Gen Y struggling for WLB
You guessed it right, Generation Y came after Generation X. It covers people born between the year 1980’s and 2000, I’m from them. Gen Y grew up with starting stages of technology to the advanced stages of technology updated day to day, so we are tech savvy by name. Equipped with latest technology and gadgets, such as iPhones, laptops and lately tablets, we are online and connected 24/7, 365 days a year through Whatsapp, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram etc. We grew up seeing our parents working day and night doing stressful corporate jobs, which has shaped our own views on the same workforce and the need for work life balance (WLB) was out of control now.
Yupppp !! Finally mission accomplished. Met my MBA college friends. It was a kind of a reunion for the 8 of us (oops ! only seven, one has given hand). We were almost roommates from early morning hours to late nights, the only separation among us was boys and girls hostel.
#Divided by jobs, united by friendship.
After 10 months, all of us took different paths, had different life problems, had made our own mistakes and were trying to rectify them. There were many things that we needed to catch up on.
So, finally, we decided to meet in a place where all of us lived. A break from Sunday routine works after joining in companies.
It was really nice meeting all of them after a long break. We listened to each other, talked about our careers, life, health, family and how it was going. We discussed how the work is going on, how are managers, colleagues and girls. š
Jokes apart, slowly our discussion turned a “U” turn. What we actually wanted from our career, where we wanted to be after 10 years. Our books knowledge was limited to the college exams only.
We messed up personal lives too for jobs. Which was expected because we had been running behind our ambitions, goals and dreams so blindly to make money that we had no idea whether we were making the right decisions or not. Getting a job during college placement was the prime moto of everyone irrespective of the role, company and package details. Yet we were happy for that first job wala feeling.
Starting days were good enough but later on situations became worse in work. We know it was not the right one for us but we were helpless to ourselves and the strange thing was we were not teenagers to get support from others in this respect, we were quite mature enough to think what is right and not.
All of us were 24-26 years old and had seen the quarter of our lives. Many children and their parents come to us for guidance in their career but our own lives had no clear focus and parents asking us the effect of demonetization on us as we are MBA professionals they expect us to answer their doubts which we ultimately fail to answer.
I was just thinking upon the words of my uncle
“Your generation is too fast, it does not want to stop anywhere and wants to grab each and everything in their career.”
“Your generation is not able to take decisions about your career and often you end up unhappy.”
“Your generation is not capable of handling the stress and end up hating the work.”
WLB=Work Life Balance
Yeah! That’s ultimate truth.
I was born to a middle class family that gave me the freedom to do whatever I wanted in my life but only after proper background check of what I wanted to be. Starting from schooling, intermediate, engineering and MBA. This was only after suggestions from parents friends, relatives etc.
Even when I left my job, my parents supported my decision for my further studies MBA.
So, where did I go wrong? Why was I not happy with my life? And why do most of my friends have similar problems in their lives? We made excuses, but yes, we made many wrong decisions. Every night while going to bed these will flash in us, thinking to change this but that goes vain again and again.
Adult life is working for 5 days in order to live for 2 days. Monday moody mornings.
We are trying to become successful like others and burdened ourselves with a responsibility to become like them, in this process we forgot our own identity. Who we are? Who can be we?
When we wanted to select a career, we tried to talk to as many people around us. We did not listen to our hearts but listened to success stories around us and tried to imitate them.
We convinced our parents and selected the careers that guaranteed success.
Then in college, we worked really hard, studied for the exams to maintain our grades and participated in extra-curricular activities as well to brighten our resumes. This definitely helped us get placement in the best companies with good handsome packages.
Then again, we worked for long hours in our companies, without getting extra credit in our accounts, it was just to earn credit from our managers.
Our happiness was waiting for weekends when we could meet our family, friends spend some time with them to forget the pain taken all the weekdays. This had become a daily story of our lives in every house who is working in IT companies, banks, industries etc.
Painful truth is that it was not just me, but most of my friends and family members had a similar life.
Many ended up in an ordinary life with less happiness...
We were wasting five days every week in doing something that did not interest us, but we were doing it in order to prove to ourselves that we could do anything infront of managers and to get that message in the month end. “Dear Customer, your salary has been successfully credited to your account … XXXXXXXX1234 with INR XxxxX . Your Net Available Bal is INR XxxxxX.”
Certainly, this message brings the widest smile on our faces. Now, recalling the moment when you received your first paycheck. The amount may or may not have been as you expected, but the happiness it gives, remains boundless. Now we start paying our credit card bills, splitting of salary into multiples of X, which would empty our account by 15th of every month and again waiting for the 1st of next month.
We never realized that we were trying to excel in fields which probably were not our forte
Thankfully, we realized this a little later when we slowly finally started shifting to the fields that we liked, but it could take time. There are yet to be realized.
There are many more stories that are still untold which are buried for the matter of responsibilities they are having in the family to support them in the society.
Yet, I hope the new generation thinks more about this and do what they actually want to do early when it’s in their hands.
I really don’t want to see these young kids sitting in a CCD’s after few years and talking about how much they have lost in their lives. I want to see my younger brother and cousin’s faces beaming with confidence and telling everyone about their ambitions. I want all the young kids in our country to do what they are good at and live a happy life!
Generation is changed. Gen Z is on the way.
