Millennials List Their Daily Challenges, Not Realizing Their Grandparents Are Listening 

My Grandparents raised me. I wish I still had them. I'm a Grandfather now.

Agreed. My grandmother used to do a lot baking. I wished I learned some of the recipes. However, she did teach me the value of money and staying out of debt. One important lesson was knowing the difference between real silver coins and the sandwiched coins. I was taught this at 5 years. Another valuable lesson was being a respected person in town and know who the people that live in your community. My great grandmother taught me the basics of carpentry: cutting boards, hammering nails and how to straighten out crooked nails to use again. How chop down a tree with an ax. She also taught me how trap and kill rodents. I learned these skills at 4 and 5 years old. My great grandmother came from Poland at the turn of the 20th century.

LOL! Right? ;-)

well to be fair their are several instagram millionaires, so it can be a career.

Getting out of bed in their Moms basement is a major one for them. Give me a break.

Wayne Donecz Couldn't agree with you more! When I was at my Gram's house with my cousin once, she started telling us about her younger days during WWII and just before then!! What a gal, truly a member of the Greatest Generation!! Gram is gone now, but I will always love and respect her memory and be thankful that I am a member of her family!!☺️

Wayne, SO true. One of the great regrets in my life was not getting the chance to talk AND listen to stores of my grandparents and appreciate the struggles they dealt with. Such a good video and good comment

Very true, Wayne. There is a saying..."The problem is, you think you have time". Taking the time now to listen and imprint that generation's struggles and stories is so important. We never know when they will no longer be here to talk with us and impart on us the wisdom they have taken a lifetime to acquire. We have to learn from them now because once they are gone, so are their stories. All of my grandparents are gone and I wish I would have spent time really getting to know them while I had the chance.

. Wayne Donecz that is true for Gen X and before. But after NOPE. Since the financial problem we have today is a result of BABY BOOMER, also know as Generation Welfare. STOP WELFARE SAVE OUR COUNTRY.

Poor Miner that's the stupidest remark ever. You were told to say that, huh? That's like blaming all modern day Japanese for WWII.

These kids think they are living their lives by posting things on social media, when in reality they are sitting at home doing nothing. Posting online IS NOT living your life.

Doug F Yep and they know everything , they think it's cool posting pics of what they eat or new clothes or them selves . The problem is they don't understand what it means when you say keep your private life private . Everything they post every picture will follow them for life , and that can damage their job , their relationship or marriage .

Doug F If you had to pay a monthly charge to use social media , there would be as many people on it as you think . There arnt any laws that regulate the age of users of social media either , and that's also a problem . Companies and what not , made money and had customers long before computers , the internet and social media.

@Steve A ... some notes for you. then should be than except should be accept wernt should be weren't hero's should be heroes alot should be a lot then should be than (again)

dukestreetking75 Lol the grammar police , so you have never made a mistake in writing anything ? A simple question yes or no , oh wait you won't answer anyway . Your perfection should be awarded

Agreed. I am 53, and while we had to do chores, and get jobs for any spending money, and so forth.. I am under no illusions that we had "hard times" compared to the generations before WWII. Not even close. But Millennials would not be able to cope if they were dropped even into OUR era. God help them if there should ever be a crash like in the Depression, or a REAL major war, or some such... they are doomed.

No offence Vincent but many people from your generation can't cope with the things from this era. A lot of you are still computer/device/internet illiterate.

Or, if you are in your 60s like myself, learned from Depression-era parents to save. I even rinse out Zip lock bags. One of the problems, as I mentioned in another post, when I was paid $28000 a year, I was still able to buy a car, a house, save, go on vacations. Now they are paid $35000 or even $50000 but the house isn't $45,000 it's $450,000.

Gary J, and they only have to put 5% down and have a 4.5% interest rate rather than having to put 25% down with a 13% interest rate.

@@SepherStar I'm a Boomer. It was my generation that INVENTED the technology you take for granted. I was fortunate enough to be a participant in that rollout.

ah ah ah excellent remark!

Maybe... One day they will see the light.

Lucas Skrobish Same, 28. Daniel is right. We need to dorect those around us, help them be better people where we can

Fallen CantGetUp I feel for you buddy.

