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Are Boomers and Millennials More Alike Than We Think?
Conventional wisdom says that Millennials (18- to 32-year-olds) and Boomers (49- to 67-year-olds) are more different than alike. But when it comes to shopping, exactly how wide is the generation gap?
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Overwhelming self-confidence and joie de vivre are the kinds of things that rub older millennials the wrong way. It inspired “Millennials in the Workplace,” a corporate training video parody, viewed more than 600,000 times on YouTube, that tells baby boomer bosses how to deal with 20-something subordinates.
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Millennials want to be the boss; boomers don’t
Indeed, boomers may know something that millennials don’t. “Younger people think they know what it’s like to be the boss, so they want to do it, but more experienced workers know the reality,” says Tim Sackett, president of Human Resources Unlimited Technical Resources, an information technology and engineering staffing firm in Lansing, Mich.
Gex X was part of the survey, to be fair.
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UNLIKE OTHER GENERATIONS, MILLENNIALS HAVE SEX! (ACTUALLY THEY HAVE LESS SEX THAN THE BOOMERS AND SURVEYS OF PRIORITIES FIND THEY PLACE A HIGH PRIORITY ON FAMILY BUT WHOOPS YOU HAVE A SWEEPING GENERALIZATION TO MAKE SO NEVER MIND.)
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On the education front, one of the biggest myths is how well educated millennials are. “There’s this idea that millennials are the best-educated generation in American history. They’re not.” They are educated, but they have same education level – 41% of the 25-to-34 year olds are college-educated – that boomers had at that age.
