Dear Baby Boomers,

Most of you are retiring and starting to draw social security. Now that you all are entering the elder stage of life you need to stop complaining about the Millennials. The Millennials are the largest generation in history and we are coming up. The Boomers are not helping us — instead most of them are complaining about us. Just because life was different when you were growing up does not mean that the way we grow up is bad or wrong.

Unlike the Boomers, we Millennials enjoy our childhood. We are being called the “Peter Pan Generation” because we do not want to grow up. Think about it: nine years of elementary school, four years of high school and college and beyond. It can be hard, tough world out there. Obtaining an undergraduate degree is no walk in the park. We are not taking out loans to just sit around. We want to make something of ourselves not hate to have to go work. So, before we go into the real world we want to enjoy our childhoods. Yes, you were working at the local grocery store but we are working at well. Getting into college is a difficult and competitive process. Colleges and universities are making their applications more difficult to just get accepted. We have to be involved in an athletic or academic organization and leadership development. The course load for us is not easy: AP Classes, IB Classes, higher level courses — and the fact that classes are more strenuous today than back in your guys' day. Please, stop complaining that we do not work because we do. We just do not get paid.

Moving forward in life, when we are college, we have to be involved in many different organizations to gain experience. To even get an internship we need to have experience or a contact to get in. The work that we do for our involvement is what will get me an internship, which leads to an entry-level job which then leads to a career. Yes, we do work. Just not for money — for passion and experience.

Baby Boomers, we are growing up in a different world than you did, just accept it! We are a different generation than you. Accept that we are the Millennials and we are coming!

Sincerely,

The Millennial Generation