People who are now in their 30s were likely already working when the economy took a dive into the toilet. Younger millennials and older millennials had a completely different experience of the 2008 recession. (And, if you haven't see that, you need to watch it immediately.) If you're a younger millennial, and you never experienced the freedom of being completely disconnected from technology it was kind of like living in the movie E.T. I'm pretty sure letting a kid ride their bike alone today, sans helmet, would get parents into trouble. You rode your bike places by yourself - with no way for anyone to get in touch with you - and you found other kids by locating the pile of bikes in someone's front yard. Maybe both of your parents worked, or your parents were divorced so you and your siblings stayed home alone after school. Older millennials probably grew up as the most unsupervised group of kids in history. Older millennials are truly the last group of kids who will ever have the dual experience of coming of age before and after the internet. Bike helmets weren't a thing, you stopped riding in a car seat when you were a toddler, and if you wanted to find a friend, you called them on your landline telephone, or just went to their house and knocked on the door. If you're an older millennial like me, you probably spent a lot of your childhood playing outside, totally unsupervised, with your friends. Here are some other ways older and younger millennials are totally different. If you didn't know Claire Danes as surly Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, and you've never heard of Jordan Catalano, you are definitely a younger millennial. Or the amazing but low-rated My So-Called Life- a show I hand-wrote letters petitioning ABC to save - which lent us our only other recent moniker, Generation Catalano, after Jared Leto’s troubled dreamboat character." "Consider Empire Records, which failed in the box office, but developed a cult following in our micro-gen. "Our meager but meaningful cultural touchstones were often deemed unprofitable enough to be ignored," Sarah Stankorb writes on Good.is. If 1977 sounds early to you, the term "Xennial" has been trending to describe a micro-generation of people who feel like they're neither members of Generation X nor the millennial generation. While most people define millennials as those born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, the Center for Generational Kinetics claims millennials are actually people born between 19. Differences between older millennials and younger millennials run the gamut from how old you were when you first got online, or got a cellphone, to your experiences entering the workforce. If you're reading this, there's a strong chance you (like me) are a millennial, though you may not identify with all of the generational traits depending on your age.
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