I am a millennial, kind of. I’m technically Generation Z. I have a strange admiration for avocado on toast, I own a fidget spinner and therefore, I must be a millennial. I’ve been brought up with the knowledge that I will never own my own property, I will have to have endless unpaid internships and I’ll probably live with my parents well into my late 20’s – if I’m lucky.
To top it all off, anxiety levels are at an all-time high, the financial situation is, for want of a better word, fucked and we have a Prime Minister that, for some unknown reason, decided to shimmy across stage dancing to ABBA. To make matters worse, the world has decided it’s all our fault.
If you throw out the word ‘millennial’ to anyone above the age of 40, ‘lazy and entitled’, is usually what is thrown back in your face. It’s become almost a fun intergenerational game of ping pong. We are the first generation to end up poorer than our parents. Fact. End of story. However, there’s more to that than meets the eye.
Check out the full article in the very first issue of "The Quote". Available from the 22nd of January 2019.
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