One of my twins is applying for summer internships, the other is not interested in employment (a separate concern). Applying for internships is not straightforward as evidenced by this anguished message I received:
“[This employer] has just asked me to download their app to apply for an internship. Dante would create a new, linearly independent system of hells for this”
You have my every sympathy.
My younger son has just started his first job, and between LinkedIn and psychometric tests for job applications I think he despaired more than once.
The modern world can be a hell-scape, I think.
It really can. Our poor children.
It’s onerous but might also help to build resilience.
I am also becoming less interested in employment! Two of my colleagues just retired, and it sounds much better.
Mmm. Maybe. It sounds a bit like torture though.
I hear you but that is not an attitude you can have at 19.
This Gen Xer is very glad to hear that the younger generation is just as despairing of ‘download the app’ as I am. (And if you read Cory Doctorow, there’s usually a reason why they want you to do that and it’s not a good thing). It is the prerogative of the youngest child to be uninterested in the conventional career paths of their siblings, although I’m not sure if the same dynamic works for twins …
Yes, loathing of downloading the app does seem to bind the generations together. Michael has totally inhabited the youngest child space despite being a twin so perhaps he is exercising his youngest child prerogative.