Millenial Students

After watching the video, at first I was amused at the comments and overgeneralizations made, but then, after thinking back I was a little annoyed. The video classifies millennials as those born between 1980 through 1995. They classify this group, which I am including in, as people who have very little business etiquette, are selfish, and all throughout their lives have been rewarded for mediocre performance. This bothered me because although there are many uneducated and rude people from my generation, that does not mean that they all are like that. I feel that this has a lot to do with ones upbringing, morals, ethics, and personal goals. For example, in the environment I was raised in, I was taught to be very polite, well mannered and professional. I would never show up to a job interview in flip flops or exposing any tattoos. The video states that millenials are not concerned with gaining work experience, and are only worried about getting in to good schools and academics. I feel this to be another overgeneralization. I am a person who always strives to be the best at everything I do and I feel that being able to balance a job and perform at a college level in my academics is just a part of being a well balanced person. I have been working since I was 13 and saving money in order to buy the car that I have always wanted, a 350z,, which I bought a year ago and costs me $14,000. At the same time I maintained a 4.0 unweighted gpa average in high school and a 6.1 weighted gpa. I was a part of a community service project that started a movement to provide food and shelter to homeless people in miami-dade. I also applied and was accepted to Duke, UM, FSU, UF, and FIU. I currently attend FIU and am getting paid $4000 a semester to be here. At FIU, with the help of other millenials, I started a movement to raise awareness for the genocide in Darfur. My list of credentials keeps on going and going, but what I am getting at is that I am very well rounded and I am not only focused on myself, I care about others and issues that are affecting our community, and I have done things to help these problems. At the same time I have maintained a job at a sales company where I have to be in a shirt and tie, and I have maintained an A average in school. So when I watch videos that try to classify me as a selfish, mediocre working, uneducated, inexperienced individual it bothers me….