Fixed --> "All college grads are 'emotionally' unprepared for 9 to 5 jobs, study shows" And this has been the case since before I graduated college in 1986. It was a shock to my system, for sure, but we adapt.
Agree: my first job was a sales rep for a national seed firm, so it wasn't 8 to 5, but more like 8 to 3:30. When I finally had a job indoors, it sucked working until 5. Then I became a teacher. I worked 8 to 3, then got to go home, and I did correct papers and plan at home, later in the evening. Between my getting home and dinner, I had an hour or two, depending on the time of year, to play: run to keep in shape, surf, swim. Summers were awesome, giving me a chance to travel. I did that for 20 years, and the only problem were helicopter parents who didn't let their kids enjoy life.
For those who took college seriously, 9-5 will be a dream! I did have to job hop a bit to find somewhere worth working, but compared to the nonstop, never ending slew of homework, studying, AND working to pay for school during college and even high school, a 9-5 was a dream come true XD
Yep, your lack of a education is very apparent. ' College and education is a scam set up by the elites!! Just walk into a bookstore and you'll see for yourself!! '. Right??
Lazy people have always existed, but if more and more (young) people are suffering from bad mental health and aren't able to work under high pressure and long hours, than something isn't going right and needs to get changed. It's a matter how they've grown up, how they are constantly surrounded by social media/screen time, making them feel like they can't be themselves and can't express themselves, having to do several jobs and already being constantly fatigued or not having work experience due to covid etc, and whatever other factors come into play. It's just the final result of what's not been a good approach and tactic. It's not the students' fault, but it's hard to undo something that's already formed them and caused possible mental health damage as anxiety/depression/burnout.
Agreed. The one thing I would add is that certain universities aren't so much there to teach these kids but to only let the smartest of them graduate so that the university gives the impression that they train you well so that they get more people applying from among whom they can select even more already smart people, so some of these people are coming out of university WITH BURNOUT. Companies hiring them might think they've gotten people able to stand pressure but actually they're getting people on the verge of collapse, especially if they've barely survived college cuz they have an undiagnosed mental illness and then got through it by clenching their teeth, which is not a winning long term strategy
@@minxili3317 I personally fully agree with that and see something wrong with that side too. There are a lot of things that need changing and improving.
This is what happens when you gaslight kids for at least two decades with 8th place trophies, safe spaces, and too many untruths to count. An inner strength of character takes practice and testing so to develop; some have robbed them of that by lying to them and limiting their ability to test themselves and grow. Some have been treating young people as incapable victims of circumstance, and now they are shocked when young people say they are incapable of dealing with the current set of circumstances. Of course, they are.
Why doesn't this say Recent college grads in America are 'emotionally' unprepared for 9 to 5 jobs? This is not a problem with people coming from 3rd world countries, they speak multiple languages, are socially more put together, and often way more mature even at young ages. We are the cause of these issues, I believe this is an American problem.
who is putting a gun to your head? You know that you can just turn off most of your social media right? Like there's literally an uninstall button for Tiktok on your phone
@@weho_brian Sir, I’m in my 40’s. Retired. Extremely lucky. I was making an observation. Your reply to my observation underscores my point. You lack the ability to interpret / discern empirical experiences from casual observation. Social media has affected your brain in this regard.
@@extremelylucky999 and you completely missed my point. NO ONE is forcing you to use social media. The same people who spend 4 hours a day of social media would have spent the same amount of time playing video games of watching TV 10-15 years ago.
@@weho_brian why do you keep saying “you” as in ME? Or, are you speaking in GENERAL terms? My comment was a GENERAL comment. I think there’s a reading comprehension issue here.
Most ignorant comment section I’ve seen in a long time. It goes a lot deeper than “they’re just snowflakes”, and many people will never be capable of understanding the truths to that
I'm glad at least one other person gets it. These comments are all just blaming the kids, or saying, "my life sucks so yours should too".🐑🐑🐑 I wonder how many people actually watched the video and processed its contents before they posted a comment....
You're all entitled to your own opinions, but as a recent grad I very firmly believe the pandemic is the main factor that completely derailed not only our daily lives and academics, but also our emotional and mental capacity. Many key milestones for social maturity were supposed to happen when we were forced into online learning and now that students are graduating and entering the 'real world' we're simply too tired and burned out to deal with reality. Seeing how pointless life was during the pandemic, we've become disillusioned with the 9-5 lifestyle before we even started working.
Can't speak for non-corporate, but many college students end up in corporate. Imagine going into lockdown during college (arguably some of the best years people will have in their lives) and having to deal with separation from others for the first time ever. Going from seeing people and friends everyday to nobody. Seeing political and social economic turmoil, not to mention being exposed to so much death and mortality. All while seeing the prospective of joining a corporate job that treated their employees like garbage and disposable in the 2019 layoffs and again now. You've been sold all your life on education and college being the way to make it into the middle class and beyond. Some probably have millennial parents too who they see are going through this or even being told this experience and the facade the middle class that doesn't really exist anymore. I'm sure there's a bunch of other factors like social media making you feel less-than too, but all this alone, heck why would anyone be ready and also work hard for the man. Heck, people can't even afford houses anymore without some luck or help from generational wealth. What is the dream to achieve? It's really not a surprise.
Let me explain. We are at job for 8 hours and after 5 pm most of places are closed unless stupid restaurants and bars. We spent time those times in traffic, shower and getting ready. And we spend other 8 hours with sleeping. We barely have free time during the evenings. During the day We have to ask your boss or manager to go somewhere like DPS. This is not life I dream of.
These young adults will soon find out that their degree won't get them high pay. They will be disappointed. And once they find out that most jobs won't give them the position they studied for they will be heartbroken.
@Agnes Mina Yup, they will be in high debt and will be having a hard time paying the money back. And the worst thing of all is that you cannot file for bankruptcy to wipe out the debt. The debt will follow you until you pay it off.
