Are we seeing more joblessness among the Generation Y group?

[makapaaa]

[h=2][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Are we seeing more joblessness among the Generation Y group?[/FONT][/h]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I have been receiving quite alot of mails lately from the jobless community but a few glaring things stood out during this period - they are all mostly men, in their 30s and also well educated.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]We have all along received daily mails from the jobless people throughout these 4 years of operation but they usually are in between the 40s to 50s age range.
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Introduction
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]There are the rare odd few that belonged to the 20s-30s age group but lately I detected, shockingly, that mails from this Generation Y age group has been coming in more regularly than any other period. They are also mostly men.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Moreover, all along, our status as a financial business hub has attracted high employment among the women workforce as the financial sector is considered a service industry. Women executives work well in an office environment and of late, one can see at least 70% feminine presence in banks, financial institutions and stock broking firms.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Men traditionally dominate in the manufacturing and IT industries but as many of these jobs have migrated to cheaper countries, they are left to nimble at jobs within the smaller SMEs and MNCs.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I have seen a few of the younger jobless PMETs personally as I wanted to know why they are currently unemployed when we are supposed to be having zero unemployment. Any unemployment statistics that have a figure of two and below percentage point means that the country has achieved zero unemployment.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Its a proud achievement for any country now when some European countries are having double-digit unemployment figures. Even the richest country in the world right now– the US – is struggling with double-digit unemployment.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Most of the Generation Y unemployed people I saw have at least a degree and some even paid quite alot of money to get a solid university education from overseas – mostly Australian universities.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]They are also mostly engineers, IT specialists or finance graduates. Most of them are from middle-income family background and stays in HDB flats.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]A few of them managed to work and study part-time to earn their degrees from USIM. To them, a university degree is a prerequisite right now and you can’t go without one.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The mere fact that they proudly spoke at length about their tertiary educational qualification made me realised that it is something that brought them much self esteem and being a very achievement-orientated society, it is also something that you won’t want to find missing from your portfolio.

