Millennials lack basic survival skills

[Red Squirrel]

Here's a millennial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MH4HVA2OQ&app=desktop

That seems like the type of person you can have a lot of fun with sending around town chasing sky hooks and left handed screw drivers.

 

[OverVolt]

Is it a stereotype of geezers screaming "turn down that blasted music and stay off my lawn!!" or does it really have some substance? Yeah, every generation thinks they have it figured out and the one following is a bunch of degenerate slackers. But looking at things logically, the WWII generation, the greatest generation, kicked ass. They were hard working, brave, dealt with a lot and turned this country from a sleepy little hick village into the preeminent superpower. They deserved to beat their chest a little and the baby boomers didn't accomplish as much.

Hell, they couldn't, they didn't face the same challenges. Maybe they could have done as well, but they never got the chance to rise up to face something monumental. But give them their due. They were hard workers, people who didn't mind dirt under their fingernails, people who built homes, took pride in a job well done, had interest in community and trying to give their kids an even better life. And they succeeded.

The Gen Xers turned up their nose at REAL work. They (and I'm one of them and own this) started to lose their way. Hard work was for other people, manufacturing was blue collar, it was for hicks, uneducated, people worse than us, the educated elite. We let this country down. We were not as hard workers as the boomers, we wanted the easy way and they gave it to us because the WWII generation gave it to them. The Gen X had it good and went off the deep end to create some soft of Utopian wonderland for the Millennials, a world free of anyone who disagreed with them, free of adversity, free of effort leading to reward, free of the satisfaction of a job well done.

And the Millennials have failed even more. We wanted maximum reward for minimum work, they want everything handed to them with no work at all. They're proud of having no skills, they're proud of having no jobs, they think the epitome of life is to be a spectator while other people do things. Maybe, just maybe, each generation is right to piss on the one following it. We have become lazier, more smug, more entitled, more PC, more expecting of everything being handed to us conflict free, more demanding of a world sanitized for our protection. The greatest generation had a right to look down on the Boomers. The Boomers had a right to look down on us Gen Xers and we have a right to look down on Millennials. Every generation we become somewhat less than we were before.

Agree 100% I don't normally agree with you.

Millennials put in 200 job applications holding out for a good job because taking a manual work job will be seen as lowering their status. They basically refuse to work their way up from the bottom, which is the only way. I worked my way up from the bottom and it took time, about 7 years.

I have a lower and lower tolerance for people who lack grit just about everyday. The more superficial, and needy upon others someone is (who doesn't really need other's help) the more I just can't even generally stand their mere presence. I really only want to surround myself in life with people who work to constantly better themselves and those around them. Millennials are needy.

 

[Exterous]

Millennials are needy.

If they are its because they are a product of the system created for them to grow up in

 

[OverVolt]

If they are its because they are a product of the system created for them to grow up in

Yes and no.

Millennials can never hope to really match the financial flexibility of their parents. For those than can, its like this overly extended bilking of their parents. That comes with a price: you're required to play by their rules. The thing is the advice a 50 yr old gives to a 20 yr old is usually incorrect. They give out 30 year old advice about how things USED to work, not how they currently work. The relationship is perpetually dysfunctional. The needy millennial ever reliant on their parents despite being smart, capable, and able, following the advice given, which of course, doesn't work anymore so they continue to goof off and be needy and their parents continue to keep bleeding money.

Millennials then, over time develop an exceptionally warped world view because they aren't even self-sufficient. The observer syndrome I think someone else mentioned. Like THEY aren't going through life, they're watching everyone else make mistakes in the rat race and sit back and judge. If they had skin in the game they'd ease up.

They actually do have skin in the game, they just don't realize it. And sitting around observing is called being a $%^&ING LOSER.

Sorry losers! I'll take 3 cream 2 sugar. No thanks on the wifi password, things to do.

The faster people realized the millennials are just well dressed sophisticated losers, the better.

 

[vi edit]

Is it a stereotype of geezers screaming "turn down that blasted music and stay off my lawn!!" or does it really have some substance? Yeah, every generation thinks they have it figured out and the one following is a bunch of degenerate slackers. But looking at things logically, the WWII generation, the greatest generation, kicked ass. They were hard working, brave, dealt with a lot and turned this country from a sleepy little hick village into the preeminent superpower. They deserved to beat their chest a little and the baby boomers didn't accomplish as much.

Hell, they couldn't, they didn't face the same challenges. Maybe they could have done as well, but they never got the chance to rise up to face something monumental. But give them their due. They were hard workers, people who didn't mind dirt under their fingernails, people who built homes, took pride in a job well done, had interest in community and trying to give their kids an even better life. And they succeeded.

The Gen Xers turned up their nose at REAL work. They (and I'm one of them and own this) started to lose their way. Hard work was for other people, manufacturing was blue collar, it was for hicks, uneducated, people worse than us, the educated elite. We let this country down. We were not as hard workers as the boomers, we wanted the easy way and they gave it to us because the WWII generation gave it to them. The Gen X had it good and went off the deep end to create some soft of Utopian wonderland for the Millennials, a world free of anyone who disagreed with them, free of adversity, free of effort leading to reward, free of the satisfaction of a job well done.

And the Millennials have failed even more. We wanted maximum reward for minimum work, they want everything handed to them with no work at all. They're proud of having no skills, they're proud of having no jobs, they think the epitome of life is to be a spectator while other people do things. Maybe, just maybe, each generation is right to piss on the one following it. We have become lazier, more smug, more entitled, more PC, more expecting of everything being handed to us conflict free, more demanding of a world sanitized for our protection. The greatest generation had a right to look down on the Boomers. The Boomers had a right to look down on us Gen Xers and we have a right to look down on Millennials. Every generation we become somewhat less than we were before.

I don't agree with this at all. Work isn't measure by how hard you work. It's measured in real output. Boomers didn't grow up using computers and for the most part weren't/aren't comfortable with them. When it comes around to producing digital widgets I could fuck around on the internet for 4 hours a day and still post higher productivity than a boomer that was 20-30 years older than me. I was just faster and smarter about how I did my work. Is that lazy? To some sure. But when it comes to real productivity I still produce more. Work smarter, not harder.

When it comes to entrepreneurship, GenX is the clear winner. They account for over 55% of all startups. That's not a small task or "easy" by any means. No it's not blue collar, get your hands dirty kind of things but it's stressful, long hour work.

The important thing to GenX is cost benefit. Can I do something on my own and save money, or am I better off working another hour or two and having someone else do it? That's just where many of us are. It's not that we can't or won't do it. There's just easier ways to go about it. It's not lazy to us. Just smarter.