Generation Y Speaks Blog

I’m not sure how the rest of the Gen Ys are faring at the moment but I’m finding it tough. Once upon a time it seemed like the money was pouring in and you could buy what you liked. Gen Ys by default were brought up in good times getting given what they wanted, when they wanted it by their once worse off parents who didn’t like their children feeling their pain of growing up poor.

This started us on the path of the typical Gen Y wanting everything yesterday, not used to being told no and always being highly opinionated. We have been built by default with low resilience to day to day problems and life in general by our unsuspecting parents.

With Gen Ys moving on to their more independent lives out of the family home, my question is “has the time come where we will sort the weak from the strong?”

Have The Good Times Gone?

I have had health insurance for at least 5 years now, and probably have paid out around $11- $12000 for top health cover and extras. In that time I only claimed a maximum of $3000, but the monthly payments just kept on going.

Over the past 6 months, our finances have been getting tighter and tighter so I did my full year budget that included everything, from car services to pet expenses, and not too surprisingly I discovered I was falling short about $4000 for the year. I had to start thinking what could I do to get my budget back on track. I looked over many options but the one which I was unsure about was my health insurance.

Health Insurance

I have to admit it seems strange to think that even though there is always so much work to do, how come we always mope around like there is nothing to do that is more important than sitting on our tails?

I think it has to do with the importance of the job. Sure there might be lots of pleb jobs like sorting files, follow up calls and other crud but how do those jobs give me the passion to want to work?

Getting Gen Y To Work Efficiently

I wrote a blog recently on being connected and how important it was to me. I spoke on how all the communications technology helped to organise me so that I could work efficiently in hectic times.

Now I want to talk about how this effects my work life balance.

Being Connected and Work Life Balance

I am at the stage in my job now where being connected is vitally important. I don’t mean having a computer at work and a mobile phone. I mean having a laptop with the ability to get online anywhere, a mobile which syncs with my laptop. The laptop needs memory for media a GPS and capabilities of email, word docs and calender. Not only that but I would expect that if I use one that it will Sync With everything else including my work and home computers.

I often wonder how people went without these sorts of things. Writing on a piece of paper now just doesn’t cut it. You can’t drag and drop files onto your paper, you can’t quickly whip it off to someone over the other side of the city to look at and have it back ASAP to submit on schedule.

My Need To Be Connected