Another Millennial Thread

I have zero debt as well. I'm a millennial. You talk of not being beholden to name calling, but you did it yourself. Lol. Even though your paragraphless post had many points that I inevitably agree with, the divide and conquer technique is in full effect. You have ignorance and hatred that is not constructive. Essentially becoming the boomers you despise. The boomers complaining about EVERY millennial.

Way to go.

What age group falls into millennial? So many different ranges when I look it up.

There has been quite a bit of generation bashing here lately. So what the hell, I think I will get in on it also. Maybe I can now just group it all into one post.

Millennials, I must say do have some sort of deluded sense of reality about the world around them. I am not sure where or how this came about, but it certainly is prevalent. I have seen a few posts from Millennials that do actually seem to have their shit together and I am not referring to you and I mean no offense, it’s the others I am speaking about.

Some examples of the millennial mentality are this, but not limited to:

Living at home: If your parents are providing your means of survival in this world, then you are a problem. If you just party all the time, sit around the house playing xbox, then you are part of the problem, you are lazy. Living at home is not a necessarily a bad thing as long as you are pulling your weight. You work, you pay your fair share, you help out with the maintenance of the home. As far as I am concerned, if you want free room and board there are only two places to get that. Join the military or go to prison.

Entitled: There is a hierarchy of things in this world. Just because you graduate from college does not mean your first job upon graduating will be the CEO or some level of management and receive a 6 figure paycheck. You must earn your way into that position, by starting at the bottom and moving up. College does not teach you everything you need to know about running a business or managing people. We were all told we can be whatever we wanted to be when we grew up. But you all seem to have missed the part about having to work for it. It will not be handed to you.

Skills: You must know how to do more than configure a smartphone and wi-fi router. If some of you put as much effort into bettering your life and situation as you do your video games, you would probably do pretty well. You must also know how to do a few other things. Cooking, basic auto repair, basic plumbing, basic electric, build a shed, build a brick mailbox, patch clothing, cook your dinner over a fire, catch your own dinner, the possibilities are endless, choose two to know, at least.

Tattoos: Tattoos have been in many cultures for many years. The point here is, if you are going to get one, get one that has some sort of meaning. Not because it looks cool. The Army Rangers get a Ranger tat to symbolize membership in a lifelong brotherhood, many other examples of this. But just because you pick one out of a book is a poor excuse to prove your perceived independence to the world. Oh, and pay your bills first.

Know it alls: I have seen many Millennials post about their Boomer boss. Millennials, no matter how fucked up you think your boomer boss may be, you are there to do the job he/she hired you to do, which you agreed to by accepting whatever payment was offered. What you fail to realize is that chances are, that boomer has learned the hard way. He/she may not have had the luxury of going to college, but yet that never stopped them from putting everything they could muster into something and making it work. The last thing they need is some little punk ass kid, three months out of a liberal college coming in there and telling the boomer how to run a business. Odds are, that boomer you are working for has been operating that business or several others for over 30 years, what could you actually say to them to change what they have obviously been doing right for so many years?

They were not handed that business, they busted their ass building it. If the boomer boss is so difficult to work for, then go work for another Millennial at McDonalds or something. The boomer is the boss, he is there to make money, if they are not making money, then neither do you and you are certainly not entitled to the profits of such business. If you had as much blood and sweat invested as the owner, then you would have valid gripe, but you don’t. You have nothing invested. You want to be the boss, then start your own business

No generation is perfect, every generation has their shortcomings, that is understood and we have always worked through them. However, Boomers and GenX are not going to kiss your ass. We all live in the same fucked up world, we all have to find our own way. We did not grow up in a world where we were coddled and have our safe spaces, and you will not be the exception. Just because it is a fucked up world, does not mean you can throw your hands up in the air, say fuck it and let someone else support you. If you do not want to be ridiculed, then put your big boy/girl pants on, grab your bootstraps and step it up. Otherwise you will never be taken seriously and you will be ridiculed, just like we were when we whined. Yes, we whined too, but someone along the way told us to quit being a pussy and to buck up, and we did and when we grew up we thanked them for it.

Yeah, it sucks, and it's nothing new. My grandparents worked every day of their lives and had nothing to show for it at the end, not because they didn't try hard enough, just because that's the way the world is. But they never complained. They were sent to war, they went through the depression, and they just sucked it up and gave thanks to be alive.

If you take a look, it isn't the boomers that are in debt, most of us have paid for our homes years ago, personally my credit card debt is around $10 because netflix charges just happened. That's it. The gen xers are the ones that went wild accruing debt they can't pay and using up any equity they built up to acquire more debt. And most of the debt you speak of isn't personal debt at all, it's government and corporate debt, not our fault, not yours, but the fault of corrupt and incompetent people at the top and those assholes span all generations. Instead of pointing fingers at us, you should be standing up against that lot. They are the common enemy.

