Twentysomething: 7 reasons why my generation is more productive than yours
This post is from Clay Collins, author of the blog The Growing Life.
Generation Y is known for rolling into work late while wearing headphones, and dressing as if every day were casual Friday. We’re often seen TXTing in our cubicles, taking breaks, and instant messaging. While these images don’t exactly encourage others to view us as bastions of uber-productivity, we’re often a hell of a lot more productive than previous generations.
Here are seven reasons why my generation (Generation Y) is often more productive than yours:
Reason 1: We use the best tools
Generation Y is more than comfortable doing the experimentation necessary to find the right tools and technologies for most effectively completing a task. We understand the company’s project management software better than you do because we are comfortable playing with it. And we can probably recommend 2-3 other tools that would work better in the situation because we’re not afraid to rely on nearly-free, online productivity tools from unknown companies. Our to-do lists are carefully maintained, prioritized daily and synced with our PDAs and iPODs.
Reason 2. We’re good at automating
Generation Y has grown up with technology and we believe that computers can do just about anything (or that they will someday). So when we’re receive a task, the first question we ask ourselves is: “how can technology make this task go faster?” Sometimes our efforts to employ technology make things more complicated, but quite often we end up successfully automating a repetitive task, saving ourselves and our companies thousands of dollars.
Reason 3. We get better sleep
Previous generations have lived by Ben Franklin’s aphorism: “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Generational Y intuitively knows what psychologists have confirmed: that a significant percentage of the population is much more productive when they go to bed late and get up late. Simply put, you’re more productive when you follow your biologically determined circadian rhythms and get up when your body tells you to.
Reason 4: We’re much more likely to love our jobs
Since Generation Y switches jobs much more frequently than previous generations, we’re much more likely to be doing things that (1) we’re good at, and (2) we actually like. All the job switching and repositioning we do means we’re much more likely to end up with professions that are actually suited to our passions and talents. And every productivity guru knows you’re most productive when you’re doing things you actually care about.
Reason 5: We stay up to date in our fields
Another upshot of changing jobs so frequently is the need to stay on top of the latest developments in our fields. Because job searching is a somewhat continual process for Generation Y, we’re likely to teach ourselves new skills, or pay for training, even if our employers don’t because we want to stay competitive. We see training and skill-building as our own responsibility — not something that our employer will necessarily do for us. And our lifestyle choices reflect a passion for constant learning and development .
Reason 6: We’re experimental
Generation Y is continually doing research and development at the individual level. And because Generation Y cares more about getting new experiences and learning new skills than about not making mistakes , we’re willing to try new things, be creative, and take new angles. While this experimental approach might not result in quantifiable productivity, it leads to the kind of shifts in thinking that save time and money over the long haul.
Reason 7: We don’t “go through the motions”
We’ve seen our washed up parents work shit jobs they hate, and we won’t go through the motions for the sake of job security. If you’re an old-school boss, then this won’t be comfortable. However, not going through the motions for the sake of going through the motions actually makes us more productive in the long run.
Clay Collins is author of The Alternative Productivity Manifesto, and Quitting Things and Flakiness: The #1 Productivity Anti-Hack. Clay also writes about lifestyle design at Project Liberation.
Anyone else here besides me think Penelope is hot? I love the way you get people going. I assume you pre-read your guest blog posts and you were probably laughing with excitement when you thought about posting this one. Anyway, with all the negative feedback you get and keep right on growing strong, I admire you. No, I love you, run away with me you beautiful Firecracker of an Angel!!!! LOL
Sorry–I forget who’s comment this was: “As long as they're taking care of themselves and don't expect me to finance them.”–there’s the rub. Read a handful of the blogs on this site and I bet you’ll find a decent number of them are living at home and/or otherwise still supported by their parents.
Here’s my response to this post: http://motherwhatnowredux.blogspot.com/2008/08/you-want-career-advice-look-no-further.html
I apologize for referencing the “Y” thing. I suppose that I should refer to specific incident and person (s). Hope’s post about up-dated skills is so true, lol. I needed the laugh. I just want to say that when all is said and done…your subordinates can make you or break you. A manager or supervisor is only as good as his subordinates allow him to be. One mistake on the part of someone he needs to “make him look good” can certainly be the nail in the coffin.