Fallen cantGetUp Don't worry, in about 30 years you get to complain about the younger generation being nothing but a bunch of losers. I remember my father telling me that I didn't know a hard day in my life. His dad probably told him the same thing.

Allen Atkins so....did you? My parents went days where they didn’t know the next time they would be near food. They lived outside for a time. They had hard times. I can look st them and say “knowing what a hard day is, I know I’ve never had one.” Have you? Or are you just one of the people in my generation of millennials who make it so easy for me, an average guy, to look exceptional at work simply by comparison.

Yeah, why do people who make these videos think we need music to make our brains work?

Sticks and Stones with Mike. Wow, listen to you!! That's fantastic!! Congrats on your success story!!☺️

Gen-X here too. My first job was at 13, working for Garst and Thomas Seed Company on a Roguing Crew in western Kansas. We had to be at the fields at sunrise (which meant getting up much earlier than that). Then we spent the day walking back and forth across the field in 104 degree heat, wading in ankle to knee deep ditch-irrigated mud fields, swinging corn knives to cut out certain plants, and detassle others. Minumum wage... $2.85/hr. Today you cannot get them to mow a friggin lawn even with a RIDING mower.

Working as early and as much as we can seems to be the answer- the funny part is that we can now look back on those 'crappy' jobs fondly and wish we were back there slugging away all day in the trench/field/house. For me on the digger it was under a boiling sun with a customer's sewage threatening to flood our works, laughing, ( in between swearing? ahem ahem ), with the mates.

Sticks and Stones with Mike. I guess nostalgia kind of puts it's own little filters realities, doesn't it, though? I'm so glad for you, and thanks for your comment!! Have a great life!!😊

Great Story, Sticks and Stones with Mike! I'm Gen X too...my first job was a receptionist at a law firm. Soon after all the crappy low paying jobs with dealing with sexual harassment at most of them, I started my own business 20 years ago in real estate and have not looked back. I love being my own boss! If you work hard, stay focused on the end goal you will succeed. Don't let society or lack of a piece of paper with a university logo on it define you and hold you back from your goals.

Nena Castro Martinez I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it seems to me that Hispanic people value their families a lot more than other cultures do!! I think it's really terrific how you love and respect your Grandparent's memories!! Good luck in your life! God bless!☺️

Michelle Duquette, as an Asian, I can tell you that Asians value their families and not only hard work and education. Our parents are very involved in our lives and we were taught early on to respect our elders because they have more wisdom than the youth.

WHATEVER GOES FOR ME I think that the way Asian people revere their elders is very wonderful!! I am European in descent, but my parents were always very interested and involved in my life, and I am so glad that they were now that both are gone!! Funny how their wisdom carries over to me through my memories of them, and how I love to recount stories that they taught me, especially during the difficult times!! Guess one of the parts of middle age that I have developed is the habit of story-telling!! Thanks so much for listening to my little harangue!! God speed!!☺️

Michelle Duquette, sorry to hear that both of your parents are no longer there for you since no matter our age, I believe that the bond between parents and children will always be there in families that are close-knit. I still have my mother though I miss my dad who taught me about time management, planning, trouble-shooting, and even some stuff reserved for men in our family like car maintenance, electrical issues, plumbing, and carpentry. As a single woman, I am so glad I learned those things from him. Yep, I was sort of a daddy's girl :)

WHATEVER GOES FOR ME I was very close to my Dad, too, after Mom died!! After Daddy died, I found myself picking up and doing things that he had taught me, even though I never thought I'd make it on my own!! I truly feel my folk's presence every day and thanks so much for your kind reply!!☺️

Usually is but you can't get most people under 40 to watch anything without it .... I used to produce radio spots and the ones that were the most compelling and most effective used sound effects and voice, and NO music. It is why, today, I cannot tolerate advertising messages, and especially those that not only use music but often sound like someone is grinding nuts and bolts in a blender in the background.

I totally agree Gary. I'm working in India right now and Indian media is insane for flashing lights, lots of movement, raucous music and screaming voice overs. The mute button on my remote is but a stub of its former self.

Bentley Knotts It always is. The loud music is rude. It competes with the person(s) speaking. I quite often just turn the video off. Annoying as hell!! "your favorite song" isn't what I came here for. However, getting the idiot to understand this is like expecting your dog to make you a sandwich.

