Millennials

[abelard]

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".

fair enough mate. my own experience seems fairly similar.

but, no matter how admirable it might be when it happens, i don't think people should have to go into debt, despite also working 40 hours a week, to be able to complete their education.

nor should they have to move all over the world and work 60 hours a week (plus additional part-time jobs) for five years just to be able to afford a basic house.

things were rarely like this for our parents, but it's expected now.

this is the result of self-serving political decision-making and ideology, and our generation is so far mostly useless, politically. but taking politics more seriously, as opposed to accepting expectations that we all behave like capitalist stakhanovites, or like the horse from animal farm, is the only way to improve things, for us and especially for our children - increasingly, another now "luxury" indulgence that we can't really afford but are mocked for not contributing.

what really gets my teeth a gnashin' are all these articles moaning about how boring we've all apparently become, or how we don't buy things or enjoy life anymore, from cohorts bestowed with everything by the state or their parents, and whose relative profligacy our imposed austerity will increasingly have to sustain:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/fashion/death-of-the-party.html

http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/shocking-study-reveals-millennials-dont-like-doing-stuff/

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...in-and-relax-why-millennials-dont-go-clubbing

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/21/millennials-booze-free-events-juice-crawl-new-york

https://timeline.com/millennials-boring-gen-x-slackers-9233d0d4341c

oh well... time for this snowflake to put the phone down, i suppose

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Pretty hard to stay motivated when all your taxes are going towards paying for a baby boom generation that got everything for nothing.

It's a wide brush sweeping of generalities the term baby-boomers and millennials..
However, I often wonder what baby boomers parents did wrong or not do, they fought fascism and demanded the Welfare state for their future, only for the said baby boomers idly sit by as its all dismantled for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, very strange.

 

[canuckblue]

That's been the case for many a year. As with most things when it comes to kids, it's the fault of the parents and the parents generation.

Anyway, which age group largely voted for Brexit and which age group largely votes Tory? It sure as hell isn't the kids. The problem with the older generations is they lack the comprehension to look at the bigger picture. Everything has to be easy for them and they need to have easy access to blame without looking at things from a logical point of view, or in any great depth. They get their opinion from the Daily Mail and are then set in their ways, whereas myself and others my age that I know will always look for things that challenge our opinion. Take me for example, it's not a stretch to say that if you put me in a room with someone born before the 1970s, I'd easily outshine them with my intelligence and devilishly handsome looks.

With age comes wisdom. We see the bigger picture; you see only that which fits your viewpoint.

 

[chicoazul]

What a lot of them haven't realised is that Mr Azul is in fact a millennial himself.

A proud child of the seventies bro. Don't envy my superior DNA. Get off your arse and get into a zero hour contract you lazy scruff.

 

[Sapie88]

A proud child of the seventies bro. Don't envy my superior DNA. Get off your arse and get into a zero hour contract you lazy scruff.

• According to Iconoclast, a consumer research firm, the first Millennials were born in 1978.
• Newsweek magazine reported that the Millennial generation was born between 1977 and 1994.
• In separate articles, the New York Times pegged the Millennials at 1976-1990 and 1978-1998.

Okay mate.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

• According to Iconoclast, a consumer research firm, the first Millennials were born in 1978.
• Newsweek magazine reported that the Millennial generation was born between 1977 and 1994.
• In separate articles, the New York Times pegged the Millennials at 1976-1990 and 1978-1998.

Okay mate.

@chicoazul dissing himself without realising..

Whatever next

 

[canuckblue]

• According to Iconoclast, a consumer research firm, the first Millennials were born in 1978.
• Newsweek magazine reported that the Millennial generation was born between 1977 and 1994.
• In separate articles, the New York Times pegged the Millennials at 1976-1990 and 1978-1998.

Okay mate.

Someone who turns 23 before the turn of the millennium can hardly be called a millennial.

 

[chicoazul]

• According to Iconoclast, a consumer research firm, the first Millennials were born in 1978.
• Newsweek magazine reported that the Millennial generation was born between 1977 and 1994.
• In separate articles, the New York Times pegged the Millennials at 1976-1990 and 1978-1998.

Okay mate.

Choosing obscure examples which go against the accepted grain shows your desperate Millennial trait of deflecting criticism. Well done for further reinforcing our point.

 

[chicoazul]

Someone who turns 23 before the turn of the millennium can hardly be called a millennial.

Thanks mate. They can't accept it though.

 

[chicoazul]

@chicoazul dissing himself without realising..

Whatever next

You making a prize plum of yourself. But that's nothing new.

 

[Sapie88]

Choosing obscure examples which go against the accepted grain shows your desperate Millennial trait of deflecting criticism. Well done for further reinforcing our point.

Just accept you're chief of the millennials and everyone who was born before is now mocking you privately Friend.

Embrace your generation instead of pretending to be something you aren't.

X

 

[John23]

Choosing obscure examples which go against the accepted grain shows your desperate Millennial trait of deflecting criticism. Well done for further reinforcing our point.

lol

 

[chicoazul]

Just accept you're chief of the millennials and everyone who was born before is now mocking you privately Friend.

Embrace your generation instead of pretending to be something you aren't.

X

I was the age of a current Millennial when the new Millenium happened mate. You've destroyed your own point by being obtuse. Google "obtuse" or wiki it. You can tattoo it on your arm if you like.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

You making a prize plum of yourself. But that's nothing new.

I pride myself on being the jarg forum jester sir..

Thanks for the compliment

 

[Sapie88]

I was the age of a current Millennial when the new Millenium happened mate. You've destroyed your own point by being obtuse. Google "obtuse" or wiki it. You can tattoo it on your arm if you like.

So wait, if a current millennial is 23 then what does that make anyone older than 23?!

I was working hard way before the term was coined.

At least we can go to tattoo shops and not get one of our mates to do it with a sharp needle and some dodgy ink.