Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness - Simon Sinek

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VolunteerHillbilly said:
There are plenty of jobs where you can work 3-4 days a week and still receive compensation equal to a 9-5 five days a week gig. Often, to take advantage you have to be willing to work nights and weekends.
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Yes. My wife used to work weekends at the hospital. She worked three 10hr days and was paid as full time employee. It was mostly great until our kids got to school age. Then it becomes a balance of family and work so switched back to week days to have the weekends with the kids.
 
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Funny story: visiting home and hung out with a friend and her other friends. Turns out a 42 year old Gen Xer she hangs out with is being fully supported by his mom and millennial 32 year old girlfriend. So glad the Gen Xers are so productive and reliable.
 
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volfanbill said:
Funny story: visiting home and hung out with a friend and her other friends. Turns out a 42 year old Gen Xer she hangs out with is being fully supported by his mom and millennial 32 year old girlfriend. So glad the Gen Xers are so productive and reliable.
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You understand it’s “As a whole”, right?
 
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volfanbill said:
Funny story: visiting home and hung out with a friend and her other friends. Turns out a 42 year old Gen Xer she hangs out with is being fully supported by his mom and millennial 32 year old girlfriend. So glad the Gen Xers are so productive and reliable.
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Autistic.....
 
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Big Gucci Sosa said:
Probably because a lot of those warehouses require low education type workers. You aren’t exactly destined for quality people. That has nothing to do with millennials. This is the most educated generation. We were pushed and pushed to get useless degrees (in most cases).
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Education has zero correlation between the quality of a person or their work ethic.

Background, values taught at an early age, and morals have a much larger impact imo.

It also is not an indicator of intelligence.
 
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T-TownVol said:
Kinda hard to divorce when you do not have the commitment of marriage. It is not divorce they are ruining.
YAY Millennial!!
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Or perhaps instead of rushing into it they wait until they are really ready to commit and then stay committed once there.
 
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T-TownVol said:
Yeah, THAT'S the ticket. Read your own article.
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I got stuck on this part

Boomers, studies show, are divorcing at a much higher rate than previous generations. And the divorce rate tripled for people over the age of 65 from 1990 to 2015, according to Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research.
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T-TownVol said:
Yeah, THAT'S the ticket. Read your own article.
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Yes it said “many” are forgoing marriage and backed it up by zero stats or scenarios such as unplanned pregnancies.

Perhaps marrying due to an oops pregnancy was never the best course of action.
 
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T-TownVol said:
Kinda hard to divorce when you do not have the commitment of marriage. It is not divorce they are ruining.
YAY Millennial!!
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Eh, still lowering rates and making smarter decisions when marriage is concerned. Boomers just suck at staying married it seems. Seems like a generation problem.
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

One theory is that divorce rates are falling largely because of other demographic changes—especially an aging population. Older people are less likely to get divorced, so maybe mellowing boomers were enough to explain the trend. Cohen’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau survey data, however, suggests something more fundamental is at work. Even when he controls for factors such as age, the divorce rate over the same period still dropped 8 percent.

The marriage rate has also fallen over the last several decades. But Cohen calculates the divorce rate as a ratio of divorces to the total number of married women. So, the divorce rate’s decline isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages. Rather, it’s evidence that marriages today have a greater chance of lasting than marriages did ten years ago.
“The change among young people is particularly striking,” Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University, said of Cohen’s results. “The characteristics of young married couples today signal a sustained decline [in divorce rates] in the coming years.”
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roosterjbh said:
Eh, still lowering rates and making smarter decisions when marriage is concerned. Boomers just suck at staying married it seems. Seems like a generation problem.
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet
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I think the article sums it up pretty well...“Marriage is more and more an achievement of status, rather than something that people do regardless of how they’re doing.”

Back in the day, especially before women really started to enter the workforce, a woman needed to attach herself to a man. If you doing that because you need to, rather than because you want to, odds are there are going to be a higher percentage of people who marry somebody they don't even love, or love for a short period of time.

If instead you get married after you, for lack of a better term, have your s**t together, you are probably getting married because you want to. If you're getting married because you want to, you'll be really particular about the type of person you want, etc.
 
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