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April 2, 2007 at 7:33 am |
hi
i am 21 …i just recently started working as an intern in a software firm..i would like to share my experince with all of you about the work enviornment and the work culture in the corporate sector.please advice as to how i can go about writing a post for this and where i could submit it.
April 2, 2007 at 9:25 am |
Nitant,
Its nice to hear from someone our age who wants to contribute. Please email the name listed above and tell us a little about yourself and what you plan to write about. We will figure things out from there.
Ryan
April 16, 2007 at 3:02 pm |
It is great to see a website like this where we can talk about our generation and how we will fit into the working world. We are certainly much different then those who came before us and we will be charged with the responsibility of changing the world, quite a task. Our generation is on the threshold of many new things and I would love to be able to post some of what I think on your website. Thanks for starting this.
June 21, 2007 at 9:23 am |
Hi, I am currently interning for an investment firm in Manhattan. I commute to work everyday. I work from about 8am to 615pm plus the 1 hour commute to and from work. I don’t have much to do, on average about an hour or two of work each day. I do learn a lot and I am being paid. However, the job is monotonous and boring and that is how I stumbled upon this website, which has been quite interesting so far.
June 21, 2007 at 5:00 pm |
Hey Ryan,
I bumped into your article on WSJ and i almost fell off the chair. I don’t mean to be disrespectfull to you at all, but I dont think you are working at the right place if you are not being challanged and not given enough work. Your job sounds more like a starting intership (freshmen or sophomore year) then your first job. Here’s why I say this:
I went to school for engineering, and i have been doing internships all through college. Coming off college i joined one of the fortune 500 companies (hint: world’s most admired company).
This company thrives on employess who are bright and hard working, meaning you barely have any room to breathe becuase you are so busy learing and doing your day-to-day acitiviites. People here not only work long hours but come in on weekends or log in from home to complete all their deliveriables.
I am just not sure how, you have only 3-hour worth of work, and have time to put up website where other people who have just as less work can complain. Sounds, like you are not in the right job and you are not challenging yourself to learn and grow professionally. If you have all these time to do all of this, then you can most certainly put your time and effort into locating a positon where you will be challenged, grow professionaly..and not to mention..make more money.
After all..isn’t that why we went to school for in the first place?
June 22, 2007 at 10:57 am |
April,
Somedays 3 hours of work is all there is, but others I have 10-12. I have no problem logging in to complete deliverables from home either, in fact I get a kick out of working hard.
As far as the site goes, it is not about letting people complain about their jobs, its about trying to make a change and show people that you dont have to settle for the status quo. The site, and media attention that have come with it are allowing me to grow personally and professionally as much as a 70 hour a week job would, if not more. Money will come, I went to school to find what I enjoy and what Im good at.
Thanks for the comment.
-Ryan
June 26, 2007 at 12:24 pm |
I think this blog is a great idea. Our generation is incredibly unique. A forum that allows us to discuss our likes, dislikes, observations, and long term objectives will be particularly important in the coming years. How do I know this? I work for a market research and consultation firm, and my entire job is to study our generation. It’s pretty cool. I would love to have the opportunity to post here from time to time. If you want some writing samples, then let me know. I can provide them at some point. Keep on, keeping on.
June 27, 2007 at 3:08 pm |
It’s great to see more people in our generation out there blogging about our generation.
I’m personally right at the cusp of where Gen X and Gen Y – Next, whatever you want to call it – meet, and I have a little more of the think-for-yourself entrepreneurial impulse than is prescribed by many about our generation, but that’s sort of what comes from “experts” older than us writing about what we are. I’m not really much of a flock thinker, and I’m supposed to be, according to a lot of what I read. Which makes me think that maybe “they” are getting it wrong. I’m all for Generation Next writing our own definition of what we are, rather than trying to see how we fit into a Generation X commentary on what we are, how we think, how we work, how we live, etc.
I’d love to write a post for you all sometime.
June 29, 2007 at 2:38 pm |
The question I run into is why are we do generalize ourselves so much?
My stepdad, a blue collar worker (mechanic), is not very similiar to my father (electrical engineer). They are very different and very successful. To generalize them as the same just because their birthdays are close does them both–as well as you and me–an injustice.
How about grouping people into more appropriate categories?
1) Workaholics – Wants to work as much as you can physically tolerate
2 ) Work/Life balancers – Wants to leave when the clock strikes 5
3) Me-centric – Wants to get the job done fast and go home
I think you’d find more commonalities between Workaholics of any age than between me-centrics aged 40-50 and workaholics aged 40-50.
You could further subcategorize each group:
A) Drones (people who work in HR, retail, marketing, sales, …)
B) Professionals (doctors, vets, lawyers, accountants, …)
C) Blue collar workers (people who use their hands: plumbers, electricians, …)
D) Civil-service workers (police officers, firefighters, teachers, postpeople, …)
Surely, a civil-service worker has more in common with a blue collar worker than with a professional worker. Of course, this is somewhat focused, but I think you get the point. Which is, what do you gain by oversimplifing the working populous?
And this isn’t rhetorical, I really would like to hear your thoughts on my point.
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