Millennial's...
I''m sorry but they may someday be known as the worst generation.
The previous administration even changed the age limit so the worthless piece of crap kids that fail to launch and still live in their parents basement can get health care from the folks until 26? WFT!.
I had 1 person out of all the people I went to school that still lived at home until he was 25.. the rest of us ALL got on with our lives and became productive human beings.
About half of the kids my oldest daughter went through school with either never moved out.. of moved back in after college. ( Mine attended the USAF Academy and is a now serving officer in our military) The other is finishing College early and headed to Med school.
I run a Construction company and cannot find kids that want to learn a skill and make something of themselves.. Every and I do mean EVERY prospective under 35 year old I have ever interviewed wants to tell me what their work hours will be.. and that they expect to start around
$ 25.00 per hour .. to do the lowest entry level work in residential construction.
I'm sure this comes off as a rant but I truly believe we are headed for trouble if the next generation doesn't get it figured out.
I apologize up front, as a never respond to drivel like this, but as the father of a millennial, feel the need to respond.
I can't comment on the kids you see as potential new hires. You see who you see, but what you post is not reflective of a whole generation of kids.
I am very proud of my daughter. Despite having some personal difficulties, see graduated last spring from an honors college, and begins a new job as a civilian employee working for the Coast Guard next week.
I have come to meet many of my daughter's friends at college and they are upstanding kids, who I have no doubt will make this country a better place. Does this mean that all millennials are hard-working, no, but that isn't any different than our generation either.
Regarding making health insurance available to children under 26, I think this is a great idea. My daughter was 23 when she graduated college. If I am paying extra to have her insured on my health insurance plan, why should you even care???
Oh, the horror of kids moving back home.
Thirty-six years ago, after I graduated college, I didn't have a job and moved back into my parents house. Even after I got a job I lived at home for another two years. Gotta tell ya, my Mom was sad when I moved out! Guess that makes me a freeloader
(By the way, I have had a pretty successful career, went to grad school in the evenings, and have a great family myself).
My daughter will be following in her old man's footsteps. She will live with us for a couple of years while getting her career established and building her savings. Do you approve? Really, I don't care.
I don't think millennials (as a whole) have to figure anything out. Like any generation before them, they are a wide variety of individuals.
Jim