Most Millennials Are Finding It Hard to Transition Into Adulthood: Report

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  1. APACHERAT

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    Not I, I have a yuuge office all to myself, but I prefer being out in the field.

    But during the past six years during Obama's phony economy I found myself mostly posting from the comfort of my home.

    Things (economy) are looking pretty optimistic right now under Trump I might put off early retirement and take on a few projects and make some $$$$$$.
     
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    I am so glad I grew up when I did, I would hate to have been turning 18 into this bleak economy, republicans and democrats sold us out, foreign outsourcing and foreign imports
     
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    Trump still outsources his own goods, America last with Trump
     
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    I tend to doubt some of the data in the referenced article...

    "For one, the report shows young men like Kaylor, who makes less than $22,000, have fallen by the wayside when it comes to income.

    "In 1975, only 25 percent of men aged 25 to 34 had incomes of less than $30,000 per year. By 2016, that share rose to 41 percent of young men," according to the report."

    Median household income in 1975 according to the sources I've found was about $13k. The minimum wage was $2.10 so a full time worker earning minimum wage earned a little over $4k per year.

    I graduated with a BS in computer science in 1983 and my first job out of college paid a hair over $18k.

    Still, it is an issue but it has little to do with "growing up." The collapse in 2008 also collapsed the job market and labor demand has yet to catch up with the supply especially at the lower ends outside high demand graduates (cyber, certain engineering fields). My nephew graduated with honors a BSME from Case-Western (one of those really good schools) in 2015 and it was more than a year before he got a job.

    We will be recovering from the collapse of 2008 for many years to come.
     
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    Also, too, there has been a huge push to get “everyone” into college. But, the fact is, not everyone does well in college. Some people would do better and be more comfortable pursuing a career in the trades. And some people will also choose to be lazy bums.

    One article I read said that large numbers of people entering college are not prepared to pursue a higher education. So a lot of resources are being wasted on remedial education for folks who can barely tie their shoes.

    And then you have all the riots er, protests, on campuses with kids demanding special segregated housing, and safe spaces, microagression classes, etc. When interviewed, the people complaining — the whiners, usually can't put a coherent sentence together. Real college material, there, eh? Yet, they are demanding that colleges be changed to suit their sensitive little selves. Amazing. And the colleges take these idiots seriously.

    How is it a surprise that many of these people cannot get a job when they “graduate” college. What employer would want an inarticulate, obnoxious, whiner on staff?

    Maybe if colleges and universities would put some REAL standards for entry in place, and enforce them, we'd have more college grads who are competent, and fewer college grads who are handing you your burgers and fries.
     
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    It might be possible for you, in fact it might be possible for many. But it's not possible for ALL. Speaking just for myself, I'm physically impaired to drive. Unless you want me putting myself and others in harms way, I lack the coordination to drive because of my CP. So having an advanced transport system is a good thing. It means less cars, which means less smog in the air and therefore good for the environment. Less traffic, which means less accidents and you'll have faster driving times.
     
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    Jesus...that guy is lucky to have a job. Instead of s fast food manager he could be on the fry line at McD's.
     
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    Bet you feel better now...

    It's always nice, having other people to blame.
     
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    Hey, I'm mortified at the possibility of cutting back on remedial education classes, I was homeschooled and I needed to take some English classes to catch up. I was good at math but lacked some English. So I took it and got all caught up. And went on to get good grades in college. And I'm hardly barely able to tie my shoes. :p
     
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    If anything, this story reminds of a thread HERE.
     
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    You're absolutely right on all counts. College isn't for everyone, we absolutely need those trades too.
    This mindset of everyone needs to go to college, IMO, is harming us in the long run. You have people who probably should have done something else but feel, and have been told, they need a college degree and end up with some of the degrees that no one is looking for....and of course a huge layer of debt on top of them. At the same time, when everyone has a college degree, it devalues those degrees. No one should have such financial debt for what equates to the new HS Diploma.
     
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    I place blame where it is owed. The Baby Boomers have eviscerated and destroyed this country and the futures of gen X, y, etc, due to their selfish egocentrism. They have squandered the wealth of this nation enriching only themselves and have forever ruined the one working family member model that we enjoyed for so long.

    **** the baby boomers, selfish, self righteous ****s.
     
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    I'm a child of "gen X" and I can tell you neither my generation, nor the baby boomers are to blame for FDR's socialist pyramid scheme. Social Security contributions are compulsory, mandated by law. For anyone to expect that an entire generation would forfeit the benefits they've been forced to finance for decades is ridiculous. It's ironic that the same people who oppose SS are the ones that support welfare, and universal health care. Both of course requiring no contribution from the beneficiaries.
     
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    Nonsense. The Baby Boomers are absolutely responsible for the current state of social security, their voting record shows it for all to see. They vote to keep it solvent only for themselves off the backs of my generation and others, while keeping our wages suppressed.

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2...-everything/lVB9eG5mATw3wxo6XmDZFL/story.html

    There are other economic studies as well that prove my distaste for this worthless generation of ill conceived slime and their horrible impact on our nation and globe.
     
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    Yeah. You're a product of immaculate conception then? :roflol: Run for office. Legalize patricide and geriatric euthanasia. BTW, apropos avatar.
     
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    I feel sorry for you. It must be hard going through life so angry and filled with hate.

    Always thinking you know everything about the ills of our society (and have all the answers), while every sane person you talk to knows you're full of shyte.

    Have a nice day.
     
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    There's a word they use called "adulting" which means doing stuff that adults do, and this word has a negative connotation (e.g. I've been adulting all morning and am sick of it!). This is a far cry from when I was a teenager and finally moved into my own grubby little room with a shared toilet down the hall. Sure, it was a pretty far step down from my room at home, but it was mine. I could bring a girl (in my dreams) over if I wanted, or my friends and I could stay up all night playing cards and drinking beer. It was a feeling of accomplishment to pay my rent or drag a second hand TV home from the pawnshop and stay up watching Perry Mason reruns.

    Millenials don't like doing that. They, quite rightly, assume that bills addressed to somebody else are better than bills addressed to you personally. Maybe it's just that millenials these days don't feel the pressure to move because their parents are more accommodating than mine were. Maybe their parents have no problems with all night penny ante poker nights, or maybe these days it's more popular to stay up all night on the playstation alone in your room.
     
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    I was born disabled and a Boomer and never lived on my own needing help and my jobs well one was the first and arguably the best picking dog crap off peoples yards for $5 a week per house handling forty, being more fit then, and making $800 a month. I was a Busker, worked in Sweat Shops (really) and did other work some I hated and some not legal to make money to help my folks and family not having me as a burden as much. Now am on SSI and other government help not even able to play a musical instrument anymore. Life isn't fair but I wish I had these complainers lives to live a fit body and mind and who knows what I could have done with my life at least I was eager to work and not fussy as to the job.
     
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    Those people paid for their social security. It's their money.
     
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    Yet they vote so that the payments ive made into thr system wont be there for me.

    Why?
     
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    Then they won't mind if we discontinue the program and whatever is left in it is divided up amongst those who paid into it.
     
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    It has always been hard for a teenager to transition to adulthood. Nothing new here....It's just the whining that's new.
     
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    Wow. You are just screwed since you have the perfect excuse to be a failure
     
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    That's always the funny part.
    Those complaining about the latest generation are the parents or grandparents of that generation.
    And how kids and grandkids turn out, is in large part, the way those complaining parented.

    Or it's the old, that's now how it was when I was a kid.
     
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    This reminds me of something Al Bundy told Kelly.

    "Unlike high school, you're out of here when you turn 18".
     

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