Is this a millennial hating website??
I haven’t read the whole article but the comments seem to think that is a poor way to live, taking a cut in pay while you are young in order to spend more time exploring the world. Surely you weren’t all born already crotchety elders?
You do know that 2000 years ago, the elders mocked the young. It’s not that original. And it says more about you than them. If you have so much more experience and thus wisdom, who aren’t you more understanding of people who don’t have as much of either?
Living at home with your parents is not horrible at all. It can make for closer families. Why spend money on an apartment when you can save that for travel, if you are employed or a full time student or both?
My dad, who traveled the world while very young as a life or death option, wanted youthful travel for his kids. At least my travels were voluntary and no one was trying to kill me. My son is now planning his dream semester abroad, working and saving and getting scholarships for it. Living with us instead of paying $1000 a month in an apartment is part of it.
This will be a life-changing experience for him. Do you all want your children behind the counter at fast food or fetching coffee for the corporate boss every day of their 20s? You do understand there isn’t a lot of understanding of other countries in the USA. I understood, and truly loved, this country better after living away from it.
Saving for retirement and hunkering down into a work-sleep-work environment can wait a little.
Cool. Just don’t come crying for a handout with your school loans and desire for socialized healthcare.
I took a pay cut when I was 23. Joined the Army and saw the world from a helicopter for 27 years.
Best thing I’ve ever done!
They could join the military to travel the world. Military paid less, but I have been to a lot of countries after 22 years of service...
In defense of my Millennial friends, I don't think this gaggle of self-absorbed dilettantes is really all that representative of their generation. And frankly, you're going to need a helluva lot more than a 10% pay cut to finance world travel anyway, even on the cheap. What the story really seems to be saying is that they'd rather play than work. Who wouldn't?
Travel is over rated...IMHO....but, then, I must not have gotten the “Travel Bug”....I like home.
Lol. Mankind has used “sustainable” agriculture ever since there was agriculture. Until Monsanto and its infertile wheat scam.
I know I am in a small group - but I have no, absolutely no desire to travel to any other country than my own. There is no culture on the planet that I want to experience first hand. The United States of America is a big place and it has many places and people of interest to keep me busy should I decide I need to get off my property.
Wow - a cut in the pay he gets working at a coffee shop - he won’t be able to buy gum for a week.....
Did anyone ever ask the Boomers this kind of purely theoretical question? I don’t recall it. They would likely have gotten a similar response. I mean who the hell wouldn’t like to chuck the grind and go fooling around exotic locales?
Almost everywhere is the world is a helluva lot worse off than America: less freedom, more danger, more diseases, spoiled food, open sewers, toxic water, cholera, dengue fever, tuberculous, chagas disease, ebola, sleeping sickness, worms, parasites, spiders, snakes, with subhuman filth topping the list.
Yeah right with what money???
This is the a Globalists merged with the Corporations attemto sell the public a lie. Haha! So pathetic...
“The 29-year-old had practiced energy healing with a shaman in Guatemala and earned a certificate in sustainable agricultural development”
Ben can take those credentials to any Starbucks in America and buy a cup of coffee for only $2.50 ...
There’s nothing to prevent them from traveling the world now, other than cost. There are laws on the books in other countries that prevent them from working while on that travel. Work visas have to be obtained.
Some countries such as New Zealand have a strict standard for those who want to immigrate or work. Most would not qualify.
I did this, starting back in the mid 1970s.
Took a pay cut, and saw the world!
I went on to spend 22 years on active duty.
I went to Texas, Mississippi, Colorado, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Australia, New Zealand. Fiji, American Samoa, Hawaii, Washington DC, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Alabama, all on the government’s dime. Can’t complain!
Travel the world. An over-hyped desire much like “world peace” spewed by exuberant beauty contestants.
You want to travel the world without having to rub shoulders with the unwashed and washed alike. Download Google Earth and have at it. No Stink, No Pinch, No Kidding. Been doing it for years and I have yet to pay a dime for the experience.
so they should all work on cruise ships...
was this “paycut” quantified
and did it mention if they were actually willing to work harded than they ever had in their lives to do so ?
Well I guess that explains why our employers want to bring in foreign workers on H2B visas.
Our young people are off learning sustainable agriculture from Shamans in Guatemala.
I instead worked hard to make my income go up 6x in the last 10 years, travel all over the world 4 weeks a year, and still save 6 digits and will retire early. I guess I am now technically a millennial although I was Gen Y or Gen X growing up and have little in common with most millennials.