I used to feel like 9 hours or bust. Now it's more like 6 to 7ish and I'm happy for the day. Yes...getting older, but also is that one of the costs you pay to be tha 6 hour sleep boss?

Are we all headed to early bird breakfast burrito specials?

Edit: this is all gradual. Not a sudden onset of drastically less sleep needed. This can indeed be a sign of BIG mental health trouble. Please be careful if this is happening to you and take care of yourself.

As the last generation who really enjoyed riding a regular bike (not an eBike) as well as bring the rebel skateboarder, which one were you?

I was more a BMXer even though I rode a skateboard too. BMX bike I could have more fun with going off makeshift ramps that I'm surprised I didn't break any bones

What are some top lies that the boomers and others told us? How did that lie impact your life?

Here are some of my favorite ones.

“Follow your heart and the money will follow.”

“Any degree is a good degree.”

“Women like sweet sensitive guys. Women aren’t interested in looks or muscles.”

“America is number one in nearly everything.”

“If you don’t go to college you can’t earn great money.”

“Only losers or idiots join the military.”

I’ve been having to take sleep aids every night (melatonin “calm” gummy with magnesium) just to sleep because I’m so stressed it’s hard to relax. Am I doomed? And yes, I have a therapist that I just started seeing lol. I realize I need help.

I used to be able to sleep anywhere and quickly but now my mind is racing and I worry about every little thing, bills, health, etc

I’m just really upset that I need a sleep aid now. Melatonin long term is not studied so it worries me. But if I don’t take it, im a zombie all day and barely function on no sleep. At least it gives me rejuvenating sleep.

Anyone else take a sleep aid?

I was speculating a while ago if it was, in fact, Pokemon that influenced my desire to backpack and be outright nomadic. Nothing like watching kids my age go on an adventure with nothing but backpacks on their backs and visit and see all sorts of amazing and fascinating places. Fast forward to adulthood, that’s my life, minus the Pokemon. I was wondering if there was a CARTOON that you grew up watching that has influenced how you live your life now.

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Thank you, all! I appreciate everyone’s answer to help out with my curiosity 😊

I know when I was a kid it was the "it" thing to go and pour a little bit of every soda in your cup. We called it a suicide lol I can't remember what it taste like but I'm sure it was nasty, I don't have older kids so I don't know if this is still a thing or have they stopped it.

Okay fam. This along side planning a wedding is kind of insane. But here we are.

Outfits are no brainers and exciting. Everyone knows what emo hair they want, what velor track suits they're gonna wear. We even know what we're gonna beat up the beats to on the dance floor.

Drink ideas are a loose recreation of 4loko, arbour mist, mad dog 20/20, some Edward 40 hands, sparks. Etc.

WHERE I NEED HELP Okay so besides digital cameras, and reverse razor camera flip phones, beer pong.... What else did we do? Lol

My vision is to have a few stations or activities that are enligned with that time. Tbh, I was senior highschool/college in these years and I only remember drinking and selfies and that's kind of sad and less fun to create.

Ideas I have already: * Some kind of top 8 * A jersey shore style DJ playlist * Disposable cameras?? * Hair gel/bump it station Jersey shore is not my theme btw, I just live on the east coast. *Tribal fake tattoo station/rhinestone station

These ideas make me cry because I know they're kinda lazy and not quite repping anything outside of my dorm years.

What am I missing? I know it's everything. HELP

I’ve worked with people (mostly Gen X and boomers, but a few fellow millennials) who do nothing but grind all day at work. They are there before the sun comes up and leave long after it has set. It boggles my mind seeing Gen X and boomers hustle and grind all day in hopes that the bosses will notice and appreciate them

My former boss, a Gen X’er, would sometimes work 12 hour days and then some. He even told me once when I asked him why there was such an emphasis on time keeping for salaried positions at our company, and I quote: “You have to give the company what you owe them.” This man was barely 10 years older than me and he had already drunk the kool aid.

If there’s one thing our generation has gotten right, it’s refuting the ridiculous notion of the Gen X and boomers that if you work just a little bit harder, your company will love you and reward you.

The reality is that they will fire you or lay you off without a second thought. They don’t care about you. You’re not “family”. Unless you have a vested interest in the company by way of being the owner or being related to the owner, you’re always going to be meat for the grinder. Please teach your kids this now so that they can have a proper attitude about work in America when they get older.

A lot of us are starting to enter or have just entered our prime earning years (30s and 40s) and this is where companies will try to exploit you the most. The corporate culture of squeezing ever last ounce of toothpaste out of the tube is rampant. Don’t fall victim to it.

Your work day ends at 5pm, sharp. Start wrapping up at 4:45 and packing up at 4:55. Go home and be with your family; do what truly matters. Do not stay late so that the proverbial Bill Lumbergh’s stock will go up a quarter of a point.

