Millennials List Their Daily Challenges, Not Realizing Their Grandparents Are Listening
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- čas přidán 22. 11. 2016
- We asked millennials about their daily challenges... and then let them hear from their grandparents.
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Ask your grandparents everything you can while you still have them. You'll regret it one day if you don't, I can promise you.
My Grandparents raised me. I wish I still had them. I'm a Grandfather now.
Agreed. My grandmother used to do a lot baking. I wished I learned some of the recipes.
However, she did teach me the value of money and staying out of debt. One important lesson was knowing the difference between real silver coins and the sandwiched coins. I was taught this at 5 years. Another valuable lesson was being a respected person in town and know who the people that live in your community.
My great grandmother taught me the basics of carpentry: cutting boards, hammering nails and how to straighten out crooked nails to use again. How chop down a tree with an ax. She also taught me how trap and kill rodents. I learned these skills at 4 and 5 years old. My great grandmother came from Poland at the turn of the 20th century.
When your life is all about Instagram followers the world is in trouble.
LOL! Right? ;-)
well to be fair their are several instagram millionaires, so it can be a career.
Getting out of bed in their Moms basement is a major one for them. Give me a break.
It’s SO important to actually talk and ask questions of your Grandparents. It’s even more important to listen and then understand.
Wayne Donecz Couldn't agree with you more! When I was at my Gram's house with my cousin once, she started telling us about her younger days during WWII and just before then!! What a gal, truly a member of the Greatest Generation!! Gram is gone now, but I will always love and respect her memory and be thankful that I am a member of her family!!☺️
Wayne, SO true. One of the great regrets in my life was not getting the chance to talk AND listen to stores of my grandparents and appreciate the struggles they dealt with. Such a good video and good comment
Very true, Wayne. There is a saying..."The problem is, you think you have time". Taking the time now to listen and imprint that generation's struggles and stories is so important. We never know when they will no longer be here to talk with us and impart on us the wisdom they have taken a lifetime to acquire. We have to learn from them now because once they are gone, so are their stories. All of my grandparents are gone and I wish I would have spent time really getting to know them while I had the chance.
. Wayne Donecz that is true for Gen X and before. But after NOPE. Since the financial problem we have today is a result of BABY BOOMER, also know as Generation Welfare.
STOP WELFARE SAVE OUR COUNTRY.
Poor Miner that's the stupidest remark ever. You were told to say that, huh? That's like blaming all modern day Japanese for WWII.
The problem I see with millennials is that they expect to come out of college and go straight to middle or upper management.
They don’t expect to have to put in years at the bottom, then earn their way up.
I had 3 jobs before university and 4 others after university before I even got into my career job.
To all the people in their twenties listen....work is like a mountain climb. Going to school is like packing your equipment. Then the work begins . And you don’t get to the top just because you have a nice backpack. You take one step after another. If you slip, you get a better footing and keep going. When you want to quit, you find it in yourself to keep going. And if you don’t get to the top, and have to settle for 9/10ths the way , you realize that the amount you did accomplish was still rewarding.
Nobody is helicoptering you to the top.
These poor kids, they haven't been taught much as far as survival goes.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's society was different , no internet or social media . Which I think is a bigger problem then what people want to believe . We didn't document our lives , worry about our status , post every aspect of our personal lives online for the world to see . We lived our lives , we worked , went to school just like today but our parents taught us values , morals , what hard work can get you , they didn't except excuses at least my parents didn't .My parents wernt my best friends they were my parents , unlike in today's society . My father is 87 my mother is 78 , they are my hero's I learned Alot from them growing up . Again something kids today don't do they would rather be online or playing video games then learn from their parents .
These kids think they are living their lives by posting things on social media, when in reality they are sitting at home doing nothing. Posting online IS NOT living your life.
Doug F Yep and they know everything , they think it's cool posting pics of what they eat or new clothes or them selves . The problem is they don't understand what it means when you say keep your private life private . Everything they post every picture will follow them for life , and that can damage their job , their relationship or marriage .
Doug F If you had to pay a monthly charge to use social media , there would be as many people on it as you think . There arnt any laws that regulate the age of users of social media either , and that's also a problem . Companies and what not , made money and had customers long before computers , the internet and social media.
