Born in 1984, became a parent at 20, went to tech school at 21, graduated in 2009 (just in time for the recession, yay) uprooted family & moved to northeast for work, lived with inlaws a while, worked worked hustled & worked to stay afloat during recession, now I have a pretty good job where I work from home 3 days so I can live outside the city. My point? Stop saying we're all a bunch of lazy spoiled brats!!
Guess what? I'm a "gen y"er and it drives me nuts to see my peers pushing 30, directionless and spinning their wheels at shitty food service jobs.
I understand there's a legitimate trend and it's reasonable to describe it as such, but as one commenter pointed out re: "whole generation of free loving hippies", these sorts of narratives are just the result of journalistic laziness and don't reflect the nuance of reality in a meaningful way. It's notable that the author removes herself from the "gen-y" group, apparently to make it easier to lambaste them. :)
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Born in 1984, became a parent at 20, went to tech school at 21, graduated in 2009 (just in time for the recession, yay) uprooted family & moved to northeast for work, lived with inlaws a while, worked worked hustled & worked to stay afloat during recession, now I have a pretty good job where I work from home 3 days so I can live outside the city. My point? Stop saying we're all a bunch of lazy spoiled brats!!
Guess what? I'm a "gen y"er and it drives me nuts to see my peers pushing 30, directionless and spinning their wheels at shitty food service jobs.
I understand there's a legitimate trend and it's reasonable to describe it as such, but as one commenter pointed out re: "whole generation of free loving hippies", these sorts of narratives are just the result of journalistic laziness and don't reflect the nuance of reality in a meaningful way. It's notable that the author removes herself from the "gen-y" group, apparently to make it easier to lambaste them. :)