You sound like an old guy who's so butthurt about how shitty his life has been. You say that "millennials" complain all the time, yet you take the time to type out such a long post in which you COMPLAIN about millennials.

This quote is so ridiculous: "The boomer is the boss"

Laughing my ass off. So you wanna be the boss? Stop trying to identify with a whole generation. Not every "boomer" is a butthurt old guy who thinks like you do.


This discussion is so pointless. It's not the millennials that are soooo terrible. Fact is, an old guy like you should know this by the way, for hundreds of years old people have been complaining about how the youth is fucked up and how the world can't go on once those younger generations take over. Guess what, we're still here.
And no, this time it's not different.

Don't be a fuckin douche bag dude....get off your high horse.....douche bags are almost as bad as boomers

You just keep describing yourself again and again. lol.

The millenials and younger are going to jump for the NWO because of the greed and corruption of the boomers.
In the end we're all just pawns to the bankers but are too stupid to realize it.

This quote is so ridiculous: "The boomer is the boss"

When are you going to start stepping up and doing something? I know, its just easier to point fingers and sit back and do nothing. If you are not willing get out there and do something then you are no better than the previous generations.
Don't forget some of that debt was incurred raising your sorry ungrateful ass. Buying your clothes, your food, your toys, your consoles, your phones, etc etc etc.

I have a master degree in finance and my job is to fuck people over. Poor people. The more I do it the more I'm rewarded. Sick fucking world.

You are exceptionally skilled there. Take one sentence, pull it out and change the context to suit your needs. Are you afraid to add the surrounding sentences so that it actually has some context?

I bet you learned that little trick from the media and liberals didn't you.

FYI, I am genX.

You sound like an old guy who's so butthurt about how shitty his life has been. You say that "millennials" complain all the time, yet you take the time to type out such a long post in which you COMPLAIN about millennials.

This quote is so ridiculous: "The boomer is the boss"

Laughing my ass off. So you wanna be the boss? Stop trying to identify with a whole generation. Not every "boomer" is a butthurt old guy who thinks like you do.


This discussion is so pointless. It's not the millennials that are soooo terrible. Fact is, an old guy like you should know this by the way, for hundreds of years old people have been complaining about how the youth is fucked up and how the world can't go on once those younger generations take over. Guess what, we're still here.
And no, this time it's not different.

I was born in 1988. I agree with what your thread is saying. I have friends from high school that have literally worked 2 years out of the nine we've been out of school. They are lazy and the number one reason why they are nowhere in their lives is because they have enablers. It's their parents. I've never seen anything like it.

As I've had a job since 9th grade and parents that instilled hard work and pride as an individual, their parents pussified them. Even doing laundry for them to this very fucking day. They are 28 and 29. Brothers.

Over the years we've become more and more distant because of the lack of common ground on everything in life. While they've wasted a decade, I've worked, moved away to work, moved back home, have my own place, have a girlfriend I love very much, and a job that allows me to live very well. All of this with no college degree.

Not everyone in the millennial generation is a piece of shit, but there definitely are a lot that are. Many unskilled individuals. They have potential...which brings me to my next point.

Demeaning an entire generation, even if it has weight, is not only an illogical approach to "educate" them, it's suicidal. We need consistency in our thoughts if there will be any hope for a better future.

Each generation should teach their children everything they know so that the children are smarter than their parents. That is evolution. Belittling younger generations is suicide as a race. Instead, do something constructive and volunteer in your community or do something that positively educates them in the direction we need. Ignorance doesn't work well against ignorance.

The second I waste my time formatting something correctly for a boomer is the second I loose all respect for myself.

The millenials and younger are going to jump for the NWO because of the greed and corruption of the boomers.
In the end we're all just pawns to the bankers but are too stupid to realize it.

The boomers are a generation that took to the streets to protest what they were against and to promote change. They protested against their generation getting sent to Vietnam and forced the end of that war. They boycotted unethical corporations, they maybe didn't stop the world from becoming the cesspool that their parents generation was steering the world towards, but they at least tried. Many of us took billy clubs to the head or were taken to jail for staging peaceful sit ins.

I haven't seen millenials standing up to anything. You can whine and dislike things on facebook, but that isn't the same as taking a stand. If you are caught up hating boomers (please remember that most boomers are now in their late 60s and 70s) then you are oblivious to the real problem. That doesn't bode well for the world once the older boomers are gone.

Looks like you did the same thing here. I said more than just that. Point stands. You're angry at "millennials" for a reason. You didn't contradict me when I said that you're just mad that your life sucked. So I guess it's true.

