Random Worst Advice Millennials Have Heard From Baby Boomers (21 items)

• (#3) Save Money From Your Minimum Wage Job And Buy A Brand New Car

  From ripestpeach:

  "My aunt told me to never buy a used car or have a car loan. We live in California and public transportation is a joke so having a car is important if you want to be a full-time student and hold a part-time job.

  "When I asked how I should buy a car without a loan or a used one, she said to save up enough money to buy a brand new car and pay in full at the time of the purchase. I was 22 and making $10-an-hour at a 20/hr per week job and taking five classes a semester, driving a junker she hated an hour each way to school.

  "I decided she was beyond stupid after this advice."
• (#21) Keep Your Terrible Job, You'll Get A Raise

  From Wolfendesign:

  "'Keep working your job, you'll get a huge raise and make the same with less hours.'

  "I was 19 and had a job in mold remediation. I was working full-time during the day and was also a full-time community college student taking night classes. Sleep was sh*t, information went in one ear and out the other, and half of what I did has much more work than what had been in the job description. One time I spent the day carrying 60,000 pounds of boxed kitchen tile from a company van to a client's home. I got it done in an hour. Without using a dolly.

  "This was for $8.50 and hour, and seven months in, I asked for a raise, and they bumped it up a whopping $8.75 an hour. I left about a week after I spent another week working a job in an apartment basement literally cleaning out sh*t. I removed toilets filled to the brim with human sh*t after wrapping them in trash bags. For 8.50 an hour.

  "I left the job a few months ago, have not seen employment since, and it has been the best d*mn thing I've ever done. Only 20 now, so I've still got plenty of time to get hit by a bus or find a better job."
• (#18) Find Jobs In The Newspaper Want Ads Even If They Don't Advertise Anything You're Qualified For

  From Onefortheisland:

  "I graduated in 2007 and had an extremely difficult time finding a job. I was juggling two unpaid internships and a part-time job at a movie theater while applying to anything I could find. I spent my spare time interviewing at staffing companies that never called me back and trying not to slash my wrists.

  "My mother would toss the newspaper at me and said, 'You know, I've never been unemployed, but I still read the WantAds every day.'

  "Thanks, Mom, that's super helpful! You know what kind of jobs they advertise in the newspaper? Mostly construction jobs that I am completely unqualified for because I a) have no training and b) am built like a toothpick.

  "She refused to acknowledge that I was actively searching for a job and kept insisting that I was lazy."
• (#14) Don't Work During College

  From T271:

  "College professor told me he thought it was a mistake that I got a job that would take time away from school. When I brought up the cost he said that education is an investment and that I should focus on that. Hard to invest when you don't have any money to invest with."
• (#9) Participation Trophy Logic Fail

  From ImAClubProHere:

  "Talking to my dad recently, he was going on about 'participation trophies.' When I pointed out that we wouldn't have received said participation trophies had his generation not invented them, his response was: 'Yep, that's another problem with your generation. Always blaming your faults on other people.'"
• (#4) Interracial Dating Is Wrong

  From GingerHiro:

  "Dad told me when I was young that interracial relationships would never work. He said that 'there's a reason the black birds are with black birds and the red birds are with the red birds. Its just nature.' I've been with my ethnically different girlfriend for a long time now. Probably the best person I've ever met."

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