Are all of today's teens/20-somethings dealing with entitlement issues?

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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.

This person feels that he is qualified for a management/management training position in a corporate environment.

What business experience does he have? What businesses has he started, owned and operated? He feels his college training has prepared him for a corporate position. In reality, his college training has prepared him to live at home, do odd jobs and send out a few resumes a week……because that is what he is doing………yet he expects a company to put part of their business operations in his hands. Why should they?

Does he start a lawn service, a restaurant carry-out delivery service, a dog-walking service or any other of a hundred businesses that someone with time and energy could handle while pursuing his “dream job”?

His approach to getting a job, his expectations of what job he “deserves” to get and his activities while he is looking for that job all suggest that this particular person’s expectations and actual abilities are miles apart.

Had he been raised by parents of the “greatest generation” in the era of “you go to school AND work” or you live on your own………he would have taken the job offered to him, because he wouldn’t have any other choices.....and maybe that would have been a good thing because maybe that is truly the position that he is actually qualified for.

Not saying it is right or wrong…..just saying.