First Blog Post

Are we there yet? Millennials drag years behind in crucial life milestones

Ben and Erica Trowell exit a Costco in Phoenix

 

By the time you hit 30, the expectation is to have found your stride in life. The good career, kids, the house with the white picket fence, and 5-year plan you hear so much about. That expectation has seemed to go out the window in today's unsure economy, while many millennials - those currently within the age ranges of 25 to 32 - seem to be stuck in adolescence. A growing number of them are unemployed, underemployed, or far behind their anticipated career paths. Marriage? Eluding many and taking the backburner to their own financial stability. Kids? getting pushed back with every passing year. Many of them forced to move back in with their parents, have multiple roommates, or downgrade to less adequate living quarters.

Millennials seem to point to the tough economy. For a generation that began with high hopes and growing up in the cusp of the information age their prospects for the future have taken a turn for the worse. Even with an improving economy, years of a disillusionment have left many with doubtful futures. As the older generations mark them as lazy, unambitious, and lacking spirit. Economists say a slow start in the working world have a lifelong impact on one's earning potential.

As a college student mere months from graduation the article "put the fear of god in me". We all leave college with the hopes of "making it". With this idea in our minds of just how successful and fruitful our lives will be, but it is never that easy. the hope is to get our feet in the door and work our way to success from there. Yet, what if you don't get the opportunity, what if all those hopes and dreams are replaced with stagnancy and uncertainty. The article seems somber, but also touches on the realities of the world today, rather than take it as discouraging, young adults should take it as a word of caution and prepare themselves for what is it come.