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Slimebeast on 09 February 2010
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highwaystar101 said:
Slimebeast said:
highwaystar101 said:
Slimebeast said:

Yes. The majority of youngsters in this generation want flashy or easy jobs like media, music & entertainment, art & design, sports, in fashion boutiques, as tour guides, become environmentalists, consultants, get into politics, become culture & society experts, historians, daytraders, bloggers or web-designers.

Not many want to do the hard labor.

Urgh, I hate to admit it as someone who is from generation Y (apparently), but you're right. We've entered a world where being a hairdresser is a respected and much sought after career. The west is just dominated by shallow tertiary industry jobs with flashy titles that don't mean anything (Eg: Hair technician/scientist).

Out of everyone I know who works, I think perhaps only 10% work in the primary and secondary industries. The concept is almost alien to them.

It's not that they don't want to work, it's that they just don't know about that kind of world because they have never experienced it (for reasons I wont get into here and now) and as a result they see the glamorous and shallow jobs as hard work.

I've tried my best to stay away from that world, that so many people my age engage in.

 

Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous, but it's also in some ways a good thing that people question the society norm of 9 to 5 work at any boring job just to make a living. It's also a fairly exciting to observe where society is going and see if the hard and boring jobs will raise salaries to attract these picky youngsters, or will there be shortages of good workers.

What will u do after u finish your degree?

I have recently started an MPhil/PhD in virtual environment interaction. For all intents and purposes though I am an engineer; I generally have a good understanding of how things work. I have usually stuck to technology, when people ask me what I do I usually say I poke things with a screwdriver until they work, which is fairly accurate lol. I am good a researcher on top of that, so the progression to stay in academia seemed like the logical solution.

When I leave, many years from now, I would love to get a job that combines these skills. I would love to either work for a company developing new technologies, or at a University teaching or researching.

And what is that, something with computers and virtual reality research I assume? In what institution and subject field is your doctorate exactly? And your professors, in which discipline are they?