The world needed another "Why I Quit My Job" piece by a millennial, so without further ado ...

Stewart, Colbert, Kimmel, Simmons...

 

I'm so confused that I was asked to take a math test in the middle of this thread.

 

I posted on the wrong thread. There was a challenge elsewhere to name posters who were either smarter or better writers than Charles Pierce. Your (board) name came up.

 

Stop stalling and take the math test!

 

Careful. If you pass, it proves you're not a real journalist.

 

See how easy it is to bring @Double Down back.

Next, I'm going to challenge Jones to a geography quiz.

 

Sad to say, you could have written this as some sad nostalgic piece for the job market of the turn of the century.

Why, back in the slightly more golden years of 2000, it was young people who worked at dumpy, ill-paid jobs, not desperate, formerly middle-class adults. And they could walk out of that mind-numbingly boring receptionist job - instead of clinging to it for dear life - knowing that a completely undemanding day shift at a gift shop was right around the corner! And only fifteen years later, they'd get a modest book deal out of it!....

 

Kill the fox. Problems solved.

 

You might be jealous.

And I think a lot of people your age have a right to be jealous. Millennials are not weighed down by the bullshit ethos of the American Baby Boomer. They have very little sense of propriety or tact or how their narcissism comes off. You belong to a generation that has gladly waited its turn to feed at the same trough that Boomers have no interest in giving up, and will give up only by cold-dead-hands force, and you and many in your generation will have spent many a year trying to please a group that couldn't give a fuck about you and do not now. Boomers, instead, are fascinated by millennials.