Millennials Can’t Handle Reality, Are We Doomed?

IWB ^ | Robert Carbery

[davikkm]

Debt-ridden Millennials just can’t handle real life. Hit with a never before seen amount of debt and facing a shifting and hollowing job market, it’s little wonder that a shocking number of Millennials say they are having a crisis at their current point in life when they are supposed to be finding out who they are and what their life is all about.

A LinkedIn survey of 2,000 Millennials shared by Moneyish revealed that 72% of young professionals aged 25 to 33 confessed to being in a quarter-life crisis, or a period of self-doubt and insecurity that leads them to question their choices they have made in life so far, especially in regard to relationships and career paths.

A small amount of disposable income, mountains of debt, and an uncertain employment market will cause this kind of anxiety and questioning for a young man or woman.

[DoodleBob]

Maybe it IS laziness...or mad brilliance. Mrs DoodleBob would argue the former. Hopefully it's somewhere in the middle.

Truthfully, this poll of millenials has been reposted many times. As a noob who lurked for years, I realize we are chastised for not using 'search.' Nonetheless, across multiple posts I fear an incorrect reading of reality threatens an awesome opportunity to help advance Deplorablism. I would rather make gains across the youths, if not for the sake of advancing American exceptionalism but because Trump won PA, MI, And WI by close margins.

Every generation of elders thinks the youths are a pack of losers. It happens. But recall Trump's speech before the Boy Scouts last summer...he TORE IT UP and the Scouts? They LOVED IT.

Kids who are now 15 will get to vote in 2020. Young millenials will also vote. Some men, you just can't reach. But those at the margin, they're likely converts...as long as we don't alienate them.

Trump offers everyone a vision of an America that works for ALL LAW-ABIDING PEOPLE regardless of race, creed or whatever. I simply think we should not surrender the youths to the side of evil. Thanks for listening.

[sparklite2]

being in a quarter-life crisis

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Oh, baby, I wish I’d thought of that. Will that be the next viral meme? It’ll end up with something like, “I’m in my hemi-demi-semi-life crisis!”

[Starboard]

Take a deep breath. Put in the work. One day, you will be happy and working in a job that you enjoy and find worthwhile. It won’t happen overnight and you won’t get there right away. But that is life. The struggle is the journey. You will find your happy place sooner or later.

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People don't always find a happy place in their working careers. Its just not that simple. Lots of them get stuck in jobs they need to pay the bills and support families without ever achieving professional nirvana.

Success does take time, but there are no guarantees it will happen the way you want it to. The formula for success is complicated and subject to the vagaries of life, and a lot of it depends on a person's focus, discipline and drive.

My father-in-law told me to prepare for and always be ready to seize an opportunity when it comes along. I found that to be very good advice.

[Nothingburger]

Interesting analysis. I hope you are right.

[fireman15]

I’m a male but have great respect women who can balance the demands of work and family. Not easy to do, that’s for sure.

This has been the case for a long time now. All of us face challenges in life. But no matter how hard you or someone else thinks they have it... someone else has had it harder some place at some time.

We have a friend who was a teen when she lived through the bombing in Dresden Germany during WWII. We fire bombed that place back to the stone age. After the war what was left of her family nearly starved. As a young woman she experienced the atrocities of the Russian occupation in Eastern Germany. If you are not aware of what happened to young women in Germany after WWII... you should probably look it up. But she persevered, survived, escaped and married an American serviceman.

People like her do not talk that much about what they went through, but all the perceived hardships that we face in these times must seem very silly from our friend's perspective.

[equaviator]

“The Millennials were duped big time”

It’s hard for me to think of them as being an entire tribe of victims. If their free will and common sense don’t eventually kick in, what can anyone else do for them when they’ve been legal adults for 10 years already?

[bgill]

Plumbing skills are useful and you can charge the crap out of people, especially on the weekends and the upcoming holidays after Uncle Ed ate half the turkey.

[bgill]

Price is double 20 years ago

Try 8 times what is was 20 years ago in my part of TX. And income has decreased with the price of health care.