@Steve A ... some notes for you.
then should be than
except should be accept
wernt should be weren't
hero's should be heroes
alot should be a lot
then should be than (again)
dukestreetking75 Lol the grammar police , so you have never made a mistake in writing anything ? A simple question yes or no , oh wait you won't answer anyway . Your perfection should be awarded
I bet it was a millennial's idea to have loud background music
Yeah, why do people who make these videos think we need music to make our brains work?
The thing is that in 2018 even most "grandparents" had it pretty easy growing up. Anyone under 75 in the USA grew up in the post war era with incredible abundance, plenty of food, electricity, indoor plumbing, at least a high school education and options for higher ed, medical advancements, automobiles, telephones (one, either in the kitchen or on the hall table) etc etc. People in their late 80's are able to remember the Depression and what rough times were like although again it depends on what you contrast it to. At least our government wasn't rounding us up by the millions and gassing or starving us.
Agreed. I am 53, and while we had to do chores, and get jobs for any spending money, and so forth.. I am under no illusions that we had "hard times" compared to the generations before WWII. Not even close. But Millennials would not be able to cope if they were dropped even into OUR era. God help them if there should ever be a crash like in the Depression, or a REAL major war, or some such... they are doomed.
No offence Vincent but many people from your generation can't cope with the things from this era. A lot of you are still computer/device/internet illiterate.
Or, if you are in your 60s like myself, learned from Depression-era parents to save. I even rinse out Zip lock bags. One of the problems, as I mentioned in another post, when I was paid $28000 a year, I was still able to buy a car, a house, save, go on vacations. Now they are paid $35000 or even $50000 but the house isn't $45,000 it's $450,000.
Gary J, and they only have to put 5% down and have a 4.5% interest rate rather than having to put 25% down with a 13% interest rate.
@@SepherStar I'm a Boomer. It was my generation that INVENTED the technology you take for granted. I was fortunate enough to be a participant in that rollout.
I hate being lumped into this generation.
Maybe... One day they will see the light.
Lucas Skrobish Same, 28. Daniel is right. We need to dorect those around us, help them be better people where we can
Fallen CantGetUp I feel for you buddy.
Fallen cantGetUp Don't worry, in about 30 years you get to complain about the younger generation being nothing but a bunch of losers. I remember my father telling me that I didn't know a hard day in my life. His dad probably told him the same thing.
Allen Atkins so....did you? My parents went days where they didn’t know the next time they would be near food. They lived outside for a time. They had hard times. I can look st them and say “knowing what a hard day is, I know I’ve never had one.” Have you? Or are you just one of the people in my generation of millennials who make it so easy for me, an average guy, to look exceptional at work simply by comparison.
The background music was distracting
Usually is but you can't get most people under 40 to watch anything without it .... I used to produce radio spots and the ones that were the most compelling and most effective used sound effects and voice, and NO music. It is why, today, I cannot tolerate advertising messages, and especially those that not only use music but often sound like someone is grinding nuts and bolts in a blender in the background.
I totally agree Gary. I'm working in India right now and Indian media is insane for flashing lights, lots of movement, raucous music and screaming voice overs. The mute button on my remote is but a stub of its former self.
Bentley Knotts
It always is. The loud music is rude. It competes with the person(s) speaking. I quite often just turn the video off. Annoying as hell!! "your favorite song" isn't what I came here for. However, getting the idiot to understand this is like expecting your dog to make you a sandwich.
1941: "I hope a bomb doesn't fall on my house today".
2018: "I hope nobody accidentally misgenders me today".
ah ah ah excellent remark!
A generation of non-workers. This is socialism.
To a degree, I think you're right. It seems we're immersed in the thinking that the dream is to get famous and get paid exorbitantly to do things that aren't particularly difficult. Kids want to be youtubers, musicians, actors, athletes, etc. While I applaud the desire to follow a dream, as I followed my dream of being a musician for a reasonable amount of time, it isn't something that you should logically expect to pan out. Spend 5 years on it, tops. If you get nowhere, you're not good enough and it's time to move on.
I don't say this as a defence of socialism, more as a defence of the idea that words have meaning. Socialism is about workers controlling the means of production, so there is no idle rich making money off the backs of the proletariat. Everybody contributes.
