Don't group me and mine with those tools.
So I guess we'll have to group you with the "grumpy old folk who look down on an entire younger generation based on inaccurate stereotypes" then.
Don't group me and mine with those tools.
So I guess we'll have to group you with the "grumpy old folk who look down on an entire younger generation based on inaccurate stereotypes" then.
Please do.
I am in charge of Digital in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and HK for one of the world's top media agencies. This role includes a heavy load of talent scouting, new grad hiring and development, talent retention, and team structuring. I deal on a daily basis with around 300 Millennials across these markets - and to be clear, a good portion of this talent pool is out-market (i.e. Americans, Brits, Canadians, and Aussies brought in).
Their need for instant gratification and constant positive reinforcement hurts their career growth. It took me a decade to work up the ladder and hit pay dirt, but I had the patience and sense of propriety required to realize this goal. Maybe 1 in 10 of the new grads we hire understand that you're not entitled to a 6 figure salary and a Manager role 12 months out of college. Or that soft skills, like being capable of holding a client-focused, deferential conversation on the phone, are still critical. Job-hopping every 1 or 2 years is a guaranteed way of never building up the type of personal equity in a single organization generally needed to get paid well. But their impatience always gets the better of them, and it's endlessly frustrating to see. High potential talent gets wasted due to pigheadedness.
Yes, I am overgeneralizing and being somewhat hyperbolic. But only somewhat.
Thank you. I'm a 1981 kid myself, which I've seen in numerous sources cited as the start of smallish cohort, XY of whatever you want to call it. My childhood was purely analog, rotary phones and all, but by the time I graduated high school in 2000 we were all cell phoned-up and AIMing each other nonstop.
I cannot relate to the Millennial tail or rearguard whatsoever. These are my youngest cousins and the kids I hire at the Tokyo Career Forum. These are the kids who only understand communication via digital. Who have never known a world without Google being available to answer any question, anywhere, anytime. Who talk to each other via memes.
Don't group me and mine with those tools.
There are SO many issues with the above (e.g., starting off a post criticizing others for being self-important by talking about how much of a big shot you think you are) but I'll just say this:
Even if everything you think you've observed about the entire generation of people born after you is true and accurate, remember that you work in Tokyo for a media agency. The type of person whose career goal is to work in Japan/Korea/Taiwan/HK for a media agency is in no way representative of the population at large, and especially not the American population. This is a tiny, super eccentric, idiosyncratic group of people. And this is a huge generalization on my part (which we're apparently okay with here), but I'd believe that there is definitely a "type" of person who moves to Asia from US/Canada/UK/Aus in order to pursue a career in digital media. And I believe that what you're describing may be this "type", not their age cohort...
But anyway... fattony was right in his original post about Millennials in Kendall. The demographic that Kendall targets for its workforce is 100% the demographic that shuns car commutes in favor of walking/biking/taking public transit.
So, anyone else excited about the prospects of a 500' tower in Cambridge?
Will there be hipsters in it?
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Anyway I know this isn't SSP and people here have a much lower tolerance for thread creep, so I'll bow out with my tail between my legs and ask, "In the Volpe PDF I saw it specifically stated that zoning would allow for a 500 foot residential tower, but only residential. Commercial would be capped to something like 250 feet. Any reason why this is so? What about a mix-use tower with a commercial base and residential upper floors?"
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” -Socrates
As you can see people have been complaining about younger generations for thousands of years. Its time to stop. There is nothing new or interesting to say. What you think are insights are just you complaining about people who are younger than you. You are stereotyping a billion people over a few personal anecdotes.
Traffic is a serious problem, but the answer isn't not to develop, it's to improve public transportation options and increase investment. We need the Indigo Line DMU plan now more than ever.
Let's not get carried away here... you provide a single example of this happening in the past. Whether or not old people have complained about the younger generations, finding a single quote (a good one, yes) hardly proves any point about a pattern. It's worth adding that within 70 years of Socrates' death, Athens ceased to exist as an independent power at all. Perhaps a more relevant parallel is the possibility that old people complain about younger ones more often when civilization is moribund.
Washington DC is not Kendall.
The prototype for Volpe was the government's scheme to get a new FBI Headquarters by having a developer build it in exchange for taking title to the existing FBI Headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave (a monument to brutalism, with deteriorating concrete to boot).
Today, after a decade of effort, the government is going to cancel the whole approach. Which puts everything back to square one, with the FBI stuck in a building it no longer wants and on a site where it would rather not be.
Could please provide some context or a link to something? Am I missing something?