It’s the previous gens fault. You’ve allowed internet to be the environment your kids lived in without them being exposed to real world. You also coddled them from pressure by removing obstacles they should’ve learned to tackle on their own … now they have ZERO social skills and coping mechanisms. 😂
I disagree. I'm 43 and have an adult child. By the time I was in high school they had done away with corporeal punishment and enacted the no child left behind bs. If we spanked our children and they told the teachers, we would have cps banging on our door. No, this started way before us, probably those free-loving hippies that fried their brains on LSD.
Not everyone of the previous generation, but you're absolutely right. Some of us tried to tell those fools that keeping their kids in the house and playing on their phones all day was a recipe for disaster, but they didn't listen because they were too pathetic and lazy to even put their own phones down.
Stop using drugs (if you do stop), stop consuming alcohol, drink more water, get 30 minutes of cardio vascular exercise a day, meditate, pray, join some sort of community religious or spiritual community. Be prepared to work hard. And if you don't like it here, New Zealand is really nice. 😮
I’ve been saying this by just looking at my own children. I have no idea how they will deal with the pressures I went through when I entered the workforce.
That's how - their own mother tells them/acts as though "she has no idea how they will." We treat people as incapable victims they become incapable victims.
Ask yourself: did you do their homework for them? Also, did you let them go places without your supervision or that of another parent? I got to do all sorts of things on my own as a kid, and never got into trouble. I did my own homework. I taught for twenty years, 1990 until 2012. I have all sorts of stories. Most parents were helicopter parents. They did do their kids homework for them. They had them in all sorts of after school activities that were supervised. The kids couldn't figure out things on their own because their parents didn't let them!
When the 9-5 workplace isn’t paying much and isn’t worth it, it sucks. Been there done that, trust me all those bosses wanted to do is to own you and your time. Stay in school kids.
They are emotionally and socially unprepared for college. Not all, but far more than normal. Hard to get them to read a textbook instead of going straight to UA-cam, hard to get them off their smartphones (during lecture and lab), hard to get them off their ipads and laptops, and lots of statements made about fears, anxiety, and depression.
I'm sick of people placing the blame on the pandemic. I noticed this nearly 20 years ago. Graduates get a job and expect to be promoted to the corner office within a year!
You're not wrong about this having been an issue before the pandemic too, but most of us don't expect to be in a corner office within a year, we'd just like to not get ground down to the bone by arbitrary stats set by people based on imagined narratives of what our jobs entail instead of what our jobs actually entail, and maybe get to get SOMEWHERE after 6 years without cheating to up our stats, effectively getting penalized for actually keeping clients happy while others get rewarded for being selfish and cutting corners. On my team you could get the highest score and keep documenting things detailedly to help your colleagues and maintain or even exceed the minimum required closure count, but if you weren't above average in an artificially inflated closure count statistic (inflated by the cheaters), you got side eyed by your bosses boss.
this is what happens when you spend ages 10 through 22 behind a screen and away from the general public: you become ignorant to social norms and you don't know how to read nonverbal communication appropriately.
People seem to be ignoring depression and addiction, it has gotten really bad because frankly for most people recently graduating, the future is pretty bleak. Students deal with tension with other students, they deal with inconvenient class times, it's not much different than the work parameters the CEO was talking about. The problem with going to a CEO for answers is the "don't have the desire to work" answer is complete BS, because many recent grads are working 2 jobs or working insane hours. CEOs will always blame their terrible practices and lack of new hires on "this generation's laziness" before blaming homelessness, worsening public health and mental health, overworking, stagnant pay and rising rent, unrealistic job requirements, etc.
And many deal with burnout straight out of college, especially if they were in a science or engineering program that graded on a curve, where an honest 90% could be a failing grade if most of your colleagues got a 95% because you're all excellent overachievers that studied hard and diligently
Why does there need to be tension with coworkers? Why can’t people just show up, work hard, and be friendly to each other? Some people want to try to get ahead by shifting blame for their mistakes, taking credit for other people’s work, bullying their way to the top, and just playing office politics in general. Older generations accepted that BS for way too long. Rein in the quote unquote “assertive” and “go getter” types, and there will be much less tension in the workplace.
This isn't a covid issue, it's a result of our culture and where it has degraded to over the last 10 years. Many of these kids are so sheltered that they can't function outside of mom and dad. Some live in a reality that doesn't exist outside of their phones. We need to start fixing this or we are going to see a very fast decline in our country and a further widening of the have/have not gap.
until you cant live or rent or eat...not all parents are going to give up the rest of their finite lives to support your feelings and welfare is going away cause we cant afford it.
And you want me to pay for you child... Through child tax credits and taxes to local schools... For kids I don't have and will never have. The world isn't fair snowflake.
😑 what have their parents done to us? They have turned us feeble. And their blaming colleges for their unprofessional behavior. No, no, no, that’s their parents and themselves responsibility.
I've worked since 12, was in the army, did college, and am still working at 64. It hasn't been glamorous, but I accept the consequences of my actions. Time to wake up American young men and women or whatever you are.
It’s not the job. It’s the paying off the student loan, rent, credit cards, car payments, groceries, insurance, etc. Mommy and daddy can’t afford to pay for their kids B.S. anymore. Time for these young adults to grow up and live in reality.
Most people don't graduate from college and land a dream job immediately. First jobs are not always the ideal or long term job especially when most graduates enter the workforce as entry level. If they don't see showing up to work at a time that the employer wants, I really wonder how they survive paying their bills and such. In reality when student loans and bills pile up, you would at least try to find a job to pay off the basic necessities rather than sitting around seeing which jobs can offer you the perfect hours and workload.
Excuses, excuses liberal excuses. I suppose now there will be financial aid and housing for those who are liberally overwhelmed with the emotion of now finally having to work for a living. This new pseudo epidemic is so shameful and degrading.
