It's not a life stage created by millennials. Millennials have _less_ choice than previous generations because they lack economic security. They aren't switching careers because they get bored with what they're doing, they're doing it because you can't start a family on 20k/year and companies won't promote internally any more. They're living with their parents not because it gives them freedom, but because they lack the freedom to leave. Nobody wants to live with their parents, they do it because you can't live independently on a part time barista job that pays $8/hour. The average millennial carries $40k in student loan debt and by age 29, will earn $35k/year. They're involved in startups because if nobody will give you a job then you have to make your own. If companies want their millennial employees to be loyal and engaged it's really very, very simple. Invest in your employees as you did for previous generations. Offer permanent, full time, paid positions, not temp work and unpaid internships. Re-instate an internal promotion track where you give your employees the opportunity and training to move up into management if they show the ability. Right now companies want to keep good employees where they're at because if you're really great and dedicated at your job, you're too valuable there to risk moving you up into a position that you might not be as good in right away. Better to snag someone else from another company who comes with the necessary qualifications and experience straight off the bat. No wonder millennials aren't loyal employees - you're expecting them to work in the same position for their entire lives, no matter how skilled they are or how hard they work! Changes in the dynamics of the workplace get credited to millennials because they're the new kids on the block, but they're the youngest, least paid, least respected and least powerful members of the workforce. They're experiencing and affected by these changes, but they aren't driving them. Those changes are being enacted by decision makes who, by and large, are baby boomers. If you're finding those changes are causing problems, those same decision makers are the ones with the power the reverse them.
lancer D I agree with you in many things but companies/business are going through lots of things too, they're facing a new environment full of constrains, taxes and regulations, it's really hard to survive all this and still have a successful woking place.
Wesley that's not really true though. It's just the story put out by corporations. The fact is that the real corporate tax rate in America is the lowest it's ever been. The graph below demonstrates that. Simply put, companies have it better than they ever have before, but still cry victim because they always want more. Remember the sub-prime mortgage crisis that caused the great recession? That was caused by the finance industry recklessly pursuing predatory loans and acting completely irresponsibly. They got billions and billions of dollars in handouts. What did they tell everyone caused it? Government regulation "forcing" them to give out those loans. It didn't matter to them that said regulation was completely imaginary and never existed, that was the story they invented and sold in order to forestall regulations that would have prevented the same thing happening again. Corporations have absolutely to compunctions about lying to win the PR battle. Reagan introduced trickle-down economic policy involving lowering taxes and removing regulation in the 1980s and it has only gone to a more extreme level since then. Since that time, all economic growth in the United States has been restricted to the wealthiest people and companies. The middle and working class has not experienced any increase in purchasing power or living standard for almost four decades. Add in the steady rolling back of worker rights and entitlements that members of the labor movement fought and even sometimes died for for over two hundred years, and the truth is that while corporations cry foul until they're blue in the face, they've never had it a good or as easy as they do now. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/US_Effective_Corporate_Tax_Rate_1947-2011_v2.jpg
I'm sorry man, I disagree and the fact companies already left US shows that thing are not going that easy, and many other companies are planing to leave US in fact Ford was about to build a new factory in Mexico but Trump said he'd put a tariff on them so they changed their mind for now but who knows for how much longer they will stay.... anyway I just lived in US when I was in college but this new age of high regulated market is happening all over the world and that must be why the world's economy is in such a bad shape, but I appreciate your reply.
Now if millenials weren't opted out for cheap immigrant labour and if more millenial men were to join the trade's, we'd have a happier society!! This is the truth people!! globalization is a death sentence...This generation is lacking core moral values and the social experiences needed in order to grow as individuals, technology has us overstimulated, and now brain dead...!
Listening is good, but I disagree with the life stage element. Millennials move around a lot because raises and promotions are rarer than ever. I can't begin to tell you how many companies I've seen hiring for positions that internal people could have been promoted to. Millennials were taught the hard way that your job won't take care of you. So we have to deal with it differently. We don't have career tracks, because we're not offered any. We move up by ... moving.
Usually when a people move or migrate a lot, it's because there isn't a whole lot that they can say is keeping them anchored in the first place. Same way our ancestors moved place to place in search of food and shelter, we'll move from job to job until we have something that helps accommodate us in our shitty economic circumstances.
Lack of internal promotion is killing business left and right. I have an example myself, anecdote as it might be. I'm a student, and recently quit one of the two part time jobs on the side to make some sort of living. Why? Because I was working in retail and my head manager quit. She'd been with the company for a decade, was the absolute life of the store and kept it running like clockwork. Now, corporate had two other managers they could have promoted to that position. One, in particular, is an extremely dedicated man with experience and drive. Suffice to say everyone in the store was shocked when he wasn't even interviewed and we had an outside hire that had been working in the hotel industry for a good part of a decade. She is hopeless. She had 6 weeks of various training both on site and in other stores, but she couldn't even close the store properly if she was the closing manager. After 10 weeks under her, I handed my two weeks, and I was one among several of the lead cashiers and employees that had worked for 1, 2, 4 years at the store. It's entirely because of the new store manager that made it difficult to work through an already tiring retail shift: she wouldn't do the laod that was expected of her, shifting it down to others, would have to have managerial tasks explained to her by lower tier employees, couldn't do what she demanded all of the sales associates to do (most improtantly organization and the club card promotion, as she would just go "You sure? You positive you don't want a card? Are you sure you dont' want to be a member?"). All of this would have been avoided if they'd promoted internally, a hard working and promising manager in his twenties, instead of looking around to grab an ill-equipped outsider in her fifties. She couldnt' even manage organizing a time sheet without bungling multiple employees' time, let alone any more savvy tasks. When I left, I asked why I hadn't received my yearly review. Her response "Oh, who should be doing that? I don't know." Yes, I'm still bitter and this is absolutely a rant. It was a wonderful place to work before her. Even at a low wage and weird hours, it had a strong team and you felt like you were helping people and developing skills as a group. Now it's a mismanaged shamble.
Everything boils down to 100k in student loan debt and a job making 20k a yr. You move around trying to find something better, not because you have 3 job offers. Its as simple as WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY
Nah dude. The problems we as millennials face are more economic than anything else. It has to do more with money than ANYTHING else you are talk about. 1) Boomers are still in the work place. For some reason, the baby boomers will NOT retire. Maybe because they didn't save?.... But those middle and upper management positions are filled with boomers still for some reason. I regularly see 65-70 year old people working. WHY? Leave! You're done! Someone in gen X needs to take that spot so.... I CAN TAKE THEIRS! FFS.... 2) Right as we started to become of age to buy houses, we witnessed the bottom fall out because.... The boomers oversold to X-ers who couldn't afford them and we spent the first 4 years of our workforce experience paying off a bail out to banks that we didn't have a hand in creating. So yeah, we're not engaging in that system. That's not our fault. We just got to see the house of cards built by boomers fall apart, and you wonder why we won't engage with you. JUST GO AWAY! Retire in Greece, travel, relax. Just GO SOMEWHERE! We can't clean up this mess if your still making messes! 3) College is over-rated. We were lied to. We are still just awakening to this, but going 50-180k in debt for a POSSIBLE career choice that MAYBE pays 25-60k starting out and has ZERO option for promotion until your boss's boss's boss dies, is not an option most of us are willing to pick, It's a waste of time for most people. Houses are too expensive. X-ers turned home ownership into a liability rather than an asset. They turned them into a flip/flop lifestyle rather than a base to raise a family. Rent is too damn high. Living at home and helping your family with paying bills is really the only choice a large swath of the millennial population has. Don't tell us about your lack of choice. You grew up during a time where a single working man could fund a house, 2 cars, vacations, 2 kids, and a dog. Now, we have to have AT LEAST 2 people working full time just to afford half of that. The boomers were given the greatest nation the world has ever seen with a booming economy, optimistic markets, competitive salaried jobs with a pension in every city. All on a silver platter. We are LUCKY to have a job that offers 401k and dental..... We want what you had, but that's gone now, and it's not our fault. We are doing the best we can in the world YOU made. And we can't fix this until the boomers finally step aside. No disrespect but, please, go away!
