How about younger generation in your country?
This is a nice reading on a review of younger generation in America. Question is: How about the young Indonesian workers nowadays? How about in your country?
Have a nice reading..
Audi
Are Younger Employees More Immature Today than They Were a Generation Ago?
Part 2 of a Special Series on What Happened to the American Work Ethic
by Glenn Shepard
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to grow up. I had a toy razor and used Dad's shaving cream to pretend to shave. I remember using my grandfather' s Cross pen in a coloring book and being told, "This is not a toy." Fancy pens were for grown-ups, so that's what I wanted to use. When I was in my twenties and asked for a Mont Blanc one Christmas, my Dad was overwhelmed with pride. It was like a right of passage and signaled to him that I had matured sufficiently to appreciate the finer things in life.
Little girls in my generation couldn't wait to grow up either. They would get into trouble for wearing their mother's, lipstick, shoes and clothes. When a little girl was big enough to get her ears pierced like Mom's, she had arrived.
We were all anxious to graduate high school and leave for college. Then we were anxious to graduate college and start our lives as adults. I bought my first home at age 22, and then a larger one that same year when I decided that Nashville was where I wanted to stay. Members of my generation who didn't attend college also valued independence. Some went straight to work after high school so they could get their own "bachelor pad", while others married and started a family.
No matter what paths we chose, we couldn't wait to take on the world because we valued independence and self-reliance. Today there is an ever-growing population of young adults who are in no hurry to leave home because they value convenience over independence. Sociologists have labeled them as "adult-lescents, " "thresholders, " and part of the "Peter Pan Syndrome". This shift in out culture has become so prevalent that it served as the plot line of the 2006 movie "Failure to Launch", which portrayed an overgrown thirty-something Matthew McConaughey who wouldn't leave home.
Even those who leave for college aren't graduating. Lingering has become such a problem that universities are almost to the point of bribing students to get out in four years. Four-year degrees now take six to eight years in many states. The University of Texas spent $22 million on a program to entice students to graduate in four years, while Illinois is guaranteeing freshman their tuition won't increase as long as they finish in four years.
And why would they want to leave? Instead of living in crowded dorms, students today are living in luxury apartments while running up credit card bills for beer and pizza, spending spring break in Mexico, and Christmas in Europe. They're living so far beyond their means that in 2002, 19% of all people who filed for bankruptcy were college students.
As social chairman of the Georgia Tech chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in the early eighties, I hauled more than a few kegs. We lived on beer, pizza and chili dogs from The Varsity in Atlanta for four years. But we also lived on campus in military style dorms, walked to class, and graduated in four years. College was a stepping stone to adulthood, not a permanent way of life.
When hiring a twenty-something or thirty-something today, it's no longer safe to assume they're an adult. The first thing I want to know is whether they live with their parents.
Some will email nasty messages to Rebecca and say I'm being prejudicial because their 34-year-old son still lives with them and they think it's okay. They're right about one thing. I AM prejudicial.
Why? Because when employment is not a necessity to eat, people can – and will – quit their jobs on a whim. This is why annual turnover rate for fast food restaurants that employ teenagers is regularly 200 – 300%.
I'll take a self supporting, independent 24-year-old who HAS to work to support themselves and their families over a 34-year-old whose income is 100% discretionary any day of the week.
Moral of the story: You can't rely on age anymore to determine a job applicant's maturity level. Look deeper.
Have a nice reading..
Audi
Are Younger Employees More Immature Today than They Were a Generation Ago?
Part 2 of a Special Series on What Happened to the American Work Ethic
by Glenn Shepard
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to grow up. I had a toy razor and used Dad's shaving cream to pretend to shave. I remember using my grandfather' s Cross pen in a coloring book and being told, "This is not a toy." Fancy pens were for grown-ups, so that's what I wanted to use. When I was in my twenties and asked for a Mont Blanc one Christmas, my Dad was overwhelmed with pride. It was like a right of passage and signaled to him that I had matured sufficiently to appreciate the finer things in life.
Little girls in my generation couldn't wait to grow up either. They would get into trouble for wearing their mother's, lipstick, shoes and clothes. When a little girl was big enough to get her ears pierced like Mom's, she had arrived.
We were all anxious to graduate high school and leave for college. Then we were anxious to graduate college and start our lives as adults. I bought my first home at age 22, and then a larger one that same year when I decided that Nashville was where I wanted to stay. Members of my generation who didn't attend college also valued independence. Some went straight to work after high school so they could get their own "bachelor pad", while others married and started a family.
No matter what paths we chose, we couldn't wait to take on the world because we valued independence and self-reliance. Today there is an ever-growing population of young adults who are in no hurry to leave home because they value convenience over independence. Sociologists have labeled them as "adult-lescents, " "thresholders, " and part of the "Peter Pan Syndrome". This shift in out culture has become so prevalent that it served as the plot line of the 2006 movie "Failure to Launch", which portrayed an overgrown thirty-something Matthew McConaughey who wouldn't leave home.
Even those who leave for college aren't graduating. Lingering has become such a problem that universities are almost to the point of bribing students to get out in four years. Four-year degrees now take six to eight years in many states. The University of Texas spent $22 million on a program to entice students to graduate in four years, while Illinois is guaranteeing freshman their tuition won't increase as long as they finish in four years.
And why would they want to leave? Instead of living in crowded dorms, students today are living in luxury apartments while running up credit card bills for beer and pizza, spending spring break in Mexico, and Christmas in Europe. They're living so far beyond their means that in 2002, 19% of all people who filed for bankruptcy were college students.
As social chairman of the Georgia Tech chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in the early eighties, I hauled more than a few kegs. We lived on beer, pizza and chili dogs from The Varsity in Atlanta for four years. But we also lived on campus in military style dorms, walked to class, and graduated in four years. College was a stepping stone to adulthood, not a permanent way of life.
When hiring a twenty-something or thirty-something today, it's no longer safe to assume they're an adult. The first thing I want to know is whether they live with their parents.
Some will email nasty messages to Rebecca and say I'm being prejudicial because their 34-year-old son still lives with them and they think it's okay. They're right about one thing. I AM prejudicial.
Why? Because when employment is not a necessity to eat, people can – and will – quit their jobs on a whim. This is why annual turnover rate for fast food restaurants that employ teenagers is regularly 200 – 300%.
I'll take a self supporting, independent 24-year-old who HAS to work to support themselves and their families over a 34-year-old whose income is 100% discretionary any day of the week.
Moral of the story: You can't rely on age anymore to determine a job applicant's maturity level. Look deeper.
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