NEW COVER STORY: Generation Zs are anxious, entrepreneurial and determined to avoid the mistakes of their predecessors via adampiore
Maybe if he'd been born a boomer or a millennial, and grown up with the generational message that you can be whatever you want to be and things will work out, Zack Bauders, 21, would've given more thought to making a living as a professional photographer, like his father. He's certainly got the talent.
If"entitled" is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to millennials , the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious. According to the career counselors and experts who study them, Generation Zs are clear-eyed, economic pragmatists. Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.
"Now that I'm leaving college I'm stressed 24/7 thinking about, 'I have to pay this monthly, do I have enough money to move into the city?' All of that stuff that is now encompassed into my life. I know that the loans are always going to be there. It makes you a more stressed person." Today’s grads have big problems on their minds. A girl and therapy dog at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the 2018 shooting.In colleges across the nation, health services workers are besieged by stressed-out students in need of mental health support. Career counselors say they are busier than they have ever been.
"I think the old days of saying, 'Well, if I just go to college, I'm set,' are gone," says Orndorff."Now, I think they've woken up and they see that their older brothers and sisters are graduating with a lot of debt and entering a tough job market out there, that if they don't really lean into trying to find an internship or two or three, they are not going to set themselves apart.
Likewise, boomer parents gave their kids the message that they could do what they wanted and it would all work out; every kid got a trophy, win or lose. "If I went into college with absolutely no plan, then I would have absolutely no skills to offer in the job market, and then right about now I'd just be going home to live with my mom and go work at a grocery store," he says.
Kyle LeScoezec, who graduated from Ohio State University with a major in business and a minor in engineering this May, says the events of 2008 produced a"healthy pessimistic attitude" that"things aren't always going to work out." He was around 10 or 11 at the time, and recalls his father, who was a financial advisor, having sleepless nights and being constantly on edge.
In many ways, the same skills they have brought to bear as they have meticulously plotted out their college careers with an eye on a stable job will make them highly effective in the workplace. Gen Zs may be cautious, but they are by no means unempowered. Many are socially conscious and optimistic about the impact they can have.
Many of his friends at UT, notes Bauders, have two Instagram accounts: a publicly available one that can be seen by future employers and a private account under a fake name they share only with a few select friends. The practice is so common, there's even a name for it: Gen Zers call their private accounts"finstas," a mashup of"fake Instagram account."
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