The Generation Of Today 's Generation

As generations go by, our predecessors assume we are skipping out on important aspects of life just to get a few extra minutes on our devices. In Catherine Rampell’s “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much”, it is said the older generations believe Generation Y is “coddled, disrespectful, narcissistic, and impatient” (Rampell 388). In all reality our generation is just doing what it has to in order to thrive in the world we live in, where technology is one of the largest parts of our everyday lives. If the older generations that criticize Generation Y had grown up in Generation Y they would realize the world we live in requires the use of technology. The advancement of society with technology has shaped Generation Y to be the people that they are, relying on technology; however, older generations believe Generation Y is lazy.

As the writing advances, the argument shifts to people capable of hands on jobs out of high school considering whether going to college should really be advocated as much as it is today. Along with this, he says that eventually attending vocational schools will become scarce due technology and the fact that many things accomplished at these schools can be done online. He also claims that income statistics of high end jobs today are skewed considering the fact that when you look at average incomes of a profession, many of us will end up in the lower percentiles. For many people, he says, the best option is to pursue a service or hands on job that doesn’t require a four year education. He ends the essay by claiming that “College isn’t all it’s cracked up to be” as well as depreciating the value of the normal B.A. that little college pursuers end up achieving. Murray writes: “the misalignment is in the optimistic direction, as adolescents aspire to be attorneys or physicians without understanding the educational hurdles they must surmount to achieve their goals”.

Many people are confused on why to invest time and money of attending college. A reason for obtaining a higher education is that a college degree can possibly earn a much higher salary than the majority of the people who have a high school diploma. College can be expensive and time consuming for the most of the people that do not have enough money and spare time to go to college. Stephen Rose, a research professor at the Georgetown University, wrote an article on “The Value of a College Degree” to explain if a college degree can be valuable to people to have. Eleni Karageorge, an author on the United States Department of Labor, wrote an article “Is A College Degree Still Worth It?” to give some details on job occupations that compares with employees having a bachelor’s degree or a high school diploma on how much they annually make on their job. Finally, Paul E. Barton, a consultant and a writer for topics related on education, wrote an article “How Many College Graduates Does the U.S. Labor Force Really Need?” on giving details on how valuable to have a college degree in the near future are needed when certain occupations are on high demand with a requirement on having a least a bachelor’s degree. We need to know why going to college is so important for anyone who wants to have professional occupations.

The first major liability of the United States was that no one had ever established a

“Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education come on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation” (1). Many people believe that school isn’t for everyone, and whoever goes is privileged for doing so. Countless people in the world today do not attend college, and this is mainly due to an influence of those in their family. Perhaps they are unsupportive of higher education, their parents and family members may view their entry into college as a break in the family system rather than a continuation of their schooling and higher learning. Most of the first-generation students decide to apply to colleges, because they aspire to jobs which require degrees. However, unlike some students whose parents have earned a degree, they often seek out college to bring honor to their families, and to ensure they make a decent amount of money for their future.

As the generation of babies born after World War II are known as the baby boomers, my generation will likely still be referred to as the millennials. This is due to many of us being born around the turn of the millennium. However, my generation was also the first to have modern technology interrogated into our academics, vehicles, and all other aspects of our personal lives.

Society is always looking for a fresh argument for its people to debate over. The topic has circled to the idea that the newer generations are doomed when compared to the achievements of previous years. There is a worry that the new century is not up to par with history, based on the preconception that they have been less successful. In “Generation Doomed?” Eric Heisler utilizes allusions and juxtaposition to develop the idea that the current generation is not like how older generations have negatively credited it, but instead, they show positive change, development, and contrast from one another.

As our generation ages, our knowledge of the our parents issues during their adolescent years. If you ask many young adults now they will say that our issues are very different and that we have nothing in common because times have changed. There are such things as drugs, parties, sex, dating, parenthood, and privledges that we all have faced through the years and that will not change. Although the circumstances may be different, the problems teenagers face today are not very different from those faced by their parents.

