Going Pro
The
professional employee is a rare breed. Across the board, company managers and
executives are expressing their disdain for the lack of professionalism in
their new employees fresh out of college. The blame can be placed on two major
factors: how we, the rising generation, have been raised and how we utilize our
access to technology.
We
must first understand how our parents were raised if we want to know why they
raised us the way they did. Most baby boomers had parents who saw very
difficult times. War, economic depression, and many other hardships instilled
the golden generation with a very frugal (some may consider cheap) mindset.
Most of our parents went without during their upbringing and promised themselves
that they would have their own kids want for nothing (Slyder, 2013) . So we got spoiled. We never learned to
respect authority and now we are having to adapt in the professional field.
If
our grandparents grew up in our generation, cancer would be cured, global
poverty would be obliterated, and world peace would be a feasibly attainable
goal. Those people knew how to work with what they had. We have more technical
skills than any other generation the world has ever seen, and we waste them by
watching cat videos (Palmer, 2012) . We are the video game age and have
become conditioned to instant gratification. Our level of social commitment is
inversely related to how technologically capable we are.
We
may not be the most professional generation, but that doesn’t mean those skills
cannot be learned. We are disadvantaged due to our social conditioning, but we
should not use that as an excuse. We must rise above our inhibitions and become
the professional workforce the world needs.
References
Palmer, C. (2012, May 11). USA Today: College.
Retrieved from USA Today:
http://college.usatoday.com/2012/05/11/the-rise-of-the-tech-generation-2/
Slyder, J. R. (2013, June 4). Chicago Now.
Retrieved from Chicago Now: http://www.chicagonow.com/lists-that-actually-matter/2013/06/7-reasons-baby-boomers-are-the-worst-generation/#image/1
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