Do you agree with Gen-Z being so quick to quit jobs they hate

[Alvin]

depends, a lot of bullshyt jobs nowadays and even some of these career fields have standards, cultures or bosses that are so behind the times it's embarrassing. That being said Gen Z can make mountains out of molehills and complains and bytches at things everyone has to deal with regardless of how perfect the job is (doing something you don't feel like, working with people you may not get a long with) Some of those things are just facts of life.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

I dont blame them.

Why work you're ass off just to stay poor or barely get buy ? These Jobs dont pay a livable wage and salaries haven't been consistent with the cost of living for the last 30 years .

Might as well be unemployed or find a hustle. And I'm saying this as a younger gen xr

You think doing door dash or being unemployed for 30 years is a better idea? Folks out here hustling backwards. As you get experience in jobs you need to level up or take a new job. If you are still at the bottom or doing the same thing after working 30 years that is on you and your personal failure.

The problem is younger folks want instant gratification. They want results without putting in the work. THEY ARE LAZY. Social media is partly to blame for this. They see the lifestyles and end results of those who are accomplished but they don't see the 15 to 20 years of grinding it took for that person to get there. You aint entitled to anything in this world. That's a cold lesson learned for the everyone gets a trophy generation.

There are no shortcuts to success. We got more easy access to knowledge now than any other generation and folks are using the internet to learn tik tok dances instead of coding. There is no excuse. We know the professions and skills needed to get paid good money and folks still choose not to do it cause it takes hard work and they are LAZY. I would have sympathy if folks were actually putting in the work and not getting results but that isnt the case.

Also the world isnt set up for single people to thrive. Get married and combine income and thrive. That's how you win. In most other countries families live generations deep in compounds. Who told you you were supposed to be able to thrive solo and isolated and have it all? Folks are getting married later in life which is also why they are struggling longer.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

uber and DoorDash are odd jobs and they aren’t making real money from the other things you mentioned. Better off learning a trade if that’s the case but deep down you know these kids are quitting their jobs to be content creators

Being a content creator or social media influencer is the new "rapper". In the 90s every kid wanted to be a rapper and we saw how that panned out for most. 99% of those who ditched school and jobs to pursue rap dreams ended up broke and dusty.

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

People forget that the baby boomers are the OG slackers and were handed them the world by the Silent Generation. They had a peak economy, low cost of living, GREAT environment that Climate Change was non existent, and GOAT experiences in the arts (music, movies). In just 5 decades, they fukked all of tthat up by their kids and grandkids running amok with cultural dysfunctions.

Gen X was the gen was was super focused on the crack trade and stunting . They were the original clout demons that used hyper aggression on getting superficial desires and none on community building. They could have been college grads and working in the great 90s economy, but a lot of them were caught up on nonsense and became the gen that dropped outta college in mass. You know how many Philosophy majors ended up with 60k and above jobs back then? In the 90s cost of living?

Gen Y never really stood a chance and went through 10+ years of Hell after graduating college in the post 2008 world, where low wages were the norm. Glad to see Gen Z straight up changing the game before they hit 25.

I know a philosophy major who busses cars at a car rental place at my local airport now

The margin of error when it comes to being successful is so much lower now, and the payoff is so much worse too. I give Gen Z and young millennials all of the credit in the world, they're doing what I wish I could do but I have a kid, I can't be that reckless so I feel forced to navigate the system as best as I can. I'll tell you what though they're a lot sharper than most adults I know where at that age.

 

[Wink Beaufield]

I don’t know where this mythology comes from that Boomers and Gen X were “hard workers”. Boomers were literally Hippies. They were the original antiwork smoke weed all day and don’t do shyt movement. But people fail to make the connection that Hippies and Yuppies were the same people because college graduate cacs could actually come out of school to well paying jobs 95% of the time unlike any college graduate after 2001 and obviously 2007-2009. And Gen X were the slacker generation for God’s sake. Doing the absolute minimal to get by. And many Gen X in the black community sold crack instead of working because it was much more profitable. I’m an older millennial but I couldn’t play outside that much as a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s because I lived in the hood where all the Gen X cats were slanging yola and shooting at each other. Today, many of the old hood dudes and women somehow managed to get good government jobs with platinum pay and benefits. Even some old school crackheads who got clean got good gov’t jobs.

The truth is that Boomers and Gen X just benefited from more prosperous economic times. Y’all had recessions and hard times that weren’t experienced evenly depending on your circumstances, but your boom times were legendary (i.e. the tech boom). It doesn’t make sense to go to college anymore. College is basically a casino where you are betting $100k+ that you will be able to find a good job afterwards graduation using an outdated measure of credentialism. And you can’t discharge student loan debt with bankruptcy. Even these trade apprenticeships expect you to buy your own damn whole ass work truck with your own money on an apprenticeship wage that is only like $18 an hour.

The kids are thinking outside the box and that’s a good thing. America is a sinking ship because we are run by mega corporations that don’t give a damn about us. Globalization also implies importing third world poverty.

Man I work with so many of these oldhads like this in the feds it ain't even funny. Some were straight goons or straight up hoes. Being the one millennial in the building before WFH they would talk about their wildin out days in the streets like it was nothing.

All the boomer/gen x women would say I got a son your age or I remind them of their son.

You best believe I used that to my advantage for promotions.