To a degree, I think you're right. It seems we're immersed in the thinking that the dream is to get famous and get paid exorbitantly to do things that aren't particularly difficult. Kids want to be youtubers, musicians, actors, athletes, etc. While I applaud the desire to follow a dream, as I followed my dream of being a musician for a reasonable amount of time, it isn't something that you should logically expect to pan out. Spend 5 years on it, tops. If you get nowhere, you're not good enough and it's time to move on.

I don't say this as a defence of socialism, more as a defence of the idea that words have meaning. Socialism is about workers controlling the means of production, so there is no idle rich making money off the backs of the proletariat. Everybody contributes. Socialism isn't a catch-all political label for every trend in society, real or imagined, that you don't like.

Phlebas you do understand you just transfer the owners of the means of production (actual factory owners) with a bureaucratic elite. Who serve the function of yr idle rich (who generally are anything BUT idle)

Your claim is dubious, but as I said, I'm not defending socialism here. I'm just pointing out that "socialism" actually means something, and substituting it for "this thing I don't like" is lazy and dumb. It most certainly does not mean, "people don't work".

In full capitalistic system, those who don't work don't eat (of course there are religious entities who look after those people so they don't starve). In a full socialist system everyone starves, except those who are more equal than the rest. Orwellian future ahead.

No kidding! My dad lived thru the Great Depression and he went thru some SHIT. My Grandpa was a plumber in a small town in MT during the Depression and no one could afford to pay him for the work he did for them. After working hard all day he would sit at night and do paperwork. One night my dad saw him looking over the bills he had to pay, and bills he had for people that he knew couldn't pay them, and my grandpa just broke down and cried and sobbed with his face in his hands for a long time before he stood up and took the bills that people owed him and tore them up. The next day my dad ran away from home because he knew my grandparents couldn't afford to feed both him and his younger brothers. So my dad at 17 years old hitchhiked from Montana to North Carolina where he fell in with some moonshiners and he took to running moonshine in a souped up Model T. Well he had many trials and tribulations there over several years, and wound up on the run from the Feds. He got in a "high speed" chase with the Feds after him and he wrecked his souped up Model T on a NC mountain road, skidded off a curve and went into a ravine and was then afoot with the Feds on his tail. He headed back to Montana, walked the soles of his shoes off and had to dig thru trash to get pieces of cardboard to put in his shoes to cover up the holes in the soles. And part of the way he rode the rails, hiding out from railroad bulls. He almost starved to death on the way back and at one point was so hungry he jumped off a moving train he was riding on, and ran out into a field of green corn and ate the green corn and made himself deathly sick. When he finally made it back to Montana, WW2 was starting and he tried to enlist in the military but was rejected because he had scarlet fever when he was a kid and had a heart murmur. So he got a job with a logging company and went to work as a lumberjack helping to supply lumber for the war effort. Not long after he started logging, a widowmaker came down out of a tree on him, breaking his back in 2 places and he laid under the widowmaker in the mud for 4 hours before his co workers found him. Being a tough sunofabitch, he recovered from that and got a job surveying, and he saved his money and bought his own lumberyard and construction company a couple years later. He built some housing developments from the ground up where he laid the sewer lines, poured the foundations, did the framing , ran the plumbing and electrical systems and did all the roofing. He hired some guys to come in and do the finish work, but he did most of the work himself. Then he took the money he made from that and built a tavern/dinner club/ski lodge up in the mountains with only the help of my Godfather. They built it out of logs that they selected, cut down, hand peeled and treated. My dad and mom and I lived out at the construction site in a small cabin with a dirt floor, no electricity and no running water. I was barely a toddler then. They worked on it for a couple years before it was ready to open, and fought off bears and blizzards in the process. Well there is a lot more to the story but I think there are no millenials that have the toughness or gumption that my dad did. Tough times breeds tough people and kids that are raised in the lap of luxury are going to be useless, helpless pissants.

What was it like for you living through the Great Depression?

Boomers have no idea either. They made 20% more in their 20s than millennial do with less education, many started with pensions, school was much cheaper, so were houses. They messed all that up and are mad the younger folks are mad about it.

Yeah i can see that shit coming. With the amoutn of morons in the job market,

Well here it is. How do you think they are holding up?

... Or maybe the point of the video wasn't to shit on millennials? This is a university ad targeting that age group.

