones, bad idea. Also, I love coffee and avocado, but not together, thats weird.
  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
    Judithmendoza12 wrote: »
    Absolutely no respect for elders, want everything for free. Don't appreciate hard work. Drink waaaayyy too many energy drinks. Have mountains of debt and worthless degrees& don't know what taxes are. Thing is that I think this is all as a result of the first 3 things not being taught at a young age, we are too busy to teach them because we need a house that costs way too much and both parents need to work to pay for the house and everything they don't need. yup! about sums it up! I'm 25 and my parents disciplined me as a kid, got my first job at 14 cause my mom told me that by then If I wanted something I had to pay for it myself. Almost everyone younger than me has every single thing paid for by their parents. This is why they never leave home. 10 year olds have cell phones, bad idea. Also, I love coffee and avocado, but not together, thats weird.

    girl take a breath
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited January 2018
    Judithmendoza12 wrote: »
    Absolutely no respect for elders, want everything for free. Don't appreciate hard work. Drink waaaayyy too many energy drinks. Have mountains of debt and worthless degrees& don't know what taxes are. Thing is that I think this is all as a result of the first 3 things not being taught at a young age, we are too busy to teach them because we need a house that costs way too much and both parents need to work to pay for the house and everything they don't need. yup! about sums it up! I'm 25 and my parents disciplined me as a kid, got my first job at 14 cause my mom told me that by then If I wanted something I had to pay for it myself. Almost everyone younger than me has every single thing paid for by their parents. This is why they never leave home. 10 year olds have cell phones, bad idea. Also, I love coffee and avocado, but not together, thats weird.

    This has not been my experience with millennials...

    Also, a lot of millennials are older than you and have careers and families...

    ETA: in my experience there's a substantial difference between millennials who are in their 30s and those that are in their teens or early to mid 20s...I don't even know how they are all considered to be of the same generation.
  • WhereIsPJSoles
    WhereIsPJSoles Posts: 622 Member
    Oh she meant me, all those are me.
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  • Caporegiem
    Caporegiem Posts: 4,297 Member
    - Respect your elders
    - Earn what you have
    - Have a good work ethic
    - Dont drink wayyyyy too many energy drinks
    - Avoid excess debt
    - Obtain a useful degree
    - Understand taxes


    One of these things seems out of place in this list.
  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
    Judithmendoza12 wrote: »
    Absolutely no respect for elders, want everything for free. Don't appreciate hard work. Drink waaaayyy too many energy drinks. Have mountains of debt and worthless degrees& don't know what taxes are. Thing is that I think this is all as a result of the first 3 things not being taught at a young age, we are too busy to teach them because we need a house that costs way too much and both parents need to work to pay for the house and everything they don't need. yup! about sums it up! I'm 25 and my parents disciplined me as a kid, got my first job at 14 cause my mom told me that by then If I wanted something I had to pay for it myself. Almost everyone younger than me has every single thing paid for by their parents. This is why they never leave home. 10 year olds have cell phones, bad idea. Also, I love coffee and avocado, but not together, thats weird.

    I have never had an energy drink in my life

    I was at a concession stand with a millennial parent at an early morning kids sports event - I ordered a black coffee, he ordered some type of Mt Dew energy drink (Kickstart?). I started laughing, "Is that for you or your kid?". The guy was in his mid-30s, it just struck me as odd he would still be drinking this type of stuff.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    eccomi_qui wrote: »
    I flirt by recording ten minute asmr videos and sending it to people to help them sleep and i was told this is veeeery millenial of me

    What is an asmr video?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb27NHO_ubg

    This video makes me laugh

    I made it 32 seconds, that was beyond irritating, how could you

    Autonomous sensory meridian response = asmr video.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Seems most parents shelter millennials from things and keep them from similar responsibilities youth in my days had.
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