Dear Jessica Brennan,
We are hearing a lot about Millennials right now, and much of what we hear comes with a sigh. Like being a Millennial is a complex mystery that no one can really understand.
“Oh these Millennials”, sigh, eye roll, “So hard to work with.”
As someone who should have been born in 1986, I totally understand.
I’m hard to work with too, wanting always to find meaning in everything I do. How annoying is that?
Millennials keep looking for mentors. What? That can’t be right. Who would be confident enough to ask someone who has already done it a thousand times for help? It’s unnatural.
They’re so tolerant and accepting. Who wants to walk that kind of planet, where you are fully accepted regardless of how you choose to live?
Expecting to live a creative and collaborative life apparently is too much to ask. We should all be scraping over top of each other and trying to win at all cost. That’s how work is supposed to be.
“You just be grateful to work endless, abusive hours until you have a nervous breakdown, or you’re fired young lady! Now say thank you.”
Millennials want to delay adulthood. I’m 55 and I’m still delaying adulthood, so I can’t really argue with that. Being an adult is highly overrated. I tried it briefly. I prefer the spontaneity of youth.
Baby Boomers, now there’s a generation. Consume everything in sight, compete until you stroke out, invent a whole new level of entitlement and destroy the planet in the process. Don’t bother yourself with it though. Someone else will fix it. Likely the Millennials.
Boomers often complain about Millennials and when they do, I like to say, “Stop being so critical of these poor kids. Look in the mirror. What did Boomers ever give us?”
Oh yah….Millennials.
Love Mum
xo