Slate to TAB, Whatsup to Whatsapp. Technology is been the part of our daily routine from kindergarten to corporate.
Everyone are behind the luxury happiness which is within us.
I have no idea about Modiji and Trump effect on us which should be least bothering you when you have that confidence to excel in your field of interest.
Yupppp !! Finally mission accomplished. Met my MBA college friends. It was a kind of a reunion for the 8 of us (oops ! only seven, one has given hand). We were almost roommates from early morning hours to late nights, the only separation among us was boys and girls hostel.
#Divided by jobs, united by friendship.
After 10 months, all of us took different paths, had different life problems, had made our own mistakes and were trying to rectify them. There were many things that we needed to catch up on.
So, finally, we decided to meet in a place where all of us lived. A break from Sunday routine works after joining in companies.
It was really nice meeting all of them after a long break. We listened to each other, talked about our careers, life, health, family and how it was going. We discussed how the work is going on, how are managers, colleagues and girls. š
Jokes apart, slowly our discussion turned a “U” turn. What we actually wanted from our career, where we wanted to be after 10 years. Our books knowledge was limited to the college exams only.
We messed up personal lives too for jobs. Which was expected because we had been running behind our ambitions, goals and dreams so blindly to make money that we had no idea whether we were making the right decisions or not. Getting a job during college placement was the prime moto of everyone irrespective of the role, company and package details. Yet we were happy for that first job wala feeling.
Starting days were good enough but later on situations became worse in work. We know it was not the right one for us but we were helpless to ourselves and the strange thing was we were not teenagers to get support from others in this respect, we were quite mature enough to think what is right and not.
All of us were 24-26 years old and had seen the quarter of our lives. Many children and their parents come to us for guidance in their career but our own lives had no clear focus and parents asking us the effect of demonetization on us as we are MBA professionals they expect us to answer their doubts which we ultimately fail to answer.
I was just thinking upon the words of my uncle
“Your generation is too fast, it does not want to stop anywhere and wants to grab each and everything in their career.”
“Your generation is not able to take decisions about your career and often you end up unhappy.”
“Your generation is not capable of handling the stress and end up hating the work.”
WLB=Work Life Balance
Yeah! That’s ultimate truth.
I was born to a middle class family that gave me the freedom to do whatever I wanted in my life but only after proper background check of what I wanted to be. Starting from schooling, intermediate, engineering and MBA. This was only after suggestions from parents friends, relatives etc.
Even when I left my job, my parents supported my decision for my further studies MBA.
So, where did I go wrong? Why was I not happy with my life? And why do most of my friends have similar problems in their lives? We made excuses, but yes, we made many wrong decisions. Every night while going to bed these will flash in us, thinking to change this but that goes vain again and again.
Adult life is working for 5 days in order to live for 2 days. Monday moody mornings.
We are trying to become successful like others and burdened ourselves with a responsibility to become like them, in this process we forgot our own identity. Who we are? Who can be we?
When we wanted to select a career, we tried to talk to as many people around us. We did not listen to our hearts but listened to success stories around us and tried to imitate them.
We convinced our parents and selected the careers that guaranteed success.
Then in college, we worked really hard, studied for the exams to maintain our grades and participated in extra-curricular activities as well to brighten our resumes. This definitely helped us get placement in the best companies with good handsome packages.
Then again, we worked for long hours in our companies, without getting extra credit in our accounts, it was just to earn credit from our managers.
Our happiness was waiting for weekends when we could meet our family, friends spend some time with them to forget the pain taken all the weekdays. This had become a daily story of our lives in every house who is working in IT companies, banks, industries etc.
Painful truth is that it was not just me, but most of my friends and family members had a similar life.
Many ended up in an ordinary life with less happiness...
We were wasting five days every week in doing something that did not interest us, but we were doing it in order to prove to ourselves that we could do anything infront of managers and to get that message in the month end. “Dear Customer, your salary has been successfully credited to your account … XXXXXXXX1234 with INR XxxxX . Your Net Available Bal is INR XxxxxX.”
Certainly, this message brings the widest smile on our faces. Now, recalling the moment when you received your first paycheck. The amount may or may not have been as you expected, but the happiness it gives, remains boundless. Now we start paying our credit card bills, splitting of salary into multiples of X, which would empty our account by 15th of every month and again waiting for the 1st of next month.
We never realized that we were trying to excel in fields which probably were not our forte
Thankfully, we realized this a little later when we slowly finally started shifting to the fields that we liked, but it could take time. There are yet to be realized.
There are many more stories that are still untold which are buried for the matter of responsibilities they are having in the family to support them in the society.Yet, I hope the new generation thinks more about this and do what they actually want to do early when it’s in their hands.
I really don’t want to see these young kids sitting in a CCD’s after few years and talking about how much they have lost in their lives. I want to see my younger brother and cousin’s faces beaming with confidence and telling everyone about their ambitions. I want all the young kids in our country to do what they are good at and live a happy life!
Generation is changed. Gen Z is on the way.
Slate to TAB, Whatsup to Whatsapp. Technology is been the part of our daily routine from kindergarten to corporate.
Everyone are behind the luxury happiness which is within us.
I have no idea about Modiji and Trump effect on us which should be least bothering you when you have that confidence to excel in your field of interest.
- © VKC
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