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Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain
bednarz writes to mention that NetworkWorld has an interesting examination of young IT professionals and why many make unreasonable demands for their services. "'The issue managers are facing is with retention, not hiring. That means the work environment is not living up to the employee's expectation,' he says. For instance, many younger workers expect to get an office immediately or be paid at a rate higher than entry level."
Many of us "millenials" may want more from our job. Is this entirely unreasonable? No. Because we have university degrees. Our parents generation often did not. We do not go into large debt and spend years getting educated in order to start out at the bottom. But there seems to be this sort of race to the bottom. Masters is the new bachelors.
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
Hi. Many of you may know me as the person who's been spamming Budgieton myminicity links, well. I'm done. Slashdotters will almost instantly point out the link i post as "minicity spam", so I have decided that this minicity stuff is just not worth it.
It is much more enjoyable just to post gross links and or redirects to shock sites. The replies are almost always worth it.
Point being, I'll stop the minicity spam, but really wasn't this the better of the evils out there? Enjoy your goatse/lastmeasure/2girls etc etc. You obviously prefer it to the minicity stuff.
Goatse wins.
Well, it is called welcome to the reality of the real working world.
Sorry if you weren't prepared for this, and that it comes as such a shock to you, but, this is the type of thing most normal working people have been dealing with for decades now. This is nothing new...and you are nothing special.
That being said...deal with it a bit, learn and save....then, go start your own business...or do the contracting thing..THEN, you have more say over what you want and want to do and what salary you can make. But, everyone pretty much has to pay their dues....you might as well jump in there and get going and get the experience. School gets your foot in the door.....resume experience moves you forward and up....and then, take your own destiny in hand.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
*Most* of my generation don't think this way, its just that the bitching from the minority that do outweighs those of us that worked our balls off just to get past those whose parents DIDN'T care about their "self esteem" and abused their children until they got into their idea of a good college.