“You Will Regret It Later On”: 30 Millennials Share The Best Advice They Have For Gen Z

That's excellent advice. Pretty much the only requirements for entering those fields is to be willing to work and willing to learn.

I learned a trade, Cosmetology. Yep, making 2+ times what my peers make, them going to college. YES, I work 65 hrs a week. But, for myself and people want me, love me and my craft. I am living my dream that a poor kid from a trailer could NEVER have imagined!! I even financially have been able to help my Momma out!! Go for a trade people!! Blessings

College in the US is a waste. Period. Go to trade school and be free of student loans for life. Student loans are so incredibly predatory they should be illegal!

No college. Had a great life. Husband was Air Force. Lived many places. Tour in Hawaii ended. He had a chance to chose a place. He choose Alamogordo NM. At this point he said I am retiring here I said I am not. Divorced with 2 boys. Got a job with a police department in CA. Loved the )ob and retired after 23 years. And now live in AZ

But a community can only support a finite number of trademen. So find out the jobs prospects in your area and decide whether you can or want to move.

YES!!

Or do what I do, never go back and re-read responses. I also don't look at messages people send me on different forums. I realize it drives some people crazy but it keeps my mental health in a much better place. There are just too many trolls... and stalkers. Especially the stalkers. It's ok to have an opinion that isn't "popular".

And u will NEVER b able to please everyone, all the time. So just b u!

To be more specific, if you're like me and find yourself without insurance in your early 20s, find your nearest free clinic to keep up with this. I did not do this, and a root canal, an extraction, and like 20 fillings later I wish I had kept up with the dentist and flossed waaaay more.

You only get one adult set. Keep them clean!

Also, if you feel like your current dentist isn’t as helpful as they could be, consider finding a better one who will listen to you, take all your concerns seriously & apply appropriate pain relief during procedures. As an “Aspie” who needs my mum/older sisters to supervise, I was stuck with a cruel dentist for 15-20 years & being unable to prove it, I was “not allowed” to find a better dentist. He’d be so nasty to me if my mum left the room & when I cried due to the numbing not working, he’d call me a liar, scold me for being unruly & kept drilling. I’m glad for the one day when he was off work & I was sent to a private dentist with a bad tooth. Local anaesthetic & sedation didn’t work, but it had to be pulled anyway (due to risk of infection). That nice dentist was so angry, he had it put on my medical record that I always needed general anaesthetic from then onwards. Thankfully I never saw that cruel dentist again. But I still feel so bad for all those who've endured such torture. 🥺

Brush your teeth in the morning to keep your friends. Brush them at night to keep your teeth.

I bought a bag of those floss picks, pick on one end and floss at the other. Total game changer because I use them all the time. My "gum pockets" went from an average of 4-5, to an average of 1-2

Be careful what you post. Recruiters usually check social media to get a sense of who you are. A pic of you puking behind a dumpster in Vegas isn’t a good look.

Most Gen Zs I know have their account on private anyway

Many times you don't realize this until you're older and have matured; then you regret being too open online.

I've not hired people because of what they've posted online. Good grief. I didn't need to see tHaT. Ugh!

Yes yes yes, please

I have never met a single nicotine user that doesn't wish they had never started, including myself. seven months nicotine free.

This 1000%. I’m struggling to quit right now but a 20+ year habit is really hard to break. As a young person all the advice about how addictive smoking was just didn’t sink in. Let me tell you quitting is extremely hard. I’ve quit before and know I feel loads better when I’m not smoking but I still keep crawling back. If you start, you will always be a smoker. You might quit but you’ll still struggle with not starting back up even after a year (my longest period of quitting). Don’t do it, yes this includes vape.

Same with vaping, too. My mum keeps me on the vapes so that I stay away from the cigs, but vapes are still as addictive (I easily go through 2 disposable 600-puff vapes a day). They’re still dangerous, as it can cause both lungs to collapse & has already killed many underage victims. I’d love to quit, but I sadly use them for alternate pain relief. I’ve multiple chronic pain conditions, yet I often get meds reduced without cause. At one point in life, I made an effort to quit smoking & was doing reasonably well … until I had another pain med reduction; RIGHT AFTER being told I have endometriosis. Naturally, I felt like they didn’t care that I was in terrible pain. I broke down, relapsed & once again used cigs as pain relief. That’s when my mum begged me to switch to vapes, promising she’d get as many as I needed, if it’d keep me off the cigs (hence why quitting for me isn’t so “cut-&-dry”). It’s not much, but at least it’s not painting my lungs with tar every time I take a puff. 😔

To everybody in this comment section who’s struggling and wants to quit. Read the easy way to quit smoking by Allen Car. The best and easiest way in existence really. Cheaper than hypnotherapy which is also very effective for this.

Alan Carr is good. Nicotine Anonymous for long term freedom from nicotine. Its a powerful addiction and a killer.

Seriously. Here in the ER, we don’t care what’s *up there* or how it got there… just let us help you.

And if you have mental health struggles, start getting help when you're a teenager, and stick with that therapist, because it's INCREDIBLY difficult to get help as an adult. Even if you do find a therapist who is taking new adult patients, they won't be in your insurance coverage.

I've never felt safe talking about when I was feeling s#cidal. I was always afraid I'd be committed and lose my freedom. The one thing I value most.

All people struggle mentally, not just guys. The suicide rates remain high for men, because of the method they choose. Women's suicide attempts are 3 times more, but they choose methods that often are reversible - to be more exact, men use guns while women use pills. One is more of a one off situation, while the other can be treated if caught early. I don't want to be *that* person, and I don't try to take away from men's suffering. I was just trying to "correct" misleading information, or rather information that was left out. Everyone should seek help if they struggle mentally. We need to take care of our minds the same way we take care of our bodies. There is no shame in asking for help. It is not a sign of weakness to struggle mentally and seek help. People can only handle so much thrown their way.

it took me a long time to learn this but the more I dumped certain people the better I felt!

This is great advice. If reconnecting with old friends don’t give them more leeway than you would a new friend. If someone is trying to manipulate you to do things you’ve already made clear you don’t want to do, run!!!

...and remember that parents DON'T deserve credit for not neglecting your children.

Even if they are relatives.

Yay, having no friends does seem to have an upside: no toxic friendships you need to get rid of!

And learn also that even learning these, you'll be screwed by modern economy.