Isn’t technology wonderful? Has anyone noticed that these posts are out of sequence? My posts were “I must say that your first mistake was” and “I apologize for”. I do not believe that I have ever refered to anyone as a “Firecracker” or an “Angel”. let me see…..
Stephanie
Interesting take, Sophie. And your post reminded me why Clay’s was so irritating. He didn’t mention the 150,000 families fighting overseas (most of them Gen Y) because for his part of the Gen Y cohort, they don’t exist. Sadly, for most of America they don’t exist. Instead of making a group sacrifice, the rest of us were told to go shopping, increase our debt, buy a bigger house. It’s why the majority of Gen Y (online) come off as superficial twits because that is our culture turned them out to be.
But for the 67% of Gen Y who didn’t get a college degree and who have tough jobs (including the military), life isn’t rolling out of bed in the afternoon and spending the day in front of a screen typing to the world how marvelous you are. The story in today’s LA Times about the 22 year old soldier not wanting to fall asleep because he fears the nightmares he knows will descend on him is not a perspective you will see on Clay’s blog or the very similar equivilants foundthroughout cyberspace).
Ack. And look at what’s happened.
The tone has polarized nearly everyone. It’s Gen X/other vs. Gen Y. And the more polarized people get, the more backed into a corner they feel, the more they lose that useful middle ground where things can be thrashed out without all that shouting. :)
Hands up who has traits of *all* generations under discussion? Nearly everyone? So much for generalisms, then. We’re not mutually exclusive.
So, going back to the points themselves –
Point 3. I know that the evidence suggests that many people are the genetically-determined chronotype “night owl”.
But wouldn’t you agree that because of the slightly-longer-than-a-full-day circadian rhythm, it’s easy to fall into a habit of getting up slightly later and slightly later that *is* undiscipline, or even laziness? Fine if you’re genuinely a night owl, but for the vast majority of the population who fall between extremes, isn’t sleeping-in a slippery slope?
So I’m guessing you wouldn’t be interested in an “Old-Timers’ Day” at work?
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This is an amusing reply from Clay:
“It should also be noted, however, that there is a LARGE pool of data in the psychological literature showing steady in robust increases in IQs in the general population over time. The generation under me will, as a population, score higher than my generation, etc.
That's not to say that we're smarter.”
I’m glad you didn’t say that to make previous generations feel horrible. That would have been really obnoxious of you!
Dude, you had me until the “washed-up parents” comment.
People who have a compelling, powerful point to make usually don’t have to be cruel about it, Clay. For example, Penelope is frequently blunt. But it’s an economy of words, never cruelty.
I think one important oversight in your analysis is that Gen Y workers are frequently working with other Gen Y workers. ANY time you have ANY group of workers with similar approaches, analytical styles, and work ethics, you are more likely to have a better, more productive work environment.
I agree with Mikeachim that productivity is not simply hitting all of your marks. Work is not a game of Tag; some things require more in-depth analysis.
I am, at 39, fossilized and ancient to a Gen Y’er, but I have also always had the ability of recognizing gaps or deficiencies in plans and in the “big picture”. You can only do that when you go deep and really understand what’s happening.
Unfortunately, the bright things Clay has said here are drowned out by a tone that sounds like the road rage-a-holic’s complaint about traffic: “It wouldn’t be so slow and inefficient if all of these slow, old people would just get out of MY way!”
Forgot to mention:
In the face of the assumption that Gen Y is strictly an age thing….
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/06/25/what-generation-are-you-part-of-really-take-this-test/
From my experience in working with a variety of 20-somethings, I have to agree with your list. Reason #4 is key. Workers that enjoy their work are motivated intrinsically. And, as a business owner, that’s a welcome trait in any employee!
You forgot reason #8 – don't have kids yet.
I'd love to sleep in too, but I have to leave the office by 4:30 in order to pick my kids up before day care closes and so I can get home at a reasonable hour and enjoy my kids and my husband before we all have to go to bed.
I'd also like to be more geek-y than I am, but refernce #8. Six years ago when my son was born my computer at home was on its last legs. I got a new computer when my son was about six months old. I was able to open the box at 10pm the day it arrived to look at it. Then I closed the box and didn’t have the time to get it up and running for two more days. Prior to having kids, I would have snuck out of work early on the day a new toy arrived and would have been fiddling with it for hours and hours before 10pm.
