Topic: Young people needs productive mindset to be happy in life - page 8. (Read 1602 times)

In my own country, young people have clearly understood that they cannot get anywhere just by getting a university education. However, only a few are trying to do something against this situation. It has been 1.5 years since I graduated and looking at the current situation of my classmates, I can say that only 10-15% of them are trying to do something. The rest seem to be accept their fate.

Especially in my country, young people are now aware that they cannot get anywhere with education alone, so the clever ones try to find income sources and they must find!

This is a common problem today, the education the young are receiving does not lead them to have a job on their field of study and many have to work in a completely different field, and in that case we need to wonder then why waste so much time and money studying a subject just to do something completely unrelated? This is a problem that needs to be fixed, but in may countries the education sector has been kidnapped by teachers that want to teach the same stuff for decades, when there are fields in which everything can change in a matter of months.

At the moment you talk like let's have a plan B in case your plan A can't work. In reality, why do I have to study plumbing if I go to the university and study Marketing? If I finish university with Marketing degree and start job as a plumber, that means that I wasted 4 years of studying for nothing. I think it's better to study one thing and try to find job in it or even do for free to gain experience and improve your skills in your niche. It's better to become master of one thing instead of middle level specialist of many things.
Btw it's never a good idea to choose super competitive specialties if you are not very talented individual.

Every young generation has a productive mindset so that they can be happy in life in the future. And this must be trained from schools so that they can instill the mindset above, because if the mindset has been trained from school they will get used to living independently and they will be more focused on improving themselves and improving their own quality. That way they will have to think about what life will be like in the future, the situation In the future, they force themselves to do something productive. So their mindset is that after graduating from school they don't have to work for the government.

To become a successful young generation.
1. Positive mindset
2. Eat to live
3. Be confident
4. Learn from failure
5. Be grateful
6. Throw away your pride

Everything will change because times are no longer the same and vice versa with today's young people and the young people of the past. Currently, even though you are one of the best graduates at a university, there is no guarantee that it will be easy to get a job. I am a university graduate and until now have not found a job that suits my knowledge. So I have to find a solution with the skills I have and even though I don't work in the right place, at least I can make money for my family's needs.

Initially I had the same view as you think, that if I graduated from college I would work in the government, but unfortunately expectations did not match and there were still many other people who ended up worse than me in terms of finding work. Long story short, I started to understand that depending on the government for work is not an easy thing, so I decided to build a clothing business in the area where I live and currently I have eight employees working at my place.

In the era of digitalization, youth must have more skills and as much as possible we must try to find ways to make money. There are many opportunities in the digitalization era if young people have the skills to manage/implement them and there are also many young people who are successful working in certain fields in the digitalization sector. An independent mindset must be encouraged from young people so that they can be skilled at making money in this day and age.

If we go back ten years ago, our young generations were not so skilled at work, those who studied were just studying. Maybe two of them were tutoring, they were earning money through tuition, that was their only goal to earn money. But if we look at the present, we can see how much our society has evolved, now there are various online jobs, then there are social media jobs, no one is sitting at home and everyone is expressing themselves through work. It's really nice to see that boys between sixteen and 20 years of age never sit still, they do a lot of work online, besides studying, they pay for their own education and also try to help their parents.

Of course, no one wants to be an employee, no one wants to be directed by others, and everyone wants to be a boss with their own business with employees working for them...But not everyone can do business and be as successful as you. Business is an extremely difficult field, it is not as simple as becoming an employee for someone. I have seen many people quit their corporate jobs to start their own businesses and become bosses, but within a short time they all failed and went back to their old jobs. When I asked them if they intended to start a business again, they flatly refused and said that they were not suitable for business and were content to work for someone else.

I guess this op is from Nigerian and already speaking as a concerned youth but the truth is that, a lot of things are lacking in the country especially towards the youths and it seems most of the decisions of the government is been felt most by the youths and I now stand on the ground that the government is lacking behind and most of the things that is supposed to be provided by the government is been prayed for and expect God to come down and provide those things which is wrong.
I agree with op that getting a job after graduation is a past glory and that’s because the rate of greed by the government of recent is very high and most motivational speakers will always advise graduates to get a skill or start a business but you’ll also agree that starting a business is not an easy task and job provision is supposed to be the responsibility of the government.

Living a happy life nowadays will require something like, not working hard but  work on a smarter way. Skill based jobs are in demand right now so the more skills you have the more earnings you got. If young people will improvise their skills, achievements could be a piece of cake. This will not only apply to young people but all of us who has goals in life.

This logic doesn't just apply to young people though since it applies to people of all ages. Staying productive consistently for a long period of time is difficult and requires a lot of effort, but pays big dividends in the long run.

Another thing that I would like to add here is that you should work in a job that you actually like which helps improve productivity in a big way.