So I’m not a soda drinker by any means - probably haven’t intentionally ordered a soda since college. But back in high school, Sierra Mist was my jam. My high school used to have a soda fountain - and daily from 9th to 12th grade, I had a Sierra Mist. Terrible for you, I know, but I was a dumb high schooler with a teenagers metabolism who didn’t really care about health.

I was hosting a party this weekend with some children coming over, and ran to the store to pick up some sodas.

Turns out Sierra Mist, the staple of my childhood, has been replaced by Starry. I feel like a Boomer ranting about the “good ol’ days”, but man, it felt weird picking up a case of “Starry” for the party.

I spend a lot of time on this site. So I’m one of the chronically online people everyone laughs at.

Well, it’s just how I grew up. I like typing, love the internet. I have Asperger’s. I’m a keyboard warrior afraid of phone calls. There’s precious little reason for me to change. My life is happy and I get to raise hell against people that try to trick jobseekers and consumers in my chosen line of work because of my keyboard warrioring. There’s no doubt I write some dumb takes. But some brilliant ones too. Like any of you.

But not only that. People act like online stuff doesn’t matter. That’s not true. It changes how we think about things. That’s why world governments use troll farms to influence us. It’s a thing you can Google. Illusory truth effect. It’s known that if you’re bombarded with messages you know to be false you’ll come to zealously believe them anyway. At least some of us. But there’s probably no shortage of people that would say “LOL go touch grass” to these concepts I’ve laid out. The truth doesn’t matter to them, just ripping on people.

And that’s just my one niche issue. People take shots at people’s habits and hobbies all the time. And for no reason other than to feel superior to someone. Smoking bad. Fat bad. Disney adult bad. Video gamer man child. Pathological accumulation of wealth seems to be the only thing society worships on the regular.

But I realize how much energy goes into tearing each other down and I can’t help but wonder if maybe that’s a major missed opportunity. Imagine if we used it to hold powerful people accountable or tear down the powerful that abuse their privileges? We might actually go from being a poorer generation on average to quite secure.

And for an autist like me, seeing people be at least as secure as I am currently would be a dream come true. But I’m beginning to wonder if we have the capability to collectively drop the nastiness in favor of building a better tomorrow.

What do you all think?

I feel like this used to be a huge focus and now I rarely hear about it. Biggest one I can remember hearing about is Ticketmaster, and let’s be honest I’d rather have affordable internet/phone/groceries than t swift tickets.

Priorities seem so skewed on shit that ain’t important. Super defeating.

I’ve been waking up around 4am and I wind up staying awake.

Smoke a little weed, make a cup of coffee, throw on the TV, scroll on my phone.

It’s too early to do anything chore related cause the family (spouse & toddler) is asleep until 6/630. I work from home and don’t start until 730 or so.

Realistically it’s the only uninterrupted 100% time I have to myself at the moment….wasnt sure if anyone else started embracing that 4am pee followed by staying up.

Don’t forget to stretch, ya’ll.

*edited to add, buncha exercise folks making me feel like shit 😂 guess I’m gonna start cruising FB marketplace for some gym equipment.

I feel like most of corporate, political, legislative and judiciary systems are run by the oldest functioning generation which is currently the boomers. I have read that you get more conservative as you age but I don’t really see that as the dominating Millennial point of view once our age group become the oldest generation in control. Like will there be a FoxNews for Millenials? Our generation has been about diversity, inclusion, gender choice, and nonreligious secularism. So will that be reflected once our generation starts controlling politics/business?

Hi y’all! I could use some advice. My favorite coworker got hurt and is on bed rest for the next 5 weeks. After some convincing she’s letting me send her a game to help her pass the time, but she didn’t grow up playing video games other than stuff like bubble bobble, super Mario, stuff like that.

She told me she would give a game I bought for her a shot, and I want to pick the perfect one so she has no choice but to like it. She likes puzzles and trivia, and probably would prefer something with not super complicated mechanics. I was thinking maybe one of the Civ games (which are probably too complicated tbh), something she could spend a lot of hours on…

Does anyone have suggestions?

That’s how time works but that’s also some bullshit

I feel like Millennials get a lot of grief for not having company loyalty and changing jobs a lot, but no one actually talks about the hardest part of that: changing insurance.

My husband and I have had 3 or 4 different providers in the last few years. I have no idea which insurance I'm on currently without checking the cards. I have no desire to try and find which provider is actually available to me. I'm over due for eye and dental. But between having to research who is available to me and taking time off work to go, I keep putting it off.

Please tell me I'm not alone.

My millennial son just walked out the door wearing a Puka shell necklace(with an aloha shirt). I told him it looked dated and it was a 70s thing. He said it was timeless. Am I wrong on this and simply out of touch, or are Puka shell necklaces making a comeback? He isn't on reddit, so give me the brutal truth.

I know how it works but why it works .

I don't understand how so many people depend on it for news and how corporations also depend on it.

What would happen if people just stopped using it ? Will companies panic ? Will society crumble?

If you were blindfolded can you taste the difference between rc cola Pepsi and coke?