But you know what I was doing? I was raising the next generation – you know the ones that will write articles about how much, much more productive they are than those old fuddy-duddies, Generation Y. I’m teaching my kids that everyone has value and different points of view are to be appreciated, so hopefully the article won’t be from them. But, if my son or daughter wants to write a post like this twenty years from now (when you'll be in your forties or fifties – ohmy!), I'll try to put in a good word for you guys.
“Yes, Gen X is fighting the war. And yes, probably there are still Gen Jones and Baby Boomers fighting. But it's Gen Y that's going over as young 19-20 yr and doing a majority of the dirty work. They are a whole generation of people that have lost limbs and will suffer a lifetime of emotional baggage. That baggage will carry over into their children's lives.”
And how is this any different from when my father came out of the interment camps to fight WW2 in Italy and France? How is this different from me and my friends who went to Vietnam, and only I came back alive?
“The story in today's LA Times about the 22 year old soldier not wanting to fall asleep because he fears the nightmares he knows will descend on him is not a perspective you will see on Clay's blog or the very similar equivilants foundthroughout cyberspace.”
My father still has nightmares of fighting in France and Korea, and I still have mine from Vietnam. They never goes away, but they do become more muted by the passage of time.
The veterans’ support group I’ve been a part of for the past 2 decades, is taking the point on welcoming home the vets of Iraq and Afghanistan. We do our best to give them a safe environment where they can talk about their fears and nightmares, and we do our best to impart our hard earned wisdom, whether it be on navigating the VA bureauacracy, how to tell one’s spouse what you’ve seen and done, to helping them find vet-friendly workplaces.
How could we not? These are our sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, and the neighbor kids. We owe them at least that much.
I was the 3rd to post – way back on July 31. There are now 115 posts.
Great recent posts by Aaron and jrandom42 and the lack of a shared sacrifice for the war in Iraq and the Vets from prior wars stepping up to care for the returning Iraq war Vets.
When are we going to act like we realize that we’re all in the same boat and focus on what we have in common and can achieve together as opposed to touting how one group of us is so much better than the rest.
Isn’t that what we dislike in our politicians – the way they try to make themselves look good by making their opponents look bad?
If we’re going to move forward, we can’t act like this is a zero sum game.
Let’s focus on what each of us has to offer and what we can do to help each other.
It’s the washed up parents bit that got me – provocative. I am 49 – so a baby boomer! But my youngest is 12 and my oldest is 24 years old.
As a single mum I have to work – I am lucky to work for myself. But, I still have to be up early to get the kids to school – wish my circadian rhythm had an answer to that one!
I’d love to be able to change jobs at the drop of a hat but when do I have the time to look for another job (I love my job by the way and I am paid accordingly – why would I leave?) and I wouldn’t have the handy cash to help my gen y as she enjoys her job changes and purchases the latest equipment/technology.
Gen Y are lucky that their washed out parents are still stable and secure enough to help them out at these times. In my case, the buck stops with me!
So, I am hoping that the gen y person who wrote this post has a great sense of humour and that it wasn’t really a serious post. My beautiful gen y children are having a great life and that is what I want for them. And we all get together and celebrate our lives; we don’t pick on the differences.
– Supporting the emergence of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on the planet as the guiding principle of our time.
I have followed the Gen Y topics for about a year now. Here are a few additional thoughts:
Clay your washed up parents held jobs (they hated? OK) in order to feed you and provide for you. It may not have been what they wanted to do, but they did it out of necessity and there is nobility in that – that is character building and somthing to be respected – by you.
When I read about Gen Y – it's usually because they are blogging comparisons between them and other generations. Not the other way around. Hmmmm….
Clearly all Gen Y’s “positive attributes” are being buried by the arrogant, unsubstantiated mediums through which they are delivered. That is Gen Y’s responsibility for sure.
Talent or technological expertise is wasted if it's not grounded in virtue. Humility, patience, diplomacy, kindness, wisdom etc….Yes teenagers and young adults can be ignorantly arrogant but they can be equally virtuous as well.
Why don’t we see more virtue? Well, Gen Y did not raise themselves. Perhaps we older generations need to assume more responsibility for any lack of virtue in Gen Y.
Alternatively you could title this “Seven Reasons Gen Y has a LOT to learn by 30.”
Trust me, when I was fresh out of school, I thought I knew EVERYTHING – how to be more productive, how to do things better and faster than the people who’d been there for years, and I was there to bring it all around and make a big difference.
