Comments on: Generation Y Changing the Workplace http://www.ronnienurss.com/generation-y-changing-the-workplace/ Exploration and experimentation in living the Good Life Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Glenn http://www.ronnienurss.com/generation-y-changing-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Glenn Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:06:05 +0000 http://www.ronnienurss.com/archives/51#comment-66 As members of our generation continue moving beyond college and progressing into the workplace, achieving management positions and founding start-ups, that is when we will really see the non-traditional workweek take off. Even as I look for remote internships and volunteer opportunities for this summer, I continue to stress that I have flexible hours -- that is, the talents I have and skills I possess lend themselves equally well to being put to use in an 8-5 cubicle setting or at my house between the hours of 7 and 10 PM. A lot of the people I'm working with right now just don't get it though, and that can be frustrating. At this point in my life, time, not energy is the greatest limit -- I can only pack so much in to the typical workweek, even if part of that workweek amounts to 'filler,' leaving me with free time during the evenings and early mornings. But so it goes... As members of our generation continue moving beyond college and progressing into the workplace, achieving management positions and founding start-ups, that is when we will really see the non-traditional workweek take off.

Even as I look for remote internships and volunteer opportunities for this summer, I continue to stress that I have flexible hours — that is, the talents I have and skills I possess lend themselves equally well to being put to use in an 8-5 cubicle setting or at my house between the hours of 7 and 10 PM. A lot of the people I’m working with right now just don’t get it though, and that can be frustrating. At this point in my life, time, not energy is the greatest limit — I can only pack so much in to the typical workweek, even if part of that workweek amounts to ‘filler,’ leaving me with free time during the evenings and early mornings.

But so it goes…

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