Snowflakes, Millennials And Baby Boomers.

[Coppit]

Seeing this headline:-

More than half of millennials aged 25 to 35 claim to be suffering from a 'quarter-life crisis' over job and money woes

I thought it's about time I found out what age ranges / dates these terms refer to as I always assumed millennials referred to people born 2000 and after.

[Cloverjo]

I don't think they are snowflakes.

[Garaman]

Wiki gives one definition of a snowflake as someone who is easily offended and unable to deal with opposing opinions.

A few have settled on here then!

[New Judge]

Ah! Education:

“The one thing we didn't have to deal with was tuition fees,…”

Indeed not. And the reason for that was (when I was University age) only about 7% of young people went on to Uni. The rot set in when Mr Blair declared his aim to get 50% of young people to attend university. This was an utterly ridiculous and pointless target when, at that time, only about 10% of jobs in the UK required a degree. Of course the sustainability of such a plan was never considered and it was obvious that the bill would have to be met somehow.

So young people were duped into believing that a degree in “Media Studies” or “The Beatles” was absolutely essential if they were to successfully make their way in life. It’s not their fault; they were misled and, unless they were very fortunate, their education up to (so-called) ‘A’ Level simply did not equip them for a decent career.

I notice an earlier answer suggested we “let down” the Millennials. I hope - at least in this respect - I’m not included in the “we” because anyone with half a brain could have forecast that quadrupling the number of people with degrees would not quadruple the number of degree-level jobs on offer.

Each generation has its own range of problems to cope with. The problems young people face today are different but none the more onerous than their "Baby Boomer" predecessors faced. They simply have to be dealt with. The difference is that in the main Baby Boomers simply got on with it and didn't retreat in tears to their "safe place".

[Cloverjo]

NJ, I was with you all the way until you said
//retreat in tears to their "safe place"//

I don't know of any millennial that has done so.

[Garaman]

I agree, NJ, youngsters today may have problems buying a house, but I had to go all the way to Manchester to buy Levis. They don't seem to appreciate what we went through.

[New Judge]

"NJ, I was with you all the way until you said
//retreat in tears to their "safe place"//

I don't know of any millennial that has done so."

Nor do I.

But the fact that they have such places provided demonstrates how they are being taught to cope with their problems (or not, as the case may be).