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bronzeowl · Jan 20, 2017, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by justafriend306

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.

Due respect. You're from the outside, looking in. You don't know their lives. You don't know their entire story. You only know what YOU see.

I lived at home until I was 25. I was, also, a straight A student until I was 12 (at which point I developed depression, and could not focus on my studies anymore). I did drop out at 16, but that was because after my first strike I was expelled from school. I had to attend an alternative school, which I could not afford to (gas, they had no bus system) due to being in literal poverty. So, I dropped out. I returned to school, however, promptly at 19. I finished my GED program, started college. But... I still lived at home.

And wait! There's more! I did not have my first job until 23. This was NOT for lack of trying. Though, to an outsider looking in... it probably was. I did not want to live at home. I hated it. I loathed having to rely on my mom to support me. This probably made me "appear" selfish and unmotivated sometimes. Really, though, I was just depressed and struggling to survive because during the time I was growing up, jobs weren't out there... and now, now 19 year old's are getting them right out of high school because people don't want to "deal" with me (another poster LITERALLY said this... but w/e).

So, I got my first job only because I knew someone. And I was 23 when I got my first job, despite filling out hundreds of applications while in college. I was not able to move out until I was 25, because I could not AFFORD to. I did not make enough to pay rent, bills, etc. Once again, not because I was lazy/unmotivated/not as good as your kids (that I would argue is bias, btw). I moved out at 25 because I finally found a partner, and was able to afford to.

You're biased. Plain and simple. Millennials are NOT as lazy as you claim. We just grew up in a terrible economy. Period.

*drop mic*

Oh, and my mom was a good parent, too. TYVM.