"Today’s young adults born after 1980, known as Generation Y or the millennial generation, are the most educated generation in American history and, like the baby boomers, one of the largest. Yet since the Great Recession of 2008, they have been having a hard time. They are facing one of the worst job markets in decades. They are in debt. Many of them are unemployed. The income gap between old and young Americans is widening. To give you a sense of their lot, when you search 'are millennials' in Google, the search options that come up include: 'are millennials selfish,' 'are millennials lazy,' and 'are millennials narcissistic.'"
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[via NY Times]
Via University of San Francisco, Digitives
I found this article very interesting because it rang true to what us as Millennials believe. I have many friends and acquaintances who are following a career path not for the money but rather for the meaning behind it. I have friends who are nursing majors because they like helping people. As a performing arts major, I along with my peers, strive to be successful not for money or fame, but because we as performers have the ability to touch and inspire people with our work. Millennials commonly find meaning by interacting with and benefiting others rather than how much money we've made or who we've beaten out to get to where we are today.