Socialism isn't a catch-all political label for every trend in society, real or imagined, that you don't like.
Phlebas you do understand you just transfer the owners of the means of production (actual factory owners) with a bureaucratic elite. Who serve the function of yr idle rich (who generally are anything BUT idle)
Your claim is dubious, but as I said, I'm not defending socialism here. I'm just pointing out that "socialism" actually means something, and substituting it for "this thing I don't like" is lazy and dumb. It most certainly does not mean, "people don't work".
In full capitalistic system, those who don't work don't eat (of course there are religious entities who look after those people so they don't starve).
In a full socialist system everyone starves, except those who are more equal than the rest. Orwellian future ahead.
I love this because it’s two generations coming together and having similar problems. With all the negativity in the world and the hate on millennials I enjoyed seeing this because it’s relatable. Nobody really knows what they wanna do in their 20’s.
All of my grandparents are in Heaven now, but they are truly my heroes, forever they will be my heroes. I even ask for their help when I'm going to have a job interview or any chanllenging task, cuz I know they can guide me like they would've guided mef they were still here... thanks for making this video.
Nena Castro Martinez I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it seems to me that Hispanic people value their families a lot more than other cultures do!! I think it's really terrific how you love and respect your Grandparent's memories!! Good luck in your life! God bless!☺️
Michelle Duquette, as an Asian, I can tell you that Asians value their families and not only hard work and education. Our parents are very involved in our lives and we were taught early on to respect our elders because they have more wisdom than the youth.
WHATEVER GOES FOR ME I think that the way Asian people revere their elders is very wonderful!! I am European in descent, but my parents were always very interested and involved in my life, and I am so glad that they were now that both are gone!! Funny how their wisdom carries over to me through my memories of them, and how I love to recount stories that they taught me, especially during the difficult times!! Guess one of the parts of middle age that I have developed is the habit of story-telling!! Thanks so much for listening to my little harangue!! God speed!!☺️
Michelle Duquette, sorry to hear that both of your parents are no longer there for you since no matter our age, I believe that the bond between parents and children will always be there in families that are close-knit. I still have my mother though I miss my dad who taught me about time management, planning, trouble-shooting, and even some stuff reserved for men in our family like car maintenance, electrical issues, plumbing, and carpentry. As a single woman, I am so glad I learned those things from him. Yep, I was sort of a daddy's girl :)
WHATEVER GOES FOR ME I was very close to my Dad, too, after Mom died!! After Daddy died, I found myself picking up and doing things that he had taught me, even though I never thought I'd make it on my own!! I truly feel my folk's presence every day and thanks so much for your kind reply!!☺️
What a wasted opportunity. You could have selected some older people that really battled through hardships during hard times in the world's history. But you didn't. You missed the exclamation mark on the whole point of the video. Instead you kind of minimized the differences in the generations.
... Or maybe the point of the video wasn't to shit on millennials? This is a university ad targeting that age group.
Keeping millennials ignorant of the real world and a proper perspective does nothing to help them or the rest of this country. They need more exposure to real life hardships and an understanding of those who lived them. Otherwise, I will not be the one shitting on them. The world and events will do that.
"...battled through hardships during hard times in the world's history."
So the guy born in Paris in 1931 then came to America when he was 20 doesn't count?
Flynn Williford Really!! Anyone heard of a little argument called World War II?!🙄😑
that's because this video was made by a millennial
The nice way to tell them, get a grip.
Gen X here and grew up working after school etc since I was 14 lol never finished high school, went in to construction while studying a second language at night, started my own excavation business by saving my money from the crappy manual job I didn't like and now have a house etc- millenials you can earn really good money in construction- I was on $120 an hour back in 2008 or so lol just sitting on a digger, ( excavator ), all day. So I guess the moral is do what you have to while keeping a bigger goal in mind- even a knucklehead like me did it that way.
Sticks and Stones with Mike. Wow, listen to you!! That's fantastic!! Congrats on your success story!!☺️
Gen-X here too. My first job was at 13, working for Garst and Thomas Seed Company on a Roguing Crew in western Kansas. We had to be at the fields at sunrise (which meant getting up much earlier than that). Then we spent the day walking back and forth across the field in 104 degree heat, wading in ankle to knee deep ditch-irrigated mud fields, swinging corn knives to cut out certain plants, and detassle others. Minumum wage... $2.85/hr. Today you cannot get them to mow a friggin lawn even with a RIDING mower.