 

[Wink Beaufield]

depends, a lot of bullshyt jobs nowadays and even some of these career fields have standards, cultures or bosses that are so behind the times it's embarrassing. That being said Gen Z can make mountains out of molehills and complains and bytches at things everyone has to deal with regardless of how perfect the job is (doing something you don't feel like, working with people you may not get a long with) Some of those things are just facts of life.

That's because they got the full brunt of helicopter parenting and coddling.

 

[_DC]

fukk these jobs

I don’t get what so hard about this..
They clearly don’t give a fukk about any of us.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

The jobs suck so I don’t blame them.
This economy deserves to tank b/c it was never sustainable for anybody who isn’t wealthy anyway.
The idea of working to death for people on the top is never a good thing.


But…BUT the trend of not wanting to work at all and the entitlement of generations staying at home aint the move.
Does anybody wanna see the data? Kids staying home into adulthood aren’t stacking money the way a lotta people envision it and many of the social skills and work ethic of previous generations is eluding these kids. In fact, prolonged periods of living at home is correlated with a lotta other issues like loneliness, depression, sexlessness, and it actually is negatively correlated with homeownership. Also where does this myth that black kids don’t stay home past 25 come from?
Instead of overextending dear ole mom and dad or single parents by staying home well into adulthood,
We need to address the economy AND individual skills and behaviors to move forward b/c these trends are going to have disasterous outcomes. When you become and able-bodied adult, your parents should not be working harder than you. And that’s what’s happening in many cases.

Those genuinely stacking with a plan are exempt. But procrastinating on markers of adulthood just leads to more parents raising grandkids while daughters out making the next one…or more males yelling at chicks in cars on Tic Tock about why a chick won’t come choose up on him in his mom’s basement while mom works 3 jobs to support their entitlement.

A lot of these generations missing out on life skills that you can’t really learn until you strike out on your own. It’s not just money that’s at stake here.

 

[Geek Nasty]

I said it before but props to the new generation. First time in my life that a generation legit said "fukk you" to the old without it being some bullshyt temporary rebellion stage.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Imagine bootlicking for corporations on The Coli.

Imagine wondering why Gen Z, who saw the previous generation get screwed in their career goals twice in the last fifteen years by two recessions and a global pandemic, don't give a fukk about these jobs.

Imagine wondering why Gen Z doesn't give a fukk about these jobs when they're seeing their own peers get screwed right now. If you graduated from college in the last two years and didn't get an internship due to Covid, you're fukked in your job search. If you graduated and your job search was halted due to Covid hiring freezes, you're fukked in your job search. If you had to find a lower skilled job after graduating, assuming you even got hired because you might have been 'overqualified,' you're fukked in your job search.

Why do Coli Capitalists think people are going to keep putting up with this?

 

[NoirDynosaur]

No job is worth the mental turmoil.

The great resignation last year happened because micromanagement and the stress that the job entails. Retail, hospitality, fast food, life's too short to be stuck at a dead end job with no growth. When I worked at retail, I just wanted to get it over with. I was only there for secondary income.

It's better to work for yourself (side hustle/side business) or going into a skill/trade that actually needs your help.

Luckily, we live in a digital area where remote job is vacant. Plus, cryptocurrency and NFT's are turning young individuals into self made millionaires!

 

[Chrishaune]

The gig economy/delivery business has developed a whole new lane that wasn't there when Millenials started their working career.

GenZ has more options now.

 

[KFBF]

Why would I feel any way about it? It's got nothing to do with me.

 

[Wild self]

You think doing door dash or being unemployed for 30 years is a better idea? Folks out here hustling backwards. As you get experience in jobs you need to level up or take a new job. If you are still at the bottom or doing the same thing after working 30 years that is on you and your personal failure.

The problem is younger folks want instant gratification. They want results without putting in the work. THEY ARE LAZY. Social media is partly to blame for this. They see the lifestyles and end results of those who are accomplished but they don't see the 15 to 20 years of grinding it took for that person to get there. You aint entitled to anything in this world. That's a cold lesson learned for the everyone gets a trophy generation.

There are no shortcuts to success. We got more easy access to knowledge now than any other generation and folks are using the internet to learn tik tok dances instead of coding. There is no excuse. We know the professions and skills needed to get paid good money and folks still choose not to do it cause it takes hard work and they are LAZY. I would have sympathy if folks were actually putting in the work and not getting results but that isnt the case.

Also the world isnt set up for single people to thrive. Get married and combine income and thrive. That's how you win. In most other countries families live generations deep in compounds. Who told you you were supposed to be able to thrive solo and isolated and have it all? Folks are getting married later in life which is also why they are struggling longer.

Your way of life and bootstraps to success will result in the total decimation of society. After the pandemic when Baby Boomers are retiring by the millions, no one wants to hear the old way anymore.

Study the French Revolution, cause America right now is dangerously close to getting there.

 

[jwonder]

I know a philosophy major who busses cars at a car rental place at my local airport now

The margin of error when it comes to being successful is so much lower now, and the payoff is so much worse too. I give Gen Z and young millennials all of the credit in the world, they're doing what I wish I could do but I have a kid, I can't be that reckless so I feel forced to navigate the system as best as I can. I'll tell you what though they're a lot sharper than most adults I know where at that age.

I give them some them credit. But they have technology at their hands that we didn't. They can see the lies and work around them now. They can see which way to go and which way not to.

The internet is a huge game changer. I would have done a few things differently if the knowledge was so clear when I was coming up.