All posts tagged: Millennial

5 Life Skills Millennials Developed Naturally That Gen Z Wasn’t Set Up To Learn

5 Life Skills Millennials Developed Naturally That Gen Z Wasn’t Set Up To Learn

Published by Jenni Sidey

Millennials didn’t necessarily plan to build certain life skills in their twenties; they just had to. Between financial instability, job market pressure, and figuring things out without as many digital shortcuts, many Millennials developed habits that shaped their careers, relationships, and the way they live their lives long-term. Those early life skills impacted everything from how they saved up (or didn’t) for retirement to how they talk about and deal with their emotions. Gen Z isn’t necessarily less capable; they’ve just grown up in a completely different environment, one that didn’t always require or encourage the same skills at the same stage of life. But the earlier you build these foundational habits, the easier everything gets later. Here are the life skills Millennials developed naturally that Gen Z wasn’t set up to learn, and why they still matter. The 5 life skills Millennials developed naturally that Gen Z weren’t set up to learn: 1. They start saving early (even when it feels small) Do you think you have time to save for retirement later in life? You …

Gen-Z And Millennial Women Say These 5 Factors Are Changing How They Feel About Having Kids

Gen-Z And Millennial Women Say These 5 Factors Are Changing How They Feel About Having Kids

Published by Jenni Sidey

A traditional American narrative has maintained that motherhood is the desire, obligation, and correct path for all women. As a result, women are often pressured by relatives, media, friends, and numerous religions to have kids in ways that others are not. But Gen-Z and millennial women are pushing back.  The notion that some women wish to reject motherhood is relatively new, and it still leads many women to experience shame. Yet a growing number of younger women are making this choice anyway, and everyone deserves to hear why. I believe we deserve to hear multiple perspectives on the matter in order to ensure empathy for those who take a route that deviates from the norm while providing women with the autonomy to choose.  Women should feel pride, not guilt, for doing what is best for them. I interviewed eight Gen-Z and millennial women who either do not want kids, feel hesitant to have children, or want kids but have fears. Gen-Z and millennial women say these factors are changing how they feel about having kids: …

Gaming’s new coming-of-age genre embraces ‘millennial cringe’ | Games

Gaming’s new coming-of-age genre embraces ‘millennial cringe’ | Games

Published by Sam Flores

I’ve noticed an interesting micro-trend emerging in the last few years: millennial nostalgia games. Not just ones that adopt the aesthetic of Y2K gaming – think Crow Country or Fear the Spotlight’s deliberately retro PS1-style fuzzy polygons – but semi-autobiographical games specifically about the millennial experience. I’ve played three in the past year. Despelote is set in 2002 in Ecuador and is played through the eyes of a football-obsessed eight-year-old. The award-winning Consume Me is about being a teen girl battling disordered eating in the 00s. And this week I played a point-and-click adventure game about being a college student in the early 2000s. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is set in New York in 2003 – a year that is the epitome of nostalgia for the micro-generation that grew up without the internet but came of age online. It was before Facebook, before the smartphone, but firmly during the era of late-night forum browsing and instant-messenger conversations. The internet wasn’t yet a vector for mass communication, but it could still bring you together with …

King Charles’ 1-ingredient lunch is a ‘nourishing’ millennial favourite

King Charles’ 1-ingredient lunch is a ‘nourishing’ millennial favourite

Published by Daniella Wilson

Though it has long been known that King Charles prefers to skip a meal at lunchtimes, even being confirmed in a list of facts released by Clarence House to mark his 70th birthday in 2018, it seems that he has finally decided to make a U-turn.  According to the Mail on Sunday, the King has begun to eat lunch, having previously viewed it as a luxury that his time did not allow. Following the advice of his wife, confidants and doctors, he has reluctantly started to have a meal in the middle of the day. © Getty ImagesKing Charles has traditionally skipped lunch Most importantly, the 77-year-old is known to be a picky eater, mostly preferring food grown at Highgrove and only opting for the healthiest food he can get. Funnily enough, his choice is an incredibly trendy one, especially with millennials. The publication reported that King Charles now takes half of an avocado with his lunch to keep him energised for the second half of the day, which is especially vital when recovering from …

Gen Alpha Says These Outdated Slang Words Make You Sound Old

Gen Alpha Says These Outdated Slang Words Make You Sound Old

Published by Jenni Sidey

As with any generation, Gen Alpha has its own lexicon of what’s cool and what’s not, and they’re letting everyone older than 13 know. You might think you’re hip, but Gen Alpha says certain outdated slang words make you sound old. Social media influencer Nicole Pelligrino interviewed her Gen Alpha sister, Simone, and Simone’s bestie, Georgia, to discover which words are in and which are out, and these 5 words that you probably use more than you realize are letting everyone know that your cool card has been revoked. Trying to figure out where you fall on the social ladder was hard enough once, let alone repeating the endeavor. So how about this: Stop trying to keep up with the times. Sure, you roll your eyes at “6-7,” but you’re not a kid anymore, and that’s OK! It’s time for Gen Alpha to have its moment. Gen Alpha says these outdated slang words make you sound old: 1. Slay SeventyFour | Shutterstock If you assumed that “slay” has something to do with saving princesses and …