Keeping millennials ignorant of the real world and a proper perspective does nothing to help them or the rest of this country. They need more exposure to real life hardships and an understanding of those who lived them. Otherwise, I will not be the one shitting on them. The world and events will do that.

"...battled through hardships during hard times in the world's history." So the guy born in Paris in 1931 then came to America when he was 20 doesn't count?

Flynn Williford Really!! Anyone heard of a little argument called World War II?!🙄😑

that's because this video was made by a millennial

if they are your kids do them a favor and kick them out of the house.

Sounds like you did a shitty job of parenting, you must be a baby boomer lol.

Man, I wish I had 3 or 4 days on my weekends that sounds nice.

I think what she said about being told not to go to college because of her gender is less about college and more about the fact that most women were told they couldn't do the same things a man could. Even if its just by the people around them like family, which has a massive effect on a person's decisions. Told they couldn't become a police officer a head doctor a military sargeant a CEO so on until people started fighting for women's rights. Even today a lot of women are told what they can't do. So being born before the 60s, it was really hard for women to get into a stable place of authority where you could be a sole provider for yourself or your family which is very important. Anyways, clearly she wanted to go, and probably could have, but wasn't able to because of the world she lived in. "Times were different", sure, different as in abusive. I'm not really sure what you've taken away from this... I find what you said takes away from the point she is actually making, which is that she had to earn her way to the top without going to college, which is probably much harder than getting a piece of paper and then going right into a good job.

Um... Math...

gregg brady No women in my family born before 1950 went to college because people in their life told them not to, it was frowned upon. It's the reason things like the polytech massacre happened, even up to 1989. Not much hypocritical about wanting the same opportunity as everyone else, even if you think they already have them.

Thank you for insulting my family, that's a great way to prove your point. No, the women in my family that didn't go to college/university didn't go because they would have been disowned/kicked out of their home. Not really a choice. They had to find success in other ways. You're lucky you come from such a progressive family, maybe you don't realize that. We need feminism so that people can feel like they can make a choice without having their life ruined. Of course later many women in my family went to college/university but it was not payed for by anyone but themselves. However, all the men that went to college in that generation did have it payed for, because it was considered a waste to pay for a women's education. Don't assume we all come from the same situation as you, your family is lucky they have never had to deal with any kind of hardships or people in their life actively trying to stop them from perusing post secondary education. I relate this to the polytech massacre as an example of how dangerous men who are against the progress of women can be. Even the recent attack in Toronto was an incel taking his anger out on women in general, like Roger Elliot and many others. I'm trying to say that its necessary to have feminism so that people understand that there was and still is a deeply ingrained sense of hatred towards women which comes out in different ways, none of which are acceptable.

gregg brady The men in my family who had their education paid for had it payed for by their family. Their family refused to pay for the women's educations.

wannabecarguy Don't Think about those morons in the comments. You've done a great job and should be proud of it. I know how You feel about Everyone around You being lazy. I work three jobs in order to afford school, while having paranoia and trust issues due to a long periode of abuse and stalking. Then I have to hear my classmates complain about their irrelevant issues. I have This Girl in class, who's 21, has never worked a Day in her Life and has her father come over to her apartment to cook and clean for her. He even plays her rent Sometimes.

Tommy Wiseau dude, I was the one being stalked. So anyway - how's your sex life?

Tommy Wiseau of course I do. I just turned 18, which automatically makes me a smart and responsible adult. Much intelligence. Such wisdom.

You are correct! Most people are lazy. It is actually quite frustrating....

Katrine Petersen Tommy is just having fun. I used to need a compliment for encouragement then I got the compliment. Later I decided I have done it so now it's hard for me to get down on myself. Or need validation from anyone. Don't repeat history. Learn from your mistakes. When you feel courageous act swiftly. Before it wears off.

Iulia Tomutsa Vive la France!!😉

*French-born American

Michelle Duquette *French- born American

And yeah, she is very pretty.

Socorro Soza That would be me!!😉😊

So sad, so true, but who's fault is it ?

Trey Thanks so much for your service to our great country!!🇱🇷

Maria Nunes exactly I wonder why the parents grandparents never told their stories before?

Let us not forget the kind of education Millennials were exposed to, especially in college.