{"id":899,"date":"2010-08-23T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2010-08-23T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:44:34","slug":"20-somethings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"20-Somethings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really tired of hearing crap about our generation being lazy, entitled… especially since this article: What Is It About 20-Somethings?<\/a><\/p>\n

I happen to be one of the few people my age with a good job, a house and a husband, but that was pure luck. I just happened to know what I wanted to do with my life, my parents’ supported me while I got my degree, and it happened to be a profitable degree. <\/p>\n

I just read this article: Dear NY Times, Here’s Why I Haven’t ‘Grown Up.’ Love, a 20-Something<\/a>, and I couldn’t agree more. What’s wrong with using all the time and resources at your disposal to make the best decisions you can for your life? Why rush if you don’t have to? <\/p>\n

The comments after are awful! Basically telling her to grow up and let her parents enjoy their time alone together. If her parents are anything like my parents, they probably like her being home.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago at work, as part of this “Leading With Distinction” lecture series, a woman was talking about diversity and the differences between the generations. First time I ever heard anything positive about our group. Our generation happens to be really close to our parents. Is that such a bad thing? We text instead of calling. Again, bad? Instead of waiting a week for my friends to call me back when they have time, I can make dinner plans with them within an hour. We’re better with computers, we’re better at multitasking, we bring in a new perspective.<\/p>\n

Apparently we’re also careful about screwing up our lives. Or maybe careful in general. My parents, like many others, are way over protective. Even now I need to call them when I get home after visiting. We were taught that the world is a scary place and to be extra careful about everything. You’re surprised we’re not leaving home? Hey, old people, this is the world you’ve created for us. You don’t like how we turned out, blame yourselves. I think we’re OK though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really tired of hearing crap about our generation being lazy, entitled… especially since this article: What Is It About 20-Somethings? I happen to be one of the few people my age with a good job, a house and a husband, but that was pure luck. I just happened to know what I wanted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-ev","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}