please don't think that a career will ever define you or not having one equates to being a failure. success is defined by who you are, and at the very least, you sound like you're on your way.

sounds like you doing great lots of M's are good parenting and good kids makes successes
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Don't worry about the home. Real Estate in Canada is 10x overpriced crap that's due for a giant sized correction.

Okay, seriously? Petty much?

"Adulting" can't just be boiled down to "I have responsibilities oh woe is me". It's never just that. It's those essential responsibilities on top of everything else that stresses you out in life--the all-nighters you need to pull in uni to finish work you know you should have finished earlier, but hey, you were getting other adult shit done. Or it's the opposite--the frantic rushing to pay that credit card bill before 9pmPST (because wtf do we still run on f'ing EST here BC?), the "shit mom's coming over need to throw everything on the bed and clean the toilet and dishes" tidying and cleaning sprees you do because these things got neglected while you were focusing on your studies. It's the "Omg I'm out of from uni and I haven't managed to find a full-time job for a year" and "Might as well stock up on rice and beans it's either them for food or going without a place to live" (if you're lucky enough to find a place to live at all).

And I can't believe you brought up that you haven't had to move back home since eighteen despite having a disability. I fucking envy you. Your experience must actually be so far removed from so many millenials, which could be why you don't understand this concept. I'm eligible for disability myself--or would be if my parents weren't so smothering and insistent they'd support me, which is what made me not get it (and subsequently experience suicidal ideation for the better part of a year. Almost checked myself into VGH several times because of it before my boyfriend moved out here and insisted I live with him, which has made things loads better.) Still have panic attacks at the thought of doing a year of interviews again, though. That shit is what makes people question their resumes and how they should be written, what a good balance is between puffing yourself up and being realistic. And--for me at least--what follows is the anxiety over whether customers are going to make me suicidal again.

So, hey. "Dealt with some shit customers at work today, need to buy groceries and forgot my laundry in the dryer. Adulting, eh?" and "Ohmygosh I forgot to pay my visa because I fell asleep while studying after job hunting all day! Adulting sucks!" suddenly sound a bit less bratty and whiny, eh?

I'm not sure why you guys get such a bad rap its sort of petty from my genx perspective. I mean I think you guys have a lot of freedoms but its not easy for you. I was on my own, and did a lot from a young age, I was shocked that people live with their parents past 18; but some of that is cultural, and some is choice, and more recently economics.

You could conversely see the whole millenial hate thing as really a problem of the Gen X one above you, who resent losing their looks and still not having enough money as their parents. Heh. Everyone I know in their early 20s is a good person, doing the best they can. None of this bullshit lazy entitlement crap. Maybe the purveyors of such lies were profiling rich neighbourhoods. Whoops now I'm stereotyping. Anyways, I as a 50 year old, always call bullshit if I see or read something about the human race going down the tubes wiht millenials. Hey you guys are totally ok with gayness too.

Media standards have gone down the drain. Millennials is a term and story they create and write about.

Holy shit, I seriously think you could benefit from some therapy. You seem to be unraveling. OP, you sound like a Millennial with a good head on your shoulders.