Any Millennials on DU?

[qwlauren35]

19. I'm learning this.

I have been reading a ot about millennials insisting on work-life balance and this is very strange to me. I have thrown my entire existence into my identity as an engineer, and put work first for much of my life. I also have never been laid off, so I don't know what it's like. I come from the generation where people stayed at one job, and I am still meeting people my age who have been at companies for 20-30 years. We think it's normal, and find job hopping very disruptive to the environment.

On the other hand, I have read that when millennials job hop, they get exposed to lots of different ways of doing things, and can bring that knowledge to a new company as a benefit. Looking at the glass half-full.

The articles I read were very interesting because they talked about the mindset that a hiring manager needs in order to attract millennials to their workforce. Millennials care about things that are alien to me. Like corporate responsibility, sustainability, transparency, authenticity. It seems that millennials are driving a sense of corporate conscience. And as we are seeing, this is clashing with older, conservative consumers.


I think the biggest reason why I am so clueless is because I don't have children. It has kept me from coming into the 21st century, and I think I'm trying to evolve.