#millennial problems

[millennialsargueback]

[goddammitstacey]

It finally happened - I had to Google gen Z slang after a very high young man told me my Barbie backpack was “straight bussin’, fo’ real fo’ real”.

I’ll put my affairs in order soon and step my one foot in the grave as is custom.

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Me, clutching my knuckles so tightly they turn white: The reason so many women were able to have kids and start families in their twenties before in the past is because they had to get married in order to have financial stability. The very fact that you're able to hold a job and earn your money, and don't have to rely on a man for your livelihood proves that you're doing just fine...

[mbrainspaz]

I used to be the starry eyed 21 year old millennial who bragged about having a 50's work ethic and a strict moral code and loving my job and working unpaid overtime and skipping lunch and surviving on pickle sandwiches because I couldn't afford meat that week.

I've become the 31 year old jaded manager (making the same pay as I did when I was 21) who tells the high schooler employees to "go ahead and leave work an hour early, who cares? Yeah I'll clock you out at 8pm don't worry about it. Have fun at the house party. Don't drink and drive. I'm gonna quit early too and go have a pickle sandwich."

[barecontact]

I know my depression is heavy when I start listening to Death Cab For Cutie again.

[eccentricphilosoph]

Millennials were pushed to be academically educated so far that many weren’t taught proper socialization, how to exercise common sense, how to reason, how to think critically, how to do chores and cooking, how to have a good work ethic, etc. Are they actually intelligent?

Millennials were put in front of educational TV, games, and books. They were pushed to make good grades and go to college.

However, they weren’t taught the most important basic life skills!

So now, many of them are handicapped in life on top of a crappy housing market and economy and have very low emotional intelligence, low common sense, hate people, don’t know how to cook, and don’t understand the true meaning and value behind work ethic (even when it comes to their own dream jobs).

All they have is memorizing things they were taught in school or in books.

That’s not true intellect at all. True intellect is the ability to reason, think critically, and do real world problem-solving in a way that is mostly from their own minds and not just parroting what they’ve learned or read!

I’m watching as my own generation is falling apart at the seams. I dislike working with them and I dislike interacting with them in a more deep way because of the above issues. While I completely empathize, I also am done with the maltreatment I receive due to their lack of emotional intelligence, lack of work ethic, lack of common sense and reason, and lack of good social skills.

Wisdom cannot be learned or taught. It can only be obtained when you have the ability to reason and have common sense and emotional intelligence and understanding of the world. Something I fear many Millennials lack, even in the upper echelons of our institutions of education, government, medicine, science, etc.

At the end of the day, are Boomers to blame or, being adults now, are we to blame for choosing to not learn from others by refusing to see past our own noses while we hide in our childhoods?

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

As a millennial, it is my overwhelming desire to be a burden to absolutely no one and never be in anyone’s way and never even slightly inconvenience them or ask them to do something for me even if it’s their literal job. I will say please, thank you, and I’m sorry as though my life depends on it and if I don’t wave to a driver for letting me go (either walking or driving) I will die on the inside for at least the rest of the day.

Why are we like this???

[whatsupwalnut]

* extremely watching girls5eva voice * i wanna fuck Sara Bareilles so bad

[whtnxt]

I just wanna get paid to do a bunch of creative shit and travel

[draftmare]

Sometimes I think about making super edgy posts using song lyrics to drop hints to people I’m annoyed at, and then I remember this isn’t the early-2000s and we aren’t on MySpace any more. 🤣

[thetealhummingbird]

Do kids these days even know what the rainbow wheel is?

[raspberryconverse]

I'm doing virtual knit night with the Karens (the two who are always there are both named Karen), my friends from back home in Wisconsin. They're not your typical Karens, but they are both very well off and about 60. One is a construction director at the big healthcare system in the area and the other is retired from a major pharmaceutical company (once you put in a certain number of years you're eligible for retirement).

I was telling them about our plumbing woes and how Spouse is really upset we can't afford to rearrange the kitchen right now (it'd require moving walls for it to be what they want to do). And when I'm telling the Karens about this, they're all, "You should do it! It'd be a good time to do it."

"We'd have to get new cabinets though."

"Well, yeah. But you might as well!"

Oh, Karens. Pharma Karen redid her kitchen because it was "off center." Healthcare Karen was debating several years ago whether she should go on a $4000 Disney cruise with her sister and nephews.

Yeah, we barely can afford this plumbing repair (repiping the kitchen sink drain all the way to the basement). We definitely don't have several grand to buy new countertops and cabinets. Even if we get them from the ReStore or Reuse Depot like we're planning on doing (people give away nice shit, which I'm sure Pharma Karen's contractors did when she redid her kitchen), it's still going to be a lot of money. We're not even buying a new faucet even though Spouse hates our current one.

I love these ladies. They threw us a wedding shower and were super generous with their wedding gifts. They were there for me when my mom died unexpectedly when we were on a girls' knitting trip. But they are so out of touch with what it's like to be starting out in your careers. It's been decades for them. They can't seem to understand what it's like and it's kinda frustrating.

[mbrainspaz]

I keep finding tiny houses (done up sheds) that I could just about afford with all my savings and then I remember

oh wait I'd still need some land.

shit fuck

[midnightsfantasy]

That moment when you JUST NOW read your Tumblr messages and are like “aww crap do I answer now?” 🥲

[millennialsargueback]

[icemankazansky]

Fellow millennials, we may not ever be able to buy a house or retire or stop feeling this sense of existential dread/liminal space/peri-apocalyptic depersonalization, but we are doing some really great things for journalism, and I mean that.

(One of these articles was written by a friend of mine from grad school. Guess which one, and... you will have correctly guessed which one.)