Sometimes it's not the dream job that we really want, it's the money from a job or a business. Business for me is much more profitable and less stress source of income, because you're the boss of your own, you're the one who will be listened to by your employees, you're the one who is in control of your time, money, actions, and decisions.

It is up to you want kind of workplace you want, you have choices always, unlike when you're the employee, you don't have any choices at all but only to obey what's your senior tells you to do.

That's the thing about current era, creativity is trying to be taken away from  you. You want to write?
You have chatgpt that writes for people, maybe it is not good enough for now, but it may get better than ever, or you want to paint?

Midjourney can do it better than you already, you need to work hard to be better, but by that time it could improve to be better than you. Creativity is getting killed, and automation is getting many jobs for the past 100 years as well. So, what do we have left?

I do not think that humanity has anything but staying lazy left for them to do. In an unreal world, we could literally share the wealth that all these improvements have made and not do a damn thing and just enjoy world, obviously that's not the world we live, people hate sharing.

I do agree with that, the job market has really become too narrow and companies don't hire people very easily which has been creating a lot of trouble for fresh graduates to find good jobs based on their degrees and qualifications but they are compelled to learn and develop extra skills to be able to earn some money either by getting a job different than what they've studied or getting into freelancing and stuff.

Government jobs are better, but most people would be happy to at least get a job no matter where as long as it pays them what they deserve.

Actually, productivity doesn't always guarantee a good income because I've seen a lot of productive people not having any income. It's all about opportunities, some might get the opportunity to show their productivity and others might not.

I think, many youths has started doing things that will make them productive in the future because government is not doing anything that will make graduates to get the job of their choice in the country, and it's seriously affecting many youths not to further their education than to focus on some of the things that will make them directors of their own. Those days, it was not like that according to what my father told me some years ago, he said the day of graduation, that is the day some potential directors will be on ground to search for those that has good result to be  employ in different organization. But things has changed negatively this days, graduates are the ones looking for vacancy job that will be giving them salary weekly or monthly.

Wow! I'm surprised that wasn't an issue before in your country, because here in my country it has been quite an issue for a long time already. We have a lot unemployed graduates because most companies who offer good pay rate and compensations usually prefer those who have experience in a particular field. It's either you will deliver an extra ordinary answers from your job interview or have someone got your back from the inside of that company so you could get that job.
Some graduates are even working almost being a janitor and will work their way up eventually If everything go as planned.
So, here it's not only that you're going to continue to develop your skills, but you will also need to have a lot of patience if you want to have a productive and happy life.

In all honesty, it's incredibly exciting whether this is your first job with a business or the government. Being eager to experience earning money for the first time in your life, you don't even consider how much your pay is.

But as time goes on, your viewpoint will shift, and the thrill will progressively fade away as you labor. You appear to be realizing that it is difficult to support yourself on your own, especially if you are still your family's primary provider. However, if your compensation is big, you'll feel really content.

However, in order to have a happy life as well, it is still crucial that you have a positive outlook on life.

Yes, the further forward, life is increasingly unpredictable, even what i am currently living is 180 degrees off from what i dreamed of when i was still in school, the point is, don't be too fixated on work that comes from the government, you have to be able to stand up. on your own feet and fight for your future as best you can, unemployment which is currently a problem in many big cities of the world, is actually not entirely the government's fault, the lack of job opportunities because there are no young people who are interested in starting a business is the real main reason.

We live in a fast paced world and we constantly strive to keep up with certain changes or get left behind   Things aren’t the same as they were 50 years ago.

With the advent of new technology and machinery, it’s not entirely surprising to have jobs less and less available as the time goes by. We’ve got machines that could efficiently handle the workload of 5 people without having errors not taking breaks. To achieve a higher level of productivity, machines are now used in carrying out various tasks humans once did.
Having more people enter the job market every year with very little new jobs being created would certainly give rise to the rise in unemployment rates.

   That's true, a youth has to be productive and don't forget...innovative to make life worth living. Being productive brings about a feeling of fulfilment and happiness because you’re back on track and you know it’s the right direction regardless of the unemployment rate. A lot of things are changing,  there are tons of innovations, a lot yet to unveil, a productive mindset knows there's no time to waste as there're priorities involved.

  In situations where the government fails it's citizens,  the limits to productivity is at mass especially when the citizens are totally dependent to the government. Being productive is a skill  that brings forth the possibility of living a better life, one with no limits as the productivity brings about innovations people will need.

I think things like this depend on fashion because many young people now have a more critical mindset by not really expecting jobs from the government as civil servants but being able to explore what they are interested in such as some esport players, athletes or even many who use the internet as a reference material for them in finding jobs.
But back again when talking about the government, jobs in the government today are still very large because in terms of progress for the future this is more guaranteed for some countries even though it will definitely be more difficult because the competition is getting bigger.