Millenial "Work"

It's a bitterly cold weekend evening in a new year as I sit soaking up unlimited web surfing without [much] interruption (a rare guilty pleasure of mine) because my parents are entertaining my children and there is a two hour school delay tomorrow so bedtime is a general idea tonight. Fire up the bookmarks, Google search, apps!


In my roaming I came across some awesome ideas (projection smartphone/watch) while prepping for a busy week of school improvement plans and re-accreditation, planning digital citizenship activities, finding new organization tools for student demos, planning grant applications, researching upcoming conferences, explaining to my mom the utter failure of standardized state testing, etc that sometimes my mind boggles at the warp speed at which technology is changing possibilities of "work". Even in my free time, I'm multitasking like a ninja. Did I mention I'm also watching cable news, checking weather, and messaging fellow tech dept-ers?

I love generational studies (Millenials Who Manage has a few excellent chapters) and it's no surprise that technology is the triggering culprit in generational conflicts. My Boomer parents don't even understand what I'm doing on my device right now other than randomly typing ("blog" is beyond them). They nodded politely when I explained my plans to Google Hangout my morning meeting since I'm out of town. They quizzically contemplated that I planned 2 round trip tickets, rental car, and Las Vegas hotel in less than three minutes after my dad saw a commercial for a ticket site.


Millenials do a lot of work, like other generations, but it looks very, very different - perhaps a bit ADHDish. I have so many cool things I want to look into and try out that I actually have to make to-do lists to remember all of them (and then I can't wait to share them with people).


Previous generations might find that overwhelming but Millenials (and whatever we name the kiddos' generation) are just enjoying a quiet Sunday night.

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