Jobs Question for 20-something DUers

[matt819]

Here's a question - or really a range of questions - for 20-something DUers. There's no question that the world has changed since my 20-something days, in the early days of the combustion engine, electricity, and radio - so I'm curious. I don't think a poll would capture the zeitgeist, thus the questions.

Are you employed? Under-employed? In your field of study? Do you feel secure in your job?

If you're employed, do you feel any loyalty to your employer? Do you think your employer has any loyalty to you? Something of an extreme sense of employer loyalty would be if you work for a family company, and the family members would forego their pay if things were tough in order to keep employees paid and working.

If you're unemployed, for how long? What are your prospects?

Overall, if your sense of 'THE FUTURE" positive or negative?

[longship]

1. Good questions.

R&K for exposure.

I was born in the 40's, so I can't answer.
Happy to support a good thread, however.

[matt819]

2. Born in the 40s

So you read by gaslight and walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, with no shoes, all year.

You got a decade or so on me. I'm just looking at my kids and trying to figure just how different things are for them than they were for you and me.

Maybe it doesn't resonate among DUers. After all, they're not looking so much at the change that you and I have observed, and lived through. The economy has been weird their entire formative years, and the concept of career may not have the same significance as it once did.

No matter.

[longship]

3. Nope. Born in Detroit. Trudged through the snow 6 blocks to school.

(After I helped my father shovel out his car so he could leave for work -- but that only when I was a teen.)

In Jr. High I road a bicycle to school the mile and a half. Yes, even in winter in the snow.

High school was a few miles away, so DSR busses took me to school, although I sometimes walked home when weather was nice and I could accompany a pretty girl.

Graduated from Cooley High in 66.

[JaneyVee]

4. Not in my 20's but I'm 31. Employed. In my field of study. I feel mostly secure in my job.

I feel a certain loyalty to my employer, but I work for a television & film production company and have a group of 9 people that work for my team so I feel more of a loyalty to them than anything. I would like to think the company has a loyalty to me, they did choose my application out of the hundreds I'm sure they got 6 years ago when I got here. I'm also a union member. My sense of the future is almost always positive as my personal philosophy is anchored in optimism. It gives me a reason to fight for a better future. My biggest concerns regarding the future of America are environmental, educational, and wages/income inequality.