>“They want that dream job title, the perfect culture fit, and a supreme compensation package right out of the gate,”
I tend to agree with that quote, but what these young people may not realize, the longer you are unemployed, the harder it is to find work.
When I graduated, the job market was as bad and I believe far worse than now. I took a series of work unrelated to my BS Degree, eventually landing in Programming which is what I was aiming for.
I think these people should at least work, even if in an unrelated field, it shows the interviewer you are flexible enough to do anything.
Yup, they're browbeating because it used to work. Shaming people into breaking the rocks.
Men aren't working because they feel there's nothing in it for them anymore. The pay barely keeps them spinning their wheels, their prospects of having something higher than themselves to live for, such as a family, are bleak, and there's no security in employment.
I know, for me, I focused on cost cutting rather than revenue generation, reduced the amount of time I have to work to virtually nothing, and instead of feeling useless, living in squalor, my standard of living went way up, not down. I get to focus on whatever I want, a lot of the time that's nothing at all, but often enough it's extremely rewarding endeavors, like FLOSS, learning, finding love and starting a family, being out in nature, cooking, constructive hobbies. I don't have a commute, I don't sit in traffic, I don't have a 4 figure rent, I've got nobody to compete with via conspicuous consumption.
jmclnx|1 year ago
I tend to agree with that quote, but what these young people may not realize, the longer you are unemployed, the harder it is to find work.
When I graduated, the job market was as bad and I believe far worse than now. I took a series of work unrelated to my BS Degree, eventually landing in Programming which is what I was aiming for.
I think these people should at least work, even if in an unrelated field, it shows the interviewer you are flexible enough to do anything.
big-green-man|1 year ago
Men aren't working because they feel there's nothing in it for them anymore. The pay barely keeps them spinning their wheels, their prospects of having something higher than themselves to live for, such as a family, are bleak, and there's no security in employment.
I know, for me, I focused on cost cutting rather than revenue generation, reduced the amount of time I have to work to virtually nothing, and instead of feeling useless, living in squalor, my standard of living went way up, not down. I get to focus on whatever I want, a lot of the time that's nothing at all, but often enough it's extremely rewarding endeavors, like FLOSS, learning, finding love and starting a family, being out in nature, cooking, constructive hobbies. I don't have a commute, I don't sit in traffic, I don't have a 4 figure rent, I've got nobody to compete with via conspicuous consumption.