Posted on 10/15/2013 12:39:37 PM PDT by Marie
Say hi to Lucy.
Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y.
I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.
So Lucy's enjoying her GYPSY life, and she's very pleased to be Lucy. Only issue is this one thing:
Lucy's kind of unhappy.
To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place. It comes down to a simple formula:
(Excerpt) Read more at waitbutwhy.com ...
Zing! Sorry, Lucy.
Bump to read latah ...
Why can`t it ALL be posted here? Owned by the Washington Compost?
Because it’s heavily illustrated (for added snark) and I suck at posting pictures in HTML. If you don’t want to click it, then don’t.
And BTW, I was led there by a FB post linking it to HuffPo. I thought that going to the original source was better than giving them clicks.
The other thing is that I get confused by what is, and is not, allowed here so (on the very rare occasions that I post an article) I prefer to post excerpts so I don’t get into trouble.
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It cracks me up to see 20-somethings come into my field (IT for one of the largest consultancies in the world) and get a new project and think they are going to take over managing the project week 1 and the company week 2.
Then I give him/her the assignment: These 50 oages of handwritten numbers need to be typed into a spreadsheet (2003 format, please). And we have these 3 MPPs that need to be merged — list the reconciliation errors and then go to each of the track leads and get them resolved. You have until Wednesday.
*CRASH!* Reality!
When you get older, then one day it will truly smack you on your forehead to appreciate what you already owned.
Doesn't matter how special Gen Y or the special Gen Y is, every Gen (XXX, name your own) goes through the same thing.
I should also add, this GYPSYs generation is specially fed on rainbow dewdrops.
In that they are truly special.
People born in the late 70s are not part of Gen Y.
As if people in their mid 30s are the same as flipping 20 year olds.
I usually just ask them fix a bug in a piece of working code written before they graduated high school without re-engineering it. Since it is not shiny and new their bubble pops about writing software that is always cutting edge and world changing.
First thing they need to do is stop voting for idiots like Obama.
Absoutely right on the money! MUST READ everyone, this explains it in terms your kids/grandkids who are products of the present educational system can even understand.
>>As if people in their mid 30s are the same as flipping 20 year olds.<<
I don’t see that many 30-somethings with that attitude problem — I think this commentary might be more towards the millenials.
All that tells me they are the perfect building blocks for a very destructive social and political movement.
>>I usually just ask them fix a bug in a piece of working code written before they graduated high school without re-engineering it. <<
You think I am going to hand a gun to a baby? Besides, I do code and debug but for the most part we offshore tedious stuff like that.
I do let them take notes at spec sessions to learn how problems are solved in the Real World, when the client pushes back to advance an agenda having nothing to do with the problem at all (such as Empire Building).
I even let them present PPT decks but not field questions (I do that).
I do agree that this should be aimed more for kids in their 20’s. Bubbles are usually well-popped by 30.
Usually. I know a couple...
the author’s treatment of Facebook (”Facebook Image Crafting”) addresses that issue. While on one hand FB serves to heighten the sense of inadequacy, on the other it provides Gypsys with the ideal outlet for informing the world about every detail of their own unfilled lives.
Thus, what better way to gain information that shape your opinions than Facebook, the new opiate of the masses?
I remember early in my career spending the evening with my boss at that time who explained how he planned to be at this level after 2 years, and after 5 years at that level, etc., etc. This was all strange to me, and I just did my job as well as I could while he went off to other opportunities. After a few years, he was working for me!
Yes, that level of frustration is apt to produce a high level of anger.
That’s true, but Gen Xers are just as bad.
Reading through the comments after that article is somewhat disheartening. Many of the comments are written by kids with that utter entitlement mentality, complaining that baby boomers had everything given to them, and in today’s bad economy, it just isn’t fair that they should go to college and end up flipping burgers.
The concept of starting at the bottom and working your way up is foreign to a majority of those commenting. One highly rated comment even complained that people are too focused on material wealth and jobs, and that isn’t the real road to happiness. Well, fine for him, if he really thinks he will find happiness by living in poverty and eschewing material possessions—let’s just say that since he is obviously using a computer and the internet, I don’t believe him (I think he really just wants wealth redistribution, with him being on the receiving end and others having to produce the goods and services he desires).
The article itself is probably fairly accurate. These entitlement mentality kids are going to have to grow up sometime.
<I don’t see that many 30-somethings with that attitude problem — I think this commentary might be more towards the millenials.
I teach grad students, late 20’s and upward, with many early 30’s (graduated college, worked as a barista, figured their degree in basketweaving wasn’t taking them anywhere, and decided to get some training for a real job). They generally act as I would expect young adults to act, so no problems.
I don’t get many of the entitled young, we call them ‘snowflakes’ in academe (’cause they’re each unique and special, dontcha know?). However, my acquaintances who teach undergrads have huge issues with them. They want credit for having tried, or ‘worked hard,’ even if they turn in terrible assignments; they want all kinds of special arrangements and hand holding (’It’s your fault I failed the exam, you didn’t tell me what was going to be on it.’). Yuck.
I’d probably be arrested for slapping some reality into some of them.
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