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Learning from older generations is useful and you can receive some valuable advice, but there are also times when you know that older people are wrong. The things they advise you to do might have worked when they were your age, but now it's different and you have to adapt to the changing times.

Reddit user Nursejoyscuntysister wanted to know what advice isn't beneficial and asked, "Millennials of Reddit: What's the worst 'Baby Boomer advice/wisdom' you've ever been offered?" People had a lot to say and showed with which boomer ideas they disagree with a passion.

This is not the first time Bored Panda has talked about boomers' advice that doesn't work anymore, and if you are interested in what out-of-touch wisdom they are telling the younger generation, you can click here after you're done upvoting this list and commenting your own stories.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones I was once told by a baby boomer "If you want a man to stay with you, you'll have to pop out a baby" (or words of that effect). I told her straight up "Any man who would stay for our baby, but not for just me, isn't a man who I'd want staying in the first place".

For f***sakes, is it really that unusual for me to want to be loved for who I am, and not for my ability to procreate? Why would I want to stay with anyone who sees me as nothing but a human incubator?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are the worst type of advice ever and the reason the millennials make psychologists rich!

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones As a girl: "If a boy bullies you, that means he likes you!"

No. Just... no.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never bullied a girl that I liked. This abusive stereotype needs to stop.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "You don't deserve to make a livable wage at McDonalds, get a real job"

Followed by:

"What, are you too good to work at McDonalds? Grow up and stop being entitled and do what you gotta do."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All jobs should be entitled to a livable wage. This even being a debate is sickening.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Babies just need love, not money."

Sorry, mom, no grandkids until I have a job with a decent paycheck and less student debt.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Boomer here - and I encourage you guys to put off having kids until you're ready (or not to bother at all). There are far too many humans on the planet as it is (and yes, this is my generation's fault, not yours - we talked about Zero Population Growth in the '70s, but it fizzled out after the fiasco with China's 1-child policy) Sigh

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones The lab tech at one of the schools I teach at is a retired old fella. Comes in maybe 2 hours a day, real early in the morning to set up labs for the day. Basically has the "job" for his own entertainment.

One morning he caught me in the hall and somehow got into telling me how I really ought to find a job with a good pension. Apparently he worked for some commercial chemistry research lab and retired early once he qualified for their pension program. Then, him and some buddies took some of their early retirement money and bought a big parcel of land. They arranged to have it incorporated into a town, that they ran, then sold off pieces of it for housing developments.

So, he's going through this little history lesson in how the economy used to work and I just stand there and nod. In the back of my head, it dawns on me. He thinks I'm an adjunct by choice. He thinks I teach part-time at three different schools with no advancement potential and minimal benefits because I like it.

Hey Boomers, the reason why us god dammed Millenials aren't doing things the way you used to is that those things don't exist anymore. There's no career track jobs in science with just a MS. There's no more salary for life company pensions. I can't just go "buy me some land" and flip it for a profit.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and there are no pension monthly annuity type retirement programs anymore unless you work for the government... in the US, they only have 401k type retirements in the private sector... people are living longer, they got tired of paying a monthly annuity to people who are in their 90s or even over 100..

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones I love being told "be grateful you /have/ a job!"

Then they look on in horror as I explain that I can't afford to live on my own while working over 40 hours a week. I don't get vacations. I don't get sick days. I get absolutely no paid time off, even for s*** like Christmas. No time to pursue things I enjoy, no money to see a doctor about my deteriorating jaw.

But it's not their problem, you know? They get to walk away from the conversation.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hear my employers say this all the time. Especially during the pandemic. Sad.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "You know, your generation doesn't understand that you have to buy a house as young as possible to pay it off quickly". No old man, we get it. We're broke as f*** making 1/3 of what you do in the same work place.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is seen as "necessary" for younger folks in some cultures? Is sheer luxury. To me, too, and I'm Gen X. I don't own a cell phone. Why would I? It's wasteful. Gaming? It's a deck of cards. My priorities are: stay out of debt, stay fed, clothed and housed. The end.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Go outside, get some fresh air! Your mental illness is just in your head! Laugh and smile more, you'll be fine 😊😊😊"

From a family member. 4 years of therapy in and I still struggle daily.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you worried? Well, don't worry about it! Jeez thanks i didn't think of that

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Talking to my dad recently, he was going on about "participation trophies." When I pointed out that we wouldn't have received said participation trophies had his generation not invented them, his response was: "Yep, that's another problem with your generation. Always blaming your faults on other people."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gen Xer here, if that matters, and I don't recall a participation award for anything. Ever. Nor my hubby or other Gen-X friends, so.... no idea where those started, or why, but they confuse me.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "You'll feel different when they're your own children."

Yeah I'm not willing to take that risk. Also I'm poor.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah i don't like risks either! And what if i don't change my mind? Can i return them?

