Millennials

Top 15 Actors of the Millennial Generation - a list by mikeyjwarr-385-278998. American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals. After being dismissed from her job as a Midtown Manhattan securities attorney in October 2009, Christina Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trailer to her Dodge Ram pickup and drove 1,628 miles to Texas.

The 32-year-old lawyer sold skin-care products in Houston before finding work as the assistant general counsel of a futures-trading firm where an irate customer punctuated a recorded voice-mail message with gunfire. “No one was left with the impression that he just happened to be phoning from a sporting clays range,” she says. Eighteen months and two busted jobs later, the daughter of a retired physician and a former editor at Vogue circled back to upstate New York and hunkered down at a small legal office that pays about one-quarter of her former $165,000 salary. Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. ‘Permanently Depressed’ Disappearing Jobs Lost Faith. 5 Things You Don't Know About Gen Y. Millennials Worry How Connectivity Will Impact Our Future [INFOGRAPHIC] For all the technology we have, it doesn't seem to be bringing us much happiness, at least according to a recent survey by Euro RSCG Worldwide, an integrated marketing communications agency.

"This Digital Life" surveyed the opinions of 7,213 people in 19 markets and discovered that 55% of respondents believe technology is robbing us of our privacy, while more than half of millennials worry that a family member or friend will post inappropriate personal information about them online. “Our probe into technology use revealed a number of emerging concerns,” says Tom Morton, chief strategy officer, Euro RSCG New York and co-chief strategy officer Euro RSCG North America. “First is the fear that social media and online data collection are chiseling away at our right to privacy. A majority worry that technology is robbing us of our privacy, and 6 in 10 think that people are wrong to share so much of their personal thoughts and experiences online. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Olena_T.

The Dangerous Denial of Millennials. Millennials, or those born between 1982 and the early 2000s, don't have a lot going for them.

They're buried in student debt. A lot of them are unemployed. Raises have been unheard of and job security is a dream. But one thing millennials have going for them is time. Most millennials aren't going to retire for another 30 years, at a minimum. So this finding, from a recent Wells Fargo survey, made me cringe: "Half of millennials (49%) say they are confident in their own abilities to earn and save money for their financial future, and more than a quarter (27%) say 'time is on my side for my savings/investments to grow.'" TIME Magazine Millennials: Why Millennials Have Every Right to Be Cynical. Most demographers say that the millennial generation began in the early 1980s, and according to a series of polls conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics, in those near-30 years since our generation began, we millennials have become intensely cynical, distrustful of every government institution except for the military, and increasingly partisan in our politics.

Even worse, these polls indicate it may become permanent. They worry that the constant demonstrations of greedy partisanship and mindless incompetence by our elected officials is having a long term negative effect on the millennial generation. You don't say? It's anecdotal, but I can attest firsthand that I have become far more cynical about politics in the past three to four years than I had been before. The Government Moving onto Congress and the Senate. The Economy Tuesday saw the Dow Jones close over 15,000 for the first time. Baby Boomers Student Loans, the Job Market, and Unpaid Internships Ourselves Daniel Waugh.

TIME Magazine Millennials: Why Millennials Have Every Right to Be Cynical.