And it took time, but now at 30 I truly see that I did not know even a tenth of what I thought I knew at 22. With a little experience and time I’ve learned that I am not better, smarter, faster, but I am me – unique and with my own perspective. Everyone has their perspective and the thing that gets you the absolute farthest in life is recognizing the value EVERYONE brings to the table and working together.
The sooner Clay and his like get over the need to have a banging contest over why they’re superior to everyone else and recognize they didn’t get where they are on their own, the better off they’ll be in the workforce.
Although I guess it explains the fresh out of college kids who complain about $32k a year and full benefits because “I don’t get an office” and “I have to be here at 8?”
“At 18, I thought my parents were washed-up, obsolete and totally out of it. By the time I turned 27, I was shocked at how smart, clever and ingenious they had gotten in that time.”
In response to the post copied below about managing to results, not appearance, I wanted to make a couple of points. You’ll do better having both the appearance and results of productivity, especially in a down economy. Managers invariably ask how much productivity is being lost to all those non-productive activities, and how many responsibilities of the people who don’t look productive can be absorbed into other positions. Get your work done as accurately and efficiently as possible. Once you’ve done that, look for more work. Keep the text, chats and websites and all the other distractions to the absolute minimum until the work day is done. Don’t fall into habits that companies overlook during good times that they will not tolerate during the bad times.
Posted by dewey_decimal | July 31, 2008
sorry, but – .who cares? did you write this to justify all of those text messages? because regardless of how productive they may have been, you still LOOK like you're completely wasting time with personal stuff.
and that's not good for anyone.
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I think it's much better when managers manage results, not appearance. I'd rather work with someone who's twice as efficient as the average employee, even if they look like they're doing 1/4th of the work.
– Clay
@ Clay: Then you’ve never managed people. The point is that others resent those who don’t “appear” to be working hard and being rewarded. It demotivates. Your idilic belief of who you would rather work for is irrelevant.
Hello? The PC has been out for awhile now. I was on the first Apple at my university in 1982. Umm, that was like 26 years ago people, and I think we all know how to use computers now, which by their nature, automate tasks (again, duh!).
It’s the worshipping of youth culture that’s convinced this naive author that his generation is so superior in their computer abilities. He comes from a generation of kids who were all told they were superior because they learned computers in elementary school rather than in college. So what?
Television is to blame as that’s where we all learned “how someone’s 5 year old was better on the computer than him”. I am an advanced computer user, so it was very annoying. We all learn what we need to learn when we need it.
Oh and by the way, you guys didn’t invent disgruntlement either. Again, you are getting attention to your whining because you remind them of their kids, and we have a culture of parent servitude in this country for your generation, because we worship youth.
This is the most self serving piece of bullshit I have read on any blog in a good long time.
Are you really better than me? Really, do you believe this in your heart and soul? Did you mommy tell you how wonderful you are today.
PLEASE. Please. please. Realize every younger generations thinks they are more cleaver than the earlier ones. In the 60s they knew their music was better. They said “don’t trust anyone over 30”. Your self love is not real, it is a product of being young.
I am so sick and tired of these types of generational arguement posts. You know what the facts are. I mean real facts, not how you feel….
Every generation has good people. And schmucks. Sure, technology changes, and those who are exposed to it when young adopt it faster and have an easier go with it. But it does not make the “old school guy” bad or yesterday’s news.
I think that everyon who reads crap like this post should stand up and cry “STOP” and not put up with it any more.
BARF.
If this is the way Gen Y wants to think of themselves, then let pride go before the fall. There’s a point at which a thoughtful and maturing person will realize why his parents/elders did what they did; until then, the child is sure that he is smarter than his elders.
So I took a look at this kid’s blog. He’s in his 20’s, with little life experience or success, offering self-help advice!!! Now he’s rebranding it to something called Finance your Freedom. Something tells me it will be more about financing his freedom :)
Reading this post reminds me of my three young sisters (in their early 20s) – too young to know that you sound smarter when you keep your mouth close.
I am a 29 year old civil engineer. Even though I am licensed by my state, I have been in the workforce long enough to know that I do not know enough. I am thankful to all my baby boomers mentors.
To me, being good around technology is just another trait for being a successful engineer. Just like the person who have been with the company 20 years and has “institutional knowledge.”
I think you thread that balance right when you get the respect of your older working peers without having to tell everyone how great you are because of your youth.
