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We millennials have been called just about every bad name under the sun and have had just about every negative adjective you can give a person attributed to our generation. Lazy. Spoiled. Entitled. Bratty. Whiny. We don’t work hard, nor do we want to work hard. We’re drains on the economy. Basically, we’re ungrateful pricks. Of course, most of the people calling us these bad things are Baby Boomers who caused most of the world’s problems in the first place, but that’s not the point.
Now you can throw another log on the fire: We hate volunteering and helping people.
According to figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, millennials have the lowest volunteer rate of any age group. People ages 20-24 came in at the lowest with just 18.7 percent of all people surveyed who volunteered between September 2013-2014, and the next lowest group, ages 25-34, clocked in at 22 percent. The next lowest group were adults 65 and older, with about 24 percent, and kids ages 16-19, with 26.1 percent. You hear that, millennials? We’re getting our asses kicked by teenagers and the elderly!
The article, from Bloomberg, is very quick to point out that “81.3 percent of Americans in their early 20s hadn’t done a single thing to help someone out, any time recently.”
What the article doesn’t factor in is the fact that for most of us in this age range, we’re in the midst of entry-level, hellish jobs. We work incredibly long hours, often paired with a decently long commute because we can’t afford to live anywhere near the places we work, and we make absolutely shit money. Some of us work 12 hour days, five days a week. Some work six or seven. Tack on 30 minutes to an hour of commuting on each end, just so we can go back to our apartments and maybe sleep just under what we need to actually function the next day, to do it all over again. And our weekends are either spent working, catching up on work, or actually attempting to have a social life in the tiny period we have between soul-crushing labor.
So tell me: Where in that do you possibly see fitting in volunteering?
Don’t get me wrong. Volunteering is great. I wish I could do it more. I think I will. Call it a New Year’s resolution. In March. Helping others is awesome and it’s definitely something I want to do more of. But let’s be honest here — we have so little time to ourselves when we’re first starting out working, and we’re trying to have fun and figure out our lives before shit gets serious. Our free time is precious and we kinda need it to, you know, do us, whether that’s unwinding with a little Netflix or cable after work, getting stone drunk, Tindering ’til our genitals fall off, or some combination of the above.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is that yeah, we’re selfish, terrible people. But, on the other hand, fuck off, we’re doing the best we can. Cut us some slack, huh? We’d give you money to leave us alone but, frankly, none of us have any..
[via Bloomberg]
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If someone volunteered to pay off my student loans, I’d volunteer my time.
a survey recently made up by me says that the main reason teens out – volunteer us is because they want something to look good on college applications or their resumes.
Actually, a ton of schools require each high school student to do community service hours per year, or else they’ll fail you. My school required 24, and if you got in trouble during the year, it went up a good bit.
Gotta look out for #1.
Oh yeah, we’re a drain on our economy. Not everyone on Medicare and Social Security (not to mention Medicaid) who eat up several hundred dollars of my paycheck, that despite the promises of politicians, I’ll never see a dime of when I turn 65. Just this past weekend I made a reference to retiring at 65, then literally laughed at myself for having the audacity to think I’d be able to retire anywhere near 65.
Millennials. You know, those lazy fucks who don’t help anyone. Those selfish pricks who also spread the ice bucket challenge on social media like a bad case of the clap around a college campus at homecoming. Which also raised a metric fuck ton of money. As stupid as it was, it was 2 minutes of prep time, an upload to Facebook, and a donation to a local charity. You want more of my time talk to my boss.
People should be volunteering to help us, not the other way around.
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Considering the felt the need to protest and rebel against their parents, THE GREATEST GENERATION, I honestly don’t give a fuck what Boomers think of millenials. Maybe they’re the assholes.
It’s already been said but we work like a dog. One day when I have time and money I’ll help but right now I can’t too much. I prefer the Humane Society anyway. People need to help themselves.
I think were the ones that need people volunteer and help us. But what do I know?