Working as early and as much as we can seems to be the answer- the funny part is that we can now look back on those 'crappy' jobs fondly and wish we were back there slugging away all day in the trench/field/house.
For me on the digger it was under a boiling sun with a customer's sewage threatening to flood our works, laughing, ( in between swearing? ahem ahem ), with the mates.
Sticks and Stones with Mike. I guess nostalgia kind of puts it's own little filters realities, doesn't it, though? I'm so glad for you, and thanks for your comment!! Have a great life!!😊
Great Story, Sticks and Stones with Mike! I'm Gen X too...my first job was a receptionist at a law firm. Soon after all the crappy low paying jobs with dealing with sexual harassment at most of them, I started my own business 20 years ago in real estate and have not looked back. I love being my own boss! If you work hard, stay focused on the end goal you will succeed. Don't let society or lack of a piece of paper with a university logo on it define you and hold you back from your goals.
What a great video on perspective. When I was young (im 38), i never bothered to consider the struggles of my elders. Now that I am more mature, listening to my parents and grandparents has taken new meaning and I value their opinions and perspective so much more.
I love how millennial learning from the previous generations how they struggle to make them realize "you" are the one to make things happen not society. Love you millennial for listening!
"OK, look, my lattè is cold, my iPhone 6.3.1.1.0.2 isn't charging, my Lyft was FOUR MINUTES LATE! The struggle is real!"
everything starts with a foundation. many want to build a skyscraper and have no idea how deep they have to dig for a skyscraper foundation. sad .
I'm a reformed criminal with no diploma. I work as an M.E and have a business. Everyone seems lazy to me.
wannabecarguy Don't Think about those morons in the comments. You've done a great job and should be proud of it.
I know how You feel about Everyone around You being lazy. I work three jobs in order to afford school, while having paranoia and trust issues due to a long periode of abuse and stalking.
Then I have to hear my classmates complain about their irrelevant issues. I have This Girl in class, who's 21, has never worked a Day in her Life and has her father come over to her apartment to cook and clean for her. He even plays her rent Sometimes.
Tommy Wiseau dude, I was the one being stalked. So anyway - how's your sex life?
Tommy Wiseau of course I do. I just turned 18, which automatically makes me a smart and responsible adult. Much intelligence. Such wisdom.
You are correct! Most people are lazy. It is actually quite frustrating....
Katrine Petersen Tommy is just having fun. I used to need a compliment for encouragement then I got the compliment. Later I decided I have done it so now it's hard for me to get down on myself. Or need validation from anyone. Don't repeat history. Learn from your mistakes. When you feel courageous act swiftly. Before it wears off.
As a Millennial (by age, not by attitude, I hope!) I find this beautiful and very encouraging. Thank you!
Millennials have no idea what real hardship, challenges, or struggle even looks like.... not a friggin clue. God help them should they ever encounter REAL difficulties, like the Great Depression (which is a VERY real possibility).
No kidding! My dad lived thru the Great Depression and he went thru some SHIT.
My Grandpa was a plumber in a small town in MT during the Depression and no one could afford to pay him for the work he did for them. After working hard all day he would sit at night and do paperwork. One night my dad saw him looking over the bills he had to pay, and bills he had for people that he knew couldn't pay them, and my grandpa just broke down and cried and sobbed with his face in his hands for a long time before he stood up and took the bills that people owed him and tore them up.
The next day my dad ran away from home because he knew my grandparents couldn't afford to feed both him and his younger brothers. So my dad at 17 years old hitchhiked from Montana to North Carolina where he fell in with some moonshiners and he took to running moonshine in a souped up Model T. Well he had many trials and tribulations there over several years, and wound up on the run from the Feds. He got in a "high speed" chase with the Feds after him and he wrecked his souped up Model T on a NC mountain road, skidded off a curve and went into a ravine and was then afoot with the Feds on his tail.