Heading into my interview with my grandma, I had an inclination as to how our generations differed, so nothing struck me as surprising. She made sure to drive home the fact that technology has driven a wedge in our generation, causing less kids to strive for physical activity, because it’s not perceived as the “cool” thing to do. Today’s society has gaming consoles, internet and televisions that keep our youth inside and away from physical activity outdoors. This differs from my grandmother’s generation because they spent majority of their days outdoors doing physical labor, and that is where they spent their time playing. So, I believe that the main difference between our generations is the fact that their generation had less distractions than ours today. They did not have gaming consoles, computers, cellphones, or other gadgets that have evolved in today’s society. When my grandmother was a youth,

It is amazing how quickly drastic change can occur causing a deadly domino effect. It seems with each generation you hear people speak of how the upcoming generation is different. It seems the previous generation never approves of the current generation. Change is constant. Youth today are being raised completely different than their grandparents and great grandparents. In America the daily way of life has changed so much that grandparents simply cannot understand this world let alone keep up with it. Of course America has made absolutely awesome progress in many areas but there are a few areas where the ball has been dropped. Tragically the transition in our diet, healthcare, the way we birth our children, and the way we raise our children has taken a turn for the worse, compromising our health and quality of life.

For centuries, humanity has been plagued by the notion that one’s success is dependent on his or her ability to acquire material wealth. The misconception that money equals success has compelled teenagers and adults alike to enter unfulfilling careers with the sole objective of becoming wealthy. As a result, many students, especially those of younger generations, only seek careers that they have predetermined to be the most lucrative, neglecting the possibility of pursuing careers in fields that they genuinely enjoy. Such is the basis for the rising skilled labor shortage within the United States; more and more young people are pursuing higher education due to the belief that

Potential advancements made by my generation as a whole can be far larger in scale than the changes made by any of the preceding generations in all of human history. However, this isn’t due to a disproportionate amount of prodigies or revolutionary thinkers. This is simply because of the advancements and the efforts of our predecessors that we possess advantages and tools such as: a seemingly infinite pool of accessible knowledge, means to collaborate with the greatest minds the world has to offer, and increasing opportunities to create and change the world around us.

Generation Y is known as the generation that was born in the 1980s and 1990s, although experts do not agree on when this era started. The people who make up Generation Y are often the children of baby boomers and are therefore called echo boomers. Most of them are in their late teens or twenties and entirely different from other generations. It is this generation that promotes change, unconventional opinions and optimistic approaches towards everyday living. In todays society a new movement has galvanized; taking traditional housing spaces into questioning. As with most things, this created a countertrend, focusing on homes that are smaller and simpler than the norm. Sometimes referred to as the “tiny house movement.” The concept describes efforts by architects, activists and frugal homeowners to craft beautiful, highly functional tiny houses. While the average American home is approximately 2600 sqft, the typical tiny house is of 1000sqft or less. It’s both a practical response to soaring housing costs and shrinking incomes, and an idealistic expression of good design and sensible resource use. Generation Y has unquestionably prompted the accelerating phenomenon of the “tiny house movement” through its financial hardships, sustainable living approaches and optimistic nomadic attitudes towards everyday living.

Millennials, the generation born between the years of 1980 and 2000, prefer instant gratification to delving deep into a resource, and they tend to be more progressive in their ideologies compared to their elders. The average young adult these days prefers images and diagrams to a page filled with scholarly words. We millennials thrive on flashing logos and visual stimuli. Present us with graphs and illustrations because we want the information to hit us all at once and in a unique way, instead of having to read separate bits of information sentence by sentence on a plain white page. Keep what you’re trying to say under 140 characters or we will get bored. Don’t send us flyers in the mail; follow us on Instagram because we are always on our phones anyways. Colleges and universities are catching on to the trend that the upcoming generation is technologically driven and prefer their information to be both terse and entertaining. They are also beginning to recognize the importance diversity plays in this generation’s life. This combination of artsy efficiency and liberal viewpoints is influencing the way universities choose to appeal to potential students.

Intergenerational equity, the concept which displays that actions of today 's generation will determine the world of the future generation. Therefore, the generation today must be fair and wise in the decisions they make, for their actions will sculpt the future of others. The image above was used to advertise an exhibition run by the ACT in 2008; climate change, human impact and creative challenge are going to kill our future generation. The then Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Harlem, displayed that meeting the needs of the present, should not compromise the capability of the future generation to meet their needs. However, through a change of actions within our global community we can save our future generation