[Trixie]

1984 and I definitely would classify myself as the Oregon Trail Generation! Some of that is how I was raised. We had a computer, Nintendo and Sega, but we weren't allowed to play on it all the time. Even when cell phones were becoming popular in high school, I didn't have one. I remember being totally in awe of the internet and spending way too much time on it in high school (and now). I just got my first smart phone within the last two years so while I am quite adept with technology, I am hesitant to embrace it. I value hard work, and roll my eyes at people with entitlement issues (and I have seen it with older people so it isn't exclusive to millennials.)

Honestly the whiny-ness from the article sounds like it was written by someone coming of age and still not having people take them seriously. I remember lamenting that an older friend when I wan in my early 20's. People my age and younger enjoyed the relative prosperity of our parents and weren't necessarily taught all the basic life skills. (I could kind of budget and balance a checkbook, but had no cooking skills). We were both expected to burst forth from high-school fully functioning adults with everything together while also not being treated like adults from the previous generations. It really feels like it takes people longer to "grow up" now than it used to, but that is due to a shift in culture and education requirements. My father is an aerospace engineer without a college degree. He will even tell you that he is last to be able to do that and that it restricted him in his career, even with his brilliance in the area (He was on the B-2 project and he recently was contracted for Tesla, so he knows what he is doing.) Now you need at least an associates degree and more increasingly a bachelor's degree to even get an entry level job. I am amazed at the amount of jobs that require degrees for positions that do not require a lot of skill. It seems like today you are an "adult" at 18 but aren't "grown-up" until you have your degree and an established career.