Quote: (06-03-2014 08:57 PM)Nascimento Wrote:
'Don't try to work hard in life until you're 35.'
It's 10 minutes but I think it's worth the watch. Although I don't agree with some points, I do agree with others and some of the points he makes are interesting.
Thoughts?
The statement and the notion of it makes me almost vomit.
I haven't watched the vid, but I think I read the blog post on it a while back.
Anyway, sadly there is some sort of sick, warped logic to the statement.
Why? Because people don't like having bosses who are younger than them.
Not that long ago, Britain had lots of people thinking they could retire at 35 or 40.
City traders, property developers and the like. It was actually happening.
Then in the space of a couple of years, super talented young graduates were finding the jobs weren't there. I'm talking streetwise Oxbridge grads and the like who used to get jobs in the City of London(finance etc).
These ambitious young people wound up in the shittest jobs of the lot. They were in call centres and the like. They couldn't get other jobs because the bosses were "oh if I employ you, you'll overtake me in 2 years, why would I want that?"
The truth is many people are vain. They can handle an older boss, but they can't handle a younger one. Thats how Japan used to operate too. And Japan WAS a phenomenal success story. I've seen it. People spending 10 yrs in shite jobs. But by 32, 34, 35 when they are a little fatter, thinner hair, not as "cool", they're finding "dead men's shoes" ie opportunities in their company, or one close by. They're not more ambitious than 10 yrs ago. Their brains and talents have gone to shit to some extent. They're getting jobs purely on seniority and the fact older people don't feel so insecure and jealous about their once youthfulness. Ofcourse the big lie is "you have real life experience now". But in truth the jobs aren't overly skilled and don't need any "real life experience" that they didn't have at 24 ie 10 or 12 years earlier.
Some of these people literally applied for thousands of jobs, which made them very angry with life. But they were never gonna get the jobs anyway. Atleast in those sectors because the market just wasn't there.
The jobs where u CAN progress at a young age tend to be jobs like phone shop manager. Because they only ever employ kids anyway!
Ofcourse the big challenge though is how to get round the insecurity, even stupidity of older plodders and duffers who don't want a younger, more talented or ambitious boss.
My solution was to become my own boss. What are other people's solutions?