Gen Y: Disengaged -- Except in India

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  Pammi08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Gen Y: Disengaged -- Except in India

  GO INDIA!!! JAI HIND!!

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  yvahn.martin@...08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Gen Y: Disengaged -- Except in India

  As an american Gen Y, I can tell you exactly why we're disengaged. It's because we're broke! We're all drowning in debt to get degrees that we were told would "guarantee" a certain income level, while the competition for an only gradually increasing number of jobs has increased exponentially with the growing ranks of college graduates.
  
  An entire generation of american students whose parents (or maybe they themselves) slaved, maybe two or three jobs to ensure that they would be able to enter a white collar workforce, is now faced with the harsh reality of globalization, outsourcing, and the plain and simple truth that our national economies have not figured out a way (a technology?) to sustain millions of workers at a solidly middle-class pay rate.
  
  Many entry-level candidates won't make $35K/yr straight out of most colleges, even in the lower ranks of "good" colleges; most people can make more money and live more comfortably getting public assistance and working for cash tips. Thus we have an entire generation of liberal arts graduates $40K+ in debt schlepping coffee and bartending, and they still make as much money if not more than people who have to deal with the mind-numbing minutiae of office politics. The cumulative effects of all these phenomenon on our morale makes us inherently disgruntled workers.
  
  If I had the household income of a successful, solidly middle class baby boomer right now, and could support a family and live the way I wanted to and travel at will, etc, I would be much more willing to contribute my best and highest effort. We also see our parents "engaging" and being downsized, laid-off, benefits cut, and they still work 50-60 hours a week and still aren't happy. It's not much to aspire toward, a rather grim outlook for the future.
  
  So we jump from job to job, in pursuit of some sort of pleasure in our menial tasks, if not the economic means to live comfortably, not realizing that life really is a lot more boring and mundane than we'd all learned to hope for from our parents that came of age in the free-wheeling '70s. We are restless and impatient. And our expectations in life all just might be a little too high, or rather unrealistic about the work that it takes to acheive such heights. Don't forget, we are the A.D.D./MTV generation! But look out, roughly 17% of 13-24 yr olds think they're going to be famous!
  
  yvahn m.

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  RE: Gen Y: Disengaged -- Except in India

  I have no idea, when you say that generation Y is not disengaged in India. In this interconnected world, indian youth almost thinks in line with young people of other reasons. In USA or Europe, young people themselves has taken loan for study and in India their parents. That is only difference. Bur for last 10 years, to join, indian permier institutes, candidates themselves take loan.
  
  Things may be little diffrent because india is an emerging economy. But thought process is not much different. Slowing down of US economy has created further difficulties for young people as indian IT sector is largely dependent upon US economy.