Listening to this video, I can say with a minor grain of certainty that most graduates have come to terms with the fact that they will never be as successful as their parents. I'd argue to that about 50% of parents aren't that successful. Especially in Canada, a lot of kids took out student loans, and because of how easy it is for employers to shift through potential candidates, the odds really aren't in our favour. It's nonsense.
I'm 62, started working at age 16, mostly office work. I've had some college but mostly self-taught. I plan to work through retirement but start collecting at now at 62. Seniors who continue to work will have healthy minds and bodies in my opinion. Maybe kids in the US just aren't motivated enough to even work or study remote, sadly. I liked "maybe I can show up at 10am" LOL!!! I would show up to some of my jobs at 5am and dealt with it.
I retired at 58, ten years ago. I was a school teacher. I have enjoyed retirement. I have travelled a few times to Europe, have volunteered my time in various pursuits. I also have more time to work on my physical training to keep in shape. I also am a college grad, obviously. I went to the school mentioned, fifty years ago, when it was much cheaper. Why kids don't want to work? Blame the parents for coddling them. I saw all sorts of helicopter parents as a teacher.
Well, we have to take into consideration what this generation is learning now. I met a high school teacher and explained that she had to help her student mail a letter, this was something I learned how to do in middle school. They will not have a signature because cursive is not taught anymore, computers are used so their handwriting is terrible. I'm not making excuses, but technology has made it seem that the world is easy and everything in it can be done at the snap of a finger.
I don't disagree. Also, there are helicopter parents nowadays who do everything for their kids and don't let them do things on their own. Everything is managed by adults. When I was a kid in summer, after little league ended early in summer, we had pick up baseball games in parks. Yes, there were fights now and then. No one went to juvenile hall! No parents were around. We had fun. We played tackle football with no pads or helmets. We did our own homework. I taught school from 1990 until 2012. I had parents my own age that had their kids on a short leash, and then as time went on, the next generation of parents were even worse in protecting their kids, doing their kids homework, and not letting them live, for crissakes! Everything was planned. It was BS. I would have rebelled.
One political group has been saying this for a long time. Thing is when they say it people will call them racist or conspiracy theorists. Same story out of someone else’s mouth and all of a sudden the same political group that opposed this is now like hmmm makes sense.
I learned recently that work life balance is no longer a thing, it is more about work life integration, with the work from home thing, and the work becoming less and less assembly line like, it is about results and not about the hours, or where the work is performed, so the boundary of work and life is very blurry and may not even exist, so it is more effective to think integration versus delineation/balance
1:08 -- self-reporting, huh... If I was asked in my college years, I'd also say I'm not ready to work and uncertiain about my future. There is no certainty in the world, and never was, and never will be, cope.
Education is the only way out my friend. The current issue is because kids these days are lazy and don't feel like working. Don't blame the colleges, blame the parents.
Median Yearly Earnings of 25 to 34 Year Old Full-Time Workers Less than high school $29,800 High school $36,600 Some college, no degree $39,900 Associate degree $44,100 Bachelor’s degree $59,600 Master’s degree or higher $69,700 Hardly call $44k breadcrumbs. Try working at Walmart with no degree.
Many folks described in this video are my coworkers. My gosh they call out for anything dude, come on kids it’s not that bad. Genuine cowardice from them it’s embarrassing cause some are parents
I don’t think the folks in the comments parroting laziness and safe spaces truly understand the issue at hand here. Really seems to be a multi faceted issue. We really don’t have the answers rn.
Check out the Book, "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The subtitle is, "How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure."
Just showing up for work is the easy part. If they can't show up for work, that doesn't say much about what they can really do. Anyway, if 9 to 5 is your only issue, apply for a job at Taco Bell or McDonald's and say you can only work the closing shift. They'll hire you in a minute.
I’m sorry but the entitlement of these young grads who literally have zero work skills and they don’t realize that their first job doesn’t have to pay you what you expect to earn. If you are unable to get a job with a degree then you’re being lazy if you can’t find a job. The choice of trying to find a job that matches your entitlement is not going to work. If you’re telling bosses that you don’t want to work at 8 am, then you don’t deserve a job. It’s called work because you have to work. I feel like many young people just don’t want to work. They don’t want to work hard but how are they going to pay their bills? Kick your kid out if they can’t get a job after a few months. That’s enabling them not to get a job.
Its because College forces you to take prerequisites you have no interest in. Paying money for courses just to pass it is useless. Herded and pushed along to make you feel like youre doing something. Only to graduate and realize you learned plenty of useless information and a very small amount of useful information. I recommend people take course they’re interested in at a community school. Full time College is just stressful and expensive.
Everyone needs to meet some sort of prerequisite in knowledge. Have you made fun of some youngster because they didn't know some history? Get real. Everyone also should learn about government and how it works. Maybe more people would vote then!
How dare society doesn't conform to these poor little wall flowers that haven't worked a day in their life. Now shut up and pay for their college loans that they signed for.
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I bet they want the government to pay for their apartment, buy them groceries. But they are about to realize the truth of life. Called homeless. Mommy and daddy won't live forever.
My Dad worked 3 jobs raising a family and Mom did things to help. My first real job was labor 10, 12, 14 hours for the first few years. And constant stress of making quota. They better get in step with reality, it's called a job for a reason. Count yourself lucky if you do like your work and have enough to live on at the same time. Nothing is free.
Sand*, discusses how overly sensitive people can make peace with their sensitivity and find new courage and confidence to be themselves. This is a situation where the low-level peon should be a little more confident and address the real elephant in the room which is the necessity to find a new job or start a business. *Ilse Sand. (2016). Highly sensitive people in an insensitive world: How to create a happy life. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
They are always offered the path of least resistance. They are coddled and never told " NO " . Rules and norms changed to accommodate. Like the homeless and addicted ... it's always the same ... Personal responsibility is a thing of the past.
The current batch of graduates are immature. Their idea of work/life balance disregards the work part. They are a generation of blamers with a sense of entitlement!
