There are lazy aspects but the generation before us was just as lazy. Not to mention, at least in Australia baby boomers were handed their futures on a silver platter, free uni, cheap housing, limitless oportunities yet they ****ed over a beautiful country with their own selfish ways and drove up housing prices and the cost of living and have the gaul to call us lazy because we complain about how much things cost and accuse us of wasting everything they worked for.

I agree with everything. Each generation has it's weak and strong points. We're just perceived as lazy because of the advent of technology etc - if the previous generations were just as advanced this perception wouldn't exist towards us. Being able to have things done more easily doesn't necessarily equal being unmotivated/lazy.

P.S. A fellow Melbournian? No way!

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Like Britney said, get 2 work bitches.

Judging by my students, they are lazy..... They want the world, but they want it handed to them... I've literally heard dozens of them say they are not gonna travel 30 minutes for a job or internship, it's too far away Also, all of them expect to get the latest gadgets and designer clothing from their parents for free, they don't want to work for it but actually believe they are entitled to all that stuff cuz they were born as their parents' children... and if they don't get it I have heard them refer to their mother as "that cancerous bitch"... Girl, that's just laziness, not a lack of motivation

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I'm guilty somewhat

we're the millenials, we were raised by the television and internet. we're selfish and impatient. i'd say we're unmotivated.

I think this generation grew up at a time where people who didn't work got all the money & fame, so everyone just wants to have that kind of lifestyle.

Kids don't wanna work hard to become someone important. They just wanna sit on their ass and hope to become "famous & rich for nothing" like Kim K & Paris Hilton.

Australian's are still handed everything. The amount of people I know living of Centrelink (the only time I agree is during financial struggle or study) is ridiculous.

Some kids get them because their parents don't earn enough. But those kids have the time to be working but don't because of the fact it's so easy to obtain free money. Of course people aren't going to work. Sometimes getting part time work gets you less money than if you are on the doll.

It's a mess in Victoria (I don't know about the rest of Aus).

*recites Madison Montgomery's monologue from that one episode of AHS*

This generation lacks motivation tbh.

Well I suppose it depends on what country you are talking about; I assume most of you are American. In general I would say that in most first world countries there had been (before the recession) a time of prosperity. Coupled with the emphasis on careers in the tertiary sector this led to higher expectations/aspirations for the younger generations both by the young generations themselves and the previous in a narrow field of employment. It is expected that one should receive some form of third level education and then find a career (not a job) that not only pays well but intellectually stimulates you as well as accessing your potential. This attitude may no longer be possible in this current climate and as such may lead to laziness and un-motivation. However, no generation is drastically worse than the one before and attitudes will probably shift.

Both tbh

laziness.

we have plenty of motivation (for the wrong things)

I'm guilty of having lazy spells myself tbh. It has to do with how we're raised. Not to say all of our parents are ****** but they've definitely ****ed up in this department.

My PET HATE is when I hear people bagging out their parents because "she's being a bitch" or getting stupidly angry over their parents not bending over backwards to their every want or need.

The only distinct time I remember doing something of the kind was when I had a final English exam 1 1/2 hours from home at a different school, and I texted my mum the night before asking if she would be home and she said she couldn't take me to it because she was staying over at someone else's house and that it was my job to remind her I had my final exam (god knows what she thought I was studying for) and I'm pretty sure I told her when my exam was but anyway.
EVERYONE else was driven to the exam by their parents who keep tabs on the education they are forking 10 grand over. My mum was shocked that I assumed she would be taking me to my final exam like everyone else rather than catch transport in a storm when she worked like 5km away from the school. So I'm not exactly innocent but

Apart from that, Parents shouldn't need to pick you up and take you home every five seconds. I always took a bus unless my parents wanted to go somewhere near by or they didn't feel it was safe at 3am or something.

I appreciate and remind myself that my parents forked a whole lot of money over me etc. and I think kids today forget that because it's so normal that it is expected.

I was just annoyed because all that hard work I put in could have been wasted if the public transport was late or slow (as it always was) and I lived in the country so there was one bus every so often and that was it.

I think we are lazy because we can do certain things so easily now, that anything harder than easy is immediately pegged as hard or taking too long. Take research for example. We have google in our pockets, versus having to schlep to the library and memorize things. Hence why we dont bother learning or remembering interesting or useful things because we think we will always have google. Parents are partly to blame too. Suddenly, everyones child is gifted and talented. Oh yeah? How gifted are they when they are still living off your dime at 25 or working in retail as a cashier? Throwing around words liked gifted and talented just cheapens the word, and makes the children feel entitled to not work hard or aspire since they already are "gifted"

Edit: also, the blaming culture is terrible. People blame other people and society for all sorts of things. The most funny to me is when people blame the govt for being unemployed or poor...its like: no, dumbass, get an education or start from the ground up and save intelligently.

I don't get where the idea that the millennials are lazy comes from. At my school (and it's filled with mostly rich, spoiled kids), I see nothing but kids working hard, staying up late to study for tests and the SAT, always trying to get into great colleges with scholarships, and managing extracurriculars (we have stunning sports programs, our debate and BPA teams just made it to state, our academic competitions do fine, etc.). I do see people struggling with motivation because the world's so ****ed-up now (I struggle with doing school work sometimes because I don't know how it's even possible for me to go to college, for example), but overall we're hard-workers.

It's the baby boomers who ****ed the whole world over and think it's easy to do stuff like get a job (in this economy), get a house, go to college, etc. because it was handed to them.

I am. the epitome of laziness.

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