What insipid nickname are they calling the "twentysomethings" these days anyway? They called us Generation X for whatever reason but I haven't really heard much by way of a catchy monicker for the current crop of shiftless layabouts.
millenials
Ah, I think that word was in the article you linked. Didn't realize it was an actual term being used.
These opportunities you speak of will be made available to fresh graduates; not failures working at a Home Depot. Spending $50,000 for an education you will never utilize and losing 4-8 years of your life training for a job you will never obtain doesn't make you entitled. It creates frustration! These 20-somethings feel above working at the Home Depot because they have invested heavily into a future that never came to fruition. They lost a huge chunk of cash, carry large amounts of debt and are now well behind the people they graduated high school with.
There's nothing wrong with blue collar-workers or blue-collar jobs. There is something fundamentally wrong with somebody with a master's degree working a job that doesn't require that sort of training. Do you really think that eating that kind of humble pie is easy for people? Heck, a lot of the unskilled labor market frowns on people with education for this very reason making it pretty hard for recent graduates to land work of any kind.
:shock: I'm not 20 something anymore, but I eat that kind of humble pie every day. :?
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so you have never met some high school kids like that or 30 somethings or 40 somethings like that?
not yet, and if I did I am sure my views would evolve....
so you have never met some high school kids like that or 30 somethings or 40 somethings like that?[/quote]
not yet, and if I did I am sure my views would evolve....[/quote]
sure it would. of course your view will never change concerning new grads since you have decided never to interview them again.
correct indeed.
oh well good luck with that. :? of course i'm assuming that you were different when you graduated university.
you're assuming I went to university...
oh well good luck with that. :? of course i'm assuming that you were different when you graduated university.[/quote]
you're assuming I went to university...[/quote]
no i actually know you didn't cause if you did then you would never have said that you never met a uni grad who was worth hiring.
just wanted to see if you would say that yes you were different.