http://www.thefastertimes.com/lifeaftercollege/2010/07/15/a-breakup-letter-to-my-generation/

I cant spek for everyone in my generation. But I have accepted that I will live a mundane life, with some depression sprinkled here and there. Doing a job I will hate becuase I need too, until I die.

How... umm... yeah, got no words.

Skimming that article I gathered that parents should be jerks to their children, and that we should except living mediocre lives, and not reach for goals. Was that supposed to be a sarcastic article? the author even contradicts herself sometimes.

No parents shouldnt be jerks. The article was talking about how bad it is, for parents/teachers to praise students, even for failure.
All that does, is make reality hit much harder. When they apply for a job and dont get it, there is no "good job, ou did your best". You are still prised for failure, failure shouldnt be prised. Just praise people when they do well. Then the praise actually means something, and they have encouragement. Instead of praise either way.

I think you just answered your own question

But certainly that job thing wasn't true, was it?

Seeing as she looks a little younger, I take it this is aimed more at 15 year olds than 20 year olds?

The parts where she describes her as being so awesome and what a genius she is are sarcasm yes. She's writing the article in the style as someone who stereotyphically represents her generation.

I have to agree with the sentiments delivered in this article. I have noticed a strange trend in the school I grew up in. There the teachers would try to uplift those that did things badly with praise but not only that they would try to break down those that did well by criticising their every minor mistake and push them to fix those mistake through that. But throughout the years those who did badly would keep doing badly and those that did well would continue to do well.

Not only can one ask if those that did badly could have been made to do better by being pushed harder to do better, but you can also wonder if those that did well would have started to slack off and fall in grades if they had recieved the kind of praise the other kids got.

The irony is if generation y staged a mass hold out for awesome jobs you could be sure as hell people would pay them ludicerous sums for menial jobs. Who wants to go from working the office to cleaning [censored] in the gutters? Who knows, this narcassim might pay off yet in the long term and of a grand scheme. I'm not saying it's a good thing, or bad thing. Just more to it than most people could possibly have started to think of. It will be interesting to see what it looks like a decade form now. If they do continue to hold out and there's a minature labour shortage or if they decide to "grow" up.

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I have sene nothing but trouble from tying oneself to a corporation. Time and time again my family has in the past suffered at their hands, and been denied many things. SImply because we couldn't afford a lawyer to try and fight these kinds of things. Fifty years he toiled away in the grain elevators. Then an [censored] family member with conenctions to the boss (daddy) takes his position he was promoted to in less than a year. So they stick the old man with bad lungs down in the dusty areas. He almost dies from passing out, lucky someone finds him and they take him to a hospital. They say he can't work manual labour any more or in areas with extreme dust. The company insists they will give him a "better" job but they refuse to give him oone outside the dusty old area. A month before he could claim the entirety of his pension and he has to quit. The company refuses to pay him it. That's what you get for toiling your [censored] lives away folks. A kick in the ass and a swift trip to a retirment home. Thankfully he was able to avoid that fate.

I don't get it.

Is she writing a suicide note?

Awesome.

While I wouldn't generalize an entire generation, I would say that many youths who graduate from college (and maybe high school, but can't say I know any high school graduates) either expect way too much or they're too naive to think they're going to achieve something because they have a piece of paper. Heck, most of my senior classmates didn't have an internship in the last semester of college. Maybe 3 (including me) out of 60 had internships. I just wanted to shake them and say, wake up! Do you not realize how important it is to get out into the world and learn practical skills before college is over?! It's their prerogative to earn a doctorate and work in a coffee shop the rest of their lives if they choose that path, but most expect something greater, yet they're not willing to do what's necessary.

I'll also add that most people are too wrapped up in themselves by always playing on Facebook, Myspace, and whatever other social networks exist. They're essentially always looking in a mirror say, "do you think I'm great?" and invariably the answer is always going to be, "yes" because to them, their friends are the world. They're always living in a comfort zone, always in a security blanket. It reminds me of over-confident teens at the mall who strut around thinking they're 'it', yet the only reason they're there is because mom gave them a ride and handed them $20. It's dangerous when kids grow up into their 20s, always in that mindset, and when the blank checks from mom and dad stop coming, they crash like a heroin addict gone cold turkey.

Anyone who values life and yearns to experience it would wake up from daydreaming and face reality. Reality is hard work, intellectually and physically. Cut off your phone, cut off Facebook, and put yourself into the real world. Learn new ideas, meet new people, explore new perspectives. It's frightening, yes, but it's rich with excitement and rewards. After all, you only live this life once, so what do you have to lose?

Ewww... she thinks I'm writing a pet novel? Does she have ANY idea how much of my lifeblood and soul has been poured into it? Dear random internet lady who is mad, I demand satisfaction!

I didn't even know I was in a relationship. This broad [censored] me! I'm gonna' get her!

That aside...has there ever been a "current generation" that isn't completely [censored]-up and a sure sign that the human race is doomed?

The problem is this is the first generation in the history of all human civilization to have so much leisure time and so much wealth without working. All the while, they have the power to spread ideas and knowledge across the world in less than a second.

The danger is this: what message will they send to their children?

I agree---I mean you don't reward someone who does a bad job do ya? No sometimes a good coaching to get the person back on track is ok----but continued failures then you have to let them go.

Whether you agree with the content or not, it's very well written from so young a scribe.

Every generation gets a negative stereotype/characteristic and is heralded as worse than the last. Excuse me while I look at my certificate for coming 54th in a poetry competition when I was 7 to make me feel better. It may even give me some more inspiration for my novel (clearly a Nobel prize winner in the works, my Mum said so).

I don't think I had the same sort of parents as this girl.

Usually up on reserves here in Ontario there's no such thing as a nuclear family, but an extended family. Hence why she seems a little out of touch to me, one could say it's first world problems. I would love to deal with, something I can fix. Rather than something forced upon me that I can't deal with.

I want the time it took to read some of that back.

Must be because I live 245 years in the past, but none of that really applies to me or people I know.

We don't get medals for failure.

Well, actually, it does apply to a few mummy's boys, but that's it.

TL;DR boo hoo everything was better in the past.

Considering how pathetic people are these days, I am inclined to agree with her.

Why have common sense ? I can jsut act like a [censored] idiot, then sue people for my stupidity.
Dont voice an oppinion I dont agree with either, I am very thin skinned.

Go for it.

In my opinion, any attempt to pigeonhole an entire generation, least of all this generation, is a pointless exercise and only makes you look like one of the self-centered idiots you're blaming.

I remember the good ole days when people took the time to spell-check their posts.