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Gen Y Job Hoppers Are Destroying America
Posted by: | CommentsJason Calacanis: Gen Y Job Hoppers Are Destroying America
This post has some really good points about how “Gen-Y” is doing in the career field and how it is effecting America. I do have to say there are some harsh criticisms going around about the “Gen-Y” generation. Watching this generation first hand and seeing how many of their minds work I will say that many assumptions are true.
However, rather than blaming and debating how much this generation is messing up America lets start educating them differently.
College students are told to go to college and they will leave with a fantastic job. This happens for some, yes, but many it does not. The sense of entitlement didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from parents, coaches, and advisers. It came from a long line of false hopes. Secondly, one point that is never stressed enough is finding a career that fits right for you. Do you know how many times I was told to go to nursing school? It was a fast track. You go to school and leave with a salary. I can’t stand blood and faint during emergencies. However, the fast track has always been romanticized.
Lets look at where these assumptions start and work from there.
“Last week blogger and serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis sent out an email newsletter with the title “Red, Jackson, Gen Y & Loyalty,” which starts out with a discussion of the decline of basketball (not my area of expertise) and leads on to this startling assertion:
We live in a decaying empire and if you want to know what’s killing us, it’s not the Chinese, bankers or politicians–it’s the trophy generation. Not all of Gen Y, you can never paint with that wide of a brush, but the majority of them seem to lack killer instinct but have excel at entitlement.
What got Calacanis so riled up? A midnight email from a Gen Y employee informing the boss that, after just a year with the company, he was quitting. The result for the soon-to-be-ex-employee: a nasty reply.”
