i think there's a form of pay your dues that has been lost in the shuffle, that actually is important. i do pect to be treated well at work the way we should all be treated well, regardless of age. I'd be so interested to hear how this conversation kind of pivoted if everybody had equitable wages and health carebeasm. And it reminds me that in our own journey at the ready around doing jetti work, one of the things that i have learned in last two years or so about unpaid entry level positions are they really do favor people who come from privileged backgrounds. Now there's another conversation abotu where that is headed because everyone should be treated this way
The workforce is changing. Millennials are turning into elder millennials and Zoomers are turning into employed adults, thus shifting the makeup of the modern working population—and its values. Long gone are any romantic or bootstrappy notions of “paying your dues,” which, in many work environments, is just shorthand for dealing with toxicity and subpar pay; there are fewer people receiving chintzy gifts for 35-year anniversaries at the same company.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans speak with journalist Rainesford Stauffer, author of the new book "An Ordinary Age," about the exceptionalism bubble; how work crises have ballooned into identity crises; the mythology of the “dream job”; and how young adults are already shaping—and challenging—the future of work.
Learn more about Rainesford's work and buy her book here: https://rainesford.medium.com/
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