Entitlement Generation

This article doesn't surprise me too much-- it seems like it has taken the media long enough to label us. To a certain extent, I agree. What drives nuts about my peers is the fact that we don't seem to understand taking responsibility for anything. For someone with an over-developed conscience, this always frustrated me growing up. Hell, it frustrates me now. But who likes to be labeled? Especially like this:

Now, deserved or not, this latest generation is being pegged, too — as one with shockingly high expectations for salary, job flexibility and duties but little willingness to take on grunt work or remain loyal to a company.

I know most of my friends have high expectations for our jobs and that most of us aren't happy with what we are currently doing. Most of us don't like what we are doing in general, or feel that we aren't treated well by our supervisors. Not that we aren't able to take our lumps, but life seems unbearably lumpy at times. Especially in your first job.

I agree with this guy:

"It's true they're not eager to bury themselves in a cubicle and take orders from bosses for the next 40 years, and why should they?" asks Jeffrey Arnett, a University of Maryland psychologist who's written a book on "emerging adulthood," the period between age 18 and 25. "They have a healthy skepticism of the commitment their employers have to them and the commitment they owe to their employers."

I would love to hear other people's thoughts on this. Am I just biased because I don't like what I'm doing?

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[Aunt Sandy]

Never fear-- in the words of Mike Nichols-- it's only life. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.