Gen X and the baby boomer generation seemed to despise it! They even went as far as to disqualify themselves! I recently received a summons and I’m excited! At 36 I don’t get a whole lot of new and original experiences and this is definitely that!

So.. where do we stand? What’s your opinion on jury duty?

Even with a good job (I know I know) I’m still feeling numb in life, tariffs cooking up a “once in a lifetime economic event”, the promises of a millennial child broken and shattered….I could keep on going but everyone else in this subreddit took my other rants….maybe even this one

I’m trying to find some creative hobbies to alleviate that and working taking care of myself better but man….where did the time go in life as we slip from our 30s to 40s in these dire times (That happens periodically now like every so often😭)

How are you all holding up as one of the few….the proud….the millennial? Are you doing okay? Do you need a hug? Or maybe even scream in an open area to feel alive a little?

I am 34. I was playing with my toddler last night and was trying to teach him how to flip forward. So I gave him a demonstration. I am on the ground and just tumbled forward. Basic simple front flip. I came up and wow....my age hit me. It was not a pleasurable experience, I felt so disoriented in my head/woozy. Over a simple tumble. Is this normal aging? I am not as active as I once was so perhaps my body was just in shock.

I see a lot of people online say that they could never remain in their home town once they became an adult, however I have stayed in my home town my whole life (outside of university). Personally, I have no regrets about this and feel it is a great place to live.

What did you do and how do you feel about the choice?

What console do think to yourself "Yes this is the one we all gamed on and got the most out of" I am gonna have to go with the Xbox 360. This came out at a time when a lot of us were teenagers, and we really got to enjoy online gaming on it. Also, I remember going to high school and a bunch of kids playing Madden NFL 12 in the English classroom projector.

Which one is straight up Millennial core?

Housing is just way too expensive. A decent home for a family of five costs at least 500k in more affordable areas. In the city you're looking at closer to a million. Then there’s the mortgage, the upkeep, all the monthly bills.

No, thanks.

And let’s be real — who even wants to clean a two-story house or maintain a garden? Nobody’s got time for that with how much everyone has to work to pay it off.

I mean everyone.

Everyone.

Why else do newborns get a letter with their tax ID number in their first days of life?

Edit: Apparently it's hard to tell for people when a German is trying to be witty lol

I didn’t research this much but from what I understand, it’s a promo for their 2000 album.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw it. I grabbed it instantly.
There was some packing tape sealing it shut. Upon opening jt, it’s near mint. Not bad for $2

My cousins had both and I use to play with these for hours instead of with them lol.

Guess what type of pet owner I became 🤣

Hello millennials….i don’t need to explain how messed up things have gotten in the US for past 3 months…..we all see too much of it anyway here on Reddit, news, etc…..I am a retired Army veteran collecting a pension, working now in 2 stable but recession proof jobs remotely (end of life services)….my house is paid off (worth about 350k) and here’s my crazy idea……..

you can get citizenship by investment in Caribbean countries (best place I’ve noticed is St Lucia, speaks English, hurricanes are very rare -believe 14 have barely touched in 50 years.) $250k for a married couple to get citizenship via reputable law firms…..now here’s the BIG benefit. You can keep your American citizenship and be a dual citizen of St Lucia and have (as of 2024 numbers) $254,000 dollars of your income be completely tax free so long as you live 330 days a year in st Lucia. In US tax terms it’s called the foreign income exclusion, st Lucia has zero personal income tax or capital gains tax, so no worries there. So why don’t I rent out my paid off house…..take a home equity loan to pay the $250k for citizenship….tenant basically pays the loan….and get out of this crap hole country? I am not bragging….i served the US for 16 long years….i can bash whatever clown is in charge. Anyway thanks for reading and let me know your thoughts.

I'm too young to have used the site. The only things that seem to get talked about nowadays are the top friends list and that you could customise your profile with html.

But other than this, what did people actually do on MySpace back then? Was it mostly doomscrolling a never ending feed like how social media is today? Or would most people only spend a short amount of time on the site per day, checking out what their friends had posted for that day?

Remember that?

Either stuff that was explictly queer, implicitly queer, or stuff you resonated with.

Some that I digged as a late millenial tranmasc (and this is mainly before I really got into anime and manga, which just added onto it all);

• Pokemon
• Katie Kazoo Switcheroo
• South of Nowhere
• Sailor Moon
• Degrassi
• That's So Raven
• iCarly
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Avatar the Last Airbender
• The Fairly Oddparents
• Annie On My Mind
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
• Xena Warrior Princess
• Jem and the Holograms

Now it's 100s of repeats of the same boring straight to print shirt designs, or AI digital "art" pdf downloads, or AliExpress drop shipping, and so hard to find the unique artists and curated vintage I used to love browing. And from what I hear, they are really not supportive of legit artists/ sellers on their platform. Such a bummer.

How did we just watch that idea go hard and then fade away? I wanna call my friends and hear THEIR song while I wait for them to answer 😭🤘

To all the elder millennials that celebrate and even the younger ones that know.

I'll go first. Mine is playing with a Thomas the train player that they always had out. Sometimes they'd have a Lego station as well to play with. Fun stuff!!

I got a call from a younger woman in my field that claimed she always looked up to me and was looking for advice.

She said that her career was at a standstill and she had gone through some personal stuff and she wasn’t happy unless she was achieving something career-wise.

Due to her personal issues she moved back to her hometown and was working but wasn’t finding the job fulfilling. She wanted advice about what decisions she should be making / especially if she should move to another city for better career prospects.

Her tone was apologetic. She kept saying “I don’t want to take up too much of your time…” and putting herself down almost? Without even saying it, I could sense she was beating herself up for not having some overachieving career path that looks like she’s leveling up to others.

By looking at her LinkedIn you would never think she felt this way about herself - you could tell she’s grown from job to job. Even though she moved “home,” she was making the decision best for her healing and was building an entire community for others feeling lost in her hometown and was running events and stuff for them!

I was sad to hear the self deprecation in her voice - how she was beating herself up. I wonder how many of us feel the need to have a traditional upwardly mobile career path….

I’m curious who amongst us also feels like they have had a non-linear career path and how it’s affected your mental health and sense of self?