Comments on: Psst, Gen Y! Play Time Is Over, You Missed the Bell! http://jasonseiden.com/gen-y-play-time-is-over/ Dare Yourself to Fail Spectacularly! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:15:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason Seiden http://jasonseiden.com/gen-y-play-time-is-over/comment-page-1/#comment-7261 Jason Seiden Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:04:17 +0000 http://jasonseiden.com/?p=2793#comment-7261 @Nick—Option #2 is the only real option... 1 & 3 are illusory. As for ruling the world, get in line. Gen X is already queued up. @Nick—Option #2 is the only real option… 1 & 3 are illusory. As for ruling the world, get in line. Gen X is already queued up.

]]> By: Nick Armstrong http://jasonseiden.com/gen-y-play-time-is-over/comment-page-1/#comment-7254 Nick Armstrong Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:06:34 +0000 http://jasonseiden.com/?p=2793#comment-7254 Jason, I'd love to BS with you on the phone sometime, I feel like we'd have a great conversation. In short, I have to say that I'm up in arms over my generation's behavior. We loathe authority, yet we're nowhere near as entrepreneurial as we should be if that was the only motivation. We love to have a Life-loaded work/life balance. Yet, we can bust out work for non-profits and for free like our lives depend on it. It's troubling when I hear older generations talk about us. There's a lot of fear/loathing/misunderstanding and with the economy in the shape it is, a lot of us are either 1) fighting to find a space, 2) building to make more space, or 3) waiting until there's more space. I'm solidly entrenched in category #2, but a lot of my peers are wallowing in #1 and #3 simultaneously. It's like they pine to be enslaved in cubes only to forfeit their jobs when a marginal improvement in the life side of the work/life balance is available. I'm not sure what to do about that. Or if there's anything to do. My only idea for a fix is world-wide systemic change. IE - the world is a mess, and I just need to rule it. Thanks for the fun thoughts! -Nick Jason,

I’d love to BS with you on the phone sometime, I feel like we’d have a great conversation.

In short, I have to say that I’m up in arms over my generation’s behavior. We loathe authority, yet we’re nowhere near as entrepreneurial as we should be if that was the only motivation.

We love to have a Life-loaded work/life balance. Yet, we can bust out work for non-profits and for free like our lives depend on it.

It’s troubling when I hear older generations talk about us. There’s a lot of fear/loathing/misunderstanding and with the economy in the shape it is, a lot of us are either 1) fighting to find a space, 2) building to make more space, or 3) waiting until there’s more space.

I’m solidly entrenched in category #2, but a lot of my peers are wallowing in #1 and #3 simultaneously. It’s like they pine to be enslaved in cubes only to forfeit their jobs when a marginal improvement in the life side of the work/life balance is available.

I’m not sure what to do about that. Or if there’s anything to do. My only idea for a fix is world-wide systemic change. IE – the world is a mess, and I just need to rule it.

Thanks for the fun thoughts!

-Nick

]]> By: Jason http://jasonseiden.com/gen-y-play-time-is-over/comment-page-1/#comment-3025 Jason Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:50:03 +0000 http://jasonseiden.com/?p=2793#comment-3025 @Bill—Thanks... yes, I think that trying to manage by the date of someone's birth is astrology, not strategy. We'll get a lot further when we accept that people are people, and Gen Y is how people react to the parenting/technology/politics/economics they have been exposed to. @Bill—Thanks… yes, I think that trying to manage by the date of someone’s birth is astrology, not strategy. We’ll get a lot further when we accept that people are people, and Gen Y is how people react to the parenting/technology/politics/economics they have been exposed to.

]]> By: Bill Wallace http://jasonseiden.com/gen-y-play-time-is-over/comment-page-1/#comment-3023 Bill Wallace Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:13:45 +0000 http://jasonseiden.com/?p=2793#comment-3023 Great post, Jason. I think this type of behaviour in Gen Y's actually demonstrate that they are no different to any other generation. Though most of the press and research seem to be trying to "figure out Gen Y's". We all did this kind of stupid stuff at different times. Time to start looking at commonalities and not differences. :) Great post, Jason.

I think this type of behaviour in Gen Y’s actually demonstrate that they are no different to any other generation. Though most of the press and research seem to be trying to “figure out Gen Y’s”. We all did this kind of stupid stuff at different times.

Time to start looking at commonalities and not differences. :)

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