They'll have to put their soccer participation trophies up on E-bay

Gen Y'ers having a hard time with the Real World, and I don't mean MTV.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28663645?GT1=43001

“We were told it was our generation's time to shine, that we could achieve our dreams plus more,” she says. “When I was laid off I thought finding another job was going to be cake.”

 

Must not be surveying metro journalists.

 

May I suggest a career in online porn?

 

Might not be that much of an option currently. You might have missed the thread last week, but the porn industry was looking for a bailout, too. Hard times all around.

 

huhuhuhuh

 

Nice....

 

Read this article on Friday. Basically, it backed up a conversation my boss and I had earlier last week. Her feeling was workers younger than me (I'm 34) do not want to work their way up or "pay their dues."

I won't paint with that broad a brush, but I've come across plenty of 20-somethings who felt they should be managers or directors and not specialists.

 

More on this from Maclean's, the Canuckistani news magazine:

http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/14/dude-where%e2%80%99s-my-job/

 

"Most entitled generation..." I like that

 

I would think that part of the reason for entitlement and not wanting to have to pay dues is that Gen. Y is really the first generation to grow up in years watching their parents (and I'm referring to parents with solid educations, here) work for years for a company with the expectation of a retirement, only to have that company boot them out to head overseas.

The promises of "work hard and you'll have a chance to get ahead," rings hollow now. It's really the first time since the Depression that a generation expects to fall behind their parents instead of move ahead of them.

 

If the generation is fucked up, there's only one place to put the blame: the parents. That means you, Baby Boomers. You created this monster, now you have to deal with it.

I bet if any of these older bosses or anecdotal coworkers were interviewed about their own 20something child, they'd totally deny their own kid shows these traits.