Career Ladder & Gut Instincts

Don't want to climb the corporate ladder? How about the lilly pad? Dangerous Dave talks about a new trend for workers. Plus, using your gut instinct in major decisions.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. Well,
it seems like we're constantly hearing about new ways younger
workers are different than older generations. Here's the latest. For decades,
people have always talked about climbing the corporate ladder, but
apparently gen Z is rejecting that. Instead, they prefer the
career lily pad. One expert explains it like this, We've

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traded the rigid ladder for a lily pad, a path
where we can jump to whatever opportunity fits best at
the moment. In the long run, that kind of flexibility
is more sustainable, realistic, better suited for today's workplace realities.
And here's data to back it up. In a new survey,
sixty eight percent of gen Z workers say they would
not pursue a management role unless it came with a

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bigger paycheck or more prestigious title. That sounds good, but
does it sound healthy. Lily pads are side by side. Eventually,
you're going to have to advance up to make progress. Right.
Gen Zers aren't less ambitious, they're just channeling their ambition differently.
According to a poll, fifty seven percent of gen Zers
currently have a side hustle forty eight percent of millennials,

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thirty one percent of gen xers, and twenty one percent
of boomers for gen Z, the day Job funds the
Passion Project. Also, gen Z workers are expected to make
up about ten percent of managers this year, so they're
not opposed to taking management roles on their terms, but
rather than following the rigid hierarchies or micromanagement styles, they
tend to embrace flexibility, prioritize work life balance, and emphasize collaboration.

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Older professionals can take a page out of their playbook too,
they say, setting boundaries that stick, diversifying your professional portfolio,
prioritizing mental health over corporate achievement, and embracing AI as
a tool not a threat. Well, I'll get there someday.
Deeper in the two So do you carefully weigh the
pros and cons when you make big decisions? Or do

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you ultimately just go with your gut? A new poll
found seventy percent of Americans go with their gut or
rely at least on it in some extent. That's when
they're making big life decisions. They use gut instincts or
catch all including intuition, general vibes, you're feeling, or any
insights you might get from prayer. They ask ten big
decisions that you might have already made at some point

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in your life. Would you use your gut or use
some fact based rationale in order to make these decisions?
For example, choosing a job, thirty two percent have based
it on a gut instinct. Well, I used my gut
in kind of a passion for me. Deciding where to
move at twenty six percent, breaking up with somebody twenty
six percent have used just their gut on that one,

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Quitting a job or switching careers twenty four percent, getting
a pet at twenty one percent, what to invest money
on twenty percent, getting married at twenty percent, going on
a first date at nineteen percent, buying a home at
eighteen percent, or deciding to go back to school at
thirteen percent. Those people will use their gut to make
those decisions. I just hope those decisions your gut does not. Well,

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maybe you need to take a couple tons before you
do that to me. They came for another episode of
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