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Everywhere you turn, there’s factoids about “millennials.” That we are drowning in student loan debt, we live at home mooching off our parents, we’re cynical, and we don’t give a shit about anything but ourselves.
But a new poll from Forbes has found some facts about millennials that may surprise everyone except us. While there were the usual statistics about buying habits (shocker: we shop online more than we go to the store) and social media (although I’m surprised to find I’m not in the minority when it comes to not using Snapchat – only 2% of use it the most), the real interesting stuff came in terms of demographics, finance, and general sentiments:
80% are active in their community outside of work.
51% consider exercise to be the most important health factor in their daily life.
86% are “very confident” about their future earning potential and certain that the companies that employ them will grow and thrive.
50% cite changing the world for the better as a goal.
44% say that the opportunity to change the world motivates them to be successful.
Only 8% live with their parents.
58% graduated with no student loan debt and 56% of those that did have debt have paid it off.
Most important challenges we think the world faces: 27% replied global warming, 24% said terrorism and 22% said the economy and future recession.
80% still believe in the American dream.
97% are extremely optimistic about what lies ahead for them.
Well, I’m not sure if I’m 97% optimistic, but this certainly makes me feel a bit better about our future. Aren’t you? .
[Via Forbes]
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Jenna Crowley
Jenna used to be known as 2NOTBrokeGirls, but then one of the girls actually went broke, so she's struck out on her own. Jenna spends her free time saving the world, one sorority girl at a time (usually while wearing yoga pants), questioning why she decided to get a doctorate, documenting her love of all things cheese related, and hosting the new PGP podcast Don't Take It From Us. You can ask her anything you want about football, using your boobs to get what you want, and pizza at @JennaLCrowley on Twitter or via email at JennaLCrowley@gmail.com.
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But… but… which city should I be living in if I’m an optimistic Millenial who wants to change the world? I NEED to know!
“Only 8% live at home.”. I’m not buying that for a second.
Same. Does this just include Millenials in the work force? Because there are a ton of Millenials who are still in college, and I imagine they live at home with their parents (at least during the summer).
Yeah I’m really curious about how they chose the study sample
Um, I’ve seen other articles stating somewhere between 20% and a third. It HAS to be higher than 8%. I call bs
I think the 31-32yr olds throw off that student loan stat.
I think those of us born before 1990 should be excluded from most stats or studies that “Millennials are lazy, entitled, selfish Snapchat addicts”.
How dare you call me an addict.
I’m 100% sure that significantly less than 58% of us graduated without student loan debt
More people die from eating cheeseburgers in one year in this country than people who have been killed in every terrorist attack here of the last 25 years. We should be more worried about Monsanto and McDonald’s. I always knew that smiling clown who waves to children was a greedy psychopath.
Unpopular opinion: Monsanto’s technology has helped increase food yield substantially and the company has benefited society overall despite being complete dicks to farmers at the same time
I wouldn’t say that they’ve been dicks to farmers either.
My own independent study found that the Snapchat statistic is horse shit.
Don’t expect this to stop every other generation from continuing to blame us for the world’s problems.
“50% cite changing the world for the better as a goal.”
When kids are taught that they can change the world we end up with Bernie supporters and BLM protestors. Changing the world should be a by-product of what you do, not the goal.
Count me in for that 3% at the end.
A lot of this data is skewed by the type of people under 30 that read Forbes, such as a large amount of people intending to invest in their own business soon. The most depressing part of the data is the 1% of respondents who said in 5 years, they expected their income to be 0.
As the great Richard Simmons probably once said to himself out loud in front of the mirror as he’s trying on lipstick in a tank top “Suicide is the only thing in life you can plan.”
Something tells me you’re the kind of guy who plants violent messages in “Tickle Me Elmo” recordings.
*Tickles Elmo*
“Think for yourself. Question authority.”
“Jet fuel literally can’t melt steel support beams.”
“Why does everyone who tries to change the world for good get assassinated?”
*Drops Elmo and runs to the computer to look for bunkers on Zillow*