The only social media platform I use now is Reddit. I got rid of Facebook (other than messenger), Twitter, Instagram, and snap chat. Honestly I feel so free and have so much more time now. I was wondering if other millennials are in the same boat or in general are getting sick of social media. Gosh I feel like an old fart.

I grew up in the NE in the 80's, in the suburbs of a metropolitan area. My exposure to history/cultural/social themes in school were very much "diversity is good" and "America is a melting pot" and "all Americans are immigrants except for Native Americans". And I remember a lot of child-rearing is focused on "Golden Rule" type mentality and being an active member of your community/putting good into the world. Lots of education with Climate Change, Earth Day, MADD or “Say no” to drugs. And maybe it was reinforced with the popular publications like "Lies my Teacher told me" and "Freakonomics" that I remember reading in my teenage/young adult age also permeated my worldview.

So just curious if that exposure as a child/teenage years is more related to the times or to my location or both? Would love any insight/discussion since it really makes me feel like I'm going crazy with what's going on with the world if these basic lessons can be so wonky now.

Wife and I take our kids to Disneyland once every year. We stay at the Disneyland Resort because of Nostalgia from when we were kids and would go with our parents. We have an absolute blast each year and our kids really look forward to it.

We have friends who didn’t grow up going to Disneyland like us however, and seem to have zero interest in going with their kids.

Is this just a nostalgia thing? Curious how that is for other Millennial parents?

I always say education is very important and you show always learn and learn about you love; and grew but I get it. It isn't just the fact that the cost and debt that is out of control, it shows no signs of slowing down. Moreover, many people are feeling, like their degrees aren't worth it. Now getting in the field you studied for isa crap shoot and not every field is the same and you need a lot of luck. It is much harder to earn a living as an actor than as a nurse but these days but these days you can't seem to make any head way no matter the job. It seems that no matter how hard you work, the pay is gonna suck and the work culture is gonna suck and you are gonna be undervalued; and screwed over. So many people I grew up with got layoff more than once and depending on the field they can't get back into it.

One of my best friend's kids has been out of nursing school for 4 years now and still can't get a nursing job. Of course, there other factors involved in this. It is rarely something as simple as I can't find a job in my field though it happens. None the less, seeing your kid or loved one be dejected because they felt like they feel like a failure and a fool for wasting time on a piece of paper hurts.

body text requirement is also silly

I have seen one or two posts about this on reddit with a video link that's appears to be deleted or removed from YT.

YouTube had this feature called streams. If you had a channel, you could set one up.

It was basically a chatroom where you could post videos and chat with other users or "friends" at the time. That's another thing, remember when you could add users as friends on YouTube?

Thanks

So I’m watching this movie for the first time. Idk how I missed it back when it came out, but I had me laughing hard. It also had me thinking how much things have changed. Just seeing Zac Efron and Sterling Knight that young and remembering that I was Sterling’s age back then. Seeing the flip phones and remembering my old one, remembering the way people dressed and acted back in high school. Man so much time has passed and we’re so old now 😢.

women from that year hurt or rejected me, coworkers from this year have issues with me. lol I can’t catch a break with that year! Do any of you have stories like this?

To me, the youth today look so young and childish. When I entered high school in 02, the seniors looked like grown men. I look at the youth on HS sports teams and they look like babies!

Cost of living and being bled dry, can’t buy a fucking house and may rent forever, r3tirement doesn’t exist (banned word to use here?), job market just going to garbage, and most of us are 32-45. That’s mid life people. And not a damn thing to show for it.

I have 2 bonus kids (tween and teen) and 1 toddler. My husband and I definitely took advantage of the flights while my daughter was under 2 since we didn’t have to pay for her. We travelled internationally and back to our home state a couple of times but now that we have to buy her a flight, it obviously got a bit tougher.

I used to travel fairly frequently in my younger years (had more money) and I really need it to recharge and make myself happy. I’m kinda resentful on how expensive things have gotten but it is what it is. My stepkids are starting to kinda get salty that they haven’t taken an international trip even though we’ve taken my toddler (although this trip was specifically meant for my grandma to meet my daughter who’s named after her).

I want to go to Turkey next year and the kids really want to go with us. After discussing it with my husband, we realized that the odds are just against it and it may just be impossible. Adding 2 people will delay the trip for an extra year or 2 to allow us to save more. They can’t take off from school due to their attendance record (we told them last year to do better and we’ll revisit it) but as usual, they are barely meeting the requirement. We can only really travel during off peak season which means school year.

If you’re a parent with a family of 5, how do you manage vacations? I’m starting to have a mindset that traveling internationally is a privilege that they can save up for when they’re adults. I know it’s unfair when we take my daughter but it’s not like we have much choice since we have no family to leave her with.

I'm at the crux between knowing how to do my job competently enough to train others, but also not paid enough to make any gaps in productivity affect the bottom line. As such, I'm expected to train the new hires, while maintaining performing the tasks that are expected of me. I'm fairly stressed, and frustrated that things aren't moving fast enough, despite feeling like I can't do more. I feel like this is my villain origin story, and I can't help but feel like it's happened before.

I know that this frustration with the time consuming task of training is dumb, because it took me over a year to feel comfortable in my position, and more than three in order to feel competent at it. I know that this stress is caused is my company's policies and not the new hires. It may also be because I don't set firm boundaries at work, but I'd like to ignore that possibility. I'm no longer surprised that every gen thinks the next is entitled and lazy.

