How can Millennials find meaningful jobs?

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The time has changed and the people has changed. Old generations tried to have jobs that got paid high salaries, but today's generations are different. We seek for the jobs that can "impress people," "show our individuality," and "enjoy," but not for the high paid salary jobs anymore. Finding meaningful job is harder than having a high salary job. The reason is that we are not willing to have jobs that gives you high salaries, but something that you can enjoy and satisfy.
According to the article,"4 Tips to Help Millennials find Meaningful Work" by Adam Smiley Poswolsky, one of every four adults between 18 and 34 years old are living with their parents after living on their own. Pew Research Center announced that only 54% of American adults are currently employed. The percentage of employment hit the lowest rate ever.
Poswolsky had interviewed dozens of millennials about their career choices for The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, but not even one of them answered that they wanted to "make lots of money," or "have lots of power." Many of them answered that they wanted to "teach urban teenagers how to avid debt and become successful entrepreneurs," or "inspire young girls to think they can become engineers." Poswolsky said that millennials aren't motivated by money, but they are motivated in making the world more compassionate, innovative, and sustainable.
The critics of the United States of America criticized millennials for not having jobs. They call millennials the lazy generation, the entitled generation, and the "me me me generation," but we aren't the "me me me generation." We're a group of determined individuals who refuse to settle because we know how great our impact can be when we find work we truly care about.

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...re successful in Korea. In Korean society, it is really hard to have a job or a meaningful job. Today's Korea's economic environment is really bad. The job markets are all in supersaturated situation. The reason is that South Korea is too small for all the people to have jobs. There are not much work for the university graduation students to work in Korea, and if there is one, it is really hard to get employed. Being employed is that hard in Korea, so many of the Korean university graduation students do nothing but play. It is really important to get a meaningful job and to keep your job, and not having adventurous behavior like practicing intentional experimentation.
After all, "Practice Intentional Experimentation" can be one of the important basic steps for the job-seekers in abroad, but not for the job-seekers in Korea that are willing to have meaningful jobs.

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