There's no need to hate younger people because they have things that you didn't have. Just like even older generations shouldn't have hated on your generation for not having to go to war or whatever. That's how things goes. Everyone has his own problems.

Born in 89. More successful than the majority of my peers and without a college degree. I half a wife and two little boys, a mortgage, two side businesses and a day job in which I run my bosses company while he transistions into retirement. I manage 7 people and work from sun up to sun down. I go home work on my house play with my kids love my wife. She stays home watches my boys (much harder job than mine) cleans and still does side work. She was born in 1990. We both bust our asses and it shows. We are the youngest homeowners in our neighborhood by at least three years. The best thing my mother ever did for me was kicking me out at:18. Because before that I was a lazy f****** slob just like a lot of the Millennials living at home. Couldn't hold a job plays video games all day and my mom kicked me out 3 months before I turn 19 and I found an undeniable work ethic that I never knew I had. I found my entrepreneurial spirit, I found my ambition and she saved my life by not letting me move back home. Do your Millennial children a favor parents and kick them the f*** out otherwise you're hurting them. I was raised by a single mother and was a lazy piece of s*** until she kicked me out. Now I have a career a mortgage a wife two children side businesses a faithful follower of my religion. All of these things came after I was kicked out not before.

Step up and do what? Work more in a fucked up system that will benefit the ultra rich? Cause you know it wont benefit me. I have a master degree in finance and my job is to fuck people over. Poor people. The more I do it the more I'm rewarded. Sick fucking world.
The revolution then? How? Peace and love demonstration? How did that worked out for you? FUCK THAT SHIT. I'm just going to watch this all charade crumble upon itself.

BRAVO!!

And I hope you thank your mother for your good life every time you see her!

Thank you. :)

I've just finished reading. Great article. Here's the summation for Lucy (millennials)

Here’s my advice for Lucy:

1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere.

2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. You’re another completely inexperienced young person who doesn’t have all that much to offer yet. You can become special by working really hard for a long time.

3) Ignore everyone else. Other people’s grass seeming greener is no new concept, but in today’s image crafting world, other people’s grass looks like a glorious meadow. The truth is that everyone else is just as indecisive, self-doubting, and frustrated as you are, and if you just do your thing, you’ll never have any reason to envy others.


From the end of the article :)

Born in 89. More successful than the majority of my peers and without a college degree. I half a wife and two little boys, a mortgage, two side businesses and a day job in which I run my bosses company while he transistions into retirement. I manage 7 people and work from sun up to sun down. I go home work on my house play with my kids love my wife. She stays home watches my boys (much harder job than mine) cleans and still does side work. She was born in 1990. We both bust our asses and it shows. We are the youngest homeowners in our neighborhood by at least three years. The best thing my mother ever did for me was kicking me out at:18. Because before that I was a lazy f****** slob just like a lot of the Millennials living at home. Couldn't hold a job plays video games all day and my mom kicked me out 3 months before I turn 19 and I found an undeniable work ethic that I never knew I had. I found my entrepreneurial spirit, I found my ambition and she saved my life by not letting me move back home. Do your Millennial children a favor parents and kick them the f*** out otherwise you're hurting them. I was raised by a single mother and was a lazy piece of s*** until she kicked me out. Now I have a career a mortgage a wife two children side businesses a faithful follower of my religion. All of these things came after I was kicked out not before.

Born in 89. More successful than the majority of my peers and without a college degree. I half a wife and two little boys, a mortgage, two side businesses and a day job in which I run my bosses company while he transistions into retirement. I manage 7 people and work from sun up to sun down. I go home work on my house play with my kids love my wife. She stays home watches my boys (much harder job than mine) cleans and still does side work. She was born in 1990. We both bust our asses and it shows. We are the youngest homeowners in our neighborhood by at least three years. The best thing my mother ever did for me was kicking me out at:18. Because before that I was a lazy f****** slob just like a lot of the Millennials living at home. Couldn't hold a job plays video games all day and my mom kicked me out 3 months before I turn 19 and I found an undeniable work ethic that I never knew I had. I found my entrepreneurial spirit, I found my ambition and she saved my life by not letting me move back home. Do your Millennial children a favor parents and kick them the f*** out otherwise you're hurting them. I was raised by a single mother and was a lazy piece of s*** until she kicked me out. Now I have a career a mortgage a wife two children side businesses a faithful follower of my religion. All of these things came after I was kicked out not before.

This is far better than the thread you made yourself before.
So , in the end it is all about, if necessary, forcing a life event by the parents.
Teaching the birds to fly by kicking them out of the nest.

:take care: