re: Millennial and under baws: what’s the craziest boomer advice you’ve heard?

Also supply majority of social security. I guess you don’t want child labor

My Italian teacher told me "A volte bisogna abbracciare le persone che non ci piaccono per capire quanto grande scavare una buca nel proprio giardino".

Translates to "sometimes you have to hug the people you dislike so you know how big to dig a hole in your backyard."

Always clean your plate.

That it wasn’t safe for me to drive at night when I was 20, that having a job during school was bad for my education and future career prospects, that drinking alcohol would ruin my life, that even as a teenager that I shouldn’t cross the street to hang out with my cousins without permission.

When my dad was 16, he had a job where he was paid in booze or gasoline and allegedly visited every honkytonk and bar in South Louisiana outside of New Orleans before he turned 19.

The first time is for me.

The second time is for her, if there is a second time.

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If you just work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you can be successful"

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Millennial as well. this plays still. Stop being a puss

Well.......my Boomer uncle told my brother and I to start buying gold and silver 10 years ago. We bought some but not enough

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Millennial as well. this plays still. Stop being a puss

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Nah. There's a lot of variables that are contributing that hard work alone isn't going to get it done.

- For Millennials they've now lived through multiple recessions.
- Wage stagnation
- The cost of a college degree (that Boomers determined were "required")
- Jobs that a Boomer could enter with no work experience/no degree with paid on-site job training now requires a 4 year degree and to pay for your own training out of pocket.
- Nothing keeping up with the cost of living in most areas.

Of course these are the same folks that said if you don't buy avocado toast you can afford a house.

Expect the worse, hope for the best.