@@norwayteez3355 they don’t want you to know work is not the only way to make money. You can’t get rich at a 9 to 5. You’re making someone else rich. Wake up people!
You all are just slackers. I wanted my own money at 12. I wanted a paper route but didn't have a bike so started hand delivering a weekly newspaper untill I saved up enough for a bike and started a daily newspaper. When I got tired of pushing my bike loaded with papers through early morning snow drifts, I became a sweeper boy at a local elementary school. These first few jobs didn't pay minimum wage but they taught me all about motivation, ambition, initiave, financial and personal responsibility. It also taught me that I was worth investing in myself. Since I am focused on self reliance, I can't understand those that insist that everyone owes them for their perceived victim hood.
I attribute it to one thing: poor parenting. Mommy and Daddy handing kid carte blanche access to cash for stuff they in past times would have to earn allowance to buy. Kids don't want to work because parents taught them how not to to get what they want.
Be an adult and get to work like everyone else. What have your high school classmates been doing that didnt go to school the past 4 years? Most probably working and paying taxes to pay off your student loan forgiveness.
Hahahaha! Its crazy because I’ve never heard of people calling out for a mental health break until the newer generations started working. Y’all some weenies.
I have to at this point thank God that I dropped out and followed my passion in agriculture. It is not too late to change course, uni will just get worse and worse until it is degraded bare into a true pit of just suffering and complaints and drugs and hedonism. (We're already there.) When the thing preparing you for a career is turning out kids too depressed and anxious of a career, something is very much up.
Fixed --> "All college grads are 'emotionally' unprepared for 9 to 5 jobs, study shows" And this has been the case since before I graduated college in 1986. It was a shock to my system, for sure, but we adapt.
Agree: my first job was a sales rep for a national seed firm, so it wasn't 8 to 5, but more like 8 to 3:30. When I finally had a job indoors, it sucked working until 5. Then I became a teacher. I worked 8 to 3, then got to go home, and I did correct papers and plan at home, later in the evening. Between my getting home and dinner, I had an hour or two, depending on the time of year, to play: run to keep in shape, surf, swim. Summers were awesome, giving me a chance to travel. I did that for 20 years, and the only problem were helicopter parents who didn't let their kids enjoy life.
Right ! I will say that Gen z got used to hybrid everything . ( which is not a bad thing)
For those who took college seriously, 9-5 will be a dream! I did have to job hop a bit to find somewhere worth working, but compared to the nonstop, never ending slew of homework, studying, AND working to pay for school during college and even high school, a 9-5 was a dream come true XD
I agree…You’re the crème of the crop. Trust me.
Not if she borrowed a lifetime of loans! @@lison973
Thank you so much for doing it right!!
You actually get paid for your work and gain experience and after your work ends you get to leave all your work at work!
And for those who didn’t take college seriously?
I knew college was a scam as soon as I walked into the bookstore.
Yep, your lack of a education is very apparent. ' College and education is a scam set up by the elites!! Just walk into a bookstore and you'll see for yourself!! '. Right??
@ev.h.3455💦 🍆TOMA
@Ev. H. God bless you baby
THIS. I knew it was a scam the moment I walked into the auditorium Freshman year Day 1.
@Ev. H. If you had any sense at all, you would realize that gutters are not constructed for easy cleaning, and they could be.
Lazy people have always existed, but if more and more (young) people are suffering from bad mental health and aren't able to work under high pressure and long hours, than something isn't going right and needs to get changed. It's a matter how they've grown up, how they are constantly surrounded by social media/screen time, making them feel like they can't be themselves and can't express themselves, having to do several jobs and already being constantly fatigued or not having work experience due to covid etc, and whatever other factors come into play. It's just the final result of what's not been a good approach and tactic. It's not the students' fault, but it's hard to undo something that's already formed them and caused possible mental health damage as anxiety/depression/burnout.
Agreed. The one thing I would add is that certain universities aren't so much there to teach these kids but to only let the smartest of them graduate so that the university gives the impression that they train you well so that they get more people applying from among whom they can select even more already smart people, so some of these people are coming out of university WITH BURNOUT. Companies hiring them might think they've gotten people able to stand pressure but actually they're getting people on the verge of collapse, especially if they've barely survived college cuz they have an undiagnosed mental illness and then got through it by clenching their teeth, which is not a winning long term strategy
I don't get why high pressure and long hours in work should be something seen as normal. Humans don't function normally that way.
@@minxili3317 that's also true
@@minxili3317 I personally fully agree with that and see something wrong with that side too. There are a lot of things that need changing and improving.
its lack of accountability. nothing is their fault.
This is what happens when you gaslight kids for at least two decades with 8th place trophies, safe spaces, and too many untruths to count. An inner strength of character takes practice and testing so to develop; some have robbed them of that by lying to them and limiting their ability to test themselves and grow. Some have been treating young people as incapable victims of circumstance, and now they are shocked when young people say they are incapable of dealing with the current set of circumstances. Of course, they are.
Yeah HERE you're getting it!
Well said!!!
Sugar coating sht doesn't help either 😅
Why doesn't this say Recent college grads in America are 'emotionally' unprepared for 9 to 5 jobs? This is not a problem with people coming from 3rd world countries, they speak multiple languages, are socially more put together, and often way more mature even at young ages. We are the cause of these issues, I believe this is an American problem.
Because it’s an American news channel, obviously
No. I'm in Europe. Happens here, too.
What a coincidence I don’t think the current workforce is emotionally ok with it either
No one will ever be emotionally ready enough to enter the 9-5 world due to social media.
Say it louder. Those of us from Gen X had no problem with the transition. Sure, there are always some that do, but overall, no problem.
who is putting a gun to your head? You know that you can just turn off most of your social media right? Like there's literally an uninstall button for Tiktok on your phone
@@weho_brian Sir, I’m in my 40’s. Retired. Extremely lucky. I was making an observation. Your reply to my observation underscores my point. You lack the ability to interpret / discern empirical experiences from casual observation. Social media has affected your brain in this regard.
