Gen Y - Career ADD

Generation Y - Career ADD

This is from a little article from The Oberlin Review from Sophia Yan December 2006.

I just loved the first sentence off of her review.
"College admissions offices, employers and marketing companies are going into a frenzy over Generation Y, a cohort of individuals characterized as Generation X on steroids."

The Hall of Fame ballot was out for baseball today and Mark McGuire made another appearence on the ballot only to not be accepted again. Oh the irony of Gen Y being "Generation X on steroids." In a time full of steroid controversy and the ante's being upped so high that "steroids" seem to be the only way to compete. We are raised to think we'll be the next LeBron James, the next Mark Zuckerberg(Mr. Facebook) or the next Paris Hilton(Apparently socialite is a profession now?). And what's to stop us? We've got the reigns of the google, youtube, wikipedia all at our finger tips and can be an expert in any topic within minutes of an internet search.

We enter the workplace with a thirst to make more efficient, more tech savvy, and don't sit well with the status quo. Likewise it can be easily frustrating in positions without opportunities for immediate advancement aren't presented, and will jump from one "career" to another at a whims notice to get a higher paycheck and more refined title. Long gone are the days of "tenure" and "life career" we're in, we make some money aim for the bonuses get bored then move on.