He headed back to Montana, walked the soles of his shoes off and had to dig thru trash to get pieces of cardboard to put in his shoes to cover up the holes in the soles. And part of the way he rode the rails, hiding out from railroad bulls. He almost starved to death on the way back and at one point was so hungry he jumped off a moving train he was riding on, and ran out into a field of green corn and ate the green corn and made himself deathly sick.
When he finally made it back to Montana, WW2 was starting and he tried to enlist in the military but was rejected because he had scarlet fever when he was a kid and had a heart murmur. So he got a job with a logging company and went to work as a lumberjack helping to supply lumber for the war effort. Not long after he started logging, a widowmaker came down out of a tree on him, breaking his back in 2 places and he laid under the widowmaker in the mud for 4 hours before his co workers found him. Being a tough sunofabitch, he recovered from that and got a job surveying, and he saved his money and bought his own lumberyard and construction company a couple years later. He built some housing developments from the ground up where he laid the sewer lines, poured the foundations, did the framing , ran the plumbing and electrical systems and did all the roofing. He hired some guys to come in and do the finish work, but he did most of the work himself. Then he took the money he made from that and built a tavern/dinner club/ski lodge up in the mountains with only the help of my Godfather. They built it out of logs that they selected, cut down, hand peeled and treated. My dad and mom and I lived out at the construction site in a small cabin with a dirt floor, no electricity and no running water. I was barely a toddler then. They worked on it for a couple years before it was ready to open, and fought off bears and blizzards in the process.
Well there is a lot more to the story but I think there are no millenials that have the toughness or gumption that my dad did. Tough times breeds tough people and kids that are raised in the lap of luxury are going to be useless, helpless pissants.
What was it like for you living through the Great Depression?
Boomers have no idea either. They made 20% more in their 20s than millennial do with less education, many started with pensions, school was much cheaper, so were houses. They messed all that up and are mad the younger folks are mad about it.
Yeah i can see that shit coming. With the amoutn of morons in the job market,
Well here it is. How do you think they are holding up?
So nice to see these young people listen to their grandparents tell them their life experiences. It allows them to gain a different perspective on life and understand that the times might have been different but the struggles are the same! I never missed an opportunity to listen to mine when the chance was there. They lived what history in school can never teach.
I'm 67, retired a few years ago comfortably but not wealthy to Europe. My generation was taught to work. I guess my first "job" at around 8/9 was riding my bicycle down the street picking up bottles to turn in for the $0.02 deposit. I later would stock shelves at locally owned grocery stores for $0.05/case.
Then I worked as a vet assistant after school and weekends for a couple of years. Then at 16 it was at a full service gas station for $0.75/hr (later $1.00) filling cars, checking oil/water/tire pressure, washing windshields, replacing brake shoes, lube jobs, grease jobs, tune-ups, change oil/filter and general automotive maintenance. After HS I bounced around some construction labor jobs for a couple of years and went into the Army. 7 years in the Army I got out as a Warrant Officer flying helicopters. Next 35 years I traveled the world flying in some pretty interesting places. I still get up at 3-4 in the morning and find something to work on or read. Mostly working on or riding a Harley around Europe searching out interesting places to be or things to do.
Millennials feel they deserve sympathy? It's in the dictionary between shit and syphillis and I ain't got time for any of them.
I must say that even though she could not go to collage because girls didn't or thats what her dad said (times were different) she failed to pointed out that 90% of people male or female did not go, it was for the top percentile of people in academic studies. University is not a right, it has to be earned, it's just basic numbers if you have 100 jobs for graduates and you have a 100,000 graduates well 99% of those people are going to be working at McDonald's and paying there loans off for a long long time :).
I think what she said about being told not to go to college because of her gender is less about college and more about the fact that most women were told they couldn't do the same things a man could. Even if its just by the people around them like family, which has a massive effect on a person's decisions.
Told they couldn't become a police officer
a head doctor
a military sargeant
a CEO
so on
until people started fighting for women's rights. Even today a lot of women are told what they can't do.
So being born before the 60s, it was really hard for women to get into a stable place of authority where you could be a sole provider for yourself or your family which is very important.