@@extremelylucky999 and you completely missed my point. NO ONE is forcing you to use social media. The same people who spend 4 hours a day of social media would have spent the same amount of time playing video games of watching TV 10-15 years ago.
@@weho_brian why do you keep saying “you” as in ME? Or, are you speaking in GENERAL terms? My comment was a GENERAL comment. I think there’s a reading comprehension issue here.
In other news: Sorry you've been lied to. Life is hard and it's NEVER EVER BEEN FAIR TO ANYONE AND YOU ARE NO EXCEPTION
Capitalism is hard, but life is easy. Don’t mistake your capitalistic regime for life.
Most ignorant comment section I’ve seen in a long time. It goes a lot deeper than “they’re just snowflakes”, and many people will never be capable of understanding the truths to that
and you are JESUS?or his bro at least yes?
I'm glad at least one other person gets it. These comments are all just blaming the kids, or saying, "my life sucks so yours should too".🐑🐑🐑 I wonder how many people actually watched the video and processed its contents before they posted a comment....
@@kumada84 me too :(
@@kumada84 No one has time to watch snowflake videos full of lazy characters
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You're all entitled to your own opinions, but as a recent grad I very firmly believe the pandemic is the main factor that completely derailed not only our daily lives and academics, but also our emotional and mental capacity. Many key milestones for social maturity were supposed to happen when we were forced into online learning and now that students are graduating and entering the 'real world' we're simply too tired and burned out to deal with reality.
Seeing how pointless life was during the pandemic, we've become disillusioned with the 9-5 lifestyle before we even started working.
Can't speak for non-corporate, but many college students end up in corporate. Imagine going into lockdown during college (arguably some of the best years people will have in their lives) and having to deal with separation from others for the first time ever. Going from seeing people and friends everyday to nobody. Seeing political and social economic turmoil, not to mention being exposed to so much death and mortality. All while seeing the prospective of joining a corporate job that treated their employees like garbage and disposable in the 2019 layoffs and again now. You've been sold all your life on education and college being the way to make it into the middle class and beyond. Some probably have millennial parents too who they see are going through this or even being told this experience and the facade the middle class that doesn't really exist anymore. I'm sure there's a bunch of other factors like social media making you feel less-than too, but all this alone, heck why would anyone be ready and also work hard for the man. Heck, people can't even afford houses anymore without some luck or help from generational wealth. What is the dream to achieve? It's really not a surprise.
I’d be more concerned with how they handle the other 16 hrs in a day with no pay
Lol
Let me explain. We are at job for 8 hours and after 5 pm most of places are closed unless stupid restaurants and bars. We spent time those times in traffic, shower and getting ready. And we spend other 8 hours with sleeping. We barely have free time during the evenings. During the day We have to ask your boss or manager to go somewhere like DPS. This is not life I dream of.
These young adults will soon find out that their degree won't get them high pay. They will be disappointed. And once they find out that most jobs won't give them the position they studied for they will be heartbroken.
Exactly, especially if they've been saddled with debt to pay for the lie
@Agnes Mina Yup, they will be in high debt and will be having a hard time paying the money back. And the worst thing of all is that you cannot file for bankruptcy to wipe out the debt. The debt will follow you until you pay it off.
@@Stalkerx13 yep, it's crazy
emotionally ready ?? wtf does that mean?... what type of hours were they expecting ?
It’s the previous gens fault. You’ve allowed internet to be the environment your kids lived in without them being exposed to real world. You also coddled them from pressure by removing obstacles they should’ve learned to tackle on their own … now they have ZERO social skills and coping mechanisms. 😂
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This is it.
I disagree. I'm 43 and have an adult child. By the time I was in high school they had done away with corporeal punishment and enacted the no child left behind bs. If we spanked our children and they told the teachers, we would have cps banging on our door. No, this started way before us, probably those free-loving hippies that fried their brains on LSD.
Not everyone of the previous generation, but you're absolutely right. Some of us tried to tell those fools that keeping their kids in the house and playing on their phones all day was a recipe for disaster, but they didn't listen because they were too pathetic and lazy to even put their own phones down.
You're partially right but also partially wrong
I am 40 years old and I am still not emotionally ready for Monday.
Stop using drugs (if you do stop), stop consuming alcohol, drink more water, get 30 minutes of cardio vascular exercise a day, meditate, pray, join some sort of community religious or spiritual community. Be prepared to work hard. And if you don't like it here, New Zealand is really nice. 😮
I’ve been saying this by just looking at my own children. I have no idea how they will deal with the pressures I went through when I entered the workforce.
That's how - their own mother tells them/acts as though "she has no idea how they will." We treat people as incapable victims they become incapable victims.
They won't
@@pretzelandmustard that's not entirely true because self fulfilling prophecies are only a part of it
Ask yourself: did you do their homework for them? Also, did you let them go places without your supervision or that of another parent? I got to do all sorts of things on my own as a kid, and never got into trouble. I did my own homework. I taught for twenty years, 1990 until 2012. I have all sorts of stories. Most parents were helicopter parents. They did do their kids homework for them. They had them in all sorts of after school activities that were supervised. The kids couldn't figure out things on their own because their parents didn't let them!
I grew up doing A LOT of chores every day. Plus I babysat and shoveled snow from.driveways on Snow days. Parents are 100% to blame for lazy, dud kids.
When the 9-5 workplace isn’t paying much and isn’t worth it, it sucks. Been there done that, trust me all those bosses wanted to do is to own you and your time. Stay in school kids.
you can only hide there for so long.
9 to 5? Everyone I know including me work 10-11 hours a day. 😂
Sometimes 7 days a week.
I'm 62 and just worked 12 days straight. I made it and will reap my reward 🤗
Preach!
