Working with millennials

Working with millennials may seem like the chore of the century, but there’s much to be learned from such a thing. All you ever heard or read about now is how millennials are ruining the country and making a mess of traditions and culture. Well, anyone can do that, but the millennials started being born in 1981, meaning we’ve been living alongside them for longer than we realized. Maybe we even raised and loved a few of them. It happens. It’s not one of those situations where if you can’t beat them, join them, but you can see what they have to offer. Most millennials seem to possess a technological intuition that stems from early exposure to technologies and devices. You can’t beat back the tide, so you may as well adjust and learn to live with it.

As much as you may want to strangle the snot-nosed brat with a beret ordering a 16-syllable drink at Starbucks, you have to realize for every one of them, there are three others who are hardworking and willing to see what the world has to offer. They don’t know the struggles of the past and how the world has changed, to them the world is inconsistent and equally full of threats and wonder. They try to seize the opportunity when it comes and look forward to the next best thing. I’m more interested in trying to work with them and help them steer the ship we are all in to a better future. We need to be pushing ahead with them. They’re willing to strive and take chances with them and if we could pass on our wisdom to them, we can help them take over and reshape a better world. You could learn as much about some newfangled science from them as they could learn about how to handle a life situation from you. I want to be on the sled leading with them on this crazy adventure called life than throwing rocks at them as they go by.