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re: Millennials are struggling to live alone and enter adulthood, U.S. census data shows
Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:09 am to GregFocker
Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:09 am to GregFocker
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not like the 70s/80s where you walked out of high school with a 40k a year job.
No one in the 70's and 80's was walking out of a non-Ivy League school with a BS in Criminal Justice and getting a $40K job.
I showed up for a retail management job at Cortana in the mid-80's, with a BA and a few years of management experience, and found that I was in a line of a hundred applicants who had showed up to be interviewed. That was to fight over a $15 to $20K job.
We had some boom years in the 70's and early 80's when a dipshit could go offshore and make a killing on a rig, but that didn't last.
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:58 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:you can't really give constructive criticism without knowing someone's specific situation... also, no one asked for it.
You react to any constructive criticism negatively and refuse to learn from it.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:03 pm to Darth_Vader
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more experienced at life than you.
Says the guy who couldn't even stay alive.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:06 pm to Hammertime
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I make less than $30k, but I'm only working 20-30hrs/wk and going to school. I don't need more money because all of my shite is paid for. I'd rather have reduced stress so I can focus on school.
A lot of the millennials I work with DGAF about making more money as long as they have enough to live comfortably. More money isn't seen as a benefit or accomplishment to them. Free time and overall happiness is what's important. In fact, we got offered more than double our hourly wage recently to work weekends, and maybe 1/4 of them signed up to do it
I'd imagine the money will increase once out of school. OB baws want to work. I'd get bored with nothing to do myself. What gets lost in the thread is that 15K in 1985 is 34K now. But, making less that 30K now was less than 13K then.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:12 pm to Junky
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I don't need more money because all of my shite is paid for
"By someone else you should add".
No way you are renting, paying for a car, paying for school, Insurance , food, entertainment on 30K a yr.
Either your parents or Uncle Sam is paying part of your way.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:16 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Working against millenials are automation/efficiency, oversupply of labor due to more female participation than ever before, and the back half of baby boomers only beginning to retire.
I would agree with the board consensus also that too many people are getting 4 year degrees that will never use them, rather than tradeschool type training.
I would agree with the board consensus also that too many people are getting 4 year degrees that will never use them, rather than tradeschool type training.
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:19 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:there are 30 million plus millennials that are under the age of 18........
About one in three millennials — or 24 million of them —live with their parents
The millennial generation goes to 2004
So that includes 13 year olds.
What a fricking pointless statement
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 4/21/17 at 1:26 pm to IdahoTiger
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This is such a vast generalization. I really cannot think of any friends (I'm 27) who live with their parents.
If it's the same census people who have been stalking me for 3 years like psychos, young folks probably did like I did and tell them I live with mom and dad (I don't) and to go away because I have no data to record.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:08 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I'm 31, so technically a Millennial. I left for college at 18 and never went back. The thought of living at home as an adult is frightening. I don't know anyone my age that lived at home in their 20s. I work with 3 Millennials born after 1990, and all 3 of them live at home. All 3 have completed at least some college. 2 of them have graduated.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:18 pm to nobigdeal69
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I'm 31, so technically a Millennial. I left for college at 18 and never went back. The thought of living at home as an adult is frightening. I don't know anyone my age that lived at home in their 20s. I work with 3 Millennials born after 1990, and all 3 of them live at home. All 3 have completed at least some college. 2 of them have graduated.
I'm 35 and pay compared to cost of living coming out isn't even near what it was when we graduated. Much less when some of the other people older than us did.
The biggest issues facing the current generation trying to come out:
- Pay in positions requiring a degree in a lot of fields is failing to compensate for the degree. We've pushed in K-12 for years for these kids to "go to college or else" and it's fricked them financially.
- There's been an incredibly stupid stigma attached to manual labor positions that you can make a good living on (once again, see the "if you don't go to college you're not successful" BS.
- Baby boomers aren't able to retire comfortably because of cost of living and systemic issues with retirement. A lot are having to at least go back part-time to get good healthcare if they do retire. The people that typically fill those jobs? College kids coming out of college.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:19 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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quote:
not like the 70s/80s where you walked out of high school with a 40k a year job.
No one in the 70's and 80's was walking out of a non-Ivy League school with a BS in Criminal Justice and getting a $40K job.
Yeah, I don't know where this misinformation comes from
One personal observation, millennials put entertainment too high ad they have a lot more things to spend money on. I've got three of them who work where I work, none live away from parents but entertainment expenses seem to be highest priority. They make good money too, but are would rather eat out and live with parents
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:24 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
They want to be like Europe so bad. 4 generations deep of families living in one household.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:28 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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quote:Those fast food places will work your arse off, apparently.
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I thought millennials felt that those jobs were beneath them. Which is it?
I have noticed some of the 30+ year old millies have given up and accepted their fates.
Five years majoring in theater to deliver the line, "Supersize that order, sir?"
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:29 pm to SamuelClemens
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They want to be like Europe so bad.
Bernie Sanders is their hero. Utopia and free, free, free shite!
Posted on 4/21/17 at 2:44 pm to Scruffy
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Millennials, Scruffy's generation, are a bunch of whiny counts.
Im sad to say its my generation as well.....and most of them are whiny counts.....but at least 1/4 to 1/3 are upstanding contributing members of society.
O and im employed and dont live with my parents. Do i Get up-votes or something for that. Maybe a cookie?
Posted on 4/21/17 at 3:50 pm to The Torch
quote:with a paid off car, a cheap apartment, and student loans, it can easily be done.
No way you are renting, paying for a car, paying for school, Insurance , food, entertainment on 30K a yr.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:12 pm to The Torch
Paid is past tense. Obviously I am incurring monthly utility bills, cell phone bill, and school. That is easily done for under $30k
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:13 pm to lsupride87
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there are 30 million plus millennials that are under the age of 18........
The millennial generation goes to 2004
So that includes 13 year olds.
really? I wouldn't consider a 13 year old a mill. Or anyone born after 2000 for that matter.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 5:10 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Who are these pussies ?
Posted on 4/21/17 at 5:59 pm to Darth_Vader
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Because it only reenforces the perception Millennials are very narcasistic and completely self absorbed. Fair or not, this label has been put on Millennials and to be honest, they've done little to dispel it. Couple this factor with the perception that Millennials think (key word being "think") they're more wise and blame all their problems on their elders.
Thing is.. they haven't yet had the ability to make changes. The demographic is completely at the mercy of the ruling generation that is made up of fricktards.
So yes -- they didn't create this mess but they're going to be asked to clean up their grandparents and parents shite.. while they get called lazy and ungrateful
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