The First...

Since Kindergarten, a lot of us fought to be first.  First in line to go to lunch.  First to turn in their test.  Graduating First in their class.  When it comes to being first in a generation, well, we don't exactly have a choice in that matter.

I'm a Millennial who was born at the beginning of her generation.  We are often labeled as "entitled" by the Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers in our lives but really, I think we're just misunderstood.  When I finished college and started my first "real" job, I was misunderstood a lot.  I was labeled as "uncooperative" and "entitled" because I didn't say "yes" as often as I was supposed to.  Here I thought they wanted my original ideas.  I thought I was being smart by asking questions in order to seek a better understanding of what my boss really wanted so I could anticipate it for next time.  But no, I was really being "uncooperative," as they said.

It wasn't until now, in my early 30's when world was finally filled with other Millennials, that I realized I really wasn't being uncooperative.  I was just misunderstood.  This blog is going to talk about those misunderstandings as well as the challenges of being the first of a generation to experience a lot of things in a world of Gen X'ers and Baby Boomers who don't really like us very much.