Posts Tagged millennials
Marriage vs. Career
Last night, I participated in #u30pro. I jumped in about halfway through and found myself in the midst of a conversation about relationships, commitment and work-life balance.
To my dismay, many of the participants were in agreement that marriage and being career-minded don’t go together. Several tweets included such phrases as:
“I’m focusing on my career, no time to think about marriage.”
“Planning a wedding is a full-time job.”
In fact, one participant sent a tweet that it is impossible to be career-focused and thinking about marriage/married.
Wait, what?
Do people really think this? Actually believe that you have to choose between being a motivated professional and love, marriage and family?
Well I sure as hell don’t. Maybe I’m sensitive because I’m planning my wedding, but even before I was at this stage, I believed that it was possible to have it all. Find a successful balance between professional goals and personal relationships. Serve on a nonprofit board and still make it to happy hour with your girlfriends. Have chats about climbing the corporate ladder with a significant other over dinner that you two cooked at home, together.
Am I crazy for thinking that this is possible?
Retaining Millennial Employees
Posted by Kristin in In the News on August 17, 2010
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.
Millennials to the Rescue?
Posted by Kristin in In the News on June 8, 2010
I’m sure most of you read the opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “Save Us, Millenials.” I know it was extensively passed around on Twitter and Facebook last week. I’ve read it at least five times now, and every time, something new jumps out at me.
Now, there have been TONS of books, articles and opinion pieces written about the Millennial generation. From the book Generations (which is next on my list to read), to the article in last month’s Delta Sky Magazine, it seems people just love talking about us. And, my oh my, the adjectives used to describe us are vast: entitled, lazy, driven, optimistic.
Whatever you’d like to call us, I believe Timothy Egan nailed it when he said:
Instead, at a time when most Americans described themselves as “angry,” the generation now entering adulthood is keeping their trademark optimism. A recent, detailed survey of their attitudes done by the Pew Research Center was headlined: “The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.”
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