A good example of what's wrong with kids these days...

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After breakfast, his parents left for their jobs, and Scott Nicholson, alone in the house in this comfortable suburb west of Boston, went to his laptop in the living room. He had placed it on a small table that his mother had used for a vase of flowers until her unemployed son found himself reluctantly stuck at home.

The daily routine seldom varied. Mr. Nicholson, 24, a graduate of Colgate University, winner of a dean’s award for academic excellence, spent his mornings searching corporate Web sites for suitable job openings. When he found one, he mailed off a résumé and cover letter — four or five a week, week after week.

Over the last five months, only one job materialized. After several interviews, the Hanover Insurance Group in nearby Worcester offered to hire him as an associate claims adjuster, at $40,000 a year. But even before the formal offer, Mr. Nicholson had decided not to take the job.

Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.

“The conversation I’m going to have with my parents now that I’ve turned down this job is more of a concern to me than turning down the job,” he said.

He was braced for the conversation with his father in particular. While Scott Nicholson viewed the Hanover job as likely to stunt his career, David Nicholson, 57, accustomed to better times and easier mobility, viewed it as an opportunity. Once in the door, the father has insisted to his son, opportunities will present themselves — as they did in the father’s rise over 35 years to general manager of a manufacturing company.

“You maneuvered and you did not worry what the maneuvering would lead to,” the father said. “You knew it would lead to something good.”

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38126526

[Nik+Heather 121]

I guess it depends on what he majored in. I graduated with an engineering degree. I'm not sure I'd want a job as an insurance adjuster either...

Of course, it's hard to say what I would or wouldn't do, I was lucky enough to get an engineering job just a month out of school. *shrug*

[mawilson 2,133]

Why would someone with an engineering degree apply for a job as an insurance adjuster?

Why apply for something you know you're going to turn down?

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He lives with mom and dad. He needs to start making some money.

[Jenn! 918]

Why not continue looking for more suitable work and adjust some claims (and make money) in the meantime?

[mawilson 2,133]

Why not continue looking for more suitable work and adjust some claims (and make money) in the meantime?

Why not indeed.

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Why not continue looking for more suitable work and adjust some claims (and make money) in the meantime?

Exactly. Gen Y is all fu##ed up.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Exactly. Gen Y is all fu##ed up.

Hey now, I'm Gen Y (I think? or am I X?) and I would have taken it.

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Hey now, I'm Gen Y (I think? or am I X?) and I would have taken it.

You're the exception that proves the rule? I hate that phrase.

[Ban Hammer 12,835]

Why not continue looking for more suitable work and adjust some claims (and make money) in the meantime?

it seems some think they should start at the top rather than work their way up.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Actually what is the accepted date for Gen Y?

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Actually what is the accepted date for Gen Y?

I don't know that there is a consensus date. I've heard a number of different years as the cutoff. Generally though, the ones born in or after the late 80s are the worst.

Edited July 7, 2010 by Legacy member

[ValerieA 350]

I've heard 1981 - 1999, with Gen X being 1961 - 1980. But I've heard later start times for Gen X, too.

Edited July 7, 2010 by ValerieA

[chri'stina 190]

I don't even know who I am! Born in 1980...Gen X, Gen Y? I can't live with this uncertainty.

[Jenn! 918]

I don't even know who I am! Born in 1980...Gen X, Gen Y? I can't live with this uncertainty.

I'd be happy to be neither. You don't generally hear positive characteristics associated with them.