What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

I think the anxiety felt by so many millenials entering the workplace for the first time - the actual workplace, not the job market; that’s a whole ‘nother bear trap - is that, overwhelmingly, nothing in your formal education has prepared you for the task. You’re used to an environment where asking questions frequently earns peer mockery, where speaking easily with those in charge or older than you is frowned upon, and where you’re expected to work alone and memorise everything rather than working collaboratively while referring to available data sources to get the job done. Nine times out of ten, you haven’t been taught your workplace rights, how to read a job contract, how to manage your superannuation or advocate for yourself with HR, and while you might have a strong advantage in office environments as a digital native - meaning, you can learn to do Computer Stuff pretty easily - that can easily be cancelled out by the necessity of reporting to or working with tech illiterate boomers who can’t understand why X thing is possible, but not Y.

All of which is compounded, in our current social context, by the fear of being fired when jobs are scarce, or of making waves when your existing position isn’t secure. So often now, even entry level jobs are advertised as requiring a degree of experience: there’s a real pressure to ‘fake it ‘till you make it’ by learning on the job, not through active mentoring, but in secret, in a state of lowkey panic, because it’s better than having no job at all.  

So shoutout to all my fellow millenials struggling with job bullshit. We might not know what the fuck we’re doing half the time, but we’re doing the best we can with the options we’ve been given.

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