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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
I didn't have a job until I was 21, and it was given to me by a work program because I couldn't get one on my own. The closest thing I had to work experience was volunteer work. My mom, a Baby Boomer, didn't work until she was 22, so that probably influenced the lack of pressure. But, since when is a person supposed to be completely financially, socially, and professionally self-sufficient by the time they're legally allowed to hold a job. I see so many people online brag about how they plan to make their kids start working and paying their own way as soon as they turn 13/14, and it's totally alien to me.
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I must respond. Call it 'bragging' if you will. My own children are millenials, but they are far from typical. By 12 they had responsibilities around the house, by 14 they had part time jobs (one of my children had his own snow clearing business at 12). At 17 and 18 they were off on their own to university. Through hard work all three of them were able to graduate university with no debt. Two own their own property before the age of 25.
Meanwhile, most of their friends still live at home rent free with very little responsibilities. I understand most of their parents pay for their cars and provide weekly allowances. Most remain unemployed. Perhaps it is their sense of entitlement that keeps them jobless. This is my picture when I think of millenials.