What are current top tier professions for millennials?

[Anonymous]

In my opinion:

- Medical doctor (I'd put dental surgeon right there too)
- White shoe law firm
- Investment banker
- MBB consultant
- Silicon Valley engineer
- STEM PhD researcher?

[Anonymous]

What is the criteria? Top earning potential? Median compensation? Best lifestyle? Most job security? Most stimulating? Most fulfilling? Most interesting? Most likely to impress a romantic partner? Most likely to stroke your own ego?

[Anonymous]

As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

[Anonymous]

As an older millennial who graduated college during the worst part of the recession and, before the ACA, struggled for a few years just working to pay for health insurance because I have a chronic condition that would have made me uninsurable if I had any lapse in coverage, I made stability a priority in my career. I really wanted good benefits and job security. I am a federal employee and consider my job a fulfillment of the goals I set out for myself. Now that I don't have to worry about the basics, I share PPs sentiment about wanting financial security through my own business, but I do that after my day job is over with a profitable side hobby. I am not easily impressed by any professions. I don't really judge people that way since I'm pretty cynical about work, in general. I like my career but it's a means to an end and I tend to pity anyone who doesn't see that.

[Anonymous]

State Department

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

Talk about contradictions , you don't want to work for someone else but with entrepreneurship aspirations of your own , it stands to reason that you expect someone to come for you right ? You're cute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State Department

seriously? Why?

[Anonymous]

Omg top tier lady is back! Quick quick run away!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

Talk about contradictions , you don't want to work for someone else but with entrepreneurship aspirations of your own , it stands to reason that you expect someone to come for you right ? You're cute.

Not OP but your reply doesn't make sense and jumps to conclusions. A lot of millennials like PP are embracing the renewed interest in craft products and are running small businesses, sometimes without employees other than themselves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

Talk about contradictions , you don't want to work for someone else but with entrepreneurship aspirations of your own , it stands to reason that you expect someone to come for you right ? You're cute.

Not OP but your reply doesn't make sense and jumps to conclusions. A lot of millennials like PP are embracing the renewed interest in craft products and are running small businesses, sometimes without employees other than themselves.

If that was the case , I'm sure she could have said so but ok

[Anonymous]

An Executive, obv. That doesn't change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

Talk about contradictions , you don't want to work for someone else but with entrepreneurship aspirations of your own , it stands to reason that you expect someone to come for you right ? You're cute.

Not OP but your reply doesn't make sense and jumps to conclusions. A lot of millennials like PP are embracing the renewed interest in craft products and are running small businesses, sometimes without employees other than themselves.

If that was the case , I'm sure she could have said so but ok

She didn't say anything to the contrary that would have led to your conclusions that she wanted to have people working for her. Different generations have different ideas of what a founder/CEO is. I don't assume that everyone who wants to be a founder is talking about a big company. Half of my graduating high school class considers themselves a business owner and would tell you they were a CEO. Most of them are talking about an Etsy or EBay shop. I'm not defending it, just trying to translate. And again, I'm not PP and don't know what she meant by it, only that millennials seem to mean something else by the term than what you (and lots of other people) interpret it to mean.

[Anonymous]

So op you just listed it for the top 10% which hasn't changed in decades

For normal millenials its enterpanureship or tech in a landslide

Noone wants to be chained to a desk 9-5 marking time

Boomers can't figure this out and they wonder why they have a hard time attracting younger employees

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

Talk about contradictions , you don't want to work for someone else but with entrepreneurship aspirations of your own , it stands to reason that you expect someone to come for you right ? You're cute.

What would be wrong with aspiring to be an employer rather than an employee? Many people want to work for someone else, or are not entrepreneurially-minded or financially able to start and run their own business. Different strokes for different folks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a mellinial I'm more impressed by successful innovative entrepreneurs and I aspire to be one. I don't want to spend my life working for someone else. I like those who take risk on their own, working hard daily, defying the status quo and become successful founders/CEOs. I want that ultimate financial freedom.

Talk about contradictions , you don't want to work for someone else but with entrepreneurship aspirations of your own , it stands to reason that you expect someone to come for you right ? You're cute.

What would be wrong with aspiring to be an employer rather than an employee? Many people want to work for someone else, or are not entrepreneurially-minded or financially able to start and run their own business. Different strokes for different folks.

Exactly. I'm pretty risk-averse, and I actually prefer being an employee so that I can focus on the job that uses my skills and education rather than having to be responsible for all the other management/financial/administrative stuff that the owner has to deal with.