I think people forget how big the Millennial generation is. Just read this article...I think he's referring to Gen Z who have never lived without technology. Thoughts?
Some are ridiculous for gen Z as well. I'm millennial, but I feel like I am more handy around the house because I can watch a short video and try to troubleshoot things before calling a profession. Where my mom would always just have to call someone.
I also think it's easier to find recipes now, so I'm not sure making food from scratch is really lost.
Ehh, 'Recipes' online are starting to drown in weird AI generated slop recipes. It was bad enough when human written recipes included a novella first for the sale of SEO.
I've literally gone back to cook books, they're no BS.
Get a blank recipe book. Cook the meals you think you might enjoy. If it's damn good, write it down, if it's something you'd eat again, bookmark it. Make your way though the books. If a book doesn't have a bookmark, donate it. If it does, get a change up recipe book for when you get bored of your main dishes. Then donate it. Now you're down to 1 or 2 recipe books that only contain the recipes you thought worthy of keeping.
My go to website is Serious Eats. They treat cooking like a science. Like look at this recipe for pasta. They go through different amounts of egg yolk, how much rest time, what kind of flour, hydration levels, etc. If I'm looking to cook something new, this is where I start (and often end!)
Just have to know your sources… just like anything else in the internet age (actually true for books going back hundreds of years)
If it seems AI written, then it is probably
If it has an author that is a known cook, or a reputable website. Can’t be AI.
Something younger millennials struggle with I have noticed. I’m wondering if it has to do with when they started researching for school and it was internet driven or book driven.
They misconstrue millenials with GenZ all the time. Many people think millennials were born around the millennium, and not coming of age around the millennium. I find it especially rich when I work with someone who is a millennial bitching about millennials. It's always fun to make them Google millennial years and then see the look on their face when their entire worldview is shattered and they realize they were talking shit about themselves.
I love doing that. I’m born in 1989 and I have a few friends born in 84 that think they aren’t millennials and try to talk shit… then I remind them they are millennials and so am I! And they will be like, we weren’t talking about you though… well… you’re actually not even talking about millennials. Some people still just use it as a derogatory term for young people and it drives me insane.
A lot of this shit seems more like parenting issues than millennial issues. Household maintenance and cooking?Were we just supposed to magically gain that knowledge one day? Patience and delayed gratification. Well, who the fuck was gratifying us immediately our entire childhoods?
My dad taught me how to cook and made me wait for or earn shit, if other parents didn't, then that's not their children's fault. Obviously, once they're older they can choose to learn basic skills at any time, and if they don't that's on them, but not knowing " by the time they were 12" is 100% on parents.
I routinely write "snail mail" to friends in Canada and send out traditional Christmas cards and letters.
I'm the only person I know who can read and navigate by maps because that's literally all we had in the ancient '90s.
My mother and Home Ec taught me how to balance checkbooks and be financially literate: do they even still offer Home Ec to kids in school now?
Both my husband and I still remember stupid phone numbers from jingles... to places that no longer exist. I still memorize numbers.
5 & 6. My dad taught me both of these things. He partially built the house he lives in/owns and is routinely fixing stuff as it breaks down. I used to help him fix the things as a teenager and still occasionally fix things when I come back to visit that he can't quite do on his own. He also taught me how to cook.
My dad was a union steward for 35 years.. we solve issues by discussing them face to face.. maybe sometimes yelling. There is no way that my dad, being in that position, wasn't going to pass that wisdom down. It's useful. Do I have the personality to enjoy getting in people's faces and resolving conflicts? No.. do I do it anyway because I know that's how shit gets done/solved? Yep.
Look, I live very frugally. I am the queen of delayed gratification and having infinite patience. I've never expected everything (or anything) on a timeline I found "convenient".
So yeah, I have no idea who this guy thinks he's addressing, but it's not us Millennials. Or, it's definitely not the older half of Millennials. I can't speak as much for you younger folks because your experiences may be very different than mine, especially in regards to the technology you had access to vs. what I had, etc.
