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Gen Zers are waving goodbye to ‘soul-sucking’ 9-to-5 jobs as social media convinces them to ditch corporate careers
Fortune ^ | March 1 2024 | Orianna Rosa Royle

Posted on 03/02/2024 7:03:12 AM PST by fwdude

It’s official: After dipping their toes into the working world and spending a handful of years on the job, Gen Zers are already over the traditional nine-to-five grind.

You may remember that TikTok video of a young woman crying over her “crazy” nine-to-five schedule—described as “Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like”—which went viral last year.

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If I could ONLY work nine to five. These snowflakes have no idea. They will get a splash of cold water someday.
1 posted on 03/02/2024 7:03:12 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

As long as they’re self-supporting, it’s up to them what jobs they take with what hours.

I have a friend who worked in restaurants for years, everything from waitress to manager, and finally, she took an office job with M-F/9-5 hours and holidays off. She made less money, but she was thrilled with it.


2 posted on 03/02/2024 7:05:21 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: fwdude

If the country is going bankrupt. Is it smart to work when it’s all going to be taken away. I’d hate to be young today.


3 posted on 03/02/2024 7:06:15 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: fwdude

Not happy about this, but it isn’t any more moronic than poor to mid class boomers arguing for tax cuts for wealthy people and deregulation of business because “someday I or my children can be rich.” Both views are delusional.


4 posted on 03/02/2024 7:06:22 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: Tax-chick

Their choices aren’t what’s insufferable, it’s their incessant whining about it.


5 posted on 03/02/2024 7:06:50 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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Yeah, yeah. Real motivating to go out there and bust your ass so .gov can give it to illegals and more government goodies. Nothing shuts down motivation and desire watching your hardwork spent away to foreigners and foreign aid.
6 posted on 03/02/2024 7:07:53 AM PST by Theoria
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To: fwdude

I think those Tik-Toks are just theater.


7 posted on 03/02/2024 7:09:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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As long as they can support themselves I don’t care what they do. You can’t really expect Americans to have the WASP work ethic when most Zoomers aren’t White, Anglo Saxon or Protestants (or even Christian in general).
I mean no offense to other ethnic groups , I know they work hard too (and I’m not even a WASP anyways).


8 posted on 03/02/2024 7:10:21 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: fwdude

I agree with that.


9 posted on 03/02/2024 7:11:35 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: fwdude

And for young men and women with ambition and a solid work ethic the job and career opportunities are the best I have seen in my lifetime (74 years).


10 posted on 03/02/2024 7:12:10 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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“As long as they’re self-supporting, it’s up to them what jobs they take with what hours.”

Exactly. As long as they are contributing to society and being productive, it’s all good.

But we do have more than enough rabble rousing “community organizers,” social justice warriors, race baiters, DEI VPs, government “workers,” climate “scientists,” and “environmental engineers.” They are a huge DRAG on society costing us untold amounts of money.


11 posted on 03/02/2024 7:12:31 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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There are plenty of things NOT to like about the “corporate 9-to-5 world,” but I wonder if these young people have any of these in mind when they complain about it.


12 posted on 03/02/2024 7:14:40 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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I was in a bookstore (one of the few) business section lookin for a reference book a few months ago and overheard a conversation between two young men. The one guy, probably in his late-twenties at the most, was bragging about his plan to become rich and independently wealthy in the near future so that he could be home to spend his life with his kids AS THEY GREW UP.

I’m almost suspecting the path is in the insane social media publishing realm, where people post videos and strike a nerve of those willing to give them a million “subscribes.” The McFarland Family makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year like this, and they only got started a few years ago during the “scamdemic.” To their credit, the dad still works a full-time (?) job as a manager in a high-tech robotics industry. But the 3 adult sons are living a dream. How tenuous the dream is yet to be realized.

13 posted on 03/02/2024 7:16:13 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I agree. There are a lot of people whose job is to make life more difficult and expensive for other people.


14 posted on 03/02/2024 7:16:15 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Clemenza

tax cuts for wealthy people? Explain....


15 posted on 03/02/2024 7:17:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Clemenza

Lottery players.


16 posted on 03/02/2024 7:17:42 AM PST by EEGator
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To: fwdude

Have fun working till you’re 80 years old


17 posted on 03/02/2024 7:17:52 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: fwdude

The workday is well underway by 9. People do seem to stop around 5, but they start well before 9. I have never had a job that started at 9. 8:30 is the latest. Self-employed people never start or stop. It’s all the same day, man.


18 posted on 03/02/2024 7:19:05 AM PST by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: fwdude

I’d never heard of the McFarlands, but they seem harmless enough, sort of like the people who monetized “Grumpy Cat.”

Like any kind of career as a performer, I assume there are millions trying compared to the handful who make a lot of money.


19 posted on 03/02/2024 7:19:30 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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There are plenty of things NOT to like about the “corporate 9-to-5 world,” but I wonder if these young people have any of these in mind when they complain about it.

From what I’ve seen, these are the same young people who complain about working more than 5 hours in a day, 5 days a week.

They want to be France.

20 posted on 03/02/2024 7:21:07 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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