Generation Me Argumentative Analysis

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We live in a society where stereotyping is the first thing common human beings tend to do and i sadly include myself in this area. According to Cal Newport, author and computer science profesor at Georgetown University. Generation Y ( todays generation), people ranging in their twenties and thirties are known as the pampered generation and the “why bother” generation. Who believe everything is base don following your “passion” or “dreams” and in the moment they go out there and look for a job, and enter the job market things are not going well.
Newport supports his argument by basing himself on the reviews “on of the best-known books about his cohort” named Generation Me. The revious talk about how pampered and high mantainance we are. Where
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Generation Y members are believed to demand alot from their working life and receiving the complete opposite when the experience starts.
The author yields a clear solution for this: “we need a more nuanced conversation surrounding the quest for a compelling career. The solution according to Newport is that We need a deeper way to discuss the value of this early period in a long working life and that we need a more nuanced conversation surrounding the quest for a compelling career.
“Follow your passion” is an insipiring slogan but needs to end as a career advice. We dont need entitlments, generation Y needs concrete information and evidence-based observations about really how people really end up at their dream passionate job. Actually loving what they do.

I can strongly agree when Carl Newport says we are entitled and catagorized as the high mantainance generation. But not generalizing it to everyone who is a member of generation “Y”. Not everyone had the same type of education or beliefs while growing up and i strongly belief we turn out the way we are taught to and it is for sure not our fault until a ceratin

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