For a long while now, it has been insinuated that millennials are a generation characterized by how lazy they are and how they get nothing achieved that they should. Not to mention how they act when they finish their education-- they don’t want to do anything but sit back and relax. But in reality, this is just an assumption that has rampaged its way into society like a plague. This article will cover some of the things millennials have done when you thought they were slacking.

I know many people when I was just in high school that worked a full time job, went to school, and supported not only themselves but their entire families. When those same people went to college they did sit around and just go to classes because they could finally have time to themselves, instead of having to catch up on what was supposed to be their childhood. All too often, children become adults far before they are supposed to. Especially during the recession, typical middle class families struggled to live so the older kids in the family decided they should pitch in. Not only did they have a part time job in order to save up some money for college, but many had full time jobs to help pay bills. Now added on top of the child having to work, companies started laying people off, which made life even more difficult because the child was only one of two or maybe the only one actually working in the house. Also during the recession the companies that didn’t do layoffs, generally had to decrease their output of money which gave the people actually working, less income. Therefore many kids had two jobs, to create a larger family income. Otherwise there is no way a family could have survived. Not to mention since companies stopped hiring, quite a few children trying to pry their way into the workforce, had to and go around and convince people to pay them to mow lawns and other many manual labor acts so they could gain some source of income. So instead of just going to a job and doing what they were told to do, they had to physically go out and search for ways to help gain income even if it harmed them physically.

Due to the above mentioned reasons the millennials that are now in college or older are making up for the childhood they lost. So yes, when you see millennials now they do seem kind of lazy but that is because they had to reverse their childhood and adulthood so they could help support their families during the recession. Yes, in a way they are lazy but that is due to the fact that they deserve some time to be young before having to grow up again. So maybe now in some cases we can look at a millennial and thank them for stepping up when no else could.