"Are Gen Y too lazy to work?"

Gen Y want the 70k per annum + company car on day one. Most of them do not know the meaning of an honest day's work. They have lived in cotton wool and been spoon fed. Everything has been given to them on a silver platter by their parents.

Along comes adulthood and a huge wake up call. Cold hard reality kicks in.

Sons and daughters you have to make your own way in life now.

*Generation Y (Gen Y) is the generation of people born between 1978 to 1992. They truly believe they are the only ones who can use tecnology. Seriously Baby Boomers(1945 to 1964) and Generation X (1964 to 1978) invented the technology that the Generation Y are using today.

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.

I work in a thankless,pointless dead end job. So yeah I work,I just don't like it.

Wow, that was just plain insulting.

Well working 12 hours a day 5 days a week isn't something for everyone.... man, why don't i get jobs with normal worktimes...

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 wish I would have went to college. I was just to lazy,I'm paying for it now though.

I know where I live, the hourly wages for manual labor jobs is incredible. Plumbers, carpenters, construction workers, electricians, ect make $20-$40 an hour with only 6 months of trade school experience. Comparatively, I know college graduates that don't make that much because they chose crappy degrees in things that they wanted, not what the world needed.

There is nothing "lazy" about wanting a job in media or a hairdresser, people should follow their passion, not do a mundane job like bricklaying. (unless of course that's there passion)

We live in 2010 folks, chop chop, get with the times