Expecting and demanding better
On the newsfeed today is an article all the way from the Kannakee Daily Journal in Illinois titled Twentysomethings expect more than other employees. The article refers to a 2007 CareerBuilder.com survey that found that “employees younger than 29, which it refers to as Generation Y, expect more from their jobs than do older generations.”
That’s kind of obvious, isn’t it? I do kind of wonder if this isn’t just a constant feeling amongst newer workers, though. Did young workers in the 60s, 70s and 80s really walk into their first real career-style job expecting nothing but hardship and strife? Are we really the first generation that expects better than that?
The article does touch on what I think is the real reason behind this supposed phenomenon: “There is more job availability today, so this generation isn’t afraid to change jobs, and it’s used to adapting.”
So, really, maybe it isn’t that Gen Y is unique in expecting better, but rather that we’re the first to actually get it?
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