Baby boomers, listen up: the things that annoy you about how Millennials manage their careers are exactly what you need to emulate.
They don’t stick around. They get training on their own terms — inside work or outside — and use it to cherrypick the best new jobs — yeah, before you even hear about them. They’re ok with cycling in and out of staff jobs, freelancing, and contract work. They align their careers where their values are — that’s right, they’ll work harder for less, if they believe in the cause.
Gee, this is sounding kinda of like the career aspirations that boomers had, oh, about 40 years ago when they were the newest kids at work!
No less a luminary than CNN’s Ali Velshi has detected millennials’ propensity to lattice from the start. The best insight from his recent Money magazine article about how millennials are managing over as much as up: “Focus on the experience, not on the job itself.” You won’t be around for long, they figure, so why not make a run for a job that expands your skills in a totally new direction? Not a bad thought for a new year.
