My dad left school with no qualifications and worked his way up from being a tea lad to being an Engineer, while balancing several young kids and a wife.
He made it clear to all of us that we should prioritise our education and thank goodness he did.
I worked my arse off through school to make sure I did well, even growing up in an area that wasn't exactly the best, and despite not getting real support from people with enough knowledge to help me understand what my actual options were, then left home and move to the other side of the country. Got a job, worked for a year, decided on my own that I was going to go to uni and moved even further afield. Worked two jobs while going to uni full time, without a "grant", got in lots of debt despite it. Met the missus, and worked 40 hours a week in my last year at uni while planning and paying for my own wedding and completing my dissertation.
Moved to the other side of the world, worked somewhere between 40 and 60 hours a week in my 'day job' and picked up jobs here and there outside of work hours when I could. Saved up about 70% of our income (not our disposable income, our actual income) for 5 years before we were able to jump on the property ladder.
I don't think I had it "easy" and despite being a millennial, I've not thought I should be entitled to everything because "old people". The difference between me and someone of a baby boomer generation I'd say is that I know that despite "working hard" a lot of what I got because of that was significantly down to being a white male who speaks English natively.
I think many in this thread are confusing "millennials" with "tits".