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Irresponsible youngsters?

One of the common references made by people of upper youth (40+, a la upper ground floor) for kids (25 years old) is that they are short of hard work and irresponsible.

Is it perception or is it a reality?

End of the day reality is nothing but a perception seen with coloured glasses. Today's youth is in fact far more responsible than ever before. The key difference, as I see it, is about the attitude to life and living a full life. Unlike earlier times, where opportunities, resources and exposure were low, the time was largely spent in office/college and at home. Look at options today and the affordability quotient.

Today's youth want all that without compromising on the content of each of the part played in life. Work hard is turning to work smart. Party hard is turning to party and network smat and so on.

Professionals would have had limited ambitions a couple of decades ago. Dream would be to be a GM or at best a VP before retirement. Todays young want to be there by mid thirties.

They are enabled with new tools and therefore feel that the "elder" generation is not sufficiently challenging and is stuck in old groove. Why should I do what "they" did 40 years ago. It is not relevant!

Interesting insights in to their minds. More on this later as I gotta finish some work now.
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  1. Gunjan31 August 2009 at 16:33

    Yes it true that youngsters today are more well equipped, not just working hard but also smart, living for today, planning for tommorrow and partying tonight.

    But lots of times in our mad rush between our careers and homes they do tend to get irresponsible at times or might be perceived to be irresponsible, these youngsters not having realize it themselves.

    But then the experiences of the upper youth do help these youngsters in taking some key/tough decisions of their lives.

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  2. Anonymous31 August 2009 at 18:07

    There is no better pressure/learning ground that peer group.

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