A typical “ideal” job is the intersection of the 3 circles
“What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.”
-Joseph Morrell Dodge
I realize that my last post and the upcoming ones might give the impression that I hate my job, so let me offer some clarification (or a disclaimer) of sorts.
I certainly don’t hate my job. I really, really like the people I work with (this was the main reason I selected this organization) and I really can’t complain about the perks (travel, hotels, cars, dinners, etc.). The trouble is, and has always been, the work (or lack thereof) itself.
The reason I’m exploring the idea of Boreout and Generation Y being correlated is as follows:
I’m typically the guy who asks the [difficult] questions most people are afraid to bring up. More often than not, it turns out that I’m not the only one wondering about something. In the end, we often find solutions (or workarounds) together and everyone is happy that someone brought up the issue. Hopefully I’ll be able to help others (not only GenY, but people who manage GenY) as I go through this process.
Based on the comments from the last post, I’m not the only one experiencing Boreout. I’m working very hard with my office to come up with a solution to this problem and hopefully, with your comments as well, we can come up with some ideas of how to approach our generation when it comes to work!
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.”
-Marshall McLuhan
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