<p>No tattoos, no piercings other than earlobes… Got a 92. Probably due to the fact that I text a lot. :)</p>
<p>I am a pretty lame 56.</p>
<p>82% </p>
<p>Embarrassing for a true millennial or no?</p>
<p>No tattoos, no piercings other than earlobes… Got a 92. Probably due to the fact that I text a lot. :)</p>
<p>" I got the impression from a podcast I listened to and a few other bits of reading on this topic that millenials are generally looking for something more purposeful in a career than earning a big paycheck."</p>
<p>I think it is a relatively small subset of the millennial generation that is doing this-- the small subset that could afford to graduate without imposing debt and can afford to rough it in a lower paying career. The people I know that do this are my umich classmates whose parents paid full freight, or who got major scholarships and financial aid… highly educated and no student loan debt. Nobody else I know took that path, and it makes sense since I don’t think that most people can afford to. Not very many people can actually afford to be that idealist. Most of the people I know are either pursuing more inexpensive educational paths that lead to solid jobs (like 2 year nursing) or going to school for the highest paying job they can get, or working as a waitress and wishing they could go to school for the highest paying career they can get. My peers are very conscious of the poor economy, lack of jobs in this area, and the idea that they will probably not have the benefits of things like social security when they retire, and want to reach as high as they can. </p>
<p>I do think the world is slowly moving to a place where it values some types of lower paying work more, but for example I am getting all sorts of judgment all over the place because as a woman I would rather focus my attention on being a wife and mother than reaching for a high paying career-- as long as I don’t need it I have no interest in the high paying career. That kind of work does nothing for me, I would rather write at home and work on volunteer work (which may eventually turn into a job if I let it.) I am really the odd one out among my peers. I didn’t just look at the question as idealist low paying career vs high paying career, I looked at it as high paying career vs family, too, which makes it a little more logical that that question pushes you further away from the millenials. The millennials priorities are different and to them it isn’t as much of an either-or question.</p>
<p>92 lolololol</p>
<p>HAHAHAHA I’m a 44, so apparently I was born around the 70s-80s? (I’m 17)</p>
<p>Well, I always knew I wasn’t quite as modern as many of my friends… 
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<p>I got a 47. I’m surprised, when looking at how different votes will alter the result, that there is not much variation due to calling yourself liberal, conservative, or moderate. There is a lot of variation in how you view interracial marriages though and how much you text! </p>
<p>I’m upper fifty-something and scored a 19. </p>
<p>I scored 93 but I am a millennial. </p>
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<p>There’s a very big difference between thinking it’s bad for society and thinking it should be illegal. No one is calling for interracial marriage to be illegal. </p>
<p>48, despite only being a sophomore. Are the older millennials getting tattoos these days? </p>
<p>92 :)</p>
<p>I’m 16 and I got 85 on the Millennial scale</p>
<p>18 year old here. Got a 92. This thing is pretty accurate. </p>
<p>49% at age 54</p>
<p>The only question I changed was did I create an online profile ( because while I have registered- I actually dont fill out info) and my score went from 60 to 20.</p>
<p>18 yrs old. Got a 90.</p>
<p>Got a 43. Better than I expected as I am a baby boomer. (I thought I would get a 20 before the test.)</p>
<p>I got Gen Xer but I’m actually a baby boomer.
I guess I could try harder. LOL.</p>
<p>44 years old and got a score of 15. </p>