While searching for inspiration for this blog post, I found a story I had bookmarked on my Delicious account. On the Brazen Careerist, 36 Facts about Generation Y in the Workplace and Beyond, the author shares facts and observations about the Millennial generation – the known and relatively unknown.

Many of the facts are interesting, and worth a look, broken out in categories like Racial Make-Up, Debt & Financial Outlook and Lifestyle, Civic Engagement, Family. However, the two facts that really stuck out to me were:

10. About 60% of younger workers say it is not very likely or not likely at all that they will stay with their current employers for the remainder of their working life. (In contrast, 62% of Generation X workers say it’s likely they will never leave their current employer while 84% of Baby Boomers expect to remain with their current employer for the rest of their working life.)

11. Only 1/3 of Millennials say their current job is their career.

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