What most bosses get wrong about millennials

I agree with the article. But one important thing about the problem with my generation is that we just aren't paid the same as the last generations. If you want to keep us, yes; teach us, keep us or let us go, help us before you fire us, but PAY us. Pay us at least the same that you would have in the 70s. My mom told me one time that she used to get paid less for the same job I used to do. I looked it up, did some calculations, and found out that she was getting 150% MORE than I was. On top of that, short of the military, it is impossible to find a company willing to give a retirement pension anymore. Maddening isn't the word for it.

If you are a business owner in todays economy, I hope that you heed my words. I worked in too many jobs that underpaid me and overworked me, and I had to leave. I ended up with more diverse experience than my supervisors, and less pay. I could barely afford a two bedroom apartment in a low income part of town with three room mates. Once, the military didn't pay @&$% compared to the civilian sector. Now, they outpay every entry-level job short of electrical, oil, and some other STEM fields. In today's dollars, there's only been a $40 pay increase in the last 40 years in the military, but that has not been the case for the civilian sector. Minimum wage in many states has been left unchanged for too long, and it no longer represents fair pay for time spent.

I'm glad I'm in the military now. I feel more appreciated and more supported than I did as a civilian. It's amazing to me, by the way, that many of my peers in the military don't even know how good they have it. As a civilian, you don't expect to have a house, car, and motorcycle by 25, yet E-4 airmen have all of those things and more.

To older generations, please help us help you. Give us what you got. If you were paid 5 dollars an hour in 1975, don't give us 10 and tell us that you are paying us more ($5 from '75 is now $23.56).

Sincerely,

The Angry Millennial, Chase Kimbrell