<p>I have always worked in a traditional work environment, but recently moved to a young tech company. Most people are between ages 23-30. These young people expect to have food at work. We have a fully stocked kitchen with cereals, fresh fruits, milk, coffee, tea (Mighty Tea leaves, not lipton)…They want games at work, so we have video games, ping pong, hockey game…The idea of coming to work at 9am is, “What! My creative juice doesn’t start flowing until 10pm.” (they are coming in at 9 now, at least in my department). They want to work on challenging projects and feel good about what they are doing. </p>
<p>This is a tale of two cities. For a small group of young graduates who are in high demand, it is a management nightmare in trying to keep them happy and motivated. The idea of not paying them or give them less benefit would put us out of business. </p>
<p>I think OP’s D should get a job/internship after graduation before she becomes yesterday’s news. I would use some of my contacts in trying to get her as interviews as possible - you help me out with my kid, maybe I could do the same for you kid some day. The hardest thing is to get that first job.</p>
<p>JHS, thank you for those stories. It is interesting to see how some people start and where they end up. I keep hearing that we should expect to have 5 to 6 careers in a lifetime. Happy to hear your daughter has a flourishing career after all that. I think they will all find their way eventually. </p>
<p>I don’t hover and I don’t sugar coat stuff and have constantly reminded her that she might have to live in poverty for a while. I know the television industry is tough and she is a tiny thing. I hope that she would become excited by other industries in the communications field. She has been looking at internships in other industries.</p>
<p>MusicaMusica, that’s fine. She is looking for a more creative type of work atmosphere, maybe where she can work on her own and be able to contribute ideas. My job at the time was very cubicle and meeting oriented. Everyone did just one thing. As they were a consumer products company, one time they took the kids to the “television studio” where they came up with a concept for a product and filmed a commercial to take home. Now that is probably where this all started. Except, that is not what we really did.</p>
<p>happy momof1, thank you for the link to Dave’s cafe. Yes, it would have to be a paid teaching job. We would just cover the gap.</p>
<p>Oldfort, I want to work at your place. Sounds great. lol!</p>
<p>Those perks sound great but I don’t know your age. I started working in the mid 80’s where you got free lunch and dinner and a limo home if you had to work late. Christmas parties were grand and you got a nice gift. Also, you could expect a raise every six months and if you were not happy, head hunters were calling on the phone and offering at least 10% more. Everyone had a pension and health insurance and we didn’t even know what co-payments were. There was tuition reimbursement. There was that thing called job security and HR knew who you were and worked with you. My HR rep actually took me with her to my next job closer to home and more $. Those were the days we don’t have anymore. Although, the new perks sound good, I would take my old ones back any day.</p>
<p>The only thing that is better now is many companies are more flexible with time.</p>
<p>a basket from personal experience (she inherited my smallness), it is a handicap. ; )
Good point. She is very good at English but this is true, she has no teaching experience. I was thinking she could teach basic conversational English.</p>
<p>Teaching doesn’t always mean that you have to have an education degree, but you have to be able to work with a variety of people/types of learners, be comfortable leading a group and guiding a principle from start to end, lots of patience, be able to develop a teaching/lesson plan for varied learners, etc.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be too worried about the safety aspect of travel. Most crime is either (a) property crime - whilst tourists can be targeted for this, it’s all about theft rather than wanting to harm the person themselves. Travel insurance can cover the cost of loss of goods, and so long as you don’t fight back then it’s very rare for physical harm to come to someone. Alternatively, it’s (b) between people who know each other, have grudges against each other and so on. 95% of murders are committed by someone known to the victim - so arguably, she’s safer whilst travelling than in her home / college town. </p>
<p>So long as you remember the mantra of “don’t be an idiot” i.e. don’t dress provocatively in conservative countries, don’t walk down alleys or through parks at night and don’t run up drug debts, then it’s highly unlikely that anything will happen to you.</p>
<p>I still stick to a point I’ve been nagging about for a long time: you have to have something to make them want to hire you. Sure that can be connections, but it’s rarely because you took time to find yourself or test your wings. </p>
<p>I did the fun things, did some low level work to stay in the college town, moved west, had all sorts of experiences. By chance, got into a fab field that led to much else. The adventures are something my dearest friends share, too.</p>
<p>I tell my college senior dau to have fun! BUT after she gets her initial entr</p>
<p>OP, I sort of hear your and your workmate’s desire for a different life (and the opportunity to travel) bleeding into your D’s issue. I would still stand by the idea that blowing whatever savings she does have on travel with no plan to get a job, with a lack of substantial internship experience in her field, is not a good idea. I don’t think you do her any favors by encouraging this. It is really easy for 20-somethings today to drift into a pattern of long term unemployment & under-employment. I for one would not encourage or enable this in my own kids if I could help it.</p>