Millennial Explains Why It’s Hard For Millennials To Wrap Their Head Around Their Own Age

And then complain about millennials being entitled and lazy.

Kinda like the Gen X ers were hosed by the Boomers voting in Reagan and his redistribution of wealth upwards. We sat back and did nothing and look at the US now. Here's a tip. Act Now!!! It will get worse otherwise.

I am still so angry about brexit! People over the age of 60 should not have been allowed to vote, as they won't be here to suffer the consequences of their ridiculous actions.

Yeah, you guys in the Uk gor right screwed over. I mean milenials over the world have, but you guys especially.

Wilf, I'm so sorry you people left the EU. You are missed.

Enjoyed for 40 years? What have we enjoyed that Europe introduced?

I'm the same age, I rent, not married but I do have a kid. And I feel like some weird adult impostor. I still like video games and I just don't know how the next few decades will be, coz I don't even really have an identity now. I think a lot of it is the massive health s**t tho I've got a lot of life shortening s**t and I think that just adds to the lost feeling

I'm the same age as you. People I went to college with are married, buying houses, having their second kids. Meanwhile I live with my mom, partly by choice and partly because I make so little at my job that I qualify for Medicaid. At least I enjoy my job, and I am using the things I learned at college.

33 years old here too. My common law partner and I broke up a few months back, just moved out of the condo we were renting. He comes from money and will probably own a house by this time next year. I really don't, have been pretty badly screwed over by the pandemic, and only managed to actually move into a new place by the skin of my teeth. I have double bachelor's degrees and most of a masters (that I stopped because I ran out of money and that same partner was then unemployed and living at my place), and yet, my most recent job experience consist of 4 years of serving, bartending, and managing restaurants. I can't even imagine buying a house. I would love to have an actual wedding one day and all that s**t, have kids. But at this point, such a dream might as well be landing on the moon. I feel so socially dislocated at this point, I feel like I'm lying every time I walk out the door, and that everyone can see it.

A job is a place to earn a paycheck, but it should challenge you and encourage you to grow as you take on more responsibility. You spend more hours at work and with your coworker than at home and with family. It is important that our job make us happy and feel satisfied. Unfortunately that opportunity is rarely offered.

I agree that I wish we could work only however much we want to and still have stability. It is important for our mental health and well being to spend time with our support network. But that support network isn't necessarily your family. It may be friends or coworkers. But if you work at a job you love, part of the reason you love it, will be the people you work with. Why can't job satisfaction be a benchmark for a company? When employees are happier, productivity rises and turnover drops. There is a quote: You can become a millionaire by working hard, but to become a billionaire it's by screwing over your employees, vendors and customers. The biggest problem right now is those in power (CEOs) don't give a f**k about anything long term, they just care about maximizing this years profit margins, so screw the little guy.

And this has been true since there were people living on this earth

I agree that life is full of surprises.

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Our jobs only define us to the extent that they are the reason why we haven't reached the same milestones our parents had at our age.

And that’s totally ok. I’m also a millennial also with a house and kids etc. and don’t really know if I’ll ever “feel” adult the way my parents seemed to feel when they were my age. And that’s ok. I attend to my responsibilities, I build my life and move forward. That’s what matters, not the age feeling.

Same for me. I behave like a responsible adult, in a sort of imitation game, but inside I sometimes feel like a little girl or a kind of fake adult. I have a good job, a husband, a house and an upcoming child but I sometimes feel the imposter's syndrome. Also, I felt very insecure when I didn't have all of these. I think a part of the answer is the kind of infantilization boomers did towards us and the struggle to become financially independent, especially for students.

This is very well put. It's not about how you feel internally as much as how people treat you. Lots of patronising going on out there, just because one doesn't wear a suit. Which, in itself, becomes a huge obstacle.

Very accurate. I've been treated like a child (living with my boyfriend, working, etc.) by everybody (family, boss, older colleagues) until I got married. We lived together for 15 years before this.