Really hit it home with the 2 people working full time to afford half of that. Especially with the end of overtime and the slow decline of full time (because at full time you have to give benefits)
Gunner6000WarZ Have original ideas to innovate solutions. Boomers are going to be alive and in the marketplace for a long time to come. That is life, not just living longer. You will be in your sixties before Boomers' life spans climax. Think of it this way, if there is only judgmental competitiveness between generations, what are Millennials midlife quality of life gonna be like? Life is challenging enough without people across differences refusing to work together.
Reading this gave me that zest of passion again. I'm a millenial and I find that most baby boomers don't like me, even if they don't know me personally
Mortgage and babies are not the answer. Cost of living in this time is more then it was when baby boomers were our age. I can’t afford a house with the debt I owe nor a mini-me. Trust me I’d love to own a property but really look at these prices. The average house is $200,000.
In Ohio in the smaller towns you can find places around 35,000 but those are fixer-upers 45,000 is a decent two bedroom house and anything less then 30,000 needs to be condemned or demoed... Anything decent with more then 2 bedroom on average in my are is 75,000+... Still too expensive with a 12/hour job.
Yup. I live in the NYC suburbs and I'm barely going to be able to buy a house, saving $1000/month cash towards a house. Who else can afford $1000/month just for that one expense, on top of affording a car + rent + saving for retirement?
@legionary illuminati you forgot that we are also responsible for the economic crisis of 2008... You know when the first millennials joined the work force...
I love his advice at the end: understand, shut up, and listen! Another reason why we young folks are disengaged at work is that our bosses fail to value us (i.e. failure to recognize achievements, give raises, pay reasonably, etc). I had the misfortune of working with bosses who were nit-pickers and dictators, and HR always looked at the employees as the troublemakers. Unless the self-interested attitude of higher-ups changes, we won't have any progress.
Most millennials I know are disengaged at work and yet they demand that they are recognized for being leaders in projects they did little more than attend meetings for, expect raises when they didn't earn them, etc. Most of those nit-picking dictatorial bosses are ones who *gasp* demand you actually get to work at a reasonable hour, not allow you to work when you feel like it and then smile and pat you on the head when you refuse to follow directions and it turns out wrong. At one of my last companies, I had three millennials report to me - each of them I fired because they thought they were smarter than me, refused to listen to the directions I gave them and pouted when I explained to them patiently that what they provided may have looked pretty, but lacked any real substance. One of them attempted to backstab one of my more senior level employees saying that he never helped this person yet I saw this individual constantly trying to help this child for the simple reason that he wanted it done right. This millennial ran around to the office attempting to call him a troublemaker. When I brought him into the meeting with HR, he actually thought he was there because he was going to take MY job. It was beautiful watching that child cry like a baby as we walked him to his desk to pack up his belongings and taking his badge away from him. Seriously.
"How do we attract top-notch millennials" well, you could start by replying when we send you a job application. I launch resumés into the void and get nothing back. Honestly, if that's how you treat your potential employees I don't really want to work for you. Thanks, I'll take a simple existence on an uncertain income over being employee #565.
Welcome to the real world. I'm a "boomer." You know how many responses I go for the many hundreds of resumes I sent out? One in ten if I'm lucky, and one in twenty resulted in an interview. Get over it. We're all just cogs -- then and now.
@@jawneelogik5744 why are you satisfied with being a cog? Why is it such a burden to treat fellow people as PEOPLE? One of the biggest issues in the us workforce is that workers are dehumanized and then blamed for every problem. How about instead of telling someone to deal with it because you dealt with it, we try to improve the world for the next generation, instead of hoping everyone suffers the way we suffer?
not motivated? i dont have that problem. not engaged? im perfectly emgaged in my workplace. just not in doing extra bullshit or other peoples jobs i come to work to do my job now if someone misses a day yeah pickup the slack no problem. but im here to do my job to the absolute beat of my ability to manufacture a product.
it's not like they're getting paid to be a team player...they're getting paid to do their job, anything else is wasted time and effort that could have gone somewhere else
I know someone who is stuck doing two other peoples' jobs because they got really busy and don't have enough employees. Someone, who owns a business, told her they wouldn't put up with it, and she understandably got really mad considering she can't afford to not put up with it. The sad part is, she's been working at the same company for a really long time, and she deserves a raise, but won't ask for it because she doesn't want to lose her job. This is what "engaged" means. Willing to do other peoples' jobs for them without extra pay or overtime, at the expense of weekend fun or sleep, as well as more grey hairs because you're so stressed by doing someone else's work.
i think there's a lot of truth to this....among upper/upper-middle class youths. basically everyone i know my age with my economic situation, which wasn't even bad growing up, but just got more and more dismal, is broke af and don't ever expect there to be a time when they are not broke af.
My family hates me. None of my successes are worth mentioning of interest to them. It's so saddening because they only want to hear about education that has done nothing for me and marriage/child which I have no control on. I can't communicate with them without just saying yes ma'am and no sir.
Finaly someone that get it right! I can not hear all the shaming done to new generations like its been done in the past to Baby Boomers, X Gen and now Millennials.
A great talk that offers a very different perspective. Doesn't make other perspectives invalid (perspectives as offeredby some of the commenters) and the "truth" is probably a bit of everything or somewhere in the middle or just really depends on the specific context and the specific circumstances. Though I imagine especially what Mr. Shaw says is valid for a certain group of millenials (and their families), namely those who are not just trying to survive. A big factor that negatively impacts this e.g. in the US is probably the oftentimes ridiculously expensive education system. Look to Europe, especially the Nordic countries, Germany and Austria (not so sure about the rest of the Europe, tbh) where education and society is (comparatively) much more egalitarian, e.g. more state support, more excellent public education etc pp. and you have a majority of people who do have this stage. In fact, looking around my peers over in Europe (those currently between 21 and 27, so maybe the younger half of the milennials) I can very, very clearly see the phenomenon Mr. Shaw described. And opinions about this change as well. - Changing your major once is pretty much common place at this point, so is completely changing track (e.g. trade to academics or vice versa). Staying with your parents is not a shame but is considered a smart choice in some circumstances (not because of a lack of money but just because it makes sense and doesn't really have a stigma). Going abroad is also pretty much standard (heck, I'm sitting on the other side of the world atm doing a joint B.A. degree and might do the same for the masters in yet two other countries - in a field with only marginal overlaps with my major - just because I like to be somewhere else and can do it and just have to ask myself "why not?" - cause I "lost" a year when i changed my major? It's one year. That's not gonna kill me. - And how will I pay for it? Gonna work the summer I am in my home country - and yes, will be staying with my parents). People frequently end up in jobs their field of study has nothing to do with (study archeology - become a logistics manager. Study chemeistry - become head of the production management of a steel company. Study to become a teacher for biology and geography - become a translator and lector for chemistry childrens books instead. Do an apprenticeship in accounting - go on to study law and finally end up a social worker and fitness trainer)
Good presentation but he misses completely that we have LESS choices (as Lancer D points out below) II would add that there is a permanent monopsony in the job market by employers (which is to say that employers have damn near complete control over hiring and wages). They wanted to get rid of unions and drive wages into the ground and they won. Now they are mad about the world they shaped because no one is "loyal" anymore... At the end of the day my loyalty is based on the dollar amount on my paycheck.... if I am making 30k a year and you give me a $1 a year raise.. that means I have to work for you for 10 years just to get a wage where I am not in complete poverty, but I still won't be saving any money... Don't even get me started on these assholes that pay $12 an hour and think they are doing you a favor.....