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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Education– passport to better well paying jobs[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]A degree somehow defines who you are and what you are make of. One even is ashamed to inform his peers that he does not have a degree!
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I dread to inform them that when they are in their 40s, a degree or even an MBA may not get you anywhere and many of them have in fact turn to cab driving or become a property agent to make ends meet.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Moreover, there are so many different kinds of degress and tertiary institutions out there that the employers have a hard time distinguishing one from the other. Of course, if you manage to earn a degree from those highly-esteemed Ivy League universities, then your job opportunities will be many times better than those from the ordinary universities.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]A first-class honours degree from a reputable university will also be very much sought after than other classes and catapults you into the world of rare talents.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]If you want to work in the government sector, it is better to have a degree from the local universities – especially if you aspire to be a teacher. Seldom have I hard of a foreign degree holder managing to enter the highly-paid teaching profession. A honours fresh graduate will probably earn close to $3200 – even before she has laid hands on a piece of chalk!
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The Generation Y’s expensive tertiary studies are probably financed from their parents’life-long savings and this group thus has the innate longing to take good care of their parents out of gratitude.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Ominously for those jobless guys that I have met, even at the age of mid 30s, they are mostly single and some have even permanently waive off marriage from their mind as they felt that if they could not take care of themselves and their parents, how can they take care of their own families?
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I thought that our Generation Y has lived in one of the toughest period of our post-independence era and some have even lamented to me that they have seen through at least four economic crises since they were born!
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Suffice to say, at the young age of 30s when life is supposed to be at their prime best and you are looking forward to settling down with your loved one, its perhaps not the best time to be unemployed and struggling financially.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Optimism is not a key word for this group as they tottered between jobs and more often than not, their unflattering job record smelled more of a job hopper.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Many told me that they left their jobs because of work stress and office politics. Is it possible that their dependency nature has caused them to be soft and lacking resilience – that they easily throw in the towel in the face of adversity?
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Generation Y – The Strawberry Generation?
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]MINDEF has recently introduced mental adversity lessons in their national service curriculum and one suspects that the government may have all along realise that our younger generation are mentally soft and thus gives up easily when face with adversities or stiff competition.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]However, one must be sympathetic to the kind of harsh environment that our Generation Y has been thrown into right now. Most of them have a starting pay that I managed to draw ten years ago and the influx of foreign workers have make their life so much harder than my babyboomer generation.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]At 32 years old, I was already settling down with my wife, managed to pay for the downpayment of my HDB executive flat and looking foward to start my family with great confidence. Jobs were aplenty and employers were paying all kinds of obscent salaries to retain staff.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I also realised ironically that during this modern era of high GDP and globalisation, it has not make things any easier for our Generation Y as they struggle with high cost of living and stiff competition for work from foreign talents.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Their salaries are also nothing much to shout about – the highest quote that I could garner from the lot that I saw recently is $4,500 – from a 35-year-old IT system analyst who was axed because he was replaced by a cheaper foreign talent.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Most of them could not command salaries over $3,000 a month – a gross testimony to the stagnanted salaries we have over the past decade. The recent influx of cheap foreign talents has also ensured that our salaries will not appreciate much in the short to medium term making things even harder for the Generation Y population.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Many thus dreamed of an escape through the migration route. One of the young jobless PMETs that I have seen is already drawing up plans to leave for his country of study – Australia.
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“[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Its a madhouse here, Gilbert,”Max confided in me when he resigned from his third job over four years in the banking industry.
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“[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]You worked from 9am to 9pm, earned $3000+ dollars and the pressure is relentless.” He has already put up application to migrate and will leave Singapore at the first instant of approval from the embassy.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]He is also not dating much as he felt that his unflattering job record will be a hindrance if he ever starts a family here.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]One female 2o-something PMET I knew even hooked up with a New Zealander so that she could migrate and leave this terrible place – even though she earns close to $5000 from the recruitment industry.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Another 32-year-old guy – Tom – whom I met at Toa Payoh Ya Kun three weeks ago, painted me a picture of doom and gloom as he related to me his unemployment story.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]He managed to find temp work earning peanuts at $7 an hour as he searched for something more tangible.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]He used to be a teacher aide earning $1500 a month and loved it so much that he tried to pursue a degree through his evening studies so that he can become a full-fledged teacher here.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]As he earned his degree through the evening part time courses, there is little recognition from the Ministry of Education and Tom was literally brought back to earth – shattering his dream to be an educator.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Long used to receiving pent-up wrath from the jobless community, I realised that the Generation Y group never relaxes a muscle as they vented out their frustration verbally: “I am in a fix, Gilbert!”
