Are all of today's teens/20-somethings dealing with entitlement issues?

[IgnazSemmelweis]

I must repeat: what generation raised this "entitled" generation? Would I be wrong to guess that it was most of your guys' generation?

Excellent posting here.

20-30 years ago, the people complaining about the new generation now was the generation being complained about. The older generation always swears that the new generation has it all wrong and we are on the road to doom. Hundreds of years of progress says otherwise. It's just the natural cycle of things I guess. I'm only a few years away from complaining about damn kids on my lawn.

[Maniac Craniac]

I must repeat: what generation raised this "entitled" generation? Would I be wrong to guess that it was most of your guys' generation? I'm not saying it's not a huge problem. It definitely is, but you can't cast all the blame in this direction.

Blame goes to everyone but me. End of debate.

[Maniac Craniac]

Hundreds of years of progress says otherwise.

I don't see progress when people produce less and expect more in return with this successive generation.

We are doomed, by the way.

[Lindagerr]

I am of the older generation , I know that most of these "entitled" kids will someday grow up and learn to work for what they want or need. Just as my generation were the hippies and "wild" ones my daughter was of the x-generation and Yuppies, I just feel our parents did not have to pay the price of our growing up, but we are paying the price for the extravagance and overspending of those 10-35 years younger than us.

I am worried about money and feeling ba humbug today.

[Maniac Craniac]

I am worried about money and feeling ba humbug today.

Awww, maybe the lyrics to this song will help you out:

No matter how you're sad and blue, there's always someone who has it worse than you.

banghead What was he thinking?!

Well, lets see if it works: I was going to run a marathon this summer but I sprained my ankle and now my foot is carrying excess water. This has never happened to me before. If I shake my foot, I actually hear a SWISH.

I bought an Ipod that doesn't work off of ebay and the seller will not respond to my requests for a return.

My dishes need to be cleaned and my butler doesn't exist.

I just created an awesome image, but in the thread I posted it to, no one is going to see it

Feel better now?

[Lindagerr]

milelol: Yes I was just having a short pity party:nopity:
Tomorrow will be another day.

Maybe its the fact I started another ALEKS course:roflol:

[BrandeX]

Colgate is a lib arts college. I wonder what major his degree is in that he feels "entitled" (not to mention prepared for) to start out in an executive track career path.

[april004]

I already knew when I graduated with my degree that I wouldn't be entitled to a "better job."

Heck, I can make more with my Lpn license which requires no degree than the lib arts degree I received from Excelsior.

But guess what- I am happy.

I do have friends who have degrees and think they should get higher paying jobs.

I had one friend who is a counselor at the drug clinic where I was an Lpn. She has her bachelors in pyschology and she complained when she found out that we LPN's made a good $10 more than a person with a degree.

Supply and demand, baby. Supply and demand. Colleges are spitting out lots of psych majors. As far as Lpn's, not so many. I am 34 and in most places I was the YOUNGEST Lpn.

That should tell you something. Nursing shortage here WE COME! Not just with Rn's either!

Maybe Lpn's with no degrees are looked down upon but we have skills not just in our heads but with our HANDS that they cannot take away from us. With or without a degree we are needed. Take that you entitled degree holders.(oh, wait. I have my degree now!)

I also have a new job. I got in the door with my degree but the job itself doesn't actually require one. A personal trainer job just requires a legit certification. I also am going to be competing in two bodybuilding/figure competitions. Winning, heck, just placing will count more for me as a pt than a degree. I have to earn being a good pt. A degree won't do it.

But I am getting paid the lowest I have ever been paid. I am not whining about how I should be paid more. (I can get more working as an Lpn). But I am so HAPPY with my job..getting paid less,,but oh so happy. (Yes I am a member of gen x) Please older members...cut the crap about the milennials feeling entitled or even us gen x-ers.

We gen x's remember our parents(my dad) getting laid off in the rust belt.

I also remember my dad still spending money left and right as if he was still getting paid that huge wage at his unionized factory. Which he was not.

I remember being one of those kids standing in line with my mother(oh yes, she was an immigrant navy bride who happened to marry a poor white sailor from the border of West Virginia/Pennsylvania. I guess she was in for a surprise when she arrived in America and found out that not all Americans are rich. Especially ones who are in the MILITARY! Oh those poor third world ignorant women who watched those stupid sailors spend their military paychecks all in one day, impressing the local women with their bad money management skills!) getting welfare cheese (which I still have a taste for to this day) because my dad bought a frakkin motorcyle.

yeah,,he was a baby BOOMER and not even from a rich family. not even from a middle class family. From a frakkin poor family with 8 kids!

And he learned NOTHING about having lived in a poor family except to continue his bad bad money habits.

Now I am helping my parents out, while trying to keep me and my son afloat.

Thanks boomers.

you did one hell of a job.

We CANNOT get ahead if we are helping you. Right now I think of all the stuff I could give my son, little things like um...summer camp? I can't because my mom and dad need help with the mortgage!

Entitlement...goes far beyond just milennials.

My baby boomer father who realized he was keeping his family down was part of the reason I pursued my own dreams late. Do nursing! Follow nursing. Not my dream. His. Because he saw this as a way for me to have secure income, unlike him.

But because I didn't follow my dream, I never became really successful at nursing. Never pursued my Rn.

Now I'm a personal trainer. And so happy. Wondering if maybe I pursued my love sooner...maybe I might be more successful. Maybe I'd even have my own gym. Who knows.

But entitlement goes beyond milennials and gen-xers.

look in the mirror boomers.


Btw, there's another LPN opening in Chicago. I quit my nursing job and that's one less nurse to go around!

[TMW2010]

Alright... Admittedly, I was overly broad and possibly imflamatory when I used the word 'ALL' in the title... I know there's good kids out there that are busting their butts to try to get somewhere in life.

I just really was irked by the kid in the article... 'I'm sending out 5 resumes a week'... Umm... I was laid off a couple years back by the bank I was working at in one of their many rounds of cuts... I live 1200 miles away from my family, I didn't have to luxury of being a burden on my parents. I was sending out 5 resumes a DAY... Working my tail off to find a new job. Which I did find a new position and it sure didn't take me 2 years, and I sure didn't turn down any $40k a year jobs during that point because they didn't suit me.. And that was prior to my degree work. Yes, I did have 15 years of experience and my certs on my side which did work in my favor.

Even in the market today, there're jobs out there. I know quite a few of my coworkers at the bank who survived the early rounds of cuts, just to get hit recently at the height of the job market fiasco... And they were able to rebound and get into positions, even if they took a huge salary hit to get that job.

[Maniac Craniac]

Alright... Admittedly, I was overly broad and possibly imflamatory when I used the word 'ALL' in the title... I

No, I knew what you meant.

When I used to work as a manager, my staff were only a bit younger than I was, yet I felt like they were kids and I was the adult. Its a shame, really, a sick sad shame. When someone would be promoted to assistant manager, they would whine and complain that it wasn't one of them. They thought it was discriminatory that the new managers were always the do-gooders who showed up on time, did their work as expected and did it with a smile. The pseudoadults couldn't comprehend that the reason why they weren't being promoted instead was because they didn't deserve it.