The problem isn't the wages themselves but rather the cost of living being to high and the wages not reflecting that. For example: A company will buy a farmers entire crop of strawberries (or the farmer will do this themselves.) They will then toss out 3/4 of the crop so they can drive up the cost. Also ethanol extracted from corn is put into our gasoline simply because in the 70-80s we were getting most of our oil from foreign nations and so ethanol was put in the gasoline to "expand" it. This has been linked to failures in small engines and lower fuel efficiency. Policies were written to force this. Causing the value of corn to go up which drove the cost of not only the corn to sky heights, but as farmers started growing more corn instead of wheat the price for bread went up. Livestock herds had to be thinned out because the food grown to feed the livestock became rarer and more expensive, so the cost of meat went up. The policies put in place are no longer necessary as the U.S. has started drilling and producing its own oil. I could go on but my point is that the cost of living has gone up as where the wages haven't reflected this. The people who think paying 12 is doing us a favor are out of touch with reality, and the ones that are pushing for an unrealistic 15/hr minimum wage don't think about smaller businesses who can barely afford current minimum wage due to the way the economy has been re-built to favor the big businesses. In order to fix these issues we need to start with the cost of living. Once that goes down we will see a lower cost of doing business, and in some areas a lowering of the minimum wage due to it being so high in certain areas.
I'm a 90's kid, grew up with weird commercials and experimental cartoon age, however I am still a fan of dying my hair and dressing differently... so I get labelled a millennial. Even so, people are only panicking more because they're seeing our generation life stages unfold on the live web... so yes, chill, people in your generation were legitimately that crazy too!
The reason people are not going into labor is because it isn't worth it. 70,000 sounds nice but that's at least a 40 hour work week. Sure you have money, but nothing to do with it. You're too tired to anything after work, so you end up wasting your life away watching tv, and then the weekend comes and goes when you just get done cleaning the house. You would probably have more people working labor at a 30 hour work week at 40,000 a year.
This dude's kids sound super priceless over the majority of millennials. It's just a pretty advantageous view..."my kids all got degrees, get super risky startups..."
But the mistake he makes is assuming that millenials will eventually have a mortgage and babies. Most of my friends are either not interested in either, or figuring or some way to get around the mortgage thing. Tiny houses are a good example if this. I think we're the generation who, when told we had to grow up and settle down, asked "why?" So yes, it is a life stage. But I see a lot of millenials never coming our of it. Because why would we want to have the life of our parents after spending our entire childhood watching them drag themselves to work each morning?
It really pisses me off that a TED talk, which normally can be counted on for good info, so totally misses the primary issue. New workers don't get enough for loyalty to be worth it, and most expect the company itself won't even exist in five years when the CEOs tank the whole thing so they can cash out.
Music of the past is often more harmonically dynamic, but that doesn't automatically equal better. Great music can be simple or complex, deep or shallow, and can span all genres. We are also biased in that we hear all of today's music (good and bad), but only the surviving music of previous decades (mostly good, because who would continue to play the bad stuff). I think people should just listen to whatever makes them happy, rather than trying to align their tastes with any decade, genre, or style in particular.
I mostly listen to 60’s music, but I do not bash all modern music because I prefer that for myself. You haven’t heard all the stuff that’s outsider the radio either.
There is no universal age of emotional and mental adulthood. Some of the 20th century's greatest works of art were made when their creators were in their early 20s: Orson Welles with _Citizen Kane_, Pablo Picasso with _Les Demoiselles d'Avignon_, Bob Dylan with _Blonde on Blonde_...some people act their ages, some are less mature than their ages, and others are more mature.
Millennials are entitled, narcissistic, distracted. How can we reach out to them with out advertisting. Uhm, maybe relate to us? Maybe stop insulting and blaming us?
Chiara TV You must realize by now that society has changed. If you think that every generation after the other will act the same way, or live the same way as you did, then you must live under a rock.
Maybe we’re pissed off because we’re called lazy when stats show we work 3 times as much and “have” to earn college degrees, when boomers hold their cocks in their hands after graduating from highschool and make a living wage.
his son gets 3 job offers lives in america and i cant even get an interview for a job below my higher edcation level in a n.z in small town that 600 might apply for from out of town not fear
Well, if they are grown up at 28 then let them vote only after they are. Same to full rights, If they feel they are not grown up, maybe it would be better if they were still obliged to do as their parents say. Frankly, I do not agree with what he says. Besides, the new Generation (currently below 25) behaves very differently, especially in the US they are much more into "the old ways" overall. So it might be that it is not a new live stage, it is just an attempt to expand the mindset of college time way into the late 20s. My parents called that "shying away from responsibilities", "lazy" and "childish" and that is what I call it as well but I do ad "entitled".
Your looking at the faults they fail to take...if you never allowed to lose at any sport, everyone plays , no scores are kept and everyone get a trophy at the end of the season.. Full adulthood means...your parents don't have anymore financial responsibility for you anymore....The fact that they still feel like adults but still I've at home and only worry about a car payment , cell phone and internet connection...Until my 35 yer old niece gats her own cell phone and pays her own car insurance...she still is a child in my eyes....Living in Florida renting a apartment with 3 other wanna bee' adults....Thye don't want to own anything...cause when you have to leave....no strings keeping you....
Your experience, personal and professional, with an historical view is brilliant. Way to kill it. The myth of ignorance by 'Mr Why,' leaves me asking, why? You delivered the answer.
I don't know where else to say this... I'm ashamed to be a mellinal! We are 1/3 the working population. We sit still and watch the .1% take our futures. We sit silent instead of answering the call to defend our freedoms and our futures. Time is running out... my expectations are high... I am feeling low and helpless. Where is our John Lennon? We should be ashamed and we will get what we deserve. What do you deserve? Namaste...
Why would you add a life stage in the middle?? I mean really it doesn't take longer to measure just because people are living longer. The human mind and body doesn't take longer to develope because people are living longer. What i love thre most about this is that again i see a baby boomer explaining why millenials aren't up to snuff.
This dude sounds like the only millenials he knows are his kids, so he gathered a bunch of anecdotal stories from other people in his age group and didnt vet those stories in the least with a common sense "so, is this story exaggerated or is this as honest of a depiction of the events as this person could manage?" Nothing will make me loyal to a company that expects me to live forever on an entry level position with zero chance for promotion and extremely limited chance for raises.
There really are no set dates for millennials. In some definitions, my 37-year old mom is a millennial, and in some, my fifteen year old self is a millennial.
This guy is up here to brag about his great kids who had the opportunity for their parents to pay for their collage. How dare he say to get off the mike Rowe band wagon. Just because the blue collar worker MAY make more money then his spoiled collage going kids is not the point. The point is that his kids may actually enjoy a better life as a blue collar worker but they will never know it because their parents never gave them the option . COLLAGE COLLAGE COLLAGE is the problem . When I was in junior high school we were given test to determine what we would be good at for a career . Every time I received the results it told me I should be an electrician. That what I became . I have had a very lucrative career and was able to retire at the age of 49 .
I like making collages too! Anyway, he didn't say anything bad about Mike Rowe. He was enthusiastically supportive of him. He just mentioned that technology created a wider variety of opportunities for one of his sons then he would have had in the past where it would have been assumed that because of dyslexia, he was only capable of a smaller range of careers. Having more options and really excelling at something isn't bad. It's also not bad to not confine yourself to whatever a career aptitude test in middle school tells you might be a good fit. Nor is it bad to consider it.
tom Metz My PenGal in the uk the average house prices have risen by 727% from £29,000 to £211,000 since the 1980s, the average wage back then was £6000 (worth around £19,000 today) the average wage now is £27,600 (worth around £8,700 back then) which is a rise of 145%. It would take over 7 and a half years (if you were to spend none of your wage) to afford a house on the average salary today compared to just over 4 and a half years in the 80s, then you’ve got the added values of significantly higher fuel prices (around £1.20 per litre today compared to the £0.28 per litre in the 80s for petrol) and then all of the new tax revenues they’ve brought in, to cut a long story short it will take around 15 year to save up for a house today in the uk (if house prices stay the same), and all of the older generation say we’re “entitled” even though I’ll be retiring at around 90 years of age at this rate and my anxiety levels are higher than that of a mental patient with anxiety issues in the 60s. Got to love being young.