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“[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I am supposted to have my new BTO HDB flat soon and how can I pay the mortgages if I don’t even have a good job?”
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Marriage is also coming by soon for him as the young couple has to register their marriage once the new flat arrives and he is getting up-tight by his current unemployment state.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]He has also sent out countless resumes to many government bodies but so far there isn’t much response from them.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]How about trying the private sector?
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“[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]That is worse,” Tom retored as I sipped my coffee from Ya Kun amidst saliva spluttering out from his pent-up venom. “They don’t even aknowledge your application at all!”
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]We departed from Toa Payoh Central amidst a cloud of uncertainty as Tom tried to figure out how best to present himself to the next employer when he gets call up for an interview.
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Generation Y – Era of High GDP and Great Stress
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I couldn’t help but felt sorry for a young man who is supposed to be happy about tying the knot soon– but yet he is facing a happy occasion with much doubt and uncertainty.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I also recently met up with Alex –a 35-year-old IT system analyst who is chatty and articulate.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Looking much younger than his age, Alex is also looking at working abroad so that he could be a foreign talent overseas than struggling here and competing with cheaper foreign workers.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I thought that at least, in Alex, I found someone who is more assertive and confident than the rest of the Generation Y lot that I have seen recently.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Its a battle he thinks he will ultimately lose as employers have a wider pool of IT specialists to choose from especially right now with the current influx of foreign talents.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Also single and swearing off dating and marriage so that he will not have an extra set of burden to take care of, he was asked to resign late last year so that he could make way for a cheaper foreign talent.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]He was one of the few that I could recall in their 30s who managed to draw a healthy $4500 a month in his last job.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Though he knew that he has to make provisions later on as employers will not even consider hiring him when he turns forty years old in five years’ time, he is clueless and rather hopless at the current employment situation here.
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“[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]What can I do Gilbert?” he kept asking me as we met for two hours at Serangoon NEX burger king recently.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]As a counsellor, we were trained not to provide answers but merely give options but sometimes its difficult not to be seen as an advisor from the helpless jobless community.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Not one of the many jobless PMETs I saw recently has managed to convince me that one should try to be entrepreneurial to ekk out a decent living for the long term.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Many are comfortable shifting from one job to the other – making ends meet as they try to stay on a job as long as they possibly can. Many are also on contractual terms– meaning they will be made jobless once the contract ends.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Contracts do not allow a person to look at their future with great optimism and confidence – on the contrary it gives them lots of doubt and uncertainty for the future so that they can’t plan much ahead.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Many people have also categorised our Generation Y group as the strawberry generation.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]They entered a world whereby everything is already been fought for and won over – by their parents.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]They merely need to study hard, gain good grades and find a good job – and live happily after.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Some even have maids to wash their plates after they have eaten and many stay comfortably in their parents’ homes – without having to worry much about life.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The route is already laid for them and if they are meritocratic enough they will find the path of gold.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Many are thus shell-shocked after they have graduated and enter into a world of hard work, zero work life balance and frequent employment exploitation.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Lacking tenacity and not very street smart, many of our Generation Y PMETs prefer to work for the government as they are safer and better in providing workers’welfare. At least, the government sector won’t exploit you like the foreign MNCs and local SMEs do.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The rough and tumble of the foreigners-infested private sector is best left to the Generation X or even baby boomers to fight it out - as our young graduates filtered out working in our many SMEs or MNCs. These industries are always in their third or fourth choices when they are out looking for work.
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Conclusion
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The government has always place priority on taking care of the employment needs of our fresh young graduates as they represent the cream of the society.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Moreover, if you have too many jobless young graduates in the country, this is always a cause for concern as they are reckless, rash and more capable of starting something foolish when they are emotional.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Many riots in the Middle east countries are started off by unemployed young graduates as they have nothing to lose and worse, easily agitated
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Those who are jobless and belongs to the Generation X or babyboomers era are seldom as emotional or angry as the Generation Y group. Maybe the older folks have seen through alot in life and are more resilient as compared to those who are younger.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]As our country ploughs on relentlessly in search of higher GDP growth through the influx of foreign workers, let us be mindful that if more of our younger graduates are left on the shelf like the Generation X and babyboomers have been, it could be an ominous signal to the authorities that all is not well with our country.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Written by: Gilbert Goh[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]- See more at:http://www.transitioning.org/2013/0...-the-generation-y-group/#sthash.0S9U0klS.dpuf[/FONT]

