Excerpt from a motivational talk by Louis Barajas about the instability of high-paying jobs and the need for young people (millennials) to prioritize meaningful work, experiences, and adaptability. The speaker emphasizes pivoting quickly in any economy and contrasts prior generations’ focus on material success with millennials’ desire for impact and purposeful work.
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For example, I know that there's another workshop about how to get a high paying job. What I'm going to share with you that those high paying jobs may not be around in five years from now. I'm going to give you some tools today that will teach you how to pivot quickly in any economy. Okay? Young millennial kids searching for success. They want to leave a legacy. They want their life to have meaning. They want to have experiences. But in the past, people would say, you know what the pastor said that day at that place that changed my life? He said one quote, he goes, louis, I've been a pastor at the small church. Now it's this huge megachurch. Back then, it was a small church. And he said, I've done funerals for really super wealthy people and really super poor people. Because I told him what I want to do, what was happening in my life. And he said, but I've never seen a U haul behind the earth. And to me, to be quite honest with you, your generation is the first people to get this. Because my generation was searching all for success. More toys, bigger homes, bigger this, bigger that. This generation wants more experiences, wants to make an impact, want to change the world, want to do stuff. They don't want to be sitting in cubicles. They just don't. They want their work to matter.
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