So sick of crap like this. I'm Gen-X and very much remember being called whiny and entitled. We were neither -- no more than any 20-somethings have ever been.
Don't pay too much attention to the article - Macleans magazine's core demographic is primarily boomer. This is just a feel-good article for them.
[edit] Now that I think of it, this is terribly ironic. An article complaining about how Gen-Yers all want gold stars and reassurances that they're good... written for boomers who want gold stars and reassurances that they're good :)
I'm somewhere in between - 32 years old, I guess technically a Gen-Xer. People in a middle class society tend to have a (often false) sense of entitlement. I agree that it's not a generational thing. I think the biggest change that I've seen since I was in, say, grade school, is a move away from interest in the hard sciences and technical disciplines, which may very well lead to greater disillusionment among today's young job seekers in a tough job market.
well you know why that is. A) everybody young seems whiny and entitled to people slightly older, when they first enter the workforce B) generational differences were incredibly important forty years ago and bullshit artists can still build whole careers pontificating about them
