It is interesting that you are denigrating degrees as something that only time and money can buy, when being old is something that only needs time...
I agree that accomplishments are something that is more important. However I run into old men in my profession that have either accomplished nothing or whose accomplishments are dated and they are trying to rest on them. These old men are neither competent at my profession nor worthy of respect yet they demand it because they are old. However, respect is something that is given when it is due, not because someone is old. I will listen and learn from those that are worthy of respect, regardless of age.
If you are a person that thinks you are being productive and helpful by automatically assuming that the youth are incapable of long term relationships, incapable of completing thoughts and being twitterheads, then you clearly are not worthy of the respect of the younger generation or anyone really because you are discriminating against a group as whole based on something they cannot change.
Well... seeing as how I have been in my profession for years now, I have good credit and I own property so I'd say I'm doing pretty good in real life. What I've learned in my profession is that in a company it is all about what the employee is doing for the company now, regardless of age. That old guy middle manager that constantly complains about how youth is today, well he's going to terminated from his job when the company realizes that they can hire 3 college grads that are maybe individually half as productive as he is but together earn the same salary as he does.
And I would say that it is this generation, maybe more than any other, that has decided that they are unique, decided that they do not want to be corporate minions and strike out on their own and start their own companies that are successful. It's not someone's age that makes them successful it's the person, it is only a higher incidence of old people being successful because they have had a much longer time to reach that level of success. If a person is successful and they have knowledge to share then they should be respected them regardless of age.
Also, you're making it sound like a fraternity and a cycle of abuse really, how is useful that since old men got put through shit then it means that they should treat others like shit? Because it's good for them? And it's these same old men that had the children that became these twitterheads, so who do they have to blame other than themselves?
bad seeds in any generation ps in my early 30's too and wear a suit to every interview
