What Millennials Really Want From Work and Life

Introduction

George Orwell said it best: “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

Millennials, the media’s favorite whipping boy, are really in for it.

Aside from killing sitcoms, dating, marriage—plus sex itself—and more than just spending all our retirement funds on avocado toast, we’re killing that most American of American institutions, the 9-to-5 work week.

Don’t tell anyone, but we also caused global warming, killed Kennedy, and were traumatized by Hungry, Hungry Hippos. EVERY. LAST. ONE. OF. US.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to yell. It’s just that, being a millennial myself—admittedly an old millennial, an xennial even—I’ve heard and read a steady stream ...