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In an effort to persuade America’s baby boomers that Millennials actually do want to be employed in some capacity, Forbes just released the top 25 companies where our generation wouldn’t actually mind working. 13,000 were surveyed, and while some of the results make sense, the rest have honestly left me baffled.
1. 3M
2. Google
3. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
4. Walt Disney Company
5. Local Hospital
6. The FBI
7. Buzzfeed
8. Apple
9. The CIA
10. Amazon
11. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
12. Health Care Service Corp.
13. Mayo Clinic
14. Microsoft
15. Nike
16. U.S. State Department
17. Universal Studios
18. Netflix
19. Dreamworks Animation SKG
20. The New York Times
21. Boeing
22. NSA
23. Abercrombie & Fitch
24. Blue Cross Blue Shield
25. Samsung
Ok, I’m officially lost. Today’s Millennials want to work at Abercrombie & Fitch? Did I miss something? Are we back in 2002? Do they want to be employed in two years? If you want to be employed by a retailer, at least try to pick something that people have worn this decade.
While some of these make sense – looking at you, Google, Apple, and Disney – there are some glaring omissions from this list. Where’s Facebook? Perhaps its absence is due to kids these days passing the ‘book up for Instagram and Snapchat, but this list is completely devoid of social media outlets in general. The survey was taken from an honors society based out of Atlanta, so Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta makes sense, but where’s Coca-Cola? What about Chick-Fil-A? Don’t get me wrong, CHA is a good organization, but it’s nowhere near the biggest or best employer in the metro area. Do kids these days even care about prestige anymore?
Some members of our generation clearly have their heads on straight, but overall, this survey has made me just as disappointed in the Millennial crew as ever. Maxing out at $85K in a government job is the best you can hope for in your wildest dreams? Millennials, it’s time to wake up and become ambitious again. Don’t sell yourself short aiming for writing Buzzfeed listicles as your ultimate goal, because honestly, if that’s what the majority of you really want to do, I don’t think I want to be part of this generation anymore..
[via Forbes]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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You’re on a pretty high horse about Buzzfeed considering the majority of your articles are just copy and pasted “# Cities Where Millenials Blah Blah Blah.”
GOTTT HEEEM
they got rid of kendra, what else can you want?
My dream job is to be Joe Biden and walk around the White House in my underwear, lost, at night..
I got ghosted by a recruiter at Amazon. PGP
Ditto. Assuming you mean for a job. Then I read about their employment practices and felt like I dodged a bullet.
Getting a job at Nike doesn’t seem too difficult. I would assume that the sweatshops in China are always hiring.
Your hands are too big
“Yeah I wanna work for the NSA, I think a lot of the things things I learned about protests in college will fix this organization”
Associate Accounting Professor married to a rich successful attractive lady doctor not one of the dream jobs? @Not2BrokeGirls I’m looking at you.
That’s funny, I can’t seem to find being Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat on here.
it was #26
My dream job is to be Vincent Chase.
Take it from a guy who worked in management at Disney, you do not want to work at Disney. Sure the corporate, legal, or financial jobs would be pretty sweet but anything in park operations (even management) is soul-sucking
“Have a magical day!”
You know people don’t read the business section when they say they want to work for Abercrombie.