Topic: Young people are less likely to accept traditional employments in this era! - page 8. (Read 1132 times)

One thing I'm seeing is that these jobs aren't as rewarding compared to the jobs that people can get on the internet. Agriculture in a lot of countries tend to favor those who has the capital to own their own land and those who has the money to invest on livestock. With this knowledge, the younger generation opt to learn a skill and sell it over the internet in exchange for flexibility and more money. Of course, who would want to work on a farm and get a few dollars worth for their time and back-breaking effort?

A lot of the young ones are looking to get some compensation that is worth their while and does not take a long while to get. If these opportunities were available to people back then, I'm pretty sure the older generations would hustle hard to get what they wanted and be successful for literally half the time it would take them to master a trade and sell their services.

It's alarming that fewer kids want to learn a trade or work in the fields that empower our society, but you can't really blame them for wanting to be self-sufficient early on unlike the older generations who value their work so much and would literally spend half of their lifetimes in order to prove their worth.

You are 100% right, actually the world is moving toward modernization and technology. I read stats a few days ago that there are 20 apps that did not exist 20 years ago, I am finding it difficult to get a source but will provide it later. The main things were social media, which did not exist 20 years ago and now it did. Which has opened a lot of ways for not only GEN-Z but for millennials as well. Even Octagerian are also making money by freelancing.

In my opinion millennials are the ones who are taking most of benefit from current technologies because when we visit software houses we only see youngsters there, and we see less millinials there. Which indicates that these 50 to 55 years old dudes are finding another source of income and at the end they end up on LinkedIn with some good company.

Well, I say why we have to keep a balance, because not everyone is doing freelancing, all the five fingers are not equals, world's nature is based on diversity and it can't be changed. Its how world work we don't have to worry about it.

You can't blame the generation that we have today, they are the product of what the standard the society has set and that is what they grew up to see. Imagine a musician that came from nothing actually become something with plenty of money than the money an engineer will ever make in his entire career. They feel relax and also want to try quick alternative to make money than go through the school system.

Another bad thing the society has allowed to exist is social comparison and inferiority complex. Children used to take engineers and medical doctors as role model back then but now, they just want to be like some baddies and gangsters who portray things on social media, learn from that to use that to oppress their friends or just to feel among their peers, the society has a lot to adjust my friend.


Technology has a lot of advantages than even the disadvantages but we chose that over the merits side. The society should be in better place because technology exists and not to be misuse. If technology has advanced well before now, we wouldn't have been in this messes the way we are right now.

This report is correct. Most young persons do not care about an organization. In fact if they get employed today and their bosses annoys them or they feel they are not happy at that place, the next day they will tender their resignation letter or just not show up to the office. Young people have seen that their parents struggled so much and that they money that their parents made during their 35 years of working, they can make it in a few years and retire before 30. And thanks to tech, they are fully exploiting it. Some young people are working remotely from the comfort of their hotel rooms or somewhere in Dubia. The term for it now is digital nomads. It is like they are waging a cold war against traditional employment. But is their mental health better than their parents? I don't think so.

People reject jobs because they have other options. The US has a super economy with diverse job opportunities available for people to choose from. Youths can easily diversify to other sectors if they are not comfortable with their present jobs. The country also has a good welfare system where the unemployed receive some level of assistance from the government.

I don't also think that the shortage of labor in traditional workplaces is a problem because machines are gradually performing some of the tasks of some workers making these sectors require limited physical workers. The IS also has a strategic plan of balancing worker shortages with seasonal or temporary workers.

 obviously it’s because sitting in your house is much more convenient and comfortable way to earn money rather than going out in the sun and getting your hands dirty.

Don’t get me wrong sometimes I think it’s also important to exert physical effort but the more you realize how hard it actually is, you might just quit right here and there.

Making work time flexible will also attract more young people. A reason why young people are looking to freelance more is due to the flexibility in work hours and the value that their work is given, which is reflected in the attractive pay.

The reason they know this is because they have seen the result and outcome from the years their parents have put in and still are not financially stable from being employees in the traditional system. They do not want to end up like their parents, who are not happy at work and do not still earn well.

Some still have this view of agriculture as some hard manual labour stuff when in reality in every advanced country is getting more and more technical by the day.
The trend of having fewer people employed is because of technologies, you don't need to have people with horses in the field when you can have autonomous tractors plowing, you don't need to milk course by hand, you have drones to see your crops, you have an enormous amount of tools that can be controlled by a single individual that is doing the work of what 100 did at the start of last century.




