Electromagneticpulse

This started in my generation (ball park 30 in age), but I was drafted into working with my dad often (he started in the trades, became a mechanic and became a programmer via fuel injection management when it was new). Me and my brother had our own PC in our rooms before the majority of kids in our school had one in their house. But with his background every odd job he did himself, and I was drafted as the helper (I'm the youngest so I just did what I was told).

I was first on a real job site at 13, regular at 15 and just went on to work with him when I graduated, which in the UK was 16. I lost most of my friends because they were immature to me. I worked, I made money. I moved to canada at 19, married at 20, bought a house at 23, had my first kid at 25. I'm starting my own business.

I avoid Facebook because I look at it and see my friends still living at home. It's pathetic to me. My friends are mostly older than me. I'm having beers with a friend 10+ years my senior this Friday, and I'm invited for beers with a guy I did work for who's 79. I call people my own age kids because that's what they are.

It's not the end of a generation, it's that whatever the fuck caused this has made a 10 year gap appear in how generations used to happen. It's a maturity vacuum and I don't know if it's because of tech or because the baby boomers kids "the rebels" were just shit parents, thinking their parents were hard asses and didn't want to be the same way. My dad was a hard ass and I don't get along well with him, but I love and respect the guy because he made me a man. Fuck being friends with your parent if it means you're Peter Pan and never grow up.

millennial_vulcan

welcome to 2017!

Jimmycog

On the verg? They have crossed over for the most part.

Norm

Yup, I make sure to put away my phone when i get to have a meal with my parents. They live about two hours away so I like to make the most of my time with them.

millennial_vulcan

Its not parents fault. They are fighting a losing battle. No average parent want their kids to be without what everyone else has got.

DONT HATE THE PLAYER; HATE THE GAME

millennial_vulcan

Its not parents fault. They are fighting a losing battle. No average parent want their kids to be without what everyone else has got.

DONT HATE THE PLAYER; HATE THE GAME

White-Supremacist

Lacking something and having restriction to the idea are massively different concepts.

Sometimes I take a piss, doesn't mean I just do it where ever I happen to be. There is a time and place for everything, restrictions and limitations on ideas are vital.

millennial_vulcan

You should do it wherever you happen to be; you get kidney stones if you dont.