 

[makapaaa]

So? I can bet my last dollar with you that 60% Dumpties will vote in my Familee in 2016 - AGAIN! *hee*hee*​

 

[Unrepented]

knn. Unemployed still go drink kopi at Ya Kun

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Another 32-year-old guy – Tom – whom I met at Toa Payoh Ya Kun three weeks ago, painted me a picture of doom and gloom as he related to me his unemployment story.
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[SadPlumpGal]

As a famous leader said, "no spurs in the hide."

If you are not willing to work hard, somebody wiill steal your lunch, your job and your boyfriend.

 

[blackmondy]

"Doesn't bother me as long as my 4 million dollar paycheck is secured yearly....plus other bonuses as well lah !"

 

[The_Hypocrite]

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?166483-60-year-old-Indian-FTrash-gets-EP-approval-for-first-job-in-S%92pore&p=1677693#post1677693


A 60 yo shit skin with 0 local experience can get a job at 1st try and the Gen Y cant get a job?? Something wrong with this country or Gen Y?

 

[bryanlim1972]

"A few of them managed to work and study part-time to earn their degrees from USIM. To them, a university degree is a prerequisite right now and you can’t go without one"

http://www.tnp.sg/content/success-without-degree

A thousand dollars – that’s the difference between a diploma holder’s monthly salary and a degree holder’s.
And that’s the motivation for polytechnic graduates like Miss Tan Yen Ling, 20, to pursue a degree.
She graduated with a diploma in banking and financial services from Singapore Polytechnic and was working at a bank for three months when she realised the sharp difference in salary.

“Diploma holders get about $2,000 to $2,500 as starting pay, but degree holders get about $1,000 more,” she said.

- a degree is worth about 300 plates more of chicken rice each month.

 

[songsongjurong]

Pap is hell bent on its agenda of 6.9m population. Regardless of sinking social implications.

 

[garlic]

Say hi to Lucy.

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Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y.

I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group -- I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.

So Lucy's enjoying her GYPSY life, and she's very pleased to be Lucy. Only issue is this one thing:

Lucy's kind of unhappy.

To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place. It comes down to a simple formula:

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It's pretty straightforward -- when the reality of someone's life is better than they had expected, they're happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectations, they're unhappy.

To provide some context, let's start by bringing Lucy's parents into the discussion:

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Lucy's parents were born in the '50s -- they're Baby Boomers. They were raised by Lucy's grandparents, members of the G.I. Generation, or "the Greatest Generation," who grew up during the Great Depression and fought in World War II, and were most definitely not GYPSYs.

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Lucy's Depression Era grandparents were obsessed with economic security and raised her parents to build practical, secure careers. They wanted her parents' careers to have greener grass than their own, and Lucy's parents were brought up to envision a prosperous and stable career for themselves. Something like this:

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They were taught that there was nothing stopping them from getting to that lush, green lawn of a career, but that they'd need to put in years of hard work to make it happen.

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After graduating from being insufferable hippies, Lucy's parents embarked on their careers. As the '70s, '80s, and '90s rolled along, the world entered a time of unprecedented economic prosperity. Lucy's parents did even better than they expected to. This left them feeling gratified and optimistic.

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With a smoother, more positive life experience than that of their own parents, Lucy's parents raised Lucy with a sense of optimism and unbounded possibility. And they weren't alone. Baby Boomers all around the country and world told their Gen Y kids that they could be whatever they wanted to be, instilling the special protagonist identity deep within their psyches.

This left GYPSYs feeling tremendously hopeful about their careers, to the point where their parents' goals of a green lawn of secure prosperity didn't really do it for them. A GYPSY-worthy lawn has flowers.

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This leads to our first fact about GYPSYs:

GYPSYs Are Wildly Ambitious

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The GYPSY needs a lot more from a career than a nice green lawn of prosperity and security. The fact is, a green lawn isn't quite exceptional or unique enough for a GYPSY. Where the Baby Boomers wanted to live The American Dream, GYPSYs want to live Their Own Personal Dream.

Cal Newport points out that "follow your passion" is a catchphrase that has only gotten going in the last 20 years, according to Google's Ngram viewer, a tool that shows how prominently a given phrase appears in English print over any period of time. The same Ngram viewer shows that the phrase "a secure career" has gone out of style, just as the phrase "a fulfilling career" has gotten hot.

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To be clear, GYPSYs want economic prosperity just like their parents did -- they just also want to be fulfilled by their career in a way their parents didn't think about as much.

But something else is happening too. While the career goals of Gen Y as a whole have become much more particular and ambitious, Lucy has been given a second message throughout her childhood as well:

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This would probably be a good time to bring in our second fact about GYPSYs:

GYPSYs Are Delusional

"Sure," Lucy has been taught, "everyone will go and get themselves some fulfilling career, but I am unusually wonderful and as such, my career and life path will stand out amongst the crowd." So on top of the generation as a whole having the bold goal of a flowery career lawn, each individual GYPSY thinks that he or she is destined for something even better --

A shiny unicorn on top of the flowery lawn.