Nothing to be proud of, you are a slave to working, book a holiday and enjoy yourself
They are emotionally and socially unprepared for college. Not all, but far more than normal. Hard to get them to read a textbook instead of going straight to UA-cam, hard to get them off their smartphones (during lecture and lab), hard to get them off their ipads and laptops, and lots of statements made about fears, anxiety, and depression.
I'm sick of people placing the blame on the pandemic. I noticed this nearly 20 years ago. Graduates get a job and expect to be promoted to the corner office within a year!
You're not wrong about this having been an issue before the pandemic too, but most of us don't expect to be in a corner office within a year, we'd just like to not get ground down to the bone by arbitrary stats set by people based on imagined narratives of what our jobs entail instead of what our jobs actually entail, and maybe get to get SOMEWHERE after 6 years without cheating to up our stats, effectively getting penalized for actually keeping clients happy while others get rewarded for being selfish and cutting corners. On my team you could get the highest score and keep documenting things detailedly to help your colleagues and maintain or even exceed the minimum required closure count, but if you weren't above average in an artificially inflated closure count statistic (inflated by the cheaters), you got side eyed by your bosses boss.
Many have lived in their "safe spaces" and spending their parents' money. They cannot deal with life.
Judge what's your name?
Don’t mistake capitalism for life
@@xxxod Maybe Biden can give you $100,000/year just for being.
@@xxxod then what is life socialism communism where there's no innovation bleak living conditions concrete block housing and no stable economy???
Odd assumption. Not every young adult is pampered. Comments like these are ironically spoken from "safe spaces".
Not emotionally ready for a 9 to 5 ? In the real world we call that being lazy
Not emotionally ready for 9 to 5 ??? What on earth ???
this is what happens when you spend ages 10 through 22 behind a screen and away from the general public: you become ignorant to social norms and you don't know how to read nonverbal communication appropriately.
9-5 doesn't pay you enough to live lol
People seem to be ignoring depression and addiction, it has gotten really bad because frankly for most people recently graduating, the future is pretty bleak. Students deal with tension with other students, they deal with inconvenient class times, it's not much different than the work parameters the CEO was talking about. The problem with going to a CEO for answers is the "don't have the desire to work" answer is complete BS, because many recent grads are working 2 jobs or working insane hours. CEOs will always blame their terrible practices and lack of new hires on "this generation's laziness" before blaming homelessness, worsening public health and mental health, overworking, stagnant pay and rising rent, unrealistic job requirements, etc.
They think THC is a health cure 😆
And many deal with burnout straight out of college, especially if they were in a science or engineering program that graded on a curve, where an honest 90% could be a failing grade if most of your colleagues got a 95% because you're all excellent overachievers that studied hard and diligently
@@minagica That wouldn't cause emotional weakness.
@@406MenaceRacecar oh yes it would. Look up learned helplessness
@@minagica look up enabling people
Why does there need to be tension with coworkers? Why can’t people just show up, work hard, and be friendly to each other? Some people want to try to get ahead by shifting blame for their mistakes, taking credit for other people’s work, bullying their way to the top, and just playing office politics in general. Older generations accepted that BS for way too long. Rein in the quote unquote “assertive” and “go getter” types, and there will be much less tension in the workplace.
stop teaching the diversity, inclusion, equity, race, gender, social justice nonsense
if a so called " COLLEGE GRAD " is not emotionally prepared by now they will NEVER be!! turn off your phone/TV
This isn't a covid issue, it's a result of our culture and where it has degraded to over the last 10 years. Many of these kids are so sheltered that they can't function outside of mom and dad. Some live in a reality that doesn't exist outside of their phones. We need to start fixing this or we are going to see a very fast decline in our country and a further widening of the have/have not gap.
Being a victim comes with certain perks and attention. The greater the victimization, the greater the prominence in social circles. It's kind of sick
until you cant live or rent or eat...not all parents are going to give up the rest of their finite lives to support your feelings and welfare is going away cause we cant afford it.
9 to 5 shouldn't be a problem for anyone
yes it is if you're not working for yourself
@@theresaheyer537 no. It's not. It's called be a weak azz crybaby.
9-5? You're late to work and you didn't even get 8 hours pay for the day, when lunch break is deducted.
That's why they ghost their new employer when they find out they will have responsibilities in an intense workplace environment
And they wan't US to pay of their loans - many can't work 9-5 JOB ... joke
And you want me to pay for you child... Through child tax credits and taxes to local schools... For kids I don't have and will never have. The world isn't fair snowflake.
If college grads are unprepared for the workforce that’s the schools fault
When children aren't disciplined, why should we expect any level of self-discipline?
Some "discipline" is actually counterproductive abuse and I'm not sure which type of discipline you're actually referring to
@@minagica counter-productive abuse, obviously. C'mon. Lol
@@derekfarley5899 🤣
😑 what have their parents done to us?
They have turned us feeble.
And their blaming colleges for their unprofessional behavior. No, no, no, that’s their parents and themselves responsibility.
I've worked since 12, was in the army, did college, and am still working at 64. It hasn't been glamorous, but I accept the consequences of my actions. Time to wake up American young men and women or whatever you are.
To hell with 9-5's!!! Yuck!!!
This is as silly as it gets. Jobs are about economics, not emotions.
It’s not the job. It’s the paying off the student loan, rent, credit cards, car payments, groceries, insurance, etc. Mommy and daddy can’t afford to pay for their kids B.S. anymore. Time for these young adults to grow up and live in reality.
Make work hours shorter and only 3 day work weeks.
Why don't we just shorten the hour from 60 minutes to 45 minutes
That’s called a part time job. Get one if you want.
Nobody is prepared nor wants to be there at any age
Facts, I only do it to get paid, but I hate it.
Most people don't graduate from college and land a dream job immediately. First jobs are not always the ideal or long term job especially when most graduates enter the workforce as entry level. If they don't see showing up to work at a time that the employer wants, I really wonder how they survive paying their bills and such. In reality when student loans and bills pile up, you would at least try to find a job to pay off the basic necessities rather than sitting around seeing which jobs can offer you the perfect hours and workload.
