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millennials
Mar. 5th, 2019 09:08 pmA friend posted, last week about a common trait of millennials being that they text their parents when they have questions. I hadn't really noticed this, but I don't know many of them. And then yesterday at work I heard a story:
Nine o'clock at night my phone rings.
"Dad, my car's on fire! What do I do?"
"OK, first GET OUT."
In the friend's post about generational traits, she reported that a boomer said that a Gen X trait is using Excel and Powerpoint. I found that funny because why would you not use Excel? It's the greatest tool ever! I spend a good chunk of my day using it at work, so I know it well, and I understand how it can help me with all kinds of tasks. I just spent well over an hour on it tonight at home, putting together a whisky tasting. I had data on sixty whiskies, and prices from four different retailers, plus ratings and a couple other data points. It was so nice to sort and filter all that data and find what I needed to know. And it does math, so I could total up the results and multiply times the number of bottles, and multiply the number of tickets by the different proposed ticket prices to determine potential profit... Or maybe I just like it because I'm old and can't visualize all that data inside my head.
Nine o'clock at night my phone rings.
"Dad, my car's on fire! What do I do?"
"OK, first GET OUT."
In the friend's post about generational traits, she reported that a boomer said that a Gen X trait is using Excel and Powerpoint. I found that funny because why would you not use Excel? It's the greatest tool ever! I spend a good chunk of my day using it at work, so I know it well, and I understand how it can help me with all kinds of tasks. I just spent well over an hour on it tonight at home, putting together a whisky tasting. I had data on sixty whiskies, and prices from four different retailers, plus ratings and a couple other data points. It was so nice to sort and filter all that data and find what I needed to know. And it does math, so I could total up the results and multiply times the number of bottles, and multiply the number of tickets by the different proposed ticket prices to determine potential profit... Or maybe I just like it because I'm old and can't visualize all that data inside my head.
