Are we listening?

So, this week I have been busy.  First the continuous job search.  This is becoming quite the hassle.  I know, I know, I am being very picky.  But, I have the opportunity to be picky.  Opportunity is what in my opinion is lacking.  I feel too many people easily write off the younger generations.  Now, this is easy to understand.  Generation "Y" or the Millennials, my generation, have mostly been depicted as lazy, spoiled, and egotistical.  According to some we have been given everything and produced nothing in return.  This is a very broad generalization.  I've had a job since I was seventeen, now for the first time since then I've hit a cold streak.  I've worked hard; 4 years in a grocery store, 4 years of hard warehouse labor, and may jobs in between.  I work hard.  Now, because of my age and especially since I do not look much older than 17, I feel that I am typecast as a spoiled teen.  This just isn't by potential employers; it’s by nearly everybody, everyday.  I was 17 in the year 2002.  Remember way back then, Enron was being investigated, the Dow Jones was around 7200, The Department of Homeland Security was newly created, and Kelly Clarkson wins the first American Idol.  It’s not that I want be older or have people think I am in my mid thirties.  If you ask anyone that really knows me they say I'm already and old man.  And that’s true; I enjoy my coffee black, my cigars, and complaining. (I call it ranting and raving)  I just want people to remember those words they learned in school and to not judge a book by its cover.  I think that's what everyone really wants.  I think it is easier to walk on by, never say hello, and to never listen.  That's why my generation has been stereotyped.  And the stereotype is pretty believable.  But, please when you meet someone new, just listen you may be pleasantly surprised. 

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