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones My mother told me to, "Just get a job. Tons of places are hiring."

Though, she has come to understand the struggle now as she spends all day applying to jobs and not getting a single call back.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 80s when I was desperately looking for a job (with 4 million unemployed) my dad told me it was easy. “Just go to a company and ask for a job”. “Dad - it’s the 1980s not the 1950s!” 🙄

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "You'll have little ones of your own someday."

No the f*** I won't. Those little bastards tore up my house over the holidays and the mom did nothing but nap on my couch.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "You can't get a job in management out of college, you have to start in the mailroom."

Uuuh... To get a job in the mailroom you need five years experience. That or work for free because internship. And when we have five figure student loans to repay we can't exactly work for free cause unpaid internships don't put food on the table or gas in our cars...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always get the impression when you start at a new company you have to start from the bottom again.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "You have to go out and pound the pavement, dear. You can't spend all day looking for jobs on the computer."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom was like "go in and ask for the boss so you can hand him your documents." Sure mom, the boss of the 4K employee-Company's only waiting for me to hand him some papers. E-Mails are so impersonal...

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones My first retail job, any time I complained about customers or coworkers to my father I would get, "You just have to suck it up. It builds character, and you'll always have something you don't like about your job or coworkers." A few years ago, he lost his help desk job, and nobody wanted to hire him on for an IT position when he's just a couple years shy of retirement age and doesn't have a degree. After a couple years of being unemployed, he realized the gig was up, and took a part time job working in a grocery store across the street from the one I had in high school.

Now, whenever I go to visit him, I always hear something like, "Can you believe this b****, shikitohno? I just finished building a goddamn corn pyramid, has to be 7 feet tall, and she wants one from the center on the bottom, because she says she can tell those are the freshest. Can you believe it?" No, dad, not a clue at all what you're talking about, but you're character sure seems to be growing.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Marry your own people out of culture and god...

Little did they know I was a Muslim turned Atheist and hated how the women in my country were treated as house wives instead of actual people.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marry who you love, care about and willing to spend time together. It doesn't matter what race or ethnicity they are at all.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones I guess I'm on the old side of the millennials, but I had numerous people tell me not to go into computer science and instead go into some other engineering field because computer scientists didn't make good money, wasn't a good job, not a good fit, etc. Glad I didn't listen to any of them as I make a really good salary now. Why the heck would I take advice on entering a high tech field from people who can barely use a computer?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I finally learned to humour people who give bad advice: "That's a good idea, thanks, I'll check it out." Then do what works for me. Wish I'd figured that out yeeeeeears ago when my MIL bugged me to have kids: "Great idea, I'll go poke holes in your son's condoms right now!" Five years later: "Maybe I need to use knitting needles?"

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Don't go to a trade school, that's beneath you.

Thanks, Mom. This Film degree from a Liberal Arts school is really paying the bills.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a misconception. There are a ton of great jobs in trades. It's what's in constant demand.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Dad told me when I was young that interracial relationships would never work. He said that "there's a reason the black birds are with black birds and the red birds are with the red birds. Its just nature." I've been with my ethnically different girlfriend for a long time now. Probably the best person I've ever met.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black birds aren't with red birds because they're a different species. Unless your girlfriend is a different species you'll be fine.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones My boss recently told me my generation was entitled, and began quoting various articles on how we all think we're special and exempt from criticism etc

AS I was shoveling a dead rat out of the doorway.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Young people don't know how to work" ---- my elderly neighbor, to the granddaughter who cleans his house every day atop her own job/home/family.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Not really advice but my neighbor was complaining about how useless and lazy millennials are after I snowblowed their driveway today. Only, it used to be their snowblower. They misused it, broke it, and I fixed it, and I've been doing their driveway ever since. But whatever I'm just some lazy 20-something full time student with a job and enough time to turn wrenches in the garage.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They have a saying in my country : "trop bon, trop con". It literally means "too good, too dumb". I think they are right. Some people are too good for their own good. Be meaner, it is ealthier for you.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Just go to college even if you don't know what you want to do."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't mind that I went to college but I would have been soo much better of doing a trade. Now it's just a pool of competition to get job which encourages employers to lower the benefits due to the number of persons unemployed.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones I was getting my masters degree and we had a guest lecturer come in. He had been CEO of a small company for many years. He basically told us that he stumbled into the job right out of college because he didn't know what to do and gave it a shot. They gave him the assistant CEO position because he had been the assistant manager at a movie theater for a summer. And then 2 years later he became the CEO.