Anyways, clearly she wanted to go, and probably could have, but wasn't able to because of the world she lived in. "Times were different", sure, different as in abusive. I'm not really sure what you've taken away from this... I find what you said takes away from the point she is actually making, which is that she had to earn her way to the top without going to college, which is probably much harder than getting a piece of paper and then going right into a good job.
Um... Math...
gregg brady No women in my family born before 1950 went to college because people in their life told them not to, it was frowned upon. It's the reason things like the polytech massacre happened, even up to 1989.
Not much hypocritical about wanting the same opportunity as everyone else, even if you think they already have them.
Thank you for insulting my family, that's a great way to prove your point. No, the women in my family that didn't go to college/university didn't go because they would have been disowned/kicked out of their home. Not really a choice. They had to find success in other ways. You're lucky you come from such a progressive family, maybe you don't realize that. We need feminism so that people can feel like they can make a choice without having their life ruined. Of course later many women in my family went to college/university but it was not payed for by anyone but themselves. However, all the men that went to college in that generation did have it payed for, because it was considered a waste to pay for a women's education.
Don't assume we all come from the same situation as you, your family is lucky they have never had to deal with any kind of hardships or people in their life actively trying to stop them from perusing post secondary education.
I relate this to the polytech massacre as an example of how dangerous men who are against the progress of women can be. Even the recent attack in Toronto was an incel taking his anger out on women in general, like Roger Elliot and many others. I'm trying to say that its necessary to have feminism so that people understand that there was and still is a deeply ingrained sense of hatred towards women which comes out in different ways, none of which are acceptable.
gregg brady The men in my family who had their education paid for had it payed for by their family. Their family refused to pay for the women's educations.
So.... I got a30 yr old living with me and another one who only shows up for 3 or 4 days on the weekend, between the 2 they might make 1 good person
if they are your kids do them a favor and kick them out of the house.
Sounds like you did a shitty job of parenting, you must be a baby boomer lol.
Man, I wish I had 3 or 4 days on my weekends that sounds nice.
Hard work is unavoidable , even sitting at home being broke and doing nothing with your life in many was is harder work than actually doing something with your life , millennial's lack discipline and collage these days does nothing but warp minds
Brought me to tears.
I knew all that about my grandparents when I was a child. I understood about the times they lived in as an adolescent. I understood how much easier my life was compared to theirs when I was a young adult. We need to respect our elders, they have lived longer and in harder times.
1:46 reminds of my grandpa who just last year. So much of an inspiration.
the frenchman's granddaughter looks a lot like him, beautiful people, all of them
Iulia Tomutsa Vive la France!!😉
*French-born American
Michelle Duquette *French- born American
And yeah, she is very pretty.
Socorro Soza That would be me!!😉😊
Nothing like FAMILY!! :)
interviewer: "what's stressing you out right now?"
person: "h---
*grandparents burst in room* NONE OF YOUR PROBLEMS MATTER I FOUGHT IN A WAR WHILE GIVING BURST TO TRIPLETS ALL WHILE ATTENDING COLLEGE AS A MINORITY AND I STILL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST BY SWIMMING ACROSS THE OCEAN WITH A BABY ON MY BACK WHEN I WAS 17!!!!!!!!! I THINK YOU CAN GO TAKE COLLEGE CLASSES YOU BIG BABY!!!!11!111
Lucky and fortunate are you kidding, what an understatement
Why are so many people in the comments bashing on the millennials? What I took away from this video is that we all struggle with identity and careers. I don't think their grandparent's struggles completely de-validates their own struggles.
This was so smart, more should do it.
" i want to write a book", "I want to be a movie star".......... - a generation of attention seekers.
“I have to balance work and school” said everyone ever.
This was a brilliant idea kudos!
They are lucky just being able to know their grandparents. Wish I could of known my grandpa who was born 1902 lived through the great depression served in two world wars took my dad into his home (adopted) and died at age 94 when I was 9. I deeply regret being shy and not getting to know him while he was still here.
Not one of them were going for a STEM career.
Work and study is how we did it.
I learned so much from my grandparents but it was only a fraction of what they had to teach.
