Comments on: Dude, where’s my job?

By: Higher ed = higher pay (sometimes) : Macleans OnCampus

Higher ed = higher pay (sometimes) : Macleans OnCampus — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:05:28 +0000

[...] is experiencing a reality check. Our boomer parents told us if we stayed in school, we could expect a good job, a car, a house and vacations. Now we’re learning that post-secondary education doesn’t guarantee us [...]

By: daily dwayne

daily dwayne — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:50 +0000

@Karen Cao
“Youths today are more educated, talented, energetic, tolerant and open than past generations… ”

where is the data to support this claim?

“Lets not generalize, you’re not writing to some idiotic mass, your audiences are individuals. ”

isn’t that EXACTLY what you’re doing?

By: Karen Cao

Karen Cao — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:55:22 +0000

If this is written from the perspective of someone over 30, then I have reason to question its objectivity. I am under 30 and I will not be generalized to such demeaning and condescending levels, youths today do far more volunteer work than past generations ever did or ever thought was in their and societal interest to do. Youths today are more educated, talented, energetic, tolerant and open than past generations… and a lot of them still do crappy service jobs, the generation of entitlement that you speak of is one of minority status; they come from families of a certain socio-economic class and precipitated such demands from their parents who coming also from a certain socio-economic class have assisted to create this generation.

They are NOT representative of all youths – depending on what figures are used, by either 2011 or 2017 – all new job growths will require an immigrant; which highlights the declining Canadian-born population and the fact that it will be them and this new so-called generation of entitlement that will be deciding future public policies, paying taxes for health care and a range of other critical service that the balloonig baby-boomers NEED – among other things.

Lets not generalize, you’re not writing to some idiotic mass, your audiences are individuals.

By: Hello world! « Follies of Youth

Hello world! « Follies of Youth — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:50:13 +0000

[...] An article in Maclean’s, “Dude, Where’s My Job?” by Lianne George, inspired this blog. The thrust of the piece is that people born-after-1980 were [...]