Better tools and technology may translate into more productivity, but let’s not confuse it with a good work ethic. Every generation may be more productive than the next (as someone pointed out earlier) but they’re also lazier than the previous.
It took previous generations a lot of work to make life so good for you lazy little sh*ts.
As an editor, I have to say that I’m fairly distraught by the lack of writing ability and knowledge of grammar demonstrated by my Gen Y interns to date. You may be productive, but if you can’t use language to explain your productivity, no one will know it. Being a writer, you seem to be the exeption rahter than the rule.
My suggestion: Perhaps your Gen Y cohorts should take some time off from TXTing to write actual thank-you notes, by hand, to someone who actually had to pay some dues and paved the way for you.
Emily–I totally agree with you and once blogged about this exact thing and Penelope read it and commented on it.
http://mizzinformation.blogspot.com/2008/03/experts-new-clothes.html
I wonder if this guy’s “washed-up” parents paid for his education, fed him, and put a roof over his head.
What a jerk.
When we removed instant messenger for our team of 30 Gen Y’s productivity went up… a lot. Yes Gen Y’s might know how to automate better and use better tools but imagine what you could achieve if you removed the pointless distractions from your day.
As for being better at your job because you switch jobs more often… I really doubt that. I don’t know about what others think but considering Gen Y’s move on average every 18 months, you may learn your role in that time, but it’s highly unlikely you’ll master your role and there’s a big difference between the two.
nice entry
you’re wrong about sleeping and waking up whenever your body tells you to..it’s been proven that the brain needs at least 8 hours to rest and compensate for activity gone on through the day.this is from a study straight from the foundation for sleep as well as a study that was initiated and published regarding sleep disorders. not some hair brained california college study.a person’s brain..every person’s brain..needs 8 uninterupted hours of sleep once every 24 hours.i’d love to argue that with you if you have ANY other opinion.you twenty somethings that claim you get by easily on 5 and 6 hours of sleep are fooling yourselves./ also,your opinions clearly make it obvious how arrogant you are. if that attitude is typical of most 20 somethings ,heaven help us all!!!
oh and jumping from job to job is irresponsible not creative or ‘open mindedness’. alot of the terms and explanations that you use are merely excuses to be irresponsible..period.
I have to agree with this. Although Gen Y may seem like everyone has ADD, I think that technology has given people the tools to multitask and achieve more. Plus with Gen-y, if they don’t like the job, they will leave and move elsewhere. You’re less likely to get stuck with disgruntled / slothful employees.
John – Stay young, stay safe!
Oh Thank God!
The twentysomethings are here to save the business world – what a relief.
Just too bad they’re so ill-mannered they don’t know how to pick up a phone, return a call, write a thank-you note, accept constructive criticism, or offer help to a customer; they can’t spell, write freehand, communicate face-to-face, tolerate differences, dress professionally, wake up on time …but hey, who cares?
There’s probably an app for that.
Growing up in a household that subscribed to work hard values…I find myself working smarter to allow for a more diversified career and lifestyle.
Everyone’s life experience generates a spectrum of personalities, achievements, opinions, and work ethics. Regardless of which generation you examine; there will be entrepreneurs, managers, staff, go-getters, those who stand by, and folks that just don’t give a hoot.
Parkinson’s law states that we complete a given task in the amount of time it is given. Therefore, working an 8-10 hour day is not necessarily best, but rather a standard in this country. If it’s possible to give specific tasks that need to be accomplished, and a specific time frame for completion….young Americans might find themselves working harder, and at a rate of output that suits their mental and physical comfort. (Instead of making a 3 hour project drag on and on to fill an 8 hour work day) After all if “Jim” can complete a report in 3 hours instead of 8, why have him stick around for 5 more hours that he may use to “spend” company time and money doing his own correspondence or networking? What if Jim is paid by each task, or a summation of tasks over the course of the year…then he has earned his salary.
All this can lead to more money saved, happier staff, more time spent with family & friends, exercising, community service… with the assumption that people are effective and efficient with their “work”. This nice part about this is that people can be in IT one day, and perhaps they also have a job as a dog walker, a barista, a personal trainer. The notion of having multiple jobs/careers can suggest that a person seeks to be more of a renaissance man or woman, and not necessarily someone who is unable to commit to one occupation.
Just a different view.
Cheers to you all!
