generation y

I was born in 1983.  That makes me a millennial.  I'm a little bit on the older side of my generation, but I fall into the category.   This is aimed at helping those on the younger half of my generation.

Technically I'm considered a "Millennial" (also known as generation Y.)  I'm at the older end of the group being born in the early 1980's.  We're called Millennial because we "came to age" at the turn of the century.   Today I found a quiz that you can take to see how millennial you are.  You might be surprised.

The day I turned 16, I took my driver's license test.  From the day onward, I was now forever hooked to a car.  I got my first job so I could pay the high insurance cost just for me to drive.  I was now paying for gas, vehicle maintenance, and everything else in between.  A lot of the youth nowadays don't want to do that.

I don't know who decides this.  Is there a group of people in a bunker somewhere, dimly lit, that give our generations names?  Of course there was the babyboomers, then generation x, then y, and the youngest z. Well y and z are now being called C...