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Saying that, when I started my first graduate job in PR, I couldn’t cope with office life. I was fired after six months. No one wanted me to dream big dreams when I could be doing something useful like learning how not to get lost on my way back from the post room.

It’s hard to enter the workplace in 2017 when you’re in an office that has hardly moved on since 1997. Admittedly, we’ll spend more time on our smartphones than on our work computers, but it means we’re constant communicators, and fast to react. The youngest person in your office will know the news as it happens and be able come up with 10 new and innovative ideas before you’ve opened your emails.

If we make too many spelling mistakes, it’s because we’re super-fast typists. While you may think our face to face interaction isn’t up to speed, we’ve got great other interpersonal skills – thanks to our experience of passive aggressive Whatsapp groups, we can interpret the hidden meaning of any email. Ultimately, we want to do a good job at work, have our efforts recognised and get paid fairly. Work perks like Dress Down Friday make little sense to us when we’ve started our careers during an era of unpaid internships, zero-hours contracts, a housing crisis and a decline in real wage growth. We’re not entitled, our expectations come from being hopeful and ambitious. Those characteristics aren’t unique to millennials. There was a time you used to feel like that too.