re: Millennials earn 20% less than Boomers did at same stage of life

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After moving through a series of jobs

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From the article. That's a red flag to me. Maybe, just maybe, she sucks as an employee. It does happen a lot.

Hasn't it or doesn't it seem like that for every generation? I mean, my parents and grandparents were practically handed houses if they did military service.

It's an expected path that you took.

It would be nice to know her job history. Maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't but at this point it certainly doesn't show progression.

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I've always found that if you know how to present yourself you've done a lot of the groundwork. Or maybe I'm just old fashioned that way

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That is still a solid approach, but many of you are missing the point of the article. This is about a generation as a whole. It isn't isolated to upper middle class families or hard workers only. Lazy fricks in the 1970s and 80s had more opportunities than lazy POSs today. The generation as a whole had a more promising career path.

In the 1980s people were dreaming about machines replacing humans en masse, but outside of manufacturing, it wasn't viable. That is quite obviously not the case anymore. You can't just dismiss people being replaced, but I guess it's much easier just to say millenials are lazy than it is to look into the real problems they face as a group.

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I would say boomers had it much better than their parents.

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You weren't there so that's a judgement call. They had advantages over us and we had some over them.

It's funny to hear millennials say that their parents told them that they "had to go to college and get a degree". Where do they think that we got that from? It was our parents that told us the exact same thing because they "didn't want us to be like them".

Don't get me wrong. I understand the crushing debt that kids today are getting along with that degree and it's something that doesn't sit well with me.

Right. All the hard work in the world isn't going to help you if you don't have opportunities. Also, not to discount hard work and earning your place, but people are loath to recognize their luck and good fortune. There are things that were beyond your control that put you into better or worse positions to succeed. These are the facts of life. But some people refuse to see this.

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Lazy fricks in the 1970s and 80s had

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Yeah except for stagflation, several recessions, high unemployment periods and gas rationing.

For those coming of age in the mid 70s to mid 80s those jobs weren't there.

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Oh wait. You want them to work for $12.25/hour doing work that would have paid a boomer the equivalent of $40k/year back in the day

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Sitting on your arse doesn't bring a paycheck

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Show up at those same companies fresh out of high school with a good work ethic today and let me know how it goes.

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It'll get you hired and promoted. The biggest complaint that employers have about todays workforce is their "soft skills." Ability to show up on time and work the entire day without playing on your phone or just simply pass a drug test.

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It'll get you hired and promoted.

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Promoted, probably.

Hired--that's very much a crapshoot.