Blame helicopter parents who don't let their kids live without being monitored 24/7!
Excuses, excuses liberal excuses. I suppose now there will be financial aid and housing for those who are liberally overwhelmed with the emotion of now finally having to work for a living. This new pseudo epidemic is so shameful and degrading.
Listening to this video, I can say with a minor grain of certainty that most graduates have come to terms with the fact that they will never be as successful as their parents. I'd argue to that about 50% of parents aren't that successful. Especially in Canada, a lot of kids took out student loans, and because of how easy it is for employers to shift through potential candidates, the odds really aren't in our favour. It's nonsense.
Lol no one is prepared from chill College life and then being thrown into the wolves pit! I know I wasn’t back in the 1990’s too!! Sink or swim baby!!
Chill college life, rofl. All those allnighters trying to finish 6 homeworks for 5 classes, how chill 🙄 No, many of us just graduated with burnout
Its not even hard. You get used to it
yeah get comfortably NUMB
@@theresaheyer537 well i make a ton of money so i guess i shouldn't be talking
I'm not surprised considering how fragile students are now needing safe spaces when someone disagrees with them.
I'm 62, started working at age 16, mostly office work. I've had some college but mostly self-taught. I plan to work through retirement but start collecting at now at 62. Seniors who continue to work will have healthy minds and bodies in my opinion. Maybe kids in the US just aren't motivated enough to even work or study remote, sadly. I liked "maybe I can show up at 10am" LOL!!! I would show up to some of my jobs at 5am and dealt with it.
I retired at 58, ten years ago. I was a school teacher. I have enjoyed retirement. I have travelled a few times to Europe, have volunteered my time in various pursuits. I also have more time to work on my physical training to keep in shape. I also am a college grad, obviously. I went to the school mentioned, fifty years ago, when it was much cheaper. Why kids don't want to work? Blame the parents for coddling them. I saw all sorts of helicopter parents as a teacher.
Wow! What a boomer mentality you have.
If you think us young people are lazy, you should do a reality check.
Well, we have to take into consideration what this generation is learning now. I met a high school teacher and explained that she had to help her student mail a letter, this was something I learned how to do in middle school. They will not have a signature because cursive is not taught anymore, computers are used so their handwriting is terrible. I'm not making excuses, but technology has made it seem that the world is easy and everything in it can be done at the snap of a finger.
I don't disagree. Also, there are helicopter parents nowadays who do everything for their kids and don't let them do things on their own. Everything is managed by adults. When I was a kid in summer, after little league ended early in summer, we had pick up baseball games in parks. Yes, there were fights now and then. No one went to juvenile hall! No parents were around. We had fun. We played tackle football with no pads or helmets. We did our own homework. I taught school from 1990 until 2012. I had parents my own age that had their kids on a short leash, and then as time went on, the next generation of parents were even worse in protecting their kids, doing their kids homework, and not letting them live, for crissakes! Everything was planned. It was BS. I would have rebelled.
praying for a cme.
They are emotionally unprepared for life's hard knocks today
One political group has been saying this for a long time. Thing is when they say it people will call them racist or conspiracy theorists. Same story out of someone else’s mouth and all of a sudden the same political group that opposed this is now like hmmm makes sense.
Today's young adults are so delicate, you can knock them over with a feather. Where I work, it's 8 to 6. It's hard, yes, but I got used to it.
well here's to killing all of humanity then
I learned recently that work life balance is no longer a thing, it is more about work life integration, with the work from home thing, and the work becoming less and less assembly line like, it is about results and not about the hours, or where the work is performed, so the boundary of work and life is very blurry and may not even exist, so it is more effective to think integration versus delineation/balance
1:08 -- self-reporting, huh... If I was asked in my college years, I'd also say I'm not ready to work and uncertiain about my future. There is no certainty in the world, and never was, and never will be, cope.
not cope dummy enjoy the adventure of it all
How many of these folks grew up in single mother homes, without fathers....these are the children of Feminism
Colledge is a snowflake factory
Education is the only way out my friend. The current issue is because kids these days are lazy and don't feel like working. Don't blame the colleges, blame the parents.
@@henmaidstale No we don’t want to work for crumbs
Median Yearly Earnings of 25 to 34 Year Old Full-Time Workers
Less than high school $29,800
High school $36,600
Some college, no degree $39,900
Associate degree $44,100
Bachelor’s degree $59,600
Master’s degree or higher $69,700
Hardly call $44k breadcrumbs. Try working at Walmart with no degree.
must be why you can't spell
"Colledge"??? What is that? I guess you couldn't even make it past second grade 😆.
Many folks described in this video are my coworkers. My gosh they call out for anything dude, come on kids it’s not that bad. Genuine cowardice from them it’s embarrassing cause some are parents
It took a study for this?
I find people who went back to school after a number of years are actually better prepared because they don't screw around.
"Millenial" and "emotionally prepared" are true oxymorons. These folks are not prepared for reality.
I don’t think the folks in the comments parroting laziness and safe spaces truly understand the issue at hand here. Really seems to be a multi faceted issue. We really don’t have the answers rn.
Check out the Book, "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The subtitle is, "How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure."
Just showing up for work is the easy part. If they can't show up for work, that doesn't say much about what they can really do. Anyway, if 9 to 5 is your only issue, apply for a job at Taco Bell or McDonald's and say you can only work the closing shift. They'll hire you in a minute.
I’m sorry but the entitlement of these young grads who literally have zero work skills and they don’t realize that their first job doesn’t have to pay you what you expect to earn. If you are unable to get a job with a degree then you’re being lazy if you can’t find a job. The choice of trying to find a job that matches your entitlement is not going to work.