This came to my mind and I thought why not ask. So for anyone who may have grew up having to make the best out of what you had in your home, there were times where there may not have been many food options or you may have been curious and wanted to experiment. I grew up being fortunate enough to have some food in the house but there were times where we had to ration or try to make a meal out of what was available. For me my go to was Ramen Noodles, Spam and potted meat with crackers. Those are my top 3 meals (if you wanna call them meals) I still will eat to this day no matter what. Even if I were to become rich like Bill Gates, I could never give those up. With that being said, I want to know what unique food/meals from your upbringing would you still eat to this day no matter what?

Hi fellow millennials.

My wife and I want to take our daughter (will be almost 9) on a special holiday. The 1st week will be at a theme park (Disney Florida seems an obvious choice) and the 2nd week will be something different, still fun, but not as chaotic as a theme park. The adults will need to rest a bit. We will be flying from London.

Question 1: would you swap Disney for a different theme park or is that basically still every little girl’s dream like when we were kids? It needs to be a big one to cover the week.

Question 2: where would you spend the 2nd week, bearing in mind you have to get there from the theme park and have a long flight home to London at the end of it all? With an almost 9 year old. Another flight somewhere might be considered.

For the sake of fun, assume you have a generous budget.

Cheers, all ideas gratefully received.

Yesterday I asked the younger Millennials what their most 90s song was. I spent my day not doing my actual job and tallied those votes. This is what we got.

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45 was a convenient cut off since 5-votes section goes to 57. Who ends at 57?

It would appear that Semi-Charmed Life is unmistakably the most 90s song, followed closely by The Sign and MMMBop. The list was 314 songs deep with a lot of single mentions. It would have been longer, but there were a few single-mention songs that were so far out of left field that I knew they didn't stand a chance by the time I encountered them. By the time I stopped at was at 1041 votes/mentions. The thread is still going tho.

Something interesting was seeing a song from the beginning of the decade (1991), Smells like Teen Spirit, being right next to a song that closed out the decade (1999), Baby One More Time. On the one side you have a song that changed the musical landscape for the entire decade, then at the other end you have a song that took everything from the decade and turned it into one of the best selling singles of all time.

Further down you'll see a lot of the One-Hit-Wonders. Semisonic, New Radicals, Macarena, OMC, Len, Aqua, Marcy's Playground, Natalie Imbruglia. You would think that Chumbawumba would have been higher, but it seems you would also be wrong. They didn't quite break the top 10. These one hit wonders were absolute power houses of their time. Who else was shook when they found out Torn was a cover?

I was surprised Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie weren't mentioned.

Celine Dion only one song mentioned, even though she had several hit songs through the 90s.

Some folks threw out one hit wonders that also dominated the charts, but were seemingly forgotten to time. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies was mentioned 4 times. You would think something as iconic as that song would have been higher up.

Some people had no concept of time and threw in a lot of stuff from the mid 2000s. Some people threw in stuff from the 80s. I kind of kept tabs on those, but they were all one offs, so they were irrelevant.

Anyway, I need to go home. Time to wrap this up. Thanks for everyone's input.

Hi All, Millennial here and hope this post is okay, I wanted to introduce my labor of love to the sub. I've always loved history because it's basically the story of us, our species throughout time. One of my favorite things to do is think of historical hypotheticals and imagine a different possible world, so I wrote a time traveling book series and converted it into an audio version. It's called The Time Traveler's Guide to NOT Getting Caught, and it's about a self-centered 25-year-old guy who finds a time traveling watch behind a dumpster, and then he goes back in time and has the craziest, most NSFW selfish adventures you can imagine. In the story, he winds up facing several time traveling paradoxes, like when his future self comes back in time to hang out with him. The series is all about world building, as every time he travels to a new location, a new world is created, all while staying true to the time travel elements...but also, a satirical take on the worlds created in current books/TV/movies.

This isn't your typical time traveling story, it's like Drunk History meets Hot Tub Time Machine. In the first book, the time traveler goes back to colonial America where he accidentally almost kills Ben Franklin, visits Ancient Athens in search of an epic orgy only to wind up kissing Socrates, unintentionally impregnates a cavewoman, and gets trapped on the Titanic as it hits an iceberg. He also meets Isaac Newton, Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Davy Crockett, and many more.

We made this podcast because we realized there's a lot of miserable things happening in the world today, and we all could use a little more levity. There aren't any ads, we just want to make people laugh. We're currently on our second season and listed as a featured podcast on Apple and Amazon.

We'd love for you to take a look and give feedback. You should be able to find it on most apps, but the Spotify link is here -- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/time-travelers-guide

Apple link here -- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-time-travelers-guide-to-not-getting-caught/id1723275746

Thanks for your support!

Just curious how people on this subreddit are eating and what they're spending to do so.

I’m interested in you. You’re not interested in me. You’re interested in me. I’m not interested in you. Let’s have the same conversation with a hundred people. -do you like sports? -yeah, but not good at it. -wow I always doing sports, it makes me energetic always. -so cool! Any of this sound familiar or am I just bad at dating?

So I always imagined owning a home then having a family pretty shortly after but things haven’t really gone that way so I still rent with my GF, she wants a kid but I hate the fear of a landlords will

Is renting with a child actually any harder?

Context Im from Vancouver Canada, so a 1 bedroom condo selling for about 500k isn’t unusual, then that price quickly climbs for families needing rooms.

Do you need to diet? Or workout very hard? Or you don't need to try at all and you can lose weight. Or maintaining weight?

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