"Millions of professional workers in their 20s and 30s are having a "quarter-life crisis", a report claims. A third feel they've wasted years in the wrong job, found LinkedIn."
Really?
I think that if you've wasted those years, it's in your own fault. Maybe harsh - but there is truth in it.
The thing is, they are only wasted years if you let them be. There is always a learning opportunity. You could have the worst job on the planet, and spend the most time doing it - but you couldn't tell me that there is not something you could learn from it.
So if it's true that a third of 20-30 year olds feel like they've wasted time in the wrong job, why haven't they done something about it?
I think one of the main problems for millenials / young people (my age range) is that we want and expect too much too soon. When it's not "perfect" or "everything we imagined" it's completely wrong, or not desirable, and we want to quit.
It's also the idea of comfort - they didn't want to not have the latest phone / clothes / apartment.. so they sacrifice what they really want in the long-term, as in dreams and goals (and ultimately happiness) for their short term goals - car / independence / house / beer / partying with friends.
I say be a bit more patient. Stick with the job - turn it into something that will help you down the road. It may not be perfect now, but it doesn't have to be, as long as you're learning something from it, and as long as it's setting you up for the next step, whatever that may be.
And if it really is wrong, don't continue with it. For people who are 20 and 30, time is still very much on your side. The top CEO's, the people who we all look up to, and aspire to be like.. how old are they?
What do you think?