He was basically telling this entire class of people getting their advance degrees in the hopes to get his position that he got his job on a whim 30 years ago.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bull s**t, that doesnt happen anymore for anything. Ive not gotten jobs Im qualified for because I dont have a degree.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones My mom encouraged me to walk in and give my resume to the manager at our local grocery store because "seeing you face to face makes a difference" thinking it would help. I was given a physical application by a cashier, basically begged to see manager, he showed up, I gave him my resume, shook his hand, he said thank you but looked annoyed at being interrupted and went back to work. Few weeks later they hired a new cashier, she was the cousin of one of the people that worked there. welcome to the new job market, millennials.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Relatives always come first no matter how lame they are-sucks!

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones My friend's dad got a fantastic job right out of college (with an unrelated bachelor's degree) by LITERALLY GOING INTO A RANDOM BANK DOWNTOWN AND REFUSING TO LEAVE UNTIL THEY GAVE HIM A JOB.

Can you even imagine? Can you??

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones they still think you can put on your best suit and walk right into any company, shake the CEO's hand and look him right in the eye, and start the next day.

everything is online and entry level positions require 3-5 years experience with no hope for advancement and s*** benefits (if any) and below average salary

"but just start a business if you cant find something!" whatever that means

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Just start a business. -What kind of business? -I don't know. A business, okay ?!"

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Get at least a master's degree so you can be successful. Sure, a degree helps, but coming out of school with a massive amount of debt is not the greatest thing to do. My parents owned a home when they were 25 and 23. They didn't have to worry about having 40k in student loans.

The kicker? I work for my parents and they decide my salary. They know damn well I can barely afford rent, much less a house. Also, my degree has nothing to do with my job, but I had to have it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh I was cool until they said they worked for their parents and still don't get a good salary. Damn that's cold.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Don't take a job unless it gives 4 weeks vacation out of the year"

Because that's what someone can get fresh from college.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

by law those of us living in Europe have to get 4 weeks holidays a year, so am thats every job ;)

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones If your wife makes more than you. She will eventually become to independent and leave you. This from a 65 and 70 yr old coworkers who have stay at home wives. They also tell me that they don't do house work out of principle. Outside work and repairs only.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly i don't even find it weird for 70 year olds to think like that! The sad thing is that i hear 30-40 year old men thinking like that and i really hope they won't find a wife ever

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones First thing you should do is always buy a house.

Houses are not the surefire, idiot-proof investment machine they used to be in decades past.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "joys" of home ownership-taxes, insurance, endless repairs, it's fun!

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Go to college and get a degree. Employers will be throwing good paying jobs at you. Total bulls***. Baby Boomers told us this c*** and they're refusing to hire us. F*** that.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HE in the UK is like a sausage factory - churning out graduates regardless of their ability to pass the course - but giving them unlimited bites at the cherry to make sure they do and devaluing the degree in the process.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Have you tried going in in person and giving them your CV?". This was when I was looking for graduate schemes with multi step application processes, usually CV upload > online tests > phone interview > interview/assessment day > sometimes second interview. Me walking into the building with a piece of physical paper would not have helped at all but my parents thought it was my fault that I didn't have a job yet because I didn't do that.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This might have been useful in the past but nowadays is almost impossible to give your cv in person!! It will still end up in some secretary's office and you will never get to the person responsible without an appointment

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I hardly fit the requirments to be a millennials, but i had huge interest in game devopment but was discouraged saying computers wont get you a job.

Boy oh boy do i like to remind them of that as i now make soundtracks part time and play test games on the side and the entire world is one big computer now.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people who say "computers wont get you a job." must not realize that the world is becoming digitalized.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones When I was in high school looking for a job my grandmother told me to just go to places and fill out applications; she told me it was useless using the Internet to look for a job. This was in 2008 and every place I checked for a job had an Internet-based application.

EDIT: No one seems to quite understand. You can argue going into a store or calling back is useful to being known or improving your chances at getting a job at some companies. That's great. According to my grandmother, it was pointless to use the Internet as a means of finding available jobs. If I were to follow her advice I would go into countless places and ask if they were hiring there.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, a lot of places [a] have online-only application processes and [b] make it impossible (or nearly so) to "call back...to being known". HR doesn't want to talk with you unless they start the conversation.

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"You should have kids before it's too late."

I'm 26, excuse you?

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, I‘d advise everyone to plan ahead IF they want to have kids at some point. You don’t want kids, that’s fine. You don’t want kids until later, that’s equally fine, but not everybody will be able to produce healthy eggs/sperm later in life. Talk to your doctor and see if cryopreservation is an option for you for example. So many couples in their thirties or fourties want to have children and can‘t.

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#36

You have a job, there's no reason you shouldn't have a house! However the average house here is 400k, and you must have 20% cash to put down. Super easy in an entry position right?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents bought their first house young. A starter house was 2x the median income. Where I live, a starter home is more like 9x the median income now.

