The Tossed Generation

Okay. There's some confusion going on among the older crowd as to my generation. My generation is not hipster, nor do we generally wear saggy skinny jeans, nor do we whine and complain when our boss doesn't give us personal validation and a hug every time we do the job right, nor do we expect handouts from anyone. What we DO have is a list of bills we can't pay, not enough time to pursue a marginally significant hobby (let alone be happy for a few days), and we haven't been without responsibility since that first job, around 15, when we worked for shitty wages at godawful jobs. We are the generation that gets laid off first, and hired last. We are the generation that is paying for social security for our elders and rarely complaining about it, because we were told to respect our elders and we all expect to be taking care of our own parents someday, even though we will never see a dime of our money down the line when we're old. We got ourselves into a ton of school debt, because we were told that was the way to do it right, and now we're having a hard time finding work at low-paying, no benefits laboring jobs. Our entire 20's were dominated by war and color-coded terror updates. Our freedoms have been slowly stripped away by various powerful men who should never have been given power. We're broke, we're tired, we're angry and we want things to change so that for the love of god, we too can work a 9-to-5 job with benefits and go home. We have been tossed around by the vagaries of fate. That's MY generation.