I think the big thing the Baby Boomers have to realize is that today 60s marks don't get you into a University that costs a couple of hundred dollars, to later graduate and get employed in a rapidly expanding North American economy that boasted many jobs created by their own demographic bulge. Also back then you didn't need to go to technical college to do a lot of more manual work. Gen Y had/has more competition and higher costs just to get off the ground and into a career than the Baby Boomers had. That has to be acknowleged.
As for Gen Y, they were raised by a generation that had unbelievable upward mobility, and grew up in an era of the largest continuous economic boom in history. Gen Y came into the workworce with a unjustified swagger and I like to think in many ways expected great things for themselves in terms of job opportunities, work life balance, leisure time, and self fulfilment from their job. Turns out the most recent financial crisis highlighted that the wonderful world they grew up in was actually funded by boomer credit and that maybe insted of doing what you love everyday, just merely carving out a decent middle class existance is a more appropriate life goal. In my observation as a Gen Yer, I think a lot of us simply don't understand that the rugs been pulled out from under us and it's really time to dig deep and forget about running a sucessful (Insert random hobby or leisure pursuit as a 'job' idea) company.
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