Just as there was no disaster when young ones were not forced to go hunting to earn a meal, not working for a steelworks or a farm won't be an issue now.

yeah good luck with that maybe they will do it in 20 years but oh you will be the one losing seniority.

do your self a favor find the old movie “ wild in the streets “ watch it and realize how old your idea is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_in_the_Streets

1968 and the idea was not new even in that movie.

I see this type of thing in the place where I work where the young people experience that kind of FOMO where if you work you lose the time to do and the opportunity to do something for yourself and then they just resign altogether. It's not that they don't want money, it's that they want to be in control and they can't handle that kind of criticism.

They just want it easy and not persevere.

paying memecoins to those who will help cultivate a rise farm. will probably make them come running to sign up and work to farm a land. they are so fond of posting photos of likes, working on rice fields and memecoins to show to their IG will definitely get them more likes which will motivate the GenZ.

the newer generations wants to work while having fun though, its what was being fed to them by a philosopher saying work where your heart is. so maybe allowing the younger generations to watch youtube shorts while in the assembly lines will motivate them to go outside and find this kind of employer.

The young generation (Gen Z) wants to become rich and wealthy, so being an employee in a traditional organization will not make them as rich as they wanted. That is why all of them engage in online making, which includes social media accounts, trading bitcoin and other alt-coins, and other online sources of making money that do not require a lot of stress and get more money, which the millennials and Gen X view as a lazy generation.
 
But what is supposed to be put into consideration is that in this generation, everything has become a technology base, which will soon be a threat to the traditional workers because with technology, everything will be easy and employment will be scarce, so to me, it is better for Gen Z to focus on ways to make money online than to depend on traditional employment because of the threat associated with it.

You are really correct on this, in this current generation, younger people find it difficult to maintain a 9am to 5pm job, because they don't have passion for it,  they are mostly doing it like they don't have a choice, since it's the only means of survival at present, they mostly took it as a job were you work like elephant and eat like ant,  because it's very difficult to obtain a higher paying job.

But with the advancement of technology worldwide, younger people have more passion in acquiring digital skill and and they prefer doing business online because it pays better than our traditional 9am to 5pm job, though it's has it own advantage, but the major disadvantage of young people abandoning agriculture is that who will feed the state, if everyone no longer have interest in it? And it will definitely be a major problem to the government of the state if the agricultural sector is being abandoned.

So to me, the best that can be done about this is for the government to make the 9am to 5pm job and working for the agricultural sector to be more attractive to the upcoming generations, so as to strike a balance between agricultural sector and technological sector of the economy.

Freelance is least of your concern if being an influencer and content creator on social media becomes the main job in the future. Which is what dominates in my country.

Young generation even newly grads only focus on creating garbage content, streaming games and other dance videos that makes them not interested anymore on finding a decent job since they are earning good from social media views. Young generation here spend a lot of time browsing contents on social media and create their own content that’s why we contributes a lot of views and engagement on social media which is alarming to the business sector due to lack of professional and workers in the future. 

Those ads financer on social media usually paying for views of kids that doesn’t even know the product they are advertising. 

Even though technology looks promising than other sectors, you need to know if we're currently suffering tech winter.

I don't believe most Gen Z are freelancers than working on sites, even the jobs can be done from away, but most of companies will ask them to work on sites because they don't want the market value of their buildings loss due to low traffic.

Erase seniority! both Boomers and Millennials make Gen Z has no place to get promoted or they receive the same salary but bear more responsibility.

The ways of earning and living for young people have changed drastically since we moved from the agriculture(field) era to the technological( Internet money) era. Many young people are willing to sit at home waiting for a freelance job rather than going out to work for someone and getting paid little shillings. Research has proven that the rate at which people quit working in traditional industries has increased, perhaps they have found an online skill or a way to offer their services with high flexibility.



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The concern is very alarming this is because if limited young ones are willing to work in these traditional structures (Oil, Agriculture, manufacturing, etc.) how will they grow? The Gen Z workers (that is people born between 1997 - 2012) were the first to prioritize flexibility, personal well-being, and as well as intelligent usage. Of course, the internet money is way higher than low-paying jobs in those sectors, they can either choose to start their own social media accounts that would endorse them or pursue freelance work rather than entering the traditional workforce.

So if there is a way to create balance and bring more young people to have interest in the traditional workforce what would you think of? I was thinking that increasing minimum wages and granting more benefits like health, rent to mention a few would help