Just listen to the patronizing bullshits on this would you?  And that’s the big problem, isn’t it? Social institutions are missing out on the labor.  Also, it’s true that the recession makes things oh so complicated.  GEEZ GUYS I hope the overseers and holders of the reins of life will allow everyone to ‘keep exploring’!  It’s not like everyone isn’t taking any shit job they can find just to pay the bills or anything.  That’s not at all happening to anyone I know.  Good thing you have smrt adults at the ready to talk down to you and remind you to stop wandering! (via littleorphanammo)

I have had just about enough of articles wondering how we are ever going to make a productive society out of so many twenty-somethings who refuse to grow up, or get jobs, or do anything useful, OMG! I’m also pretty sick of the baby boomers writing these articles and contributing to these ideas about an entire generation. When they were are age, I’m pretty sure they were sitting in a mud pit burning their bras and holding hands, but that was okay because it was part of a political movement?  Even if these journalists writing these articles were too young for that, I’d like to know what they and their friends were doing in their twenties that was absolutely so earth-shattering that they’re completely let down by our performance. I don’t Not only is it pretty normal to live at home until you’re employed, or take a job doing literally anything to pay your bills and your loans, but I know for a fact that my parents did the same thing! In 1980! So what is the big deal that it is still happening now? That’s less of a generational phenomena and something that’s just been happening, that we’ve been refusing to acknowledge.

I hate listening to the idea, over and over, that kind, generous, rich adults are allowing us to meander, allowing us to explore and find our special unique snowflake selfs because they’re just so tolerant and patient. Isn’t it responsible to find a career that you genuinely enjoy? On top of that, I just really don’t know these people. The people around me are doing just about anything to hold a steady job, and even though I don’t know what “acting like a grown up” means, I’m pretty sure that being responsible for your own shit is a pretty good indication of that, which is something a lot of Americans, no matter how old, no matter how important their job, seem to kind of stink at doing.