There has been a lot of harsh feedback from those older than me claiming my generation is "the laziest generation." I would like to say that this statement is not true. Comparing myself to my grandparents, this past Friday was my grandparents sixty-first wedding anniversary. I was the same age as my grandmother 61 years ago on Friday and she had gotten married by then. By the year after they were married, they had their first daughter. Already my grandmother was 19 and decided not to go to college, since that wasn't the norm for girls to do. She has her high school diploma and now was a mother. I am not saying having a family is being lazy or slacking off, but my generation is waiting longer to get married and start a family, showing that we put careers first compared to what my grandparents had thought. Getting a job and into college is harder but my generation has prevailed and not just slacked off.
Catherine Rampell who wrote "A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much," does have similar views to Joel Stein saying that Millennials are narcissistic, impatient, and lazy, but they both refute it. It seems to me that Rampell does a better job at doing this by providing facts while Stein's satire did go right over my head the first time I read it. Both articles are enjoyable but Rampell's article made me feel as she was more effective than Stein.
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