Career Commitment & 2016 Reset

Are you commited to your career? Dangerous Dave talks about Gen-Z only being commited to theirs for 22 months at a time. Plus, the 2016 reset movement.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. Well,
if you haven't noticed, the job market is on shaky
ground right now, not just employers who aren't committing to
their workers. Some emerging characteristics of gen Z workers include
short job stints, sudden exits, and minimal loyalty. In fact,
gen Z's average commitment to one job is less than

(00:23):
two years. It's one point eight years for around twenty
two months. According to the new survey of young adults
and hiring managers, fifty eight percent of gen Z workers
admit to taking a job they knew was just a situationship.
Short term low commitment never meant to make it long term.
Only twenty five percent of gen Z pros say they're
invested in their job long term. Forty seven percent plan

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to leave their job within a year. Forty six percent
believe that staying loyal to one employer is rewarding in
today's job market. Thirty six percent of hiring managers say
they've chosen to not hire gen Z can it's due
to worries about job hopping, but young workers say they're
switching jobs because their current ones don't pay well, they

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get burnt out, or their gigs don't offer enough flexibility,
and they just don't feel valued. Job hopping people looking
for the BBD the bigger, better deal. Sometimes you create
your own situation instead of looking for one deeper in
the two well twenty twenty six the trailblazing cottage trend

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on social media is twenty sixteen yep, revisiting what was
popular ten years ago and using the hashtag bring back
twenty sixteen. According to TikTok, searches for twenty sixteen search
four hundred and fifty two percent last week, and more
than fifty five million videos have been created using twenty
sixteen filters. Stats from Spotify now show seventy one percent

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increase in twenty sixteen playlists. It's common for old to
become new again, but usually it's a longer generational cycle.
There's no explanation why twenty six is trending again, but
some say jen zeers are already down on twenty twenty
six and on a factory reset back to twenty sixteen,
when things were simpler, more optimistic, and less divisive. Just

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a throwback fashion thing. There's also social media challenges like
do manetican challenge in Thatchbaka mom, pop culture, music and vibes. Well,
now there's more than just nostalgia. Thinking it may be
more because of the Internet is less fun now, so
much brain rot and aislop. Social media has become more
curated and performative. Now everything feels like it's less authentic

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and not normal. Taking things back to when there was
less junk online, less social media, less AI. We weren't
overloaded inter clearly with promoted videos. To me again for
another episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave.
Play here.