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Most Millennials Are Finding It Hard to Transition Into Adulthood: Report
nbcnews.com ^ | APR 20 2017, 5:14 AM ET | SAFIA SAMEE ALI

Posted on 04/20/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT by LoneStarGI

By his twenties, Kyle Kaylor imagined he would be living on his own, nearing a college degree, and on his way to a job that fulfilled him.

Instead, at 21, he found himself out of school, living with his parents, and "stuck" working as a manager at a fast food restaurant scraping to make hand-to-mouth.

Launching into adulthood has been tricky, he said.

"It became too difficult financially to be in school and not working," says Kaylor, who dropped out of Lincoln Christian University, in Illinois, after one semester because of a money crunch. "And without schooling, you can't get a job that you can survive on, so I had to move back home," he said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: millennials; trends
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I can only shake my head reading this article. Everyone in this article keep saying 'without schooling', or 'with all these degrees' we can't get work or survive. I talk with my friends who are in the trades on an almost daily basis and they all say the same thing, 'we have too much work and not enough people'. This goes back to the mistake of telling all these kids that everyone 'needed' a college education to get by. They can't even see there are jobs out there but might not be 'high pay' or 'glamorous'.
1 posted on 04/20/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT by LoneStarGI
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To: LoneStarGI

Good paint and body men seem to be in short supply.


2 posted on 04/20/2017 12:57:02 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: LoneStarGI

I suggest the only thing that will save this nation is mandatory, military service of some length, at least 3 or 4 years.

Saying that, I hold so-called “leaders”, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al, responsible for the decline in this generation of Americans. What generation would have a decent chance with these traitors at the helm?


3 posted on 04/20/2017 12:58:05 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: LoneStarGI

Heard a snippet of Rush today, saying that there are more millennials living with their parents than married and on their own.

Way to go, youts...


4 posted on 04/20/2017 12:58:33 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: LoneStarGI

What, there are no participation trophies when applying for a job?

I have read over and over how Millennials think they will get a great job right out of college and thus didn’t PLAN otherwise.

They also seem to have a problem dealing with the hand they played and changing their own circumstances.


5 posted on 04/20/2017 12:58:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: LoneStarGI

More likely— is that too many people are allowing/enabling them to remain perpetual children


6 posted on 04/20/2017 12:59:41 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Modern day liberals are the most intolerant, hateful, and violent people in America)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Most of them have been coddled and pampered their entire lives.


7 posted on 04/20/2017 1:00:01 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: LoneStarGI

“Managers” at a fast food place make more than $22,000 a year.


8 posted on 04/20/2017 1:00:32 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: bigbob
by a lot:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-more-americans-18-34-now-live-parents-spouse

9 posted on 04/20/2017 1:01:03 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: LoneStarGI

Flip side of that coin is that too many hiring managers have been brainwashed into believing you NEED a degree to do their job.

Fact of the matter is, in the vast majority of cases you do not.


10 posted on 04/20/2017 1:01:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: freedumb2003

The “Other” bar on that chart is really shooting up.

What does that represent? Lesbian Communes?


11 posted on 04/20/2017 1:02:23 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LoneStarGI

Interesting you should point that out. This is the second separate article posted today that seemingly warns of the dire consequences of not going to college.

Is it a coincidence that the corrupt MSM is floating these, “You must have college or you will fail in life” articles? Maybe it is a coincidence, but I suspect that with all the bad rap about the student’s who’s lives have been demolished by hundreds of thousands of unforgiving student loan debt, that the university empire is just now starting to strike back.


12 posted on 04/20/2017 1:03:36 PM PDT by Obadiah ("Juuuust a bit outside...")
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From the Article - "After getting a bachelor's and master's degree, 27-year-old Yvonne Juris also didn't expect to be unemployed and living with her parents."

The article never does say what she has her degrees in. Obviously, it's something that she can't really use, like Women's Gender Studies or Queer Literature Theory or some such ...

13 posted on 04/20/2017 1:03:47 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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>>What does that represent? Lesbian Communes?<<

Probably. Including lesbian transgendered communes.


14 posted on 04/20/2017 1:03:50 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

According to chart, the “Other” category includes people who are living with relatives besides a spouse, such as siblings or grandparents, and nonrelatives such as roommates.


15 posted on 04/20/2017 1:04:33 PM PDT by LoneStarGI (Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
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LOL! Just what this guy needs, more chemicals to alter his “brain”...

I dropped out when I turned 16 and got My DL. I’ve had many jobs and for the most part was higher up on the “brain chain” than most of My coworkers.

Never really found a use for any kind of Diploma in My travels.


16 posted on 04/20/2017 1:06:10 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: BlueLancer

I noticed that as well. It’s a pretty common refrain in articles like this. They always say so-in-so has X number of degrees BUT ‘can’t get a job’. They never say what the degrees are in.


17 posted on 04/20/2017 1:06:42 PM PDT by LoneStarGI (Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
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It became too difficult financially to be in school and not working

That is why many of us worked our way through school. The problem with this generation is there is no work ethic. I blame the parents and the nea.
18 posted on 04/20/2017 1:06:56 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Cruz <- sleaze; Clinton <- criminal; Trump <- winner)
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To: LoneStarGI

Demand for “skilled” Feminist Haiku majors = 0
Modern colleges and universities aren’t sending us their best, are they folks!


19 posted on 04/20/2017 1:09:16 PM PDT by 4Liberty (PRESIDENT TRUMP: Making Private Property Rights great again!)
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To: Az Joe

I suggest the only thing that will save this nation is mandatory, military service of some length, at least 3 or 4 years.
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This is something I stand 4 Square against. Sad sacks, spineless jellyfish, intellectually inbred thumb suckers, whiners, crybullies, gimme dats and depraved degenerates...

Keep em out of uniform.

What’s needed is a complete end to all socialism tax spending. It’d be a hard cull for a generation but after that things would settle out.


20 posted on 04/20/2017 1:09:39 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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