Spelling isn't what counts it's the amount maturity that he put into what he wrote. I've seen essays on the youtube comment section that could win awards but a sheer lack of wisdom in what they have written, I would personally give them zero. Wisdom wins out every time up against education and being able to put a sentence together. I got where he was coming from and that's what matters. He had a point to make, and he made it.
What a judgemental man. Is this supposed to be enlightening or add any value? Whoever did cast this was clearly not well. To be honest... I get his point but how about that people are just being young and it could be more to do with that than a specific generation? But I get it...... the old consciousness is dying out but not without putting up a fight. Some things are inevitable.... it's got nothing to do with personal preference. A lot of Light!
Adulthood begins when you move out of your parents basement. You have bills to pay so you have to hold down a job. No you can't spend all your money on movies and going out.
Not a life stage. Every generation goes through a life stage. Why do previous generations go through the life stage and still have a work ethic and (mostly) not cry babies? A life stage is an on going constant and therefore would not be generational. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z are snapshots in time. and Gen Z are proving to be Millennials 2.0 from what I see in the work place.
This "Listen and Believe" thing is becoming unmanageable. We are supposed to believe women's accusations, news from mainstream media and now Tedtalk shows?
I am not going to say that all millennials are entitled brats, but TED talks like this don't really make me want to embrace them. Most of the millennials I have worked with think that the world should work on THEIR terms and placate them. Sadly, thanks to social media and other newer technologies, we are bombarded by a seemingly never ending barrage of propaganda saying that they are the only ones who deserve success and that other generations should move out of the way to let them do their thing. I for one refuse to do that and have actually fired my fair share of millennials who have that attitude. They truly need to grow up because they truly don't understand that they don't deserve higher pay simply because they know one small thing better than their older peers, that they should be entrepreneurs and start companies when they don't know a thing about working in a company much less leading it and so forth. I truly look forward to watching how this generation flails and burns when our current bubble pops. It will be glorious to watch them clamoring for jobs as waiters, retail employees and the like when that is the only job that they can get which will pay them anything.
Don Park, a small part of me agrees with what you're saying, the other part of me whole-heartedly disagrees. I agree that every young person should work for a company and should understand the structure. I also agree that social media's propaganda is problematic, but remember, what social media really is, it's another advertising platform. It's our TV, and just like in our days, it advertises to us/them. How do you get people to buy your products? You stroke their egos, tap into their wants, etc...When we were their age, we felt entitled, we often were complacent, we also felt like we were the only ones that deserved success and so forth. It was only through trial and error, working in management positions, getting let go, getting fired, etc, did we understand our places in our generations' workforce (which of course was making money for someone else.) It's called growing up. We did it, they will too. Now, what I totally disagree with you on is this: If the younger generation wants to be entrepreneurs because the traditional workforce does not suit them or will not foster them, for whatever reason, they should have the freedom to pursue it. Should Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness only apply to those born before 1985? Both my children are millennials and neither of them had the privilege that the children of this speaker had, so that part of the video is not relatable. I was unable to afford to put them in college, so both have taken different paths in the pursuit of entrepreneurship. My daughter, 21, works hard in a coffee shop and became the youngest manager hired. Because of her drive, the company recognized her as a valuable employee and made allowances for her to pursue college. Presently, she's attending college across the country, working as a coffee shop manager, and running an online business as a fashion consultant/influencer. My son, 24, he tried the traditional way, graduated from Secondary school, went to college for a year, couldn't really adapt to that structure. He worked at everything from an Art studio to construction, etc. He simply couldn't fit in and it wasn't that he didn't work hard or that he felt entitled, it simply wasn't him. He decided to become an entrepreneur. He started selling a very niche retail item that's seasonal. His first year of business, he broke even. He's in the first month of his second year of business and he's already profiting. Pretty good for a young man who couldn't conform to the traditional way of a company runs. Also, I am pretty disappointed in your ill wishes for people to "flail and burn" when the "current bubble pops"(to what bubble you're referring to, I'm not sure of.) I'm hoping you don't have children, regardless, that's a terrible thing to wish on anyone.
No when I was thier age, I just went to work, plain and simple. I didn't ask for frills, I was happy when an opportunity came along and it was given to me but I didn't work for 2 weeks and expect to go up any goddam chain. I worked at the bottom for many years.
@@johnnybee2517 no, the problem is we spend years at companies without raises, time off, a healthy work/home life balance, then people like you get hired in above us, making more than us, working less hours, not putting as much effort in as us, and doing a worse job than us, and then tell us to be grateful for the opportunity of wasting four years at a dead end job while we either drowned in debt, or can barley afford food or bills each month. A vast majority of us don't expect much starting a new job. But when we've been there for years, under the circumstances we have been, then we get a little bitter about people like you.
This is a great Ted Talk, BUT for completely different reasons. What made Generation X so successful is that we didn't have options. Looking and moving forward was the only option. Millenials are trying to steal second base without taking their foot off first. Alexander the Great burned his ships as soon as he got on the shores of the Persians. There was no retreating back to mommy. Like Gen X, we didn't move back bc mommy wasn't well off. Success is the only option. Where as Millenials are looking for someone to bail them out if they don't succeed bc things didn't go as planned when they didn't even try that hard in the first place. So through his incoherent contradiction babble, he made a great Ted Talk, just not the way he thinks. Should be called, Millennials: Got Change? (see that's a play on words as in a begger asking for change and asking millennials if they know how to adapt to change in their lives like the milk ads.)
DN 13 lol. Gen x got successful because they didn’t go back to their mommy? Hahahahahahaha. And millennials have choices in the work force?Hahahahahhaaha.
I’m glad you were given many options and I’m glad your entry level job paid you enough to support your family. I’m also glad that you didn’t graduate during the recession. Your very lucky good for you
It's not a life stage created by millennials. Millennials have _less_ choice than previous generations because they lack economic security. They aren't switching careers because they get bored with what they're doing, they're doing it because you can't start a family on 20k/year and companies won't promote internally any more. They're living with their parents not because it gives them freedom, but because they lack the freedom to leave. Nobody wants to live with their parents, they do it because you can't live independently on a part time barista job that pays $8/hour. The average millennial carries $40k in student loan debt and by age 29, will earn $35k/year. They're involved in startups because if nobody will give you a job then you have to make your own.
If companies want their millennial employees to be loyal and engaged it's really very, very simple. Invest in your employees as you did for previous generations. Offer permanent, full time, paid positions, not temp work and unpaid internships. Re-instate an internal promotion track where you give your employees the opportunity and training to move up into management if they show the ability. Right now companies want to keep good employees where they're at because if you're really great and dedicated at your job, you're too valuable there to risk moving you up into a position that you might not be as good in right away. Better to snag someone else from another company who comes with the necessary qualifications and experience straight off the bat. No wonder millennials aren't loyal employees - you're expecting them to work in the same position for their entire lives, no matter how skilled they are or how hard they work!
Changes in the dynamics of the workplace get credited to millennials because they're the new kids on the block, but they're the youngest, least paid, least respected and least powerful members of the workforce. They're experiencing and affected by these changes, but they aren't driving them. Those changes are being enacted by decision makes who, by and large, are baby boomers. If you're finding those changes are causing problems, those same decision makers are the ones with the power the reverse them.
lancer D Well said
lancer D I agree with you in many things but companies/business are going through lots of things too, they're facing a new environment full of constrains, taxes and regulations, it's really hard to survive all this and still have a successful woking place.
