Solving Generation Y's Passion Problem Analysis

Solving Generation Y’s Passion Problem by Call Newport, an associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, posted on September 18th. 2012 on Harvard Business Review asserts that Generation Y is going into the working environment and things are not going well for them. This generation is also known as Generation me, and “The Worst Generation” not only due to the fact that they could be getting jobs and helping the economy, but also that according to reporters, we are selfish and unappreciative. Consequently, People think that the problem is that we are entitled, but the real problem is that we have been misguided by a misused career advice. When this generation was raised the phrase “follow your passion” was used as a career
Cal Newport, a professor at Georgetown University and author of this article, notes that “up to a third (33%) of 25-34 year-olds now live with their parents…”, but actually he was short of 0.9% due to a research by Richard Fry on Pew Research Center show that 32.1% of Millennials between the ages of 18 to 34 live with their parents in the US. This is fewer people living with their parents than in 1940, part of the Boomers generation, when there were about 35% of 18-34 year-olds living with their parents.
The author assumes that we follow only our passion when we are working, but he never wrote about those arduous years spent studying. These years should at least give you an idea of what you are going to deal with in your working life, but still he does not mention it. He assumes that we loved our studying years, and that what makes us so disappointed is work, but most of the time students find their passions while they are studying. For instance, one of my friends started studying medicine, but since she did not like it, she started studying biomedical engineering, and loves
The author writes how Steve Jobs “told the crowd to not “settle” for anything less than work they loved”, on his Stanford Commencement address. This contradicts the purpose of Newport’s article since, he was trying to input that we shouldn’t follow our passions, because we actually realize our passions after hard work. Newport also generalizes seeing that he uses few examples to come to that conclusion that “following you passion” is the phrase that brought us to our doom of indecisiveness, and disappointment for our work. Additionally, Newport does not give us an example of someone who followed their passion and failed. This gives us a reason not to believe this article since it does not have even one explanation to reason why we should not follow our