If you’re telling bosses that you don’t want to work at 8 am, then you don’t deserve a job. It’s called work because you have to work. I feel like many young people just don’t want to work. They don’t want to work hard but how are they going to pay their bills? Kick your kid out if they can’t get a job after a few months. That’s enabling them not to get a job.
Its because College forces you to take prerequisites you have no interest in. Paying money for courses just to pass it is useless. Herded and pushed along to make you feel like youre doing something. Only to graduate and realize you learned plenty of useless information and a very small amount of useful information. I recommend people take course they’re interested in at a community school. Full time College is just stressful and expensive.
Everyone needs to meet some sort of prerequisite in knowledge. Have you made fun of some youngster because they didn't know some history? Get real. Everyone also should learn about government and how it works. Maybe more people would vote then!
EMPLOYERS ARE EMOTIONALLY UNPREPARED TO PAY DECENT WAGES
LANDLORDS ARE EMOTIONALLY UNPREPARED TO OFFER AFFORDABLE RENT
How dare society doesn't conform to these poor little wall flowers that haven't worked a day in their life. Now shut up and pay for their college loans that they signed for.
THAT TOO! ABSOLUTELY!
WHY STOP WITH GREEDY LANDLORDS?
AUTOMAKERS MAKE VEHICLES UNAFFORDABLE....SMARTPHONES COMOANIES MAKE PURCHASING A PHONE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT FINANCING.... GROCERY STORES EXTORT CUSTOMERS...
calm down there capslock, it'll be ok
@@groovypotato-cx7bq cost of living
I will blame my neighbor’s cousin’s dog before blaming myself
Whether you get a high paying job or not after college, it’s still a good idea to be a HIGHLY EDUCATED!!!!!
They’ll be alright.
Yet they want their student loans wiped clean!
I bet they want the government to pay for their apartment, buy them groceries. But they are about to realize the truth of life. Called homeless. Mommy and daddy won't live forever.
My Dad worked 3 jobs raising a family and Mom did things to help. My first real job was labor 10, 12, 14 hours for the first few years. And constant stress of making quota.
They better get in step with reality, it's called a job for a reason. Count yourself lucky if you do like your work and have enough to live on at the same time. Nothing is free.
i had my first job at 12, packing fruits and vegetables. 50 cents an hour , early 60's i was flush.
i was unprepared for life post Navy....it's a strange transition....You get used to it....eventually...
understandable...sounds pretty much like I don't want to get up from my nice and warm bed every morning...lol
Sand*, discusses how overly sensitive people can make peace with their sensitivity and find new courage and confidence to be themselves. This is a situation where the low-level peon should be a little more confident and address the real elephant in the room which is the necessity to find a new job or start a business.
*Ilse Sand. (2016). Highly sensitive people in an insensitive world: How to create a happy life. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
📌"Emotionally unprepared." This entire generation is emotionally unprepared. Daphuqe you mean?🤣🤣🤣
You don't say.
They are always offered the path of least resistance.
They are coddled and never told " NO " .
Rules and norms changed to accommodate.
Like the homeless and addicted ... it's always the same ... Personal responsibility is a thing of the past.
Lol welcome to the real world, softies
It’s not our fault yall took the bs from these companies.
4 years in a safe space doesn't prepare you for reality? huh, who knew?
The current batch of graduates are immature. Their idea of work/life balance disregards the work part. They are a generation of blamers with a sense of entitlement!
The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control!
If they started work when they turned 16 they would be use to the 9 to 5 grind
Who says u gotta work a 9-5 though?? is that smarter or harder ??
@@norwayteez3355 they don’t want you to know work is not the only way to make money. You can’t get rich at a 9 to 5. You’re making someone else rich. Wake up people!
they gotta study
@@xxxod Well yeah, you cant get rich without starting somewhere either. 9-5 is a means not an end.
You all are just slackers.
I wanted my own money at 12. I wanted a paper route but didn't have a bike so started hand delivering a weekly newspaper untill I saved up enough for a bike and started a daily newspaper. When I got tired of pushing my bike loaded with papers through early morning snow drifts, I became a sweeper boy at a local elementary school. These first few jobs didn't pay minimum wage but they taught me all about motivation, ambition, initiave, financial and personal responsibility. It also taught me that I was worth investing in myself.
Since I am focused on self reliance, I can't understand those that insist that everyone owes them for their perceived victim hood.
Tell me their degrees are worthless without saying it directly...
Life isn’t FAIR. You won’t be happy everyday of your life. You are not as important as you think you are. You are always replaceable.
I attribute it to one thing: poor parenting. Mommy and Daddy handing kid carte blanche access to cash for stuff they in past times would have to earn allowance to buy. Kids don't want to work because parents taught them how not to to get what they want.
You sound rather out of touch, actually
@Real Life no but I have been one and I never had carte blanche access to my parents' money, not sure why OP thinks what they're thinking
@@minagica If you don't know why, you *are* one of those kids... entitlement comes in many forms.
single mothers.
Be an adult and get to work like everyone else. What have your high school classmates been doing that didnt go to school the past 4 years? Most probably working and paying taxes to pay off your student loan forgiveness.
8 hours is long but 5 or 6 is ok. I can only work 3-4 hours. In America it's 955 or 9am-5pm 5 days a week, In China it's 996 or 9am-9pm 6 days a week
Yeah, but they can stay in a bar for 6 hours and on social media all day long.
Basically...they are lazy.
Parents are to blame and iPhones and TikTok
Hahahaha! Its crazy because I’ve never heard of people calling out for a mental health break until the newer generations started working. Y’all some weenies.
I have to at this point thank God that I dropped out and followed my passion in agriculture. It is not too late to change course, uni will just get worse and worse until it is degraded bare into a true pit of just suffering and complaints and drugs and hedonism. (We're already there.) When the thing preparing you for a career is turning out kids too depressed and anxious of a career, something is very much up.
Here’s an idea: not everyone is going to like you, appreciate your input or reward you for your efforts.
Still better than graduating as a usual suspect in Oakland