I grew up in the 1970's, the era of "stagflation". My siblings and I learned pretty quickly not to complain, or our parents would give us the "you kids today don't know what hard times are" lecture. Alas, they were right (they both grew up in the Great Depression). When I was in college, I sometimes felt sorry for myself. Then I thought about what my Dad was doing when he was that age. He was in the South Pacific fighting a war, and he didn't know if he would even be alive the next day.
Two important lessons stand out: (1) Life in this world has never been easy, and it never will be, so grit your teeth and face up to it. (2) Listen to those who have already been down this road. You'll find their wisdom quite valuable.
I am a baby boomer and have done pretty well. My parents had it tough and their parents had it really tough.
literally turn it
LITERALLY TURN IT
Omg! Those poor innocent millenials...they have such a hard time that nobody else has ever had :(
My father was drafted into the Korean war.. stayed in the Military and went to college.. He was in Vietnam.. he graduated with a Masters degree in 1964... 2 yrs after I was born... He got promoted to an Officer.. and retired from the Army in 1976 as a full bird Colonel. He was a great man. I have struggled all my life just to keep alive. I will never be the man my father was.. I'm 56 now and looking back on my life I wasted it... Kids today.. don't have a clue. The world it cruel and unjust and loves to kick you when you are down. IF you are not prepared.. well educated.. experienced in something people actually want.. AND you have a good work ethic.. work hard and push to excel.. you will end up with nothing.
“Its so hard nowadays with technology, we have to figure out how to have relationships.”
🤦♂️
One more reason why I love older people.
I grew up in a "Screen Free" society and turned out amazingly...ask my 90yr old mother...
At 67 and grand father of six, I wonder if I'll free the same as my mother did about me...
Just no telling, I fear the "Screen" has infected many of today's youth in an evil way...
We will have to wait and see if they can over come the hurdles....as we did.
Feb. 2018---Millennials have NO ideas about being challenged. I've met more than one (boy & girl) who had NO idea how to change a tire, much less use a jack, where the oil dipstick is at on an engine, etc. They worry how many "friends" they have on Facebook, etc. They believe that animals just up and die, then some how magically appear on a sterile piece of styrofoam wrapped in clear plastic. The world OWES them a living, that if you have more money/things, you should give them some of it without question. I could go on, but bottom line is the world does NOT revolve around them and no doubt they'll find my attitude utterly shocking. Which is why the majority of them are flipping burgers for a living.
So sad, so true, but who's fault is it ?
Trey Thanks so much for your service to our great country!!🇱🇷
In my teens I would be the first up, light the wood stove to melt the ice in the kitchen, make porridge and lunches for my 8 younger brothers and sisters. I wasn't told to do it, I wanted to do it.
We need the same with our parents, then we are the one that can laugh
They’re... you’re welcome!
Very wise older generation, inspiring video.....👍👍👍👍
My grandfather on moms side was a sub hunter that canopy malfunction blew off and froze eardrums deaf afterwards my dads dad was on yorktown yea explain your petty troubles
I was arrested for something I didn't do, spent 2 1/2 years in jail before the DA realized that I was, in fact, innocent and dropped the charges. Of course, by that point, I was homeless and remained that way for 9 years until I decided I needed a serious change. I left where I was living and moved to a different state and when my friend, who gave me the ride, dropped me off, I had no home, no job, about $200 in a bank account, and everything I owned in a backpack. 3 1/2 years later I am living in an apartment, I'm a store manager, and saving to buy my first home. I have very little patience for the "struggles" of an entitled generation.
We don't know how privileged we are.... especially in the U.S. Sometimes as a 20-something year old, I forget that.
"Struggling with getting Instagram followers" I hope he wasn't serious.
The young man thinks his dreads are holding him back yet he keeps them.
Challenges?? I didn't hear about any challenges, I must have missed that part.
The struggle is real.
Can't see the forest for the trees blaming everyone for their own problems when every generation has the same ones
Every single generation has to deal with pretty much the same issues. It's part and parcel of growing up and turning into an adult.
This is why they are grand parents. And if you don’t have them go visit some at a retirement center or care home, it will change your life for the better.❤️🙏🇺🇸
It’s funny because they think they are having such hard life’s when their life is easy and they get everything given to them which is so different from their grandparents.
Great video
I worked in a pet shop then an arcade finally ended up cleaning carpets while taking some college courses. Then I got my good high paying job and bought my first house at 23. I don't feel sorry for these people.