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So why is this delusional? Because this is what all GYPSYs think, which defies the definition of special:

spe-cial | 'speSHel |
adjective
better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual.
According to this definition, most people are not special -- otherwise "special" wouldn't mean anything.

Even right now, the GYPSYs reading this are thinking, "Good point... but I actually am one of the few special ones" -- and this is the problem.

A second GYPSY delusion comes into play once the GYPSY enters the job market. While Lucy's parents' expectation was that many years of hard work would eventually lead to a great career, Lucy considers a great career an obvious given for someone as exceptional as she, and for her it's just a matter of time and choosing which way to go. Her pre-workforce expectations look something like this:

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Unfortunately, the funny thing about the world is that it turns out to not be that easy of a place, and the weird thing about careers is that they're actually quite hard. Great careers take years of blood, sweat and tears to build -- even the ones with no flowers or unicorns on them -- and even the most successful people are rarely doing anything that great in their early or mid-20s.

But GYPSYs aren't about to just accept that.

Paul Harvey, a University of New Hampshire professor and GYPSY expert, has researched this, finding that Gen Y has "unrealistic expectations and a strong resistance toward accepting negative feedback," and "an inflated view of oneself." He says that "a great source of frustration for people with a strong sense of entitlement is unmet expectations. They often feel entitled to a level of respect and rewards that aren't in line with their actual ability and effort levels, and so they might not get the level of respect and rewards they are expecting."

For those hiring members of Gen Y, Harvey suggests asking the interview question, "Do you feel you are generally superior to your coworkers/classmates/etc., and if so, why?" He says that "if the candidate answers yes to the first part but struggles with the 'why,' there may be an entitlement issue. This is because entitlement perceptions are often based on an unfounded sense of superiority and deservingness. They've been led to believe, perhaps through overzealous self-esteem building exercises in their youth, that they are somehow special but often lack any real justification for this belief."

And since the real world has the nerve to consider merit a factor, a few years out of college Lucy finds herself here:

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Lucy's extreme ambition, coupled with the arrogance that comes along with being a bit deluded about one's own self-worth, has left her with huge expectations for even the early years out of college. And her reality pales in comparison to those expectations, leaving her "reality - expectations" happy score coming out at a negative.

And it gets even worse. On top of all this, GYPSYs have an extra problem that applies to their whole generation:

GYPSYs Are Taunted

Sure, some people from Lucy's parents' high school or college classes ended up more successful than her parents did. And while they may have heard about some of it from time to time through the grapevine, for the most part they didn't really know what was going on in too many other peoples' careers.

Lucy, on the other hand, finds herself constantly taunted by a modern phenomenon: Facebook Image Crafting.

Social media creates a world for Lucy where A) what everyone else is doing is very out in the open, B) most people present an inflated version of their own existence, and C) the people who chime in the most about their careers are usually those whose careers (or relationships) are going the best, while struggling people tend not to broadcast their situation. This leaves Lucy feeling, incorrectly, like everyone else is doing really well, only adding to her misery:

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So that's why Lucy is unhappy, or at the least, feeling a bit frustrated and inadequate. In fact, she's probably started off her career perfectly well, but to her, it feels very disappointing.

Here's my advice for Lucy:

1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it'll work itself out -- just dive in somewhere.

2) Stop thinking that you're special. The fact is, right now, you're not special. You're another completely inexperienced young person who doesn't have all that much to offer yet. You can become special by working really hard for a long time.

3) Ignore everyone else. Other people's grass seeming greener is no new concept, but in today's image crafting world, other people's grass looks like a glorious meadow. The truth is that everyone else is just as indecisive, self-doubting, and frustrated as you are, and if you just do your thing, you'll never have any reason to envy others.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html

Very Interesting article..

 

[SadPlumpGirl]

PAP wants you to become hawkers lah. Stop studying. Go be a hawker.

 

[escher]

Good!

