Holy crap. As a baby boomer, I was on my own at 18, married at 21, and started my current career at 25.
For the millennial I know it’s them. I’m sure there’s plenty it’s not, but the ones I know couldn’t find work in the Reagan economy because they wouldn’t look.
A job and a marriage is so yesteryear. After all, in Obama’s America, you are married to the state and the state will pay you not to work and will feed you, as well. All praise to Obama...
New media is what the Millennials use and the Conservatives need to focus there. Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews need to become national jokes. Take the power from the purveyors of Propaganda and decentralize it amongst the young and connected. The truth will be harder to hide.
I know a millennial who’s about 30, making over $90,000, a year as an engineer at a large medical devices company, living in an apartment he can afford, but will not commit to marriage or a home.
How the hell are these kids going to support us boomers if they don’t get better jobs? The audacity of them.........
If they don't wake up soon, they're going to have a lot more to complain about than this! Instead of living with Mom and Dad, they're going to be living in a Coast-to-Coast Detroit!
ADVICE TO "MILLENNIALS": Join the Tea Party. Go to their meetings and rallies. Shut-up and listen.
I’m 32, I was married at age 23. I make a decent living in IT, but I’ve had to job hop a lot due to layoffs and outsourcing.
Julia and Pajama boy reach age 30 in the Era of Baraq.
So will they vote for Hillary next time?
For me the money line occurred early in the article: “We could be anything we wanted to be.”
The millennials are just learning that wanting something doesn’t mean you are going to get it. If you are willing to work to get something your lifestyle is considerably better.
The millennials are also just learning how to deal with failure and rejection. These skills of adulthood used to be taught in elementary school both in and out of the classroom. Much of my approach to life, both good and bad, came from elementary school and the playground around it.
The greatest generation, in their own words, is rapidly fizzling out when feelings and emotions are replaced by effort and performance.
After 4 generations of lower and lower standards, what did we expect, excellence?
I think that Stephen Covey may have figured it out. We lost too much when we, as a nation, moved off the farms. My Father worked in a mill, but I spent my summers on my Aunt and Uncle’s farm. I remember my Uncle getting up every morning looking to the West for rain. I remember his sense of hopelessness when the hail hit. They taught me the lessons kids don’t get in school. I saw the wonder of birth and life and the unbiased certainty of death. We have The Peace Corps and Americorps, but I wonder if we shouldn’t have a Farmcorps? Maybe we just need to make FFA and 4-H more attractive to the city kids.