They all wish to be stars, they all believe they are amazing, they all don't wish to work and live a simple life. And they all are these older people's descendents. Guess who raised them to be like they are?
Maria Nunes exactly I wonder why the parents grandparents never told their stories before?
Let us not forget the kind of education Millennials were exposed to, especially in college.
has a cab driver I pick up I pick up dozens of incompetent barely able to tie their own shoe laces crying for his safe space trying to juggle work and school oh my what a dilemma whatever shall I do
things are expensive, traditional opportunities are scarce, when everyone says things gonna go well and then they wont -unmotivation
In hindsight, 18 years is plenty of time to become a responsible
Damn I didn't realize they had so many problems
That's our future holy fuck we're in trouble now
Millenials crack me up, they ALL think there an "ARTIST" , LOL, they download a .99 cent app that plays a beat while they talk along to it and they are an ARTIST its awesome lol
Wow, these people have real problems 😂😂😂
To do things,you must do them. Not emulate other emulators on line. We a experiencing the decline of western civilization artistically. (Among many other things).
"college was something my grandmother wasn't allowed to do." And this was the U.S.?
While in C.Amer., my grandparents living thru the Great Depression, w/ 9 daus, INSISTED the girls study! &there were no public schools then. They could hv been just maidservants, but they became schoolteachers & univ. professors. Good on Latinos!
I never really got to meet my grandparents, except for 1 unfortunately she had Alzheimer's and didn't live very long :(
I’m 65. I grew up dirt poor. Literally. You could see the dirt (or snow) through the cracks in the floor. I worked to help my family from around the age of 10 because my father came home from WW Il pretty messed up in the head. I married a beautiful 17 year old girl, (I was 18) who grew up much like I did. We celebrate 46 years of marriage in a few days. We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps and made a successful living. I don’t say this to brag but to say that there are people from every group, (Boomers, X, Y, Millennials, or whatever), that will do the same thing. And, there are some that will just play video games waiting for someone to put food in their mouth. Scottish philosopher Alexander Tyler noted eight stages in the rise and fall of great civilizations. Bondage, to great spiritual growth, to great courage, then liberty, abundance (perhaps we boomers?), abundance to complacency, complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and back to bondage. We’ve had the abundance, and somehow in my lifetime have slipped, in my humble opinion, right through to dependence. (Socialism?).
What a great thing to do.
I was cringing when they were talking about stress!
These kids are so trivial.
Yes yes yes
Wtf is this wholesome shit?
Never finished high school and have had a VERY REWARDING LIFE. How could that be you might say WORK ETHIC. WHAT EVER YOU DO IN THIS LIFE WORK HARD IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF. it is worth the effort....
I've noticed how a lot of them want to be artists or whatever they considered to be artist actors and all the celebrity b*******
Um...looks like us older folks have a huge future after listening to these Millennials..
The main difference is that the older generation is willing to work hard while trying to achiee their goals. Millenials think if the go to college, they can have any job they want.
New internet challenge.
Stupid kids Vs. a light bulb
I'm not going to knock millenials. I'm going to talk about my daughter of that age group. She's my adopted "step-grandaughter."
My wife, her mother/grandmother, left us when she was 8. I worked a good paying technical field, in the elements. (I worked long hours,using my brain in the outdoors.) My daughter saw that. She is a hard working, strong young lady. (During hurricane Harvey, in Southeast Texas she managed to get to her jobs every day but one, and that was because of flooding on the roads.
I am so proud of the woman she is.
IM STRUGGLING WITH GETTING INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS
oh boy! what a hard life!
there are a lot more problems for millennials than the ones mentioned here. I mean seriously, ya'll ....
6 out of 10 millennials can’t change a lightbulb.
This is why you don't kneel during the National Anthem. Be proud of the country that gives everyone the freedom to succeed and do what they want with their lives.
Personally, I do not see the fuss. I like seeing the enemies of our country on their fucking knees, and we should be making MORE of them drop to their knees when in the presence of our flag, or when the anthem plays. Standing shows respect? Not nearly so much as KNEELING does.
The irritating piano app detracts from the discussion.
Ha ha ha book about knowing nothing?