Week Five Announced – Columnist For 24hrs

24hrs logo Starting tomorrow I will be working as a columnist for the Vancouver 24hrs, a daily newspaper published in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

I will be writing about One Week Job type themes that I have previously touched upon. Such as: the idea of ‘sheepwalking‘ through life, making a commitment for passion, trade-off between money and happiness, my generation, interviewing upcoming graduates as to why they think our generation is seemingly having difficulty deciding on a career path, how they see their future relationship between their careers and social lives… etc.

If you have any other ideas or comments on these topics, I would love to hear them. Leave a comment, email me or now you can give me a call!

Yesterday, I got my first cell phone ever! Feel free to call me anytime with your ideas, thoughts, suggestions, offers, or even just to say hello:) Here is my number: 416-735-9335

-Sean

Alison

Hey Sean and others,

I am a Career Counsellor, and I work with youth (ages 15-30). I have a comment on generations, and how they value and look at work. The “Boomers”, I’ve come to learn, are often described as being highly loyal to the orgranization/company they work for. This generation sometimes looks at the echoing generations that followed as not being as loyal, in that we tend to change jobs and careers with the wind; but that is not, in my opinion, the whole story. I personaly feel like a very loyal person, but my loyalties sit, not with my organization or ambiguous company mission, but rather with MY team, MY office, MY family, and MY friends. If I am not alone here, then it is organizational management as a whole that may need to be restructured. No more dusty mission statements sitting stagnent in the obligatory “Policy and Procedure” binder; that doesn’t work, and it certainly doesn’t motivate. I don’t have all the answers, hey I’m new to this work, but I think a change in thinking and organizational structure is a start. Okay, rant over, more later.

Alison.