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Originally Posted by geojen
As a member of this "new generation," I find your title insulting and ridiculous. Anyone can find any member of any current living generation and find slackers with entitled attitudes and write articles about them. I realize the boomer generation generally regards itself as the best thing since sliced bread, but I'm sure they have their share of losers, just like gen x and the millenials, and yes, even the greatest generation had it's share of duds. Geesh.
Every generation likes to turn it's collective nose up at the new generation. This is nothing new.
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I am a member of the "new generation" also. My parents generally raised me by showing me how NOT to act (dad is a recovered alcoholic, and my mom has major issues, spent time in jail, among other things). They didn't help me much in college either. I took out student loans and graduated as an electrical engineer from a good university. I've lived on my own since I was 17 years old and have definitely paid my dues. All of my knowledge of how to handle money came from reading books and this forum. Many financial/life lessons I've learned the hard way. I think all of this is why I have attitude I do, the genuine feeling that I can accomplish anything I set my mind to. I think there are others like me from the "new generation" also.
Having said all that, I still believe most kids "back in the day" had it tougher than I did growing up, and I think that may be why a larger percentage of the "old generation" doesn't have the same fantasy expectations.
07-14-2010, 07:03 PM
Sorry, I thought my revised headline was clearly only denigrating this ridiculous kid (and any other kid of his generation as privileged as he is who actually thinks he's struggling). I'm very sympathetic to what new grads must be facing, which is why I opened the article expecting to relate to the kid, and instead got this irritating whine-fest.