E
sleep disorders should be treated as soon as possible coz it has a long term health effects”.;
I would like to tell you about how my opinion on how to define a generation has evolved. At first, I believed that gen y really began in 1977 for 3 reasons:
1. I saw a chart on the web that proves that the baby bust really ended in ’77 (it had a list of the annual birthrate for each year of the late 20th century). It showed 3.3 million births for that year and 3.1m for ’76.
2. Those born in ’77 just came of age when the web first became available to the general public in ’95, hence the term “net generation” or another name for the millenials.
3. Studies have shown that the late – ’70s babies were included in the 66 – 32 voting margin in favor of Obama, proving that they have very similar attitudes to those born in the ’80s.
However, lately my opinion on this has changed. I now believe that ANYONE can be a millenial if he/she is tech – savvy, open – minded to ALL kinds of diversity, and is into the latest music and entertainment. Just like a 20 – year – old can be a baby boomer if she does not have a computer, is only open to racial diversity, and likes the Beatles.
You know why you are more productive? Because you don’t help people, you do the least amount possible to get by, you don’t believe in customer service as the face of a company, and you’re self absorbed. How about that? If you graduated from an IV League School and you speak only one language, then you really aren’t that sharp. As well, if you only know how to do homework, take tests, listen to music without sharing it with anyone, get your work done, think older people are slow and can’t pick up technology, then try buying experience — you can’t buy it or learn it until you’ve lived it and earned it. There really is no substitute for experience. We can all learn rote computers, and I type 90 words per minute correctly because I took typing on an electric typewriter in high school, but you can’t learn what we know. Think about that before you think you’re the best generation since sliced bread. There’s a reason why they call the World War II Veterans and Society “The Great Generation”!
Oh, I totally agree with Slacker GenX because I get things done quickly myself, and I still do go the extra mile. I’m sure that Slacker does too. Thanks, good post!
For those of you who think that the second “baby boom” of the 20th century began in 1982, you are wrong! Here is the website which proves that it started in 1977:
[PDF] The Millennial Generation: Another Baby Boom
Can I just say, wel maybe if you moved out of your mom’s basement and paid your own bills maybe I’d believe all of your crap about being so much better. But what do I know I am the resource at my job for all of the concepts you brag you do better and I’ll be fifty soon. So maybe your not so special. Keeping up with technologyis required.
Thank you for actually giving me an interesting post into the mind of a gen y. I am of gen x and I do notice that even though gen y considers themselves technically savy they cannot produce a basic word document, cannot spell, and cannot solve a basic pre-algebra problem. Many of them have to take remedial english and math when entering college. I do live out in the country now so it may just be these kids but I find it funny that they cannot operate in Microsoft word but only know facebook and such. Won’t help them too much in the workeforce.
btw- i was not being sarcastic. Your post did help me realize things I may not think about.
Yeah but, there are tradeoffs for every set of traits. Know alot about online stuff, stay up to date all the time, but don’t practice and perform the classic tools of your trade and gain stature. Why would you want to be a computer expert or researcher and remain that all your life, you’re just a grunt for others. The climb up the ladder hasn’t changed at all in decades, you have to know your field and have enough other abilities to make your way. Don’t seduce yourself into thinking you’re superior, learn and practice all the things you need to, but I wouldn’t overemphasize or be compulsive about computer assisted things. You lose out on people management if you cling to your computer, that’s an oversimplification to make a point. You have to learn your stuff, you’ll come to love the classics of your field, I predict. Then, you won’t feel so compelled to “keep up with things”. Some things you need to know and do, DON’T CHANGE. Life is beautiful that way.
To clarify what I just said, a bit more here:
Learn the big picture, not just the computer stuff. All the things this article and alot of comments mention are task and efficiency things. Yet, I can’t believe most people go into jobs wanting to just be grunts, for themselves or others. It’s like liking to mow lawns or wash dishes, just more high tech. You can be as efficient as you want, you can always be replaced with other efficient-oriented people or soft/hardware. The key is to be indispensable and have a combination of skills, a good skill-set as they say. That’s harder than just being good with software. The state of computers and people’s familiarity with them isn’t going to remain the same, the tools and the tool users will constantly change and you’ll have to upgrade those skills and ever younger people will come along with ever greater facility for these new tools, so better learn something harder to replace, like, your actual field of work. Choose it well, to begin with, don’t just find a job, choose a career.
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