Millennials or Generation Y: are they lazy?
This should come as no shock from Millennials, as it’s all about “them” and servicing “them.”
From the UKTelegraph.com:
Young people are ‘lost generation’ who can no longer fix gadgets, warns professor
by Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
Young people in Britain have become a lost generation who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances because they have grown up in a disposable world, the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures has warned.
Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong.
Unlike previous generations who would ‘make do and mend’ now young people will just chuck out their faulty appliances and buy new ones.
This is equally applicable to the US as well, because helicopter parents have ensured that their very special and unique children must attend college rather than learn trades in such areas as vehicle repair, HVAC service, plumbing, electrical, woodworking, metal fabrication, welding, or anything even remotely physical.
As a result, Millennials are shocked — shocked I tell you — to discover their $100,000 university degree in philosophy or Pan-African studies allows them to pour coffee at Starbucks or provide free internship somewhere, and only half of work is full time.
An interesting aside about Millennials:
Another blow to conventional wisdom: Younger Americans interact less than their baby boomer parents, apparently choosing Facebook over facetime. “Conventional group membership, attendance at meetings, working with neighbors, trusting other people, reading the news, union membership and religious participation are all down for young people since the 1970s,” said The report provided to Secrets.
When Baby Boomers die out, when Gen Xers die out, just who will make repairs on the necessities of life? Because even living in a “tiny house” or a 500-square foot apartment or taking the bus or the train or riding a bicycle will require someone who knows how to repair said objects.
There’s a new world dawning, and I fear young people are ill prepared — or even interested in preparation.
BZ