Wesley that's not really true though. It's just the story put out by corporations. The fact is that the real corporate tax rate in America is the lowest it's ever been. The graph below demonstrates that. Simply put, companies have it better than they ever have before, but still cry victim because they always want more. Remember the sub-prime mortgage crisis that caused the great recession? That was caused by the finance industry recklessly pursuing predatory loans and acting completely irresponsibly. They got billions and billions of dollars in handouts. What did they tell everyone caused it? Government regulation "forcing" them to give out those loans. It didn't matter to them that said regulation was completely imaginary and never existed, that was the story they invented and sold in order to forestall regulations that would have prevented the same thing happening again. Corporations have absolutely to compunctions about lying to win the PR battle. Reagan introduced trickle-down economic policy involving lowering taxes and removing regulation in the 1980s and it has only gone to a more extreme level since then. Since that time, all economic growth in the United States has been restricted to the wealthiest people and companies. The middle and working class has not experienced any increase in purchasing power or living standard for almost four decades. Add in the steady rolling back of worker rights and entitlements that members of the labor movement fought and even sometimes died for for over two hundred years, and the truth is that while corporations cry foul until they're blue in the face, they've never had it a good or as easy as they do now.
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I'm sorry man, I disagree and the fact companies already left US shows that thing are not going that easy, and many other companies are planing to leave US in fact Ford was about to build a new factory in Mexico but Trump said he'd put a tariff on them so they changed their mind for now but who knows for how much longer they will stay.... anyway I just lived in US when I was in college but this new age of high regulated market is happening all over the world and that must be why the world's economy is in such a bad shape, but I appreciate your reply.
Now if millenials weren't opted out for cheap immigrant labour and if more millenial men were to join the trade's, we'd have a happier society!! This is the truth people!! globalization is a death sentence...This generation is lacking core moral values and the social experiences needed in order to grow as individuals, technology has us overstimulated, and now brain dead...!
Listening is good, but I disagree with the life stage element. Millennials move around a lot because raises and promotions are rarer than ever. I can't begin to tell you how many companies I've seen hiring for positions that internal people could have been promoted to. Millennials were taught the hard way that your job won't take care of you. So we have to deal with it differently. We don't have career tracks, because we're not offered any. We move up by ... moving.
Usually when a people move or migrate a lot, it's because there isn't a whole lot that they can say is keeping them anchored in the first place. Same way our ancestors moved place to place in search of food and shelter, we'll move from job to job until we have something that helps accommodate us in our shitty economic circumstances.
Lack of internal promotion is killing business left and right. I have an example myself, anecdote as it might be. I'm a student, and recently quit one of the two part time jobs on the side to make some sort of living. Why? Because I was working in retail and my head manager quit. She'd been with the company for a decade, was the absolute life of the store and kept it running like clockwork. Now, corporate had two other managers they could have promoted to that position. One, in particular, is an extremely dedicated man with experience and drive. Suffice to say everyone in the store was shocked when he wasn't even interviewed and we had an outside hire that had been working in the hotel industry for a good part of a decade. She is hopeless. She had 6 weeks of various training both on site and in other stores, but she couldn't even close the store properly if she was the closing manager. After 10 weeks under her, I handed my two weeks, and I was one among several of the lead cashiers and employees that had worked for 1, 2, 4 years at the store. It's entirely because of the new store manager that made it difficult to work through an already tiring retail shift: she wouldn't do the laod that was expected of her, shifting it down to others, would have to have managerial tasks explained to her by lower tier employees, couldn't do what she demanded all of the sales associates to do (most improtantly organization and the club card promotion, as she would just go "You sure? You positive you don't want a card? Are you sure you dont' want to be a member?"). All of this would have been avoided if they'd promoted internally, a hard working and promising manager in his twenties, instead of looking around to grab an ill-equipped outsider in her fifties. She couldnt' even manage organizing a time sheet without bungling multiple employees' time, let alone any more savvy tasks. When I left, I asked why I hadn't received my yearly review. Her response "Oh, who should be doing that? I don't know."
Yes, I'm still bitter and this is absolutely a rant. It was a wonderful place to work before her. Even at a low wage and weird hours, it had a strong team and you felt like you were helping people and developing skills as a group. Now it's a mismanaged shamble.
(smacks table) Exactly!
Everything boils down to 100k in student loan debt and a job making 20k a yr. You move around trying to find something better, not because you have 3 job offers. Its as simple as WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY
Nah dude. The problems we as millennials face are more economic than anything else. It has to do more with money than ANYTHING else you are talk about.
1) Boomers are still in the work place. For some reason, the baby boomers will NOT retire. Maybe because they didn't save?.... But those middle and upper management positions are filled with boomers still for some reason. I regularly see 65-70 year old people working. WHY? Leave! You're done! Someone in gen X needs to take that spot so.... I CAN TAKE THEIRS! FFS....
2) Right as we started to become of age to buy houses, we witnessed the bottom fall out because.... The boomers oversold to X-ers who couldn't afford them and we spent the first 4 years of our workforce experience paying off a bail out to banks that we didn't have a hand in creating. So yeah, we're not engaging in that system. That's not our fault. We just got to see the house of cards built by boomers fall apart, and you wonder why we won't engage with you. JUST GO AWAY! Retire in Greece, travel, relax. Just GO SOMEWHERE! We can't clean up this mess if your still making messes!
3) College is over-rated. We were lied to. We are still just awakening to this, but going 50-180k in debt for a POSSIBLE career choice that MAYBE pays 25-60k starting out and has ZERO option for promotion until your boss's boss's boss dies, is not an option most of us are willing to pick, It's a waste of time for most people.
Houses are too expensive. X-ers turned home ownership into a liability rather than an asset. They turned them into a flip/flop lifestyle rather than a base to raise a family.
Rent is too damn high. Living at home and helping your family with paying bills is really the only choice a large swath of the millennial population has. Don't tell us about your lack of choice.
You grew up during a time where a single working man could fund a house, 2 cars, vacations, 2 kids, and a dog.
Now, we have to have AT LEAST 2 people working full time just to afford half of that.
The boomers were given the greatest nation the world has ever seen with a booming economy, optimistic markets, competitive salaried jobs with a pension in every city. All on a silver platter.
We are LUCKY to have a job that offers 401k and dental..... We want what you had, but that's gone now, and it's not our fault. We are doing the best we can in the world YOU made. And we can't fix this until the boomers finally step aside. No disrespect but, please, go away!
Gunner6000WarZ Spot on!
Really hit it home with the 2 people working full time to afford half of that. Especially with the end of overtime and the slow decline of full time (because at full time you have to give benefits)
Gunner6000WarZ Have original ideas to innovate solutions. Boomers are going to be alive and in the marketplace for a long time to come. That is life, not just living longer. You will be in your sixties before Boomers' life spans climax. Think of it this way, if there is only judgmental competitiveness between generations, what are Millennials midlife quality of life gonna be like? Life is challenging enough without people across differences refusing to work together.
Myself being from late gen X, I totally agree. The western baby boomers got all on a silver plate, yet they whine and vote Brexit or Trump.
Reading this gave me that zest of passion again.
I'm a millenial and I find that most baby boomers don't like me, even if they don't know me personally
Mortgage and babies are not the answer. Cost of living in this time is more then it was when baby boomers were our age. I can’t afford a house with the debt I owe nor a mini-me. Trust me I’d love to own a property but really look at these prices. The average house is $200,000.
Seth Boucher average house price in my city is over a mil
200,000? Where do you live?
In Ohio in the smaller towns you can find places around 35,000 but those are fixer-upers 45,000 is a decent two bedroom house and anything less then 30,000 needs to be condemned or demoed... Anything decent with more then 2 bedroom on average in my are is 75,000+... Still too expensive with a 12/hour job.
Even 200k for a home is an AMAZING deal. I feel this heavy
Yup. I live in the NYC suburbs and I'm barely going to be able to buy a house, saving $1000/month cash towards a house. Who else can afford $1000/month just for that one expense, on top of affording a car + rent + saving for retirement?
