Millennials are painted in such a terrible light that selfie lighting enhancers ultimately fail in filtering out negative stereotypes. In the workforce, it is a mystery to determine what is causing this incredibly biased phenomenon. Posed by employers of most companies, some of these individuals will not get hired because of their age. According to a Forbes article, “Millennials in the Workplace” where the subtitle reads, “They don’t need trophies but they need reinforcement,” Jeff Fromm notes how millennials are becoming highly influential. This is especially evident as examples like Jennifer Lawrence, Malala Yousafzai, Mark Zuckerberg truly reflect how influential and dynamic millennials can be, and as a result, the majority is expected to grow out of company infrastructures.Grouping all individual millennials together in one negatively perceived group, while drawing biased conclusions, does not seem at all fair. As the name denotes, a millennial is someone who was born approximately after 1980 to present date. Since then, plenty of technological innovations and social progressions reflect the current public interest.
The time frame from the last generation to the generation of millennials has been about forty years. Imagine all the people that have been born in the time frame. Are they all the same?
By now you would think that people would understand that stereotypes actually lead to more misinformed views. If one person born within the years that classify them as a millennial has the unappealing personality trait of being narcissistic and arrogant, the person after them will not be the same way per association.
The saying that a single bad apple can ruin a whole batch in this respect is certainly hogwash. Everyone has the capacity to be rude and lazy, even older individuals, but not all are this way. This is especially true, given the hard working millennials we are surrounded by during school.
Academics have become a more enduring race between students to obtain the highest grades. If we look around high schools in the Bay Area, we can see how competitive academics have become.
People are taking classes at the nearest community college just to crawl their way ahead of their peers by a few critical steps. The valedictorians these days have an unbelievably higher GPA than most.
Many students struggle to juggle their time intensive classes with other extracurricular activities. As such, the stress rates of the students reflect the increased competition in academics. It is as crystal clear as still lake water.
Millennials are hardworking people, equal in efforts, to how Baby Boomers are a hard working generation. The major differences between them are the different social situations they encounter and how they are able to approach them in their own ways.
With the many challenges both demographics have experienced in their respective time periods, both groups try to make the best of personal challenges to ably live life. However, it is important to note how millennials that have had the opportunity to grow up with revolutionizing technology and broadened social awareness will be more likely to utilize their given resources with vigilance and a fresher perspective.
Jeff Boss at Forbes also notes the power of millennials. People should be taking notes at what millennials have done so far. Some cool products have been invented by millennials. Endaga, a portable cell phone network to allows better cellular contact, despite terrible phone coverage as well as Titranarm, a millennial created robotic exoskeleton used to help people who are paralyzed.
There are many millennials who have grown up in a society that challenges the previous restrictive social norms and rules. A study made by the Bureau of Labor stated that millennials will be the largest generation in the workforce by 2015. Two years have passed and what do we see? More and more of our friends, millennials, are employed and have started their own successful and innovative businesses.
David Karp is the founder and creator of the popular social media website, Tumblr. Kylie Jenner has started her own lipstick business that sells out within seconds upon release of a new product.
This is the true condition of our power. Millennials are prevailing, despite the imposed unpleasant stereotype.