Not Gen Z but young Millennial here but... Yeah.
This just reminded me of a conversation I had with my father a couple of months ago, when I was telling him how badly I wanted to quit my job. We were moving to three days a week in office, my health already isn't great. I am burned out and exhausted and not getting properly paid for my work. And his attitude was that, if I just stuck it out, things would get better, and I would be rewarded with better pay.
And like... I told him that MAYBE that's how things worked when he was 30 and working with the company he's been with since he was in his early 20s (he's in his sixties now)... but not here. Sticking around doesn't mean things getting better. It doesn't mean reward. It means doing more work for no additional pay, being drained of my time and energy by a company that doesn't care to actually treat me right. it means staying RIGHT where I am for no potential for growth and no guarantee that I will ever see any kind of reward for the work I do. Hell, it means I could be let go without any notice whatsoever, whenever they feel like it, and frankly, I think that's a lot more likely than me getting some kind of reward or raise or benefit for sticking around.
It's why I decided to quit, now, with no back-up plan other than spending a full month working on my certification course full time, like college classes, and move somewhere cheaper. There is no delayed reward. There is only what we are going to scrape up for ourselves right now.
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