By Jillian Curran, MTV Insights
A whole slew of social commentary has emerged about what it’s like to be 20-something today, with sites gaining momentum like F*ck I’m in my 20s, Thought Catalog and Adulting. On these blogs, Millennials try to dissect the dos/don’t of…
Can we use evidence like this to demand ask our bosses for raises we need/deserve?
“Living paycheck to paycheck isn’t just bad for your bank account. Earning low wages could put you at risk for high blood pressure, upping your chances of developing a slew of health problems like heart disease and stroke, according to a new study published in the European Journal of Public Health.”
You liked being a mess. It was a large part of your identity for a long time. The people you slept with, the stories you got to tell at brunch the next day, the important places you went: that was all that mattered to you. There was no concept of taking care of yourself because feeling bad felt better than feeling good. Whenever you did make the healthy choice, whenever you did something that felt remotely grown up, it was almost out of irony. “Look at me pretending to have my shit together. Ha ha. You’re stupid if you think this is who I actually am.”
But eventually the lines become blurred and you find yourself coming closer to something you didn’t recognize before. Something, dare I say, mature? It happened quietly. It always does. We think that one day we’ll just wake up and be ready to grow up and turn into the person we were always meant to be but it doesn’t work that way. Change is gradual and usually bundled with a load of contradictions. You want to move out of your neighborhood because it’s too noisy and full of drunk people, even if you’re often one of them. You stopped drinking on weeknights but you still smoke too much pot. It always feels like two steps forward, one step back. And sometimes it is. And sometimes it’s just what maturing looks like.
You’re ready to be bored. You’re ready to be alone instead of someone who feels like a stranger. You’re ready to have more space and swim in pools and have wet hair and pruney fingers and be close to your family and say no to the bad things and say maybe to the good things.
You’re ready to take care of yourself, to “water the plants” of your life and make sure your needs are being met and no one is making the wounds any deeper than they should be.
You’re ready to choose being bored and stable over busy and a trainwreck. You never thought you’d be the person who gave up the popular zip code and vomit on the sidewalk for something more gentle. You never thought you’d become what you were always afraid of — a stable person! — but here you are, giving it a kiss hello.
You worried that it would never sink in with you. As you got older, you saw everyone around you settle into their skin more except for you. Your life felt like a Groundhog’s Day. You kept on making the same mistakes over and over again with no learning curve.
When will it happen? When will it finally click with you?
And then it did. And then it does. More and more each day. Some less than others actually. No matter what though, you will be the person you want to be because the alternative is unfathomable. Your heart can’t take anything else. Eventually the bad things sting and the good things feel right. That’s growing up. 
“The APA survey found that 76 percent of Millennials surveyed by the APA say that work is a somewhat or significant stressor, compared to 65 percent of Gen Xers and 62 percent of Boomers. That’s a number that has been ticking upwards — in the APA’s 2009 survey, for example, less than half of Millennials reported work as a somewhat or significant stressor.”
You can never be too rich or too thin or have enough portmanteaus for your post-adolescent generation. It’s Twixters, now. Who is a Twixter? Everyone, probably.
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From @MTVInsight’s study on Generation Innovation
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we hack, we swarm, we hustle, we beta.
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The up-and-coming young “Millennial” generation, comprised of a bunch of soup-slurping microbloggers who mistakenly believe that they are creating rather than following trends, is ready to accept it distinction as the biggest bunch of sellouts coolest generation that history has yet produced.
Let’s get a few things straight right off the bat. Number ONE, the “Millennial” generation is the best generation, because they are currently the most fuckable-looking, and therefore their every whim and desire must be obsequiously catered to by the corporate forces seeking to exploit their “cool”…
Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer and former CEO Eric Hippeau have collaborated to create NowThisNews, a new social news video application available on iOS that aggregates original and third party videos from the web. Recognizing the decline of interest in current affairs and eager to appeal to a younger audience, the pair are adamant to go where the audience is: mobile. For original content, each news clip is prefaced by a NowThisNews host, with external content branded to show their curation. By providing news in a vehicle that young people understand, the digital video startup is currently pushing out 10-15 clips daily under categories including Top Stories, Awesome Debates, Tech and Fun. Content on the app is two way — users are able to generate their own videos, engage in discussions through comments and contribute to future stories.
Their vibrant, youthful branding is sure to attract the desired audience if marketed the right way. Beyond their app, NowThisNews gives access to news stories in spaces where new audiences are active – information is pushed out via their Twitter feed, Facebookpage and through their dedicated vertical on BuzzFeed.
Our 20's, the years spent overwhelmed by the infinite ways to live a finite life.