Sinkies must pay and pay the price for stupidly voting and voting for smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY and his PAP walking bags of excrement

Sinkies got what they voted for

No more, no less

 

[DuYunQi]

it is no surprise to me that the age group of ppl who gets side-winded by the foreigners will go down. it is only a matter of time.

imagine when companies realize that they can employ cheaper ppl instead of Singaporeans.. and the govt is almost like "helping" them by not enacting laws to stem such discrimination. Fair employment is really a myth in SG.. and this is really my opinion.

if the situation is not bad, why do you think MOM HAD to come out to tell employers to "consider" Singaporeans first? But.. is it enough? With no laws to seriously penalize companies, what is to prevent them.. heck. scare them to really follow what the govt;s advice?

it's too late! the only way is to kick out the things that are slowly "killing" us.. crippling our lives.. slowly destroying our way of life. All that seriously affects us, MUST GO!!

 

[KopiO]

This SG Gen Y .......f*cking useless one.

No idea.
No balls.
Forever taking MC.
Forever bitching.
Forever thinking they are the best.
Forever on the Internet.

Totally useless.

At least those in my workplace. F*ck, I worked hard. What makes this Gn Y so special that they think they are entitled to earn more without working harder?

 

[johnny333]

Someone told me the reason Sporeans voted for the PAP is because of some kind of social contract. It goes something like they vote for the PAP & the PAP provides jobs.
Sporeans are really naive to believe that the PAP would honor any kind of contract especially if it isn't written in black & white.

 

[escher]

Someone told me the reason Sporeans voted for the PAP is because of some kind of social contract. It goes something like they vote for the PAP & the PAP provides jobs.
Sporeans are really naive to believe that the PAP would honor any kind of contract especially if it isn't written in black & white.

Ha ha ha ha!

Even when written in black and white, even if smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY signed it in his blood, never ever believe in it as they will lie and lie
to all of us whenever it suit them.

With lies after lies, they stolen hundreds of billions from all of us.
How many times must sinkies be lied to ?

Sinkies deserved the shit they find themselves to be in, especially as they believed in the lies from LKY and the fucking PAP

 

[eErotica69]

Someone told me the reason Sporeans voted for the PAP is because of some kind of social contract. It goes something like they vote for the PAP & the PAP provides jobs.
Sporeans are really naive to believe that the PAP would honor any kind of contract especially if it isn't written in black & white.

Is a 5-year contract.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Classification of gen y is those born from the 80s right? Was told tat due to the raising of the minimum pay for S Pass n work permits that many companies r now facing labour shortages due to increase cost n hiring locals instead. But somehow locals dont want to work. Anyway i do belive that there is a problem with gen y but now with asset appreciation thy can hold on longer if they owned property few years ago.

This SG Gen Y .......f*cking useless one.

No idea.
No balls.
Forever taking MC.
Forever bitching.
Forever thinking they are the best.
Forever on the Internet.

Totally useless.

At least those in my workplace. F*ck, I worked hard. What makes this Gn Y so special that they think they are entitled to earn more without working harder?

 

[bryanlim1972]

But somehow locals dont want to work.

no mystery there. if bosses gave them a bigger cut of profit, they will work.

workers in singapore take an unusually low share of GDP/ national income.

"Why are workers taking home such a reduced share of the pie? Opinions differ, but many experts think that the trend has to do with a number of factors, including a decline in the bargaining power of labor, and increased competition from foreign workers."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/workers-share-national-income-plummets-record-low-163749508.html

 

[Alantis]

I do see many 40+ guys getting out of job under the pretext of change of management or structural change of organization structure. This mainly occurs in MNCs.

Recently some 30+ are out of job as well, especially in the finance and banking sectors.

I think it is necessary to have a open economy to have foreign talents to be attracted into Singapore for the benefit of the long term economy, having said that, the introduction of foreigners do take away our jobs. Singapore has not strengthen our employment and industrial law to have such policies in place.

My 2 cents.

 

[meepokboy]

the turnover rate is getting too high here. worse still, our jobs are being taken up by so called "foreign talents". just secure a good job and make a living out of lit