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> It originally meant people graduating college around 2000: This is not how generational cohorts work. AFAIK, what counts as a generation can refer to people
by sangnoir 4y ago
> It originally meant people graduating college around 2000:
This is not how generational cohorts work. AFAIK, what counts as a generation can refer to people born over from 10, and up to 33 year period depending on who you ask.
"Millennial" is not precise term, it simply refers to people younger than Gen X and older than Gen Z.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoEh, I remember when this was coined, and it was specifically about people graduating college at the millennium. Granted, I thought then (and still think) this was a weird benchmark to use. But the whole thing is dumb.
- sangnoir 4y agoYou may be misremembering, or perhaps you meant graduating high school? People who graduatedcollege in 2000 are not considered to be millennials as they were been born in 1978 or 1979.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoHmm, I'm pretty sure it was college, because the topic of conversation at the time was the job market facing these new graduates and how they were the first cohort that could not necessarily expect to "do better" than their parents.