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My government teacher just told me it was hard for him to sympathize with people who have to work at McDonald's (we were talking about raising the minimum wage) when he was able to put himself through college while working and studying full time. He said it was still possible for anyone that wanted to put in the work.

I'd just got out of economics, where my teacher had told us it wasn't possible, and made us calculate the cost of our preferred college or trade school and write up our financial aid options. Weird getting almost word for word contradiction that soon from two teachers.

I was born in '98 I'm not sure if I'm a millennial though.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can't "put yourself through college" anymore. Tuition costs have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated.

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"Trust the banks" Republicans are trying to deregulate banks to let them use customer funds to speculate on the stock market....Which was a major cause of the great depression.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the great depression was caused by John D Rockefeller using the Fed to play the "pump & dump" scam... his policies inflated prices in the stock market (pump)... at the all time high, he secretly sold off his holdings (dump)... Then he increased interest rates. The prices crashed to lows 90% less that the all-time highs. He promptly bought back his holdings (buy back) at rock-bottom prices. Then the prices rose by 1933 to about what they were in 1929 before all this began. He doubled his fortune in three years doing this. He ruined the lives of millions & set the stage for the rise of the fascists. This led to WW2, 20 to 50 million dead, and the world as we know it today. Burn in hell, John. You deserve it. Does all that money do you any good now?

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"Buy a house so you can refinance it and make some money." From my aunt with a serious shopping addiction who's refinanced her house 3 times and is in serious debt.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't do this. My parents took out a $40G mortgage in 1974. My mother refinanced multiple times to support her shopping addiction. Now that they're both dead, the mortgage is nearly $200G and the house is in such disrepair that I'm having trouble selling it...in an aggressive seller's market. Also, my family had to spend 18 months (in between working and raising kids) to clean out all the garbage, paying for multiple 30-yard dumpsters. While there was a lot of usable stuff, there was also a lot of eBay and dollar store crap that was completely useless.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Join the army, so your family can have a future."

Well done. Well f*****g done. The family left. And now, seventeen years later, the only way I can get a job is if I do NOT tell people I was in the military.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also PTSD, mental trauma and WAR! I'm really sorry for the OP...I hope you find a job and peace.

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"drop out of local community college and RUN, don't walk to most expensive state school in the country. A degree from a community college isn't worth anything."

Naturally this exchange occured while I was working so I hid my "f***-off-and-die" face behind a polite smile and said I would consider it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the local jr. college can be a real bargain for your education, especially if you stay at home with parents while attending.. the problem comes when they are taking applications for grad school programs... the top schools will accept people from 4-year schools first, preferably their own undergrad college... if the class maximum is full, they pass over people with any class hours from a jr. college on their transcript.

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I have student debt. It's my only debt. $24,000 in loans. No credit cards, no car payment, no outstanding bills. I pay about $800 a month in loans, and any extra money I have at the end of the month. My parents constantly tell me I'm bad with handling money, and have tried to get me to file for bankruptcy several times because "it's so much easier".

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Marry first for money, then you can marry for love in your second marriage. 😐 They've all been divorced at least once.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can i marry for the money just once and then live my life?

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They tell you to live while you're young because these are your best years. And then they tell you to start saving up for your 401k as early as possible.

What do they think "live while you're young" means? Something compatible with saving?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a Boomer. Going to retire and it's going to be tight. My 84 yo aunt. "Didn't you have a pension?". No. Nurses didn't have pensions to contribute to. Didnt you save up your money? Not exactly. Had to afford to have a roof over my head, buy a car, and not a fancy one. Eat, have an emergency savings, furniture in my home and yes, maybe some to enjoy life a little. And, no. I didnt have a husband to sell his business for a pretty penny, buy a nice house for cash that massively appreciated over the years, sell it, making a $h!+ load of extra money so i pay cash for my condo, and buy a car. But.... I could always use a rich relative to put me in the will.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones Temp agencies will get you sustainable work. Why are you looking online for jobs when there are temp agencies?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can't really make a career out of working for a temp agency, but it can get your foot in the door someplace where you can have a career. That's how I got my current job.

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Learn cursive because you will need it when you become an adult!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL. My daughter had one lesson on cursive throughout school. She prints her name. I'm trying to teach her to at least learn how to make a quick, cursive signature.

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Go to graduate school. Then it'll be easy to get a great job."

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Millennials Online Are Sharing The Worst Advice And Pearls Of Wisdom They’ve Heard From Baby Boomers And These Are 35 Of The Most Questionable Ones "Major in something you love hunny"

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"Just take out another loan"

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My ultra-Conservative father once posted an article on my Facebook Timeline written by a trans man about why he chose to vote Republican, and it was basically "GAYS NEED TO JUST FIT IN WITH SOCIETY AND STOP TRYING TO GET ALL OF THESE RIGHTS."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe "dinosaurs" need to fit with society as it is nowadays?

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