Who wants to talk about the role that baby boomers play on the lives that millineals are *trying* to live?
I don’t care if you’re interested in the idea or not, the theory directly affects you in some way, form, or fashion. Whether you realize it or not, you are being influenced, mostly negatively, by the behavior of aging, health declining baby boomers.
They’re beginning to fall apart, and unfortunately, the world hasn’t been 100% lovely and “dreams come true” and amazing times. They’ve had to endure rough work conditions, social radicals of the equality movements, and the ups and downs of a volatile stock market affecting everyone across the board. They must be exhausted, but they end up slowly burdening millenials’ lives. Those Gen Xers got a small taste of what that was like, however, their parents didn’t get quite as bad off until they were closer to death.
This is just in my experience, and I’m not an expert on the matter, however, I think all readers can see a connection between baby boomers getting weaker and breaking down quicker(joints replaced, more prone to cancer, etc). Through this breakdown process, they are still trying to continue to work in convenient jobs that keep a constant cash flow. However, they may not be a perfect fit for that job anymore. They need their paycheck because the world is so expensive that they have to continue to work in order to afford life.
Here’s the problem. There aren’t enough baby boomers retiring out of the jobs that most millennials are honing in on. Many millennials are literally stuck at mid level paying jobs because they can’t move up. The ladder stops at the baby boomer. The baby boomers will work until they die. I’ve seen it happen, and I’m sure it’s probably happening to you, if you seriously think about it.
Millennials were promised dreams that could truly come true. Millennials could do anything they put their minds to, and anything was possible. In theory, that’s a lovely idea, and whomever originally created that lie should be ashamed. Anything isn’t possible. They just wanted us to get out of their hair. I wonder if they realized that their kids would one day be trying to survive with the constant anticipation that their baby boomer boss would give up their seat to allow a promotion to happen. In reality, the millenials are in too much fear of missing the opportunity to grow, so they stay in the mid level position, living a mediocre life, and trying not to be miserable.
The fact is, we’re inheriting their mess. They’re trying to hold onto this idea that they know better, and the sad part is they can’t even see how much has changed in the last 20 years, and how much it has affected them.
[I want to go off on a wild tangent about “driving” “taste in fashion” “technology” “racial distinctions”, but I don’t have time or your attention span for that long.]
In closing, millennials are experiencing some major miserable moments, but mostly in part to baby boomers. Who raised you?