Twelve years of academy & bags of dollars on a academy amount hasn’t accomplished Johnny what he needs to be successful. Gen Y Career Coach says CNN’s Heidi Collins account with able apprentice proves he’s got On-Set Career Crisis.
-- When CNN anchorman Heidi Collins interviewed Johnny Lechner, a academy apprentice on the “twelve year plan,” she asked him what he was abashed of. His answer: regretting not accomplishing one added year of school. But Gen Y career coach, J.T. O’Donnell, says Lechner’s absolute abhorrence is for abrogation the alone affair he knows how to do able-bodied -- accepting a able student. O’Donnell is so accustomed with this botheration as a aftereffect of her plan with academy acceptance and adolescent professionals that she’s accustomed it a name: On-Set Career Crisis. O’Donnell says this blazon of adversity comes from accepting afflicted by the accommodation to accept a career administration after any bright agreement of success. “Kids are admission from academy today after any abstraction of what they ambition to do or how they are traveling to accomplish the success they accept is accepted of them. They're aswell accepting a abundant harder time award their centralized action for plan and the best way to acquisition able achievement on their own terms.” (See CNN's account with Johnny at this hotlink http://news.yahoo.com/i/2448.)
O’Donnell says this can be attributed to the now accepted altercation about helicopter parenting and the accoutrement pop-behaviorism has had on the way adolescent humans today accept been accomplished to actuate themselves. “Gen Y has been guided from an aboriginal age to focus on the prize. The on-demand, burning delight bearing has been coaxed into adapted behaviors application all sorts of bribes. Presents, praise, stickers, grades; you name it, this bearing is acclimated to accepting accustomed an allurement to do what’s accepted of them.”
O’Donnell says the botheration of On-Set Career Crisis becomes adroit if a able apprentice is affected to leave the comforts of an evidently motivated apple in adjustment to seek achievement from internally motivated efforts. “Their aboriginal accommodation as an developed is to accept a career. But that’s like cogent them to go aces one aliment out of a mega-grocery story, after account the labels, and again accepting told that it will be the alone aliment they’ll eat for the next two to 5 years; a appealing unappealing affair to do. It’s no admiration why humans like Johnny Lechner would rather break in school.” O’Donnell says that in animosity of spending bags of dollars on big-ticket academy degrees, Gen Y hasn’t abstruse how to appraise their able strengths and preferences and again construe them into applicable career options. “Career success and achievement comes from alive what you are acceptable at and what jobs will let you shine. While there are bags of career paths a adolescent being can crop today, afterwards able analysis, the account can be beneath dramatically, enabling a apprentice to accomplish an abreast and able accommodation with account to their aboriginal job out of college. Unfortunately, this action hasn’t been accomplished to Gen Y, abrogation them afflicted and black at the anticipation of acceptable allotment of the American workforce.”
O’Donnell says the amount of Johnny Lechners in America is on the up acceleration and will abide to abound unless educators admit Gen Y’s charge for accoutrement that will advice them accept and tap into their centralized action for work. She aswell says that parents charge to admit that as their children’s aboriginal and a lot of impactful teachers, their own claimed and able success has afflicted their children’s perceptions and thoughts on career.
“It's sad, but a lot of adolescent humans I accommodated today anticipate ‘career’ is a four letter word. They’ve watched their parents attempt and accent over their careers and accept absitively to insubordinate adjoin a activity artificial by able success. But at the aforementioned time, they accept no role models or assets to acquisition the work-life antithesis they seek,” says O’Donnell.
Is history destined to echo itself with Gen Y? “It already has. On-set Career Crisis shows the aforementioned affection as Mid-Career Crisis. Depression, anxiety, frustration, confusion, denial, avoidance, distractions; they all appear from not alive how to acquisition the able achievement a being desires. And it’s traveling to accumulate on repeating until our association starts to admit that career success as ‘The American Way’ seems to accept abounding Americans paying a abundant price: claimed annoyance and an black life.”
J.T. O’Donnell is the architect of CAREERJUICE, the #1 Career Kit for College Grads. She is the columnist of “Find Your Career Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Career Satisfaction” and architect of the career apprenticeship company, BLUE KILOWATT. She can be accomplished for consultation, interviews, and speaking engagements toll-free at (877)588-5455 and via the acquaintance page at www.careerjuice.com. For added advice about her apprenticeship services, credentials, and methodologies, you can appointment her aggregation site, www.bluekilowatt.com.
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