Originally Posted by
NEDude
One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that many of the 20 somethings and younger are far less motivated by pay than older folks are. Recruiters for corporations across many industries are finding that recent college graduates are far more focused on quality of life issues above all else.
Trying to entice 20 somethings and millennials with high cost of entry, low pay, long days and 20 nights or more away from home staying at cheap hotels in places like Elmira, Akron and Topeka is just not going to cut it.
Then I hope they all enjoy living on government cheese clutching their participation trophy from the fifth grade. Vertually every profession worth striving for has a crappy underbelly of dues. Law, medicine, communication, yes, and even airline pilots. You don't get to be the hot shot defense lawyer, the brain surgeon, or the evening news anchor on day one. Timing and luck have something to do with all these as well...unless daddy's or mommies influence can shield you from some of the pain. Otherwise, whining about not getting an international schedule with 20 days off and a six figure salary will result in more time in the parents' basement playing Xbox on THEIR Internet connection and THEIR couch. Reality doesn't care.