Will Boomers listen? Really? I don't expect much out of them anymore.
boomers are idiots. they just need to die honestly. they cause most of these problems
They listen when you are telling them what they WANT to hear LOL
Bit unfair
@legionary illuminati you forgot that we are also responsible for the economic crisis of 2008... You know when the first millennials joined the work force...
You're right. That's how ok boomer thing has started
I love his advice at the end: understand, shut up, and listen! Another reason why we young folks are disengaged at work is that our bosses fail to value us (i.e. failure to recognize achievements, give raises, pay reasonably, etc). I had the misfortune of working with bosses who were nit-pickers and dictators, and HR always looked at the employees as the troublemakers. Unless the self-interested attitude of higher-ups changes, we won't have any progress.
Gigi's Sketches well they'll all be dead dinosaurs one day.
Most millennials I know are disengaged at work and yet they demand that they are recognized for being leaders in projects they did little more than attend meetings for, expect raises when they didn't earn them, etc.
Most of those nit-picking dictatorial bosses are ones who *gasp* demand you actually get to work at a reasonable hour, not allow you to work when you feel like it and then smile and pat you on the head when you refuse to follow directions and it turns out wrong. At one of my last companies, I had three millennials report to me - each of them I fired because they thought they were smarter than me, refused to listen to the directions I gave them and pouted when I explained to them patiently that what they provided may have looked pretty, but lacked any real substance. One of them attempted to backstab one of my more senior level employees saying that he never helped this person yet I saw this individual constantly trying to help this child for the simple reason that he wanted it done right. This millennial ran around to the office attempting to call him a troublemaker.
When I brought him into the meeting with HR, he actually thought he was there because he was going to take MY job. It was beautiful watching that child cry like a baby as we walked him to his desk to pack up his belongings and taking his badge away from him.
Seriously.
"How do we attract top-notch millennials"
well, you could start by replying when we send you a job application. I launch resumés into the void and get nothing back. Honestly, if that's how you treat your potential employees I don't really want to work for you. Thanks, I'll take a simple existence on an uncertain income over being employee #565.
Sophie Jones consider you aren't the great candidate you think you are.
@@chrisedwards6573 but...but....everyone gets a trophy
Welcome to the real world. I'm a "boomer." You know how many responses I go for the many hundreds of resumes I sent out? One in ten if I'm lucky, and one in twenty resulted in an interview. Get over it. We're all just cogs -- then and now.
@@jawneelogik5744 why are you satisfied with being a cog? Why is it such a burden to treat fellow people as PEOPLE? One of the biggest issues in the us workforce is that workers are dehumanized and then blamed for every problem. How about instead of telling someone to deal with it because you dealt with it, we try to improve the world for the next generation, instead of hoping everyone suffers the way we suffer?
But that's work :(
not motivated? i dont have that problem. not engaged? im perfectly emgaged in my workplace. just not in doing extra bullshit or other peoples jobs i come to work to do my job now if someone misses a day yeah pickup the slack no problem. but im here to do my job to the absolute beat of my ability to manufacture a product.
you don't get it.
And that's the problem. You don't want to be a team player, and you only want to do your job.
it's not like they're getting paid to be a team player...they're getting paid to do their job, anything else is wasted time and effort that could have gone somewhere else
I know someone who is stuck doing two other peoples' jobs because they got really busy and don't have enough employees. Someone, who owns a business, told her they wouldn't put up with it, and she understandably got really mad considering she can't afford to not put up with it. The sad part is, she's been working at the same company for a really long time, and she deserves a raise, but won't ask for it because she doesn't want to lose her job. This is what "engaged" means. Willing to do other peoples' jobs for them without extra pay or overtime, at the expense of weekend fun or sleep, as well as more grey hairs because you're so stressed by doing someone else's work.
i think there's a lot of truth to this....among upper/upper-middle class youths. basically everyone i know my age with my economic situation, which wasn't even bad growing up, but just got more and more dismal, is broke af and don't ever expect there to be a time when they are not broke af.
How do we attract millennials?
Money
How do we keep them?
Benefits. Also, money.
You can say these things if you were born in position of privilege and means. Such is not the case for a lot of people.
One of the most amazing talk on millenials . Best explained.
My family hates me. None of my successes are worth mentioning of interest to them. It's so saddening because they only want to hear about education that has done nothing for me and marriage/child which I have no control on. I can't communicate with them without just saying yes ma'am and no sir.
Finaly someone that get it right! I can not hear all the shaming done to new generations like its been done in the past to Baby Boomers, X Gen and now Millennials.
A great talk that offers a very different perspective. Doesn't make other perspectives invalid (perspectives as offeredby some of the commenters) and the "truth" is probably a bit of everything or somewhere in the middle or just really depends on the specific context and the specific circumstances. Though I imagine especially what Mr. Shaw says is valid for a certain group of millenials (and their families), namely those who are not just trying to survive.
A big factor that negatively impacts this e.g. in the US is probably the oftentimes ridiculously expensive education system. Look to Europe, especially the Nordic countries, Germany and Austria (not so sure about the rest of the Europe, tbh) where education and society is (comparatively) much more egalitarian, e.g. more state support, more excellent public education etc pp. and you have a majority of people who do have this stage. In fact, looking around my peers over in Europe (those currently between 21 and 27, so maybe the younger half of the milennials) I can very, very clearly see the phenomenon Mr. Shaw described. And opinions about this change as well. - Changing your major once is pretty much common place at this point, so is completely changing track (e.g. trade to academics or vice versa). Staying with your parents is not a shame but is considered a smart choice in some circumstances (not because of a lack of money but just because it makes sense and doesn't really have a stigma). Going abroad is also pretty much standard (heck, I'm sitting on the other side of the world atm doing a joint B.A. degree and might do the same for the masters in yet two other countries - in a field with only marginal overlaps with my major - just because I like to be somewhere else and can do it and just have to ask myself "why not?" - cause I "lost" a year when i changed my major? It's one year. That's not gonna kill me. - And how will I pay for it? Gonna work the summer I am in my home country - and yes, will be staying with my parents). People frequently end up in jobs their field of study has nothing to do with (study archeology - become a logistics manager. Study chemeistry - become head of the production management of a steel company. Study to become a teacher for biology and geography - become a translator and lector for chemistry childrens books instead. Do an apprenticeship in accounting - go on to study law and finally end up a social worker and fitness trainer)
Good presentation but he misses completely that we have LESS choices (as Lancer D points out below) II would add that there is a permanent monopsony in the job market by employers (which is to say that employers have damn near complete control over hiring and wages). They wanted to get rid of unions and drive wages into the ground and they won. Now they are mad about the world they shaped because no one is "loyal" anymore... At the end of the day my loyalty is based on the dollar amount on my paycheck.... if I am making 30k a year and you give me a $1 a year raise.. that means I have to work for you for 10 years just to get a wage where I am not in complete poverty, but I still won't be saving any money... Don't even get me started on these assholes that pay $12 an hour and think they are doing you a favor.....
The problem isn't the wages themselves but rather the cost of living being to high and the wages not reflecting that. For example: A company will buy a farmers entire crop of strawberries (or the farmer will do this themselves.) They will then toss out 3/4 of the crop so they can drive up the cost. Also ethanol extracted from corn is put into our gasoline simply because in the 70-80s we were getting most of our oil from foreign nations and so ethanol was put in the gasoline to "expand" it. This has been linked to failures in small engines and lower fuel efficiency. Policies were written to force this. Causing the value of corn to go up which drove the cost of not only the corn to sky heights, but as farmers started growing more corn instead of wheat the price for bread went up. Livestock herds had to be thinned out because the food grown to feed the livestock became rarer and more expensive, so the cost of meat went up. The policies put in place are no longer necessary as the U.S. has started drilling and producing its own oil. I could go on but my point is that the cost of living has gone up as where the wages haven't reflected this. The people who think paying 12 is doing us a favor are out of touch with reality, and the ones that are pushing for an unrealistic 15/hr minimum wage don't think about smaller businesses who can barely afford current minimum wage due to the way the economy has been re-built to favor the big businesses. In order to fix these issues we need to start with the cost of living. Once that goes down we will see a lower cost of doing business, and in some areas a lowering of the minimum wage due to it being so high in certain areas.