3 Basic Life Skills Every Millennial Learned By The Age Of 12 | Dr. Gloria Brame

3 Basic Life Skills Every Millennial Learned By The Age Of 12 | Dr. Gloria Brame

Published by Jenni Sidey

Millennials helped chart our digital social territory. Having gained the ability to use paper and pen at a young age, they went on to program the code that radically influences our social sphere to this day. Parents of Millennials may not have had the tech-savvy of their kids, but they had the desire to own the technology. So having Millennial kids around had an added benefit. By 12, most Millennial kids who had access to technology were socially primed to take control of all the household digital advances. Long before the days of AI-generated 24-hour online tech support chatbots, we just called in the local Millennial kid to figure out how to set an Away Message on AIM Messenger — if you know, you know. Here are 3 basic life skills every Millennial learned by the age of 12: 1. How to get around using a real map, not GPS simona pilolla 2 via Shutterstock One of my relatives worked for Rand McNally, so I had my choice of maps, and I loved looking at …

Woman Avoids Paying Rent By Being A Full-Time House Sitter

Woman Avoids Paying Rent By Being A Full-Time House Sitter

Published by Jenni Sidey

A millennial woman based in NYC revealed that she avoids paying rent by working as a full-time house sitter. Considering rent in NYC is exceptionally high, even for locals who grew up in the five boroughs, her unconventional approach to housing costs is quite ingenious.  Alanna Parrish admitted that working as a house sitter for her clients around the city allows her to completely avoid having to purchase her own place and saves her thousands of dollars each month. A woman avoids paying rent by being a full-time house sitter. “I’m a full-time house sitter in New York City. I don’t have my own place. I live in other people’s homes full-time, and I keep getting asked the same question, which is where do I go if I don’t have a house sit?” Parrish began in her video.  She explained that she spends a lot of time planning her house sits, and she’s usually able to line them up so they overlap, and she’s never without somewhere to stay. Usually, one house sit will end, …

‘It was a ticking bomb’: How a devastating break-up just before her wedding led this millennial down a dating rabbit hole

‘It was a ticking bomb’: How a devastating break-up just before her wedding led this millennial down a dating rabbit hole

Published by Sam Flores

ENGAGED IN MAY, MARRIED IN NOVEMBER Upon first meeting Ms Sumanti, I could tell right away she was a mother of a toddler.  There was an unmistakable mask of sleep deprivation and morning madness in her face. The biggest giveaway: she was in sensible shoes. Yet, this life she has now is precious. After seeking love in so many places, she found it right where she worked.  Her husband, a 45-year-old Singaporean who works in tech sales, matched with her on Bumble in 2021. At the time, he was working at Google too.  “We started going on long walks because it was during the pandemic and you couldn’t do much else,” she said. “When the borders opened, we travelled to Germany and things developed after that.” She added: “Because we met late in life, we both came with baggage and history and we agreed to leave that in the past.” This shared clarity enabled them to move at a pace neither was used to: “I think we packed three years’ worth of a relationship into …

The Rise and Fall of Sweetgreen’s Millennial Power Lunch

The Rise and Fall of Sweetgreen’s Millennial Power Lunch

Published by José Betancourt

Last spring, Sweetgreen did something shocking, at least insofar as the menu adjustments of a fast-casual salad chain can be described that way: It added fries. In interviews, the company’s “chief concept officer,” Nicolas Jammet, paid lip service to “reevaluating and redefining fast food,” but I suspect that Sweetgreen was also “reevaluating and redefining” how to make money in a world that appeared poised to move on from buying what the company was trying to sell. In the first two months of last year, Sweetgreen’s stock price had declined more than 30 percent. The company had already made significant changes, dropping seed oils, adding “protein plates,” and hiring a bunch of robots in an apparent effort to cater to the early 2020s’ three defining dining trends: the MAHA movement, the protein fixation, and the push to cut costs by eliminating human labor. But not even air-fried potatoes could stop Sweetgreen’s free fall. In August, with operational losses reaching $26.4 million, the chain fired workers, and also the fries. As the year ended, Nathaniel Ru, who …

Are you being a ‘Jessica’? How the internet crowned the millennial version of the Karen

Are you being a ‘Jessica’? How the internet crowned the millennial version of the Karen

Published by Daniella Wilson

Join the Independent Women newsletter with Victoria Richards for a thoughtful take on the week’s headlines Join the Independent Women newsletter  Join the Independent Women newsletter  Way back in 2020, the question was first floated on Reddit: if “Karen” was the derogatory name given to baby boomers and older Gen X women – usually white – who apparently stuck their noses into other people’s business and demanded to “see the manager” at the slightest provocation, what was the millennial equivalent? Discourse rose and subsided online at various points over the intervening five years, with a spread of contenders mercilessly thrown to the wolves. Those whose names were in the firing line did their best to provide alternatives, but despite impassioned pleas for Ashley, Jennifer and even Lisa, one name has now emerged victorious. The modern “Karen” is officially – according to certain corners of the internet, at any rate – Jessica. My heart goes out to anyone cursed with that moniker, including my own beloved niece. No amount of fame or money can shield against …