Lazy Generation Research Paper

I don’t know how to use a rotary phone, I rely much more on the internet than my grandparents do, and I probably haven’t learned as many “life skills” that they did either. I’m a Millennial and I have been called lazy, entitled, and narcissistic, I’ve definitely had lazy days before, but I also don’t think that that means my entire generation can be viewed as lazy. Many baby boomers and generation X’ers roll their eyes at this fresh generation, I don’t necessarily think that’s fair. I can’t do a lot of things that older generations can do, but I can also do a lot more, and it’s ridiculous for other generations to think that I am somehow incompetent, because I don’t do things the same way. I’m writing this as I just came from a dinner with my great aunts and uncles as well as my grandparents, this means that I answered countless questions about my life, so I barely made it out alive. We started out with questions about my appearance. “Why do you have that thing in your nose?” “Your hair seems to be a different color every time I …show more content…
For instance, my aunts and uncles don’t understand why I’m pursuing a degree that isn’t going to guarantee me money, but this millennial generation is known to be chasing after some sort of renaissance for their art. It can sometimes be viewed as foolish and naive, but I think that it’s brave and bold, whether it’s expressing yourself through your appearance or art, it’s something that you see regularly in millennials. Millennials have also been viewed as lazy, but that is ridiculous, we are no more lazy than other generations, we may sit around a little more, but that’s because we have the technology to do so. Things that once took hours to do, can now be completed with a few pushes of a button. So you could say instead of being lazy, this generation is efficient and