I'm a 90's kid, grew up with weird commercials and experimental cartoon age, however I am still a fan of dying my hair and dressing differently... so I get labelled a millennial. Even so, people are only panicking more because they're seeing our generation life stages unfold on the live web... so yes, chill, people in your generation were legitimately that crazy too!
The reason people are not going into labor is because it isn't worth it. 70,000 sounds nice but that's at least a 40 hour work week. Sure you have money, but nothing to do with it. You're too tired to anything after work, so you end up wasting your life away watching tv, and then the weekend comes and goes when you just get done cleaning the house. You would probably have more people working labor at a 30 hour work week at 40,000 a year.
...40 hours a week is a standard job in any field.
@@robhawkins4677 yes but 40 hours of manual labor affects your body and brain differently than 40 hours sitting at a desk
Robert Hawkins do you realize what it took to bring it down to that?
I wonder how many millennials he has actually, face to face, talked to. From what he said here, not to many. I have. Hundreds!
This guy doesn’t get millennials at all.
Brilliant, thank you for sharing :)
You right, I move around cause I get bored
I wish more people are like you. :)
This dude's kids sound super priceless over the majority of millennials. It's just a pretty advantageous view..."my kids all got degrees, get super risky startups..."
But the mistake he makes is assuming that millenials will eventually have a mortgage and babies. Most of my friends are either not interested in either, or figuring or some way to get around the mortgage thing. Tiny houses are a good example if this.
I think we're the generation who, when told we had to grow up and settle down, asked "why?"
So yes, it is a life stage. But I see a lot of millenials never coming our of it. Because why would we want to have the life of our parents after spending our entire childhood watching them drag themselves to work each morning?
Moving back home is not entitlement. It’s a matter of companies playing games with wages.
It really pisses me off that a TED talk, which normally can be counted on for good info, so totally misses the primary issue. New workers don't get enough for loyalty to be worth it, and most expect the company itself won't even exist in five years when the CEOs tank the whole thing so they can cash out.
I will give the older generations this, their music is scientifically proven to be better
Music of the past is often more harmonically dynamic, but that doesn't automatically equal better. Great music can be simple or complex, deep or shallow, and can span all genres. We are also biased in that we hear all of today's music (good and bad), but only the surviving music of previous decades (mostly good, because who would continue to play the bad stuff). I think people should just listen to whatever makes them happy, rather than trying to align their tastes with any decade, genre, or style in particular.
I mostly listen to 60’s music, but I do not bash all modern music because I prefer that for myself. You haven’t heard all the stuff that’s outsider the radio either.
life stage of emeging adulthood? is it actually a thing ,quantised ? I feel like 100years old
There is no universal age of emotional and mental adulthood. Some of the 20th century's greatest works of art were made when their creators were in their early 20s: Orson Welles with _Citizen Kane_, Pablo Picasso with _Les Demoiselles d'Avignon_, Bob Dylan with _Blonde on Blonde_...some people act their ages, some are less mature than their ages, and others are more mature.
MinamuTV some people also lived in a time when that was possible.
I'm just saying...parents set an example
"Why half of what you hear about _(privileged millennials that don't have crippling debts)_ is wrong" There, fixed the title for ya...
Millennials are entitled, narcissistic, distracted. How can we reach out to them with out advertisting. Uhm, maybe relate to us? Maybe stop insulting and blaming us?
Chiara TV You must realize by now that society has changed. If you think that every generation after the other will act the same way, or live the same way as you did, then you must live under a rock.
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Maybe we’re pissed off because we’re called lazy when stats show we work 3 times as much and “have” to earn college degrees, when boomers hold their cocks in their hands after graduating from highschool and make a living wage.
Who raised them to be that way?
This talk should be titled "How millenials from white upper middle class function"
Only white people can do start ups? Run a website or live broke in Rhode Island?
Blackwiz I highly agree. They are just hitting bumps, but those of non white families struggle to live vs. surviving.
Should be titled listen to a privileged dude brag about his children
The internet generation!!!
Amen born (1995)
his son gets 3 job offers lives in america and i cant even get an interview for a job below my higher edcation level in a n.z in small town that 600 might apply for from out of town not fear
Well, if they are grown up at 28 then let them vote only after they are. Same to full rights, If they feel they are not grown up, maybe it would be better if they were still obliged to do as their parents say.
Frankly, I do not agree with what he says.
Besides, the new Generation (currently below 25) behaves very differently, especially in the US they are much more into "the old ways" overall. So it might be that it is not a new live stage, it is just an attempt to expand the mindset of college time way into the late 20s. My parents called that "shying away from responsibilities", "lazy" and "childish" and that is what I call it as well but I do ad "entitled".
Your looking at the faults they fail to take...if you never allowed to lose at any sport, everyone plays , no scores are kept and everyone get a trophy at the end of the season.. Full adulthood means...your parents don't have anymore financial responsibility for you anymore....The fact that they still feel like adults but still I've at home and only worry about a car payment , cell phone and internet connection...Until my 35 yer old niece gats her own cell phone and pays her own car insurance...she still is a child in my eyes....Living in Florida renting a apartment with 3 other wanna bee' adults....Thye don't want to own anything...cause when you have to leave....no strings keeping you....
Your experience, personal and professional, with an historical view is brilliant. Way to kill it. The myth of ignorance by 'Mr Why,' leaves me asking, why? You delivered the answer.
"a" historical view. Pronounced 'hist' not 'ist'.
You'll let us move back in with you right? LMFAO. I'm at my dad's right now while I'm waiting for my bus ride to the truck driving academy. Too true.
What if I've only heard one thing and it's true wouldn't that be everything I've heard?.
I don't know where else to say this... I'm ashamed to be a mellinal! We are 1/3 the working population. We sit still and watch the .1% take our futures. We sit silent instead of answering the call to defend our freedoms and our futures. Time is running out... my expectations are high... I am feeling low and helpless. Where is our John Lennon? We should be ashamed and we will get what we deserve. What do you deserve? Namaste...
Barf
Are you depressed or something.
now milennnials are fighting back but you can't lie. I like Simon Seneks talk about how they came to be so full of themselves and narcissistic.
Nope
You named your son Bart......? Of all the names in the world......wow
Why would you add a life stage in the middle?? I mean really it doesn't take longer to measure just because people are living longer. The human mind and body doesn't take longer to develope because people are living longer. What i love thre most about this is that again i see a baby boomer explaining why millenials aren't up to snuff.
Well said!!
28 years old? We can't wait that long for people to grow up!
This dude sounds like the only millenials he knows are his kids, so he gathered a bunch of anecdotal stories from other people in his age group and didnt vet those stories in the least with a common sense "so, is this story exaggerated or is this as honest of a depiction of the events as this person could manage?"
Nothing will make me loyal to a company that expects me to live forever on an entry level position with zero chance for promotion and extremely limited chance for raises.
Millennial parents are the ones to blame.
Am I a millennial I was born December 2nd 2002 and I can’t find a clear answer
Rayanne Florence no you are not
You're in generation z
We are "Linksters" apparently. I hate it too.
There really are no set dates for millennials. In some definitions, my 37-year old mom is a millennial, and in some, my fifteen year old self is a millennial.
Sydney Hall you aren’t a millennial.. I’m just on the cut off of being a millennial and generation z at age 20.
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This guy is up here to brag about his great kids who had the opportunity for their parents to pay for their collage. How dare he say to get off the mike Rowe band wagon. Just because the blue collar worker MAY make more money then his spoiled collage going kids is not the point. The point is that his kids may actually enjoy a better life as a blue collar worker but they will never know it because their parents never gave them the option . COLLAGE COLLAGE COLLAGE is the problem . When I was in junior high school we were given test to determine what we would be good at for a career . Every time I received the results it told me I should be an electrician. That what I became . I have had a very lucrative career and was able to retire at the age of 49 .
