The Virtual Record of My Opinionated Rantings

Millennials, like the generations before us, are an anomaly to our elders. We are something new and unique and mind blowing. The entire market is changing to accommodate us, and we can’t but bask in the glory…

But are we all that different?

The answer, I’d have to say, is yes. While I’m sure there are gross exceptions to the rule, I’ve gone through the checklist to see if I’m fit to call myself a member of Generation Y and found that I’m fairly textbook.

I get up in the morning and allow myself time to check my e-mail, web comics, and news blogs before class. I have a Facebook and a MySpace and (obviously) a blog. I am readily capable of navigating Google and YouTube. I’m writing all of this on my laptop while listening to music that may or may not have been downloaded from a website based in Russia. The only time my cell phone leaves my pocket is to charge at night while I sleep…or stay up IMing the same people I would be calling. The apparent monotony of the Internet is endlessly amusing when you have the attention span of a caffeinated squirrel.

What I’m saying is that yes, I am a pretty standard example of Generation Y, but only in the technological aspect.

I understand to demands of a job, and I don’t intend to be allowed to work in shorts, wearing flip-flops, or during any hours I please. I don’t honestly think that as many of my contemporaries as some sources would want us to think do. Certainly, a fun workplace is a perk, but one would have to be entirely idiotic to believe that they will spend their days making the fortunes they feel they deserve lounging on a couch in torn jeans after stumbling into work around noon.

Then again, who am I to have an opinion as to this generation’s character but a naive an optimistic member of it?

Included below for, really, just my own amusement is a spoof on the 60 Minutes coverage of Generation Y.