millenial-generation

Millennial Workers Do Not Understand the Value of a Dollar

Sheila · 02/29/08 10:51AM

"For Manish Vora, then 26, a salary package around $500,000 wasn't enough," Portfolio reports in an article about Millennial Generation. They're the "80 million or so workers born after 1980 who researchers say tend to place job satisfaction and lifestyle concerns ahead of their desire to simply move up the corporate ladder." Clearly, Mr. Vora has not once spent one iota of life broke off his ass, or he wouldn't be talking crazy about giving up a fat paycheck to start a dot-com. But that's what all the hedge-funders and finance types are doing lately, in their search for "meaning" in their jobs. What kinds of meaningful, low-paying work are these kids engaging in?