I just thought of something and nothing directly came up off of a google so I thought it would be interesting to throw it up here and see what you guys think.
In the Boomer generation, people did all kinds of jobs staying in the same area and then largely company for the majority of their lives. As society became more connected, especially so with the internet and phone access, people find their “tribe” or whatever a lot easier.
I bet most of us have a friend group that if you think of the source of each person to you, are people that in another generation it’s not feasible you’d have stayed in contact with, if even met in the first place. You had to sleep with that girl at the festival or it would never ever happen, there’s no exchanging socials and ending up in bed when they move to college in your city, you wouldn’t know.
Anyway- random anecdotes and all that aside, I’m asking if you accept the premise that their environment/peers/colleagues were often all of a similar group constantly throughout their lives.
If you accept on average they spent most of their social lives with co workers and similar peers socialising at the same places frequently?
If I can run with that premise, how you were perceived at work would be your immediate escape from your school identity- something nearly everyone distances themselves from.
This coupled with less global companies and much more regional jobs, creates an environment where doing a bad job affects social perception of you, can affect friendships and relationships and I think that’s why they were all so committed to this ridiculous attitude about work despite no objective more output just more reasons to be a boot lick than any job can give us now.
Please thoughts?, I thought it was interesting ..