Mate, are you really over 49 years old? Your grammar and spelling tell me otherwise.
I like making collages too!
Anyway, he didn't say anything bad about Mike Rowe. He was enthusiastically supportive of him. He just mentioned that technology created a wider variety of opportunities for one of his sons then he would have had in the past where it would have been assumed that because of dyslexia, he was only capable of a smaller range of careers. Having more options and really excelling at something isn't bad.
It's also not bad to not confine yourself to whatever a career aptitude test in middle school tells you might be a good fit. Nor is it bad to consider it.
And yet you haven't found a spellingschecker that works for you? ... (it's college, you sirquit-breaker-installer you ;) )
tom Metz My PenGal in the uk the average house prices have risen by 727% from £29,000 to £211,000 since the 1980s, the average wage back then was £6000 (worth around £19,000 today) the average wage now is £27,600 (worth around £8,700 back then) which is a rise of 145%. It would take over 7 and a half years (if you were to spend none of your wage) to afford a house on the average salary today compared to just over 4 and a half years in the 80s, then you’ve got the added values of significantly higher fuel prices (around £1.20 per litre today compared to the £0.28 per litre in the 80s for petrol) and then all of the new tax revenues they’ve brought in, to cut a long story short it will take around 15 year to save up for a house today in the uk (if house prices stay the same), and all of the older generation say we’re “entitled” even though I’ll be retiring at around 90 years of age at this rate and my anxiety levels are higher than that of a mental patient with anxiety issues in the 60s. Got to love being young.
Spelling isn't what counts it's the amount maturity that he put into what he wrote. I've seen essays on the youtube comment section that could win awards but a sheer lack of wisdom in what they have written, I would personally give them zero. Wisdom wins out every time up against education and being able to put a sentence together. I got where he was coming from and that's what matters. He had a point to make, and he made it.
Amen.
What a judgemental man. Is this supposed to be enlightening or add any value? Whoever did cast this was clearly not well. To be honest... I get his point but how about that people are just being young and it could be more to do with that than a specific generation? But I get it...... the old consciousness is dying out but not without putting up a fight. Some things are inevitable.... it's got nothing to do with personal preference. A lot of Light!
Alot of these talks are boring who cares if these people went to college talk about how they found fulfillment. College does not mean your fulfilled.
It comes from Fox news
Adulthood begins when you move out of your parents basement.
You have bills to pay so you have to hold down a job. No you can't spend all your money on movies and going out.
It's called responsibility
Oh! I had no idea! So if I stop going to the movies 2x a year I can afford a $400k mortgage? Yes! That’s the ticket!
Well, I'm at least half right about what I know about millenials. The glass is half full!
Not a life stage. Every generation goes through a life stage. Why do previous generations go through the life stage and still have a work ethic and (mostly) not cry babies? A life stage is an on going constant and therefore would not be generational. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z are snapshots in time. and Gen Z are proving to be Millennials 2.0 from what I see in the work place.
This "Listen and Believe" thing is becoming unmanageable. We are supposed to believe women's accusations, news from mainstream media and now Tedtalk shows?
I am not going to say that all millennials are entitled brats, but TED talks like this don't really make me want to embrace them.
Most of the millennials I have worked with think that the world should work on THEIR terms and placate them. Sadly, thanks to social media and other newer technologies, we are bombarded by a seemingly never ending barrage of propaganda saying that they are the only ones who deserve success and that other generations should move out of the way to let them do their thing. I for one refuse to do that and have actually fired my fair share of millennials who have that attitude.
They truly need to grow up because they truly don't understand that they don't deserve higher pay simply because they know one small thing better than their older peers, that they should be entrepreneurs and start companies when they don't know a thing about working in a company much less leading it and so forth.
I truly look forward to watching how this generation flails and burns when our current bubble pops. It will be glorious to watch them clamoring for jobs as waiters, retail employees and the like when that is the only job that they can get which will pay them anything.
Don Park, a small part of me agrees with what you're saying, the other part of me whole-heartedly disagrees.
I agree that every young person should work for a company and should understand the structure. I also agree that social media's propaganda is problematic, but remember, what social media really is, it's another advertising platform. It's our TV, and just like in our days, it advertises to us/them. How do you get people to buy your products? You stroke their egos, tap into their wants, etc...When we were their age, we felt entitled, we often were complacent, we also felt like we were the only ones that deserved success and so forth. It was only through trial and error, working in management positions, getting let go, getting fired, etc, did we understand our places in our generations' workforce (which of course was making money for someone else.) It's called growing up. We did it, they will too.
Now, what I totally disagree with you on is this: If the younger generation wants to be entrepreneurs because the traditional workforce does not suit them or will not foster them, for whatever reason, they should have the freedom to pursue it. Should Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness only apply to those born before 1985? Both my children are millennials and neither of them had the privilege that the children of this speaker had, so that part of the video is not relatable. I was unable to afford to put them in college, so both have taken different paths in the pursuit of entrepreneurship.
My daughter, 21, works hard in a coffee shop and became the youngest manager hired. Because of her drive, the company recognized her as a valuable employee and made allowances for her to pursue college. Presently, she's attending college across the country, working as a coffee shop manager, and running an online business as a fashion consultant/influencer.
My son, 24, he tried the traditional way, graduated from Secondary school, went to college for a year, couldn't really adapt to that structure. He worked at everything from an Art studio to construction, etc. He simply couldn't fit in and it wasn't that he didn't work hard or that he felt entitled, it simply wasn't him. He decided to become an entrepreneur. He started selling a very niche retail item that's seasonal. His first year of business, he broke even. He's in the first month of his second year of business and he's already profiting. Pretty good for a young man who couldn't conform to the traditional way of a company runs.
Also, I am pretty disappointed in your ill wishes for people to "flail and burn" when the "current bubble pops"(to what bubble you're referring to, I'm not sure of.) I'm hoping you don't have children, regardless, that's a terrible thing to wish on anyone.
No when I was thier age, I just went to work, plain and simple. I didn't ask for frills, I was happy when an opportunity came along and it was given to me but I didn't work for 2 weeks and expect to go up any goddam chain. I worked at the bottom for many years.
@@johnnybee2517 no, the problem is we spend years at companies without raises, time off, a healthy work/home life balance, then people like you get hired in above us, making more than us, working less hours, not putting as much effort in as us, and doing a worse job than us, and then tell us to be grateful for the opportunity of wasting four years at a dead end job while we either drowned in debt, or can barley afford food or bills each month. A vast majority of us don't expect much starting a new job. But when we've been there for years, under the circumstances we have been, then we get a little bitter about people like you.
This is a great Ted Talk, BUT for completely different reasons. What made Generation X so successful is that we didn't have options. Looking and moving forward was the only option. Millenials are trying to steal second base without taking their foot off first. Alexander the Great burned his ships as soon as he got on the shores of the Persians. There was no retreating back to mommy. Like Gen X, we didn't move back bc mommy wasn't well off. Success is the only option. Where as Millenials are looking for someone to bail them out if they don't succeed bc things didn't go as planned when they didn't even try that hard in the first place. So through his incoherent contradiction babble, he made a great Ted Talk, just not the way he thinks. Should be called, Millennials: Got Change? (see that's a play on words as in a begger asking for change and asking millennials if they know how to adapt to change in their lives like the milk ads.)
DN 13 lol. Gen x got successful because they didn’t go back to their mommy? Hahahahahahaha. And millennials have choices in the work force?Hahahahahhaaha.
What a potato tard.
I’m glad you were given many options and I’m glad your entry level job paid you enough to support your family. I’m also glad that you didn’t graduate during the recession. Your very lucky good for you