No, it just means they're swapping one gold rush for another. Watch as the value of vocational #Trades plummets due to oversupply, like the value of undergraduate degrees did.
This, of course, is why framing education as a financial investment is a silly idea.
"#GenZ students are choosing a trade over #College. That shows they’re smart
"Young people are increasingly opting to train as plumbers, electricians, welders and carpenters and similar vocations..."
You seldom see strong fashion stories on @medium (a shame IMO, because we all wear clothes and they say so much about us). But the young Medium writer Jee Young Park show how well they can work in this story that defends the controversial 2024 MetGala by showing how much she valued the museum as a Korean-American growing up in New Jersey:
Nearly half of Gen Z and millennial workers have left a job, or plan to, because of climate concerns
BYOrianna Rosa Royle
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The era of “global boiling” is here, sending shivers down young worker’s spines. But instead of sitting with their anxiety, Gen Z and millennials are trying to save the planet by quitting jobs that aren’t eco-friendly.
I have some #GenZ coworkers and was telling them about how we used to take our car stereo face plates with us when we left the car back in the days when stereos weren't integrated into the dash and you wanted a nice one.
Young people generally do believe in a higher power. To their credit, they do not believe in hatred, greed, or hypocrisy. Those raised in hateful churches are looking for another way to connect with the divine.
Good for them for grasping what is most important for that journey: love for others. They may feel lost, but they are going in the right direction by leaving places that basically worship white cis het identity.
Zukunftsforscher Tristan Horx und Soziologieprofessorin Katja Rost sehen im zunehmenden Trend der #Dumbphones ein klares Signal gegen die digitale Dauerbeschallung. Und eine Chance, 👉 soziale Medien kritisch zu hinterfragen.
Falsch ist es auf keinen Fall aber den Menschen beibringen was wie und wo Anonym zu nutzen ist wäre auch nicht schlecht. #Handy, Smartphone oder PC ect könnte mMn besser vermittelt werden als "entweder oder".
»Lieber mit dem Handy unterwegs – Darum will die #GenZ keine Smartphones mehr nutzen:
Weniger ist mehr: Die Generation Z tauscht immer häufiger das #Smartphone zugunsten eines Feature-Phones aus. Das hat mehrere Gründe. Auch der #Datenschutz spielt eine Rolle«