Comments on: Helping your career when you’re not middle class http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/ Engagement for the next generation Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:36:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: What Generation Y Fears Most : Brazen Careerist http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-85730 What Generation Y Fears Most : Brazen Careerist Wed, 28 May 2008 11:08:14 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-85730 [...] only experienced heartbreak once, maybe twice. I’ve never been shot at or tormented. I’ve never worried about putting food on the table or a roof over my head. Really, I lead a charmed life. I’m not [...] […] only experienced heartbreak once, maybe twice. I’ve never been shot at or tormented. I’ve never worried about putting food on the table or a roof over my head. Really, I lead a charmed life. I’m not […]

]]> By: Don’t Make Career Plans – Here’s Why : Brazen Careerist http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-50176 Don’t Make Career Plans – Here’s Why : Brazen Careerist Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:39:01 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-50176 [...] told a couple people about this craziness – my mother, Belle, Hercules. They all humored me while explaining in a good-natured way that I shouldn’t [...] […] told a couple people about this craziness – my mother, Belle, Hercules. They all humored me while explaining in a good-natured way that I shouldn’t […]

]]> By: Modite - Don’t make career plans – here’s why http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-49550 Modite - Don’t make career plans – here’s why Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:16:31 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-49550 [...] told a couple people about this craziness – my mother, Belle, Hercules. They all humored me while explaining in a good-natured way that I shouldn’t [...] […] told a couple people about this craziness – my mother, Belle, Hercules. They all humored me while explaining in a good-natured way that I shouldn’t […]

]]> By: Back Off: Helicopter Parents are Good : Brazen Careerist http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-39355 Back Off: Helicopter Parents are Good : Brazen Careerist Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:58:56 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-39355 [...] I don’t believe, for instance, that you should move back home after college. Because of how I was raised, I think that’s [...] […] I don’t believe, for instance, that you should move back home after college. Because of how I was raised, I think that’s […]

]]> By: Modite - Back Off: Gen Y’s helicopter parents are a good thing http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-39315 Modite - Back Off: Gen Y’s helicopter parents are a good thing Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:52:03 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-39315 [...] I don’t believe, for instance, that you should move back home after college. Because of how I was raised, I think that’s [...] […] I don’t believe, for instance, that you should move back home after college. Because of how I was raised, I think that’s […]

]]> By: Modite - How I got my dream job (and survived) http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-33794 Modite - How I got my dream job (and survived) Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:14:43 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-33794 [...] I needed to get healthy. I needed to get a paycheck to eat. I needed to figure things out. [...] […] I needed to get healthy. I needed to get a paycheck to eat. I needed to figure things out. […]

]]> By: Modite - In the ring today, we have relationships vs. career http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-23894 Modite - In the ring today, we have relationships vs. career Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:03:49 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-23894 [...] Although, my mother might have said it best: “You chose your career. You can’t have everything at once, Rebecca.” [...] […] Although, my mother might have said it best: “You chose your career. You can’t have everything at once, Rebecca.” […]

]]> By: Monica O'Brien http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-22988 Monica O'Brien Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:15:52 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-22988 Love it. Thanks for having the courage to write this. Love it. Thanks for having the courage to write this.

]]> By: Bubba http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-18527 Bubba Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:15:56 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-18527 I once again absolutely love this post. I believe that there are many people who graduate from college and believe that they are going to enter the corporate world and take it by storm. They believe that they are hot shit, and if a company wont bend to meet their needs, it isn't the company for them. I strongly believe that those type of people need to get their head out of their ass, and their ass out of their parents basement. This is, to some extent, the spawn of the growing upper class. The children see where their parents are at in business, where their friends parents are, but they didn't see what it took to get them there. They don't have an appreciation for the hard work and dedication which has gotten their parents to where they are today. They come into the business world that think that is where they deserve to be, but they haven't earned it yet. I'm not sure if they feel that the old system of paying your dues is over rated, or if they feel that they already have paid them, somewhere between diapers and diploma. I interned for a very prominent manufacturing company starting my sophomore year of college. Many of the other students would show up late, wearing ratty jeans, take extended lunches, and leave early. They would half ass-idly do their jobs, never applying the true amount of work needed. They saw the internship as a way for them to test drive the company, somehow overlooking the obvious reason that they were there; for the company to test drive them as potential employees when they finish school. Many of them, who thought that they were star employees (I never told them I spent most of my time fixing their mistakes) weren't employed there, and they couldn't figure out why. They were blinded by their ego. To everyone who feels that a company owes them, I have this advice. A company hires an employee to do a job. If your job is lame and you can do it in your sleep work out an agreement with your employer do be paid based on your work, not on your hours. And if they are making up excuses to not promote you, take the hint that you aren't that great of an employee. And pop your ego so you can make it out the door. To Dave Atkins, you need to meet more Millennia, we're not all bad. I once again absolutely love this post.

I believe that there are many people who graduate from college and believe that they are going to enter the corporate world and take it by storm. They believe that they are hot shit, and if a company wont bend to meet their needs, it isn’t the company for them. I strongly believe that those type of people need to get their head out of their ass, and their ass out of their parents basement.

This is, to some extent, the spawn of the growing upper class. The children see where their parents are at in business, where their friends parents are, but they didn’t see what it took to get them there. They don’t have an appreciation for the hard work and dedication which has gotten their parents to where they are today. They come into the business world that think that is where they deserve to be, but they haven’t earned it yet. I’m not sure if they feel that the old system of paying your dues is over rated, or if they feel that they already have paid them, somewhere between diapers and diploma.

I interned for a very prominent manufacturing company starting my sophomore year of college. Many of the other students would show up late, wearing ratty jeans, take extended lunches, and leave early. They would half ass-idly do their jobs, never applying the true amount of work needed. They saw the internship as a way for them to test drive the company, somehow overlooking the obvious reason that they were there; for the company to test drive them as potential employees when they finish school. Many of them, who thought that they were star employees (I never told them I spent most of my time fixing their mistakes) weren’t employed there, and they couldn’t figure out why. They were blinded by their ego.

To everyone who feels that a company owes them, I have this advice. A company hires an employee to do a job. If your job is lame and you can do it in your sleep work out an agreement with your employer do be paid based on your work, not on your hours. And if they are making up excuses to not promote you, take the hint that you aren’t that great of an employee. And pop your ego so you can make it out the door.

To Dave Atkins, you need to meet more Millennia, we’re not all bad.

]]> By: Modite - Social media doesn’t create new generation leaders http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-18246 Modite - Social media doesn’t create new generation leaders Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:37:41 +0000 http://modite.com/blog/2007/12/19/helping-your-career-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-middle-class/#comment-18246 [...] New here? Check out some recent posts: Helping your career when you’re not middle-class 12 reasons why being a woman leader is challenging What passion looks like 7 steps to getting meetings with movers and shakers Purge first. Creativity second. [...] […] New here? Check out some recent posts: Helping your career when you’re not middle-class 12 reasons why being a woman leader is challenging What passion looks like 7 steps to getting meetings with movers and shakers Purge first. Creativity second. […]

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