[thecodont]

I had this discussion with a millennial this week at work. Sincere, highly motivated, fairly good worker, but wants to be doing what I do (actually just what he sees of my job-if he shadowed me for a day, it would be a different story) and attempted to try it.

When he asked me what he should be doing, I told him to do the work he was hired to do well and eventually there will be a time for an idea he could execute and there will be a time he's tapped for a project or a different position. (That's the culture in our workplace)

He turned white as a sheet when I told him I did that for twelve years before earning the position I currently have.

I have to say I have a great job and to a twenty-something in our field it can look glamorous. He's the fourth one I've spoken with about doing what I do. However, they don't see the crap work and high-level accountability that comes with the fun stuff.

Great points, especially the last bit:

However, they don't see the crap work and high-level accountability that comes with the fun stuff.

The crap work and high-level accountability stuff makes all the fun (and visible) work possible.

When he asked me what he should be doing, I told him to do the work he was hired to do well and eventually there will be a time for an idea he could execute and there will be a time he's tapped for a project or a different position. (That's the culture in our workplace)

Sounds like a great place to work. Lucky you.

[redfreedom]

“She said that women are now expected to have careers and raise kids.”

It’s been my belief since the 90’s the goal of putting wives to work had little to do with women’s equal rights and more to do with destroying family values and diluting the workforce with extra workers to lower wages for the middle class.

That age when dad had a good factory job, mom was a house wife that raised the kids with good moral character, they had up to 6 kids, owned their own home, maybe a boat, took one vacation per year, all on a single wage is just long gone.

Now both have to work, maybe two jobs. Two kids if they are lucky, and the govt raises the kids. Yes, their values are such where they have to buy the best of everything, but’s that’s just part of the liberal con they’ve been programmed to believe.

[CopperTop]

Back before The Matrix with their blue & red pills, there was the old man and Mr Rabbit. As follows (or somethin' like):

One day an old man and a young boy were sittin on a porch up in the hills of NC in the evenin' after dinner. The conversation about school and such got started with the boy complaining that the school assignments were just too hard and he didn't have the brains to figure that stuff out. So the old man proceeded to tell him of an old cure that may help the boy out.
"Ya see that thar rabbit over by the bushes? Why he's one of the wiliest critters out here and he has secret "smart pills". Go and follow him around for a bit at a slight distance and by-m-by he'll share his "smart pills" with ye." Reluctantly, the boy went and followed the rabbit around for a spell. Sure enough after several starts the rabbit shared his smart pills and the boy scooped up a handful. But not totally trusting this l'il piece of "folklore", he only tried a few and they were gosh-awful. After a few minutes he looked up at the old man and yelled "Hey, I don't feel any smarter yet!"
To which the old man replied "In some cases ya hafta eat the whole lot!" Wanting very badly to be smarter, the boy dumped the rest into his mouth and started chewing. A coupla minutes later, while still working on the load, he complained to the old man, "I sure hope these things start working soon. 'Cuz geewhiz they really taste like crap!"

To which the old man replied, "Ya see boy, they're startin' to work already."

I'm sure a reasonable chunk of'em will figger it out sooner-or-later. The rest are Darwin-fodder. d;^)

[DoodleBob]

That was awesome. Thanks for the Sunday exchange. I’ll notify the good readers when I’m recycling Doodle-content, and hopefully the pellet-eaters become individualists.

[CopperTop]

It loses something without facial expressions and alcohol.
I've ate a lotta "smart pills" in my time. d;^)

[Professional Engineer]

She said that women are now expected to have careers and raise kids.

In the early 80s my dad remarked that all "women's lib" had really accomplished was to require two incomes to buy a home.

So she and her husband have decided not to have children because it is bad for the environment.

What's old is new again. Back before the rocks had cooled, and All in the Family was still on, Meathead got a vasectomy for the same reason.

[SamAdams76]

They said the same thing about us Boomers.

Correct. Us long-haired hippies weren't going to amount to anything!

[Starboard]

If their free will and common sense don’t eventually kick in, what can anyone else do for them when they’ve been legal adults for 10 years already?

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You make a good point. The longer they are coddled, the harder it will be for them to assume the responsibilities of adulthood and adapt to the demanding realities of life.