Why does Generation 'Y' feel that they are entitled to good paying jobs right out of college?
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I once read a really interesting article about how the different generations looked at jobs in general and it was pointed out that Generation Y was coddled by the school system and their parents and they expect their jobs to cater to them as well. They look at their jobs as an extension of their social life and they approach work with the attitude that they can do a "C" level performance and still pass. Everything should just happen for them because it always has. Of course, this is beyond annoying for those of us who work with them. :-D
Because that's what the TV told them
I don't know. I am gen X still paying dues.
they need to get in line like everyone else and wait until the baby boomers retire or drop dead.
Because $30,000 is less than an entry leval wage for someone who has graduated from college?
not sure
Because many of them grew up in a time where there was no end to the money (90's). As kids they had a large amount of spendable money because the parents did very well financially. They were spoonfed that a college degree = money in the bank. In order to meet their expected standard of living they need money. Since they are young and foolish they ask for it, only to wake up sooner or later to smell the coffee.
If you grow up with everyone telling you that you need to go to college so you can get a good job, then you will probably think that you are going to get a good job when you get out of college. It makes sense to me.
i never believed that line. I see lots of successful people without college degrees, and vice versa.
Because they're spoiled brats who feel a sense of entitlement.that's how they were raised, either by their parents, the nanny or the TV!
If enough of them feel that way, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It can really put pressure on employers. Why should they strive for what we had if what they can get is better? More power to them if they can get it. At the same time, employers do not have to hire or retain them, so it works both ways.
I think it is due to two things. 1. Media and parents and school have been telling them they need to get a college education so they can get a good-paying career. No one inserted "and work your way up". 2. Just like everything else, a good share of GenXrs have raised their kids to think they get everything without working for it. My daughter had such a hard time in high school because I didn't just hand her money and things like the other kids. Now as a young mother, she says she will raise her son the same way.
Because 30,000 pays less then it used to! with rising costs for housing, food, GAS, and funding their own retirment through 401K, that is not a lot of money! you need to read up in INFLATION
I believe it's because their parents never made them work for anything. Ther gave them what they wanted. Friends who are teachers have parents calling telling them that their child CAN'T fail. There was an article not too long ago about parents who are doing the same to colleges. One mother whose daughter was doing a semester in China, called the school to demand that they do something about the bathroom facilities. IN CHINA! What child who thinks her mom can do something about Chinese bathroom (which aren't that bad) isn't going to think she should make $50,000 a year at a Fortune 500?
I know not all of these kids are like this, there's a girl who works part time in my office who just graduated from high school, who is so not like these kids at all. It's all in the parents.
That is a generalization of Gen Yers. I am 26 and when I graduated from college, I fully expected to have to work my way up. For me, if I could start off making enough money to pay my rent, utilities, groceries, and have a LITTLE for extras, then that was fine for me.
It looks like I am not as well off as other people my age but I don't carry credit card debt over every month, either. :)
I agree with the people who have said that no one has told generation Y that they have to work their way to the top. I'm 28, and all I've heard growing up was go to college so you can get a good job. I thought I was going to get that perfect job right away, and I'm just now realizing that you do have to start off at an entry level job and work your way up.
Because we are entitled to them!
Gimmie!! Gimmie!! Gimmie!
Most college graduates struggle lilke hell to graduate. They think that graduating was hard enough, and consider it dues paid in full. Sad but true.
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