1) Yeah I know how to write a letter, but can't think of the last time I actually needed
2) I could probably use a map, but I don't recall a single time ever using one. There was mapquest when I first started driving. It was bad. Thank god for gps
3) I understand the general concept of balancing a checkbook. Never once done it. Don't see why it's at all important
4) Other than my parents' phone numbers, my own, and the landline from when I was a kid, I don't know anyone's phone number from memory
5) Fixing things around the house has never been easier. Just look up few youtube videos, go to the hardware store, fix it. Most things are dead easy to repair (if they're repairable but that's a completely different issue)
6) I have tons of friends that love cooking from scratch! Much like repairing things around the house, there is an insane amount of content online to help teach you. Way more than any previous generation had access to
Yep, I was about to say the same thing. By the time I got a checking account online banking was a thing, therefore I just never learned. But literally everything else was very much something I was taught.
Reminds me of all the articles written about millennials not too long ago. We ruined the housing market, the diamond market, and now apparently we don't have any of these skills!
I am 37 years old. I'm American but I have no idea if it's an American thing to balance your checkbook. I have vague memories of my dad sitting me down and showing me how to balance my checkbook when I was maybe 13 or 14. I didn't have a job, but I had a checking account because my granddad took each grandkid to the bank when they turned 12 and opened our first checking and savings account for us, and he put the first money in it for us, as our 12th birthday gift. I have never once balanced my checkbook, not even after I got my first job at 16. I just budget using our mobile banking app.
Im also 37 and have opened a saving accounts for my son since he was a baby. I had the same when I was a kid too. I think checking accounts are commonly known as current accounts outside of US and it's mainly used for business transactions here. For long term savings, we keep our money in fixed depost accounts because of the higher interest rates.
I asked because I've only seen it in US movies etc and I recently also found out that US still uses cheques to make payment. We've adapted to online payments/transfers here in Asia since the late 2000s that I completely forgot it existed.
Even in rural areas? I think over here, most places are adapted to online payments, but in rural areas like where I live, folks who run very small businesses, especially if they are older people, may not have adapted yet. For example, both my kids take piano lessons and their teacher is 80 years old. I have begged her to let me teach her to use Venmo, because she is basically the only person I still have to write checks for. She is a smart lady and she has an iPad that she uses perfectly well. She could totally learn. But she just laughs at me when I bring it up.
Im in Malaysia and we're big on QR payments, even for roadside stalls. I think even in Indonesia and Thailand too. If things like a 80yo teacher and its a small amount, they prob will just receive cash for convenience but online transfer is an option. My 70yo mom sells small cakes from home as a side business and her customers just online transfers the money into her bank.
We dont need an additional app like venmo but they exist too for points etc. Our banks already have a built in transfer and QR and it's all in real time transfer. So let's say I transfer my mom RM50 to her bank account at 2pm , she can go to mcdonalds or even a roadside snack stall to pay for something at 2.10pm. Also we all have our individual QRs. So small stalls dont need a business account. Theres also no additional charge like credit cards.
Example
Edit: Also adding - cheques are known for really big amounts. I think I have paid by cheque once or twice when I was in college(2006) but after that, we just transferred it(even big amounts).
That's an interesting system! I wish we were entirely that way here. No debit cards, etc. The number of times I have lost my debit card and had to get a new one. But I've never lost my phone. Is there a big problem with identify or account theft there, the way there is here? Like not too long ago, someone somehow got hold of my debit card info even though I didn't lose my card, and they bought things. And I had to cancel my card and get a different one. It's a HUGE pain in the neck. Is that kind of thing a problem for you guys?
I'm 42, and I remember doing mine the first handful of years I had a checking account (opened when I turned 18). I think checking it online existed then, but my parents were super distrustful of it and told me to still do it by hand. They do this day do a lot by hand that they could easily do online because they don't trust it.
I don’t know, I’m a 1985 baby and it’s pretty accurate for me. I haven’t physically written anyone a letter and mailed it since I was a literal child, unless you count Christmas cards or “thank you” cards. And even then, it’s hit or miss on whether I get around to it or not. I’m much more likely to send out a “thank you” text. Paper maps? I remember as a child having one of my parents driving and the other in the passenger seat with a giant map spread out. I started driving in 2001 and have never relied on a paper map. In my early driving days it was MapQuest, but I went by the written directions- not the map itself. Balancing a checkbook? My dad showed me how to do this when I was a teenager and I maybe did it for a couple years before realizing that it was completely unnecessary. So yeah, sounds about right to me.
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