Posted on 04/08/2022 10:48:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The last time Yaw, who declined to give his full name, was fully employed was two years ago.
But this law graduate is not really bothered by his current jobless status.
He told AsiaOne that he is particular about his future employer and he'll want to have a good work-life balance.
Yaw, a Malaysian who graduated in 2019, is preparing for the Malaysian Bar examination and teaches violin part-time.
"I think that there is a need for adjustment on the work-life balance offered by companies," he added. "Some of us do look forward to getting a job and learning new experiences along the way but there are some issues created in the workplace that are not being taken seriously - which makes us want to quit the job."
While this may sound irresponsible to those from the older generation, Yaw is not alone in his thinking.
At 25, Yaw is known as a Millennial-Gen Z Cusper, those born on the cusp of when Millennials and Gen Z-ers meet.
According to a recent Randstad survey, more than half of the Millennials and Gen Z respondents said they would quit a job if it prevented them from enjoying life.
This means that many younger people won't take up jobs that don't meet their expectations and are very willing to "walk away from one if it [the job] interferes with how they want to lead their lives", said the survey.
That compares with just over a third of those polled who identify as Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), according to this 2022 Randstad Workmonitor.
This survey of 35,000 employees across 34 countries also showed that 41 per cent of their youngest generation of respondents - Millennials and Gen Z - claim to have quit jobs citing conflicts with their personal life.
This report, conducted online among those aged 18 to 67, also surveyed respondents from Singapore, and some of the key findings are:
52 per cent of Singapore employees say they will quit their jobs if it was preventing them from enjoying their life.
62 per cent would choose not to work at all, if money was no object.
41 per cent say they would rather be unemployed than be unhappy in a job.
56 per cent agree that their personal life is more important than their work life.
80 per cent say that flexibility in terms of working hours is important.
27 per cent say they have quit a job because it didn't provide enough flexibility.
-PJ
"Children?!" What are those?!
Regards,
He can teach violin then. Isn’t that a 10,000 hour metaphor?
It’s something, which in today’s competative job market counts for nothing if the right attitude stays down in his divorced mommy’s basement.
“41 per cent say they would rather be unemployed than be unhappy in a job.
Not a care in the world about their children, I guess.”
I’m thinking this article is a derision on the laziness of that particular generation of “cuspers” from an Asian perspective.
Polite disgust with a haughty confession to top it off.
The bible speaks on this.
Those that will not work, will not eat.
My son must be an old soul. He definitely has more drive than his peers. Works his ass off saving his $ and advancing himself while he’s young - so he can get to a place where he has the salary that meets the lifestyle he wants. Personally, I think he’s doing great where’s he at. But, he has a goal. I’m glad he enjoys his work because he does a lot of it.
I think the age of plenty we’ve been experiencing for the last few decades is coming quickly and surprisingly to a close. When times are fat, these useless parasites can be supported. When things get tough, they don’t.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings are laughing their asses off.
If I read the article correctly it’s a statement on Gen-Z’s feeling about work and happiness - in Singapore. I remember seeing programs on Singapore and reading other information. They have tons of public resources, healthcare, etc. and it’s not hard to envision that it might be easier for a young person to be out of work there than somewhere else not as economically developed (e.g., Singapore has the second-highest per capita GDP in the world). Lot’s of money floating around the place. I wonder what the results would be in another country like the US.
Oddly enough my daughter took an advanced degree ( paid for in cash because she and her husband saved up for it) so she could obtain a job in a field she lives to achieve work life balance. No more night shifts. No more working holidays. She actually gets an official meal break.
She loves her job. She is very good at it.
So proud of the woman she has become
Not to worry Klaus sez you will own nothing and be happy, rejoice
I prefer these morons not have children.
I saw that it was Singapore too, but initially I thought it was about the United States. Which was odd as I had read an very, very similar article about the same generation pertaining to the United States within the last week.
The attitude is pervasive. If the job interferes with their enjoyment of life, they just quit. My work requires staff be able to work around the holidays. Animal lives depend on them showing up to care for them. I had a colleague have 5 staff members quit the week before Christmas, before the schedule even came out! It takes a team to rotate shifts so everyone gets holiday time for family or friends. Those 5 selfish, spoiled brats only saw themselves as important. Not their fellow team members and not the lives of the animals in their care. They assumed we would pickup the slack, ‘because we are older.’
Selfish, spoiled, unwilling to sacrifice, unable to act like a team member, unable to see how the small picture fits into the big picture.
It won’t be too far off when these people will be like fish in a barrel for the globalist totalitarians. Their “work-life balance” will really suck and there will be nowhere to hide.
Back in the 60s my younger brother, got out of the Navy, got married and divorced and went back home.
After several years of moving out and back in my Mother warned him that she had enough and he couldn't come back to stay there as a 'landing site' between his flings.
He didn't believe her until he return one time to find that she had dragged all of his stuff, clothes, bed, room furnishings etal, out into the back yard, poured gas on them and fired them up.
He finally got his own place, and stayed on his own.
Gen Z is on par to be one of the least productive generations in centuries in terms of both financial and reproductive viability.
The schools have made the poverty of communism en vogue. You will have nothing and you will like it.
People need to work. No question about it.
But there is another side of this: the working world has changed. HR is totally “woke” and big companies will constantly lecture you about how you need to think about the world. If there is ever a dispute between a normal person and a non-normal person, it’s because the normal person is a Hater who needs to be counseled.
Many salaried positions are treated like assembly line workers at a factory — clock in at a certain time, stay at your station, don’t take breaks, clock out — and send the boss an email detailing what you accomplished that day. And the boss can contact you at night, on weekends, or while you are on vacation. Hey, you are a salaried worker! This isn’t just some 9 to 5 job!!
And you won’t really get raises, you won’t get promotions, you will not advance. Your career is a dead end and your employer will abuse you and milk you for as long as possible. They owe you nothing. And if you try to leave, they will be shocked at your disloyalty. You owe them!! Look at all they’ve done for you! What?! Only two weeks notice that you are moving on?! That’s not very professional of you!! Maybe they should call security, walk you to the door, and just not give you those last two weeks pay! You’re out!!
People today want to just work to live and not live to work. I don’t blame them and I think the current attitude toward jobs is quite understandable.
How do you live without a job without being a burden on other people.
I can understand working just enough to get by or saving money and then taking a few month off.
Young people think they will be young forever.
But they will grow old like the rest of us. It is nice to have a job you enjoy but the purpose of a job is to earn money to pay for the things you need and to save for the future.
Enjoy life today without thinking of you future almost guarantees a hard life at the end of the road.
(This may not be true for everyone, but I suspect it will be true for most of those slackers that just do enough to pay for the next “fun” thing.)
Instead of working (which ALWAYS involves working with SOMEONE you don’t like or doesn’t like you), they will just steal other people’s stuff.
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