For some first time job seekers it can be a challenge to think of questions to ask of an employer. I think you brought up a great example of how asking the right question can possibly change your decision to take a certain job.

I’ll definitely be adding those questions to my list of suggested questions to ask potential employers.

Thanks for the ideas!

You entirely missed the point of the article. Whinera is saying that nothing happened for him until he grew a pair and took the initiative. You went off on some tangent about ‘’schedule flexibility” and ”ideas.” The main problem Generation Whiner has is that they expect things to happen for them when haven’t taken any initiative and that’s what this article is about.

I never said that good ideas don’t come from the bottom up. I said that TJ’s presentation of his ideas is not effective and that would be true regardless of where he was in the corporate food chain.

1. Schedule flexibility is very important including the ability to not work on scheduled days if business is slow and/or there’s something you would rather do.
2. You have a lot of ideas of managing younger entry level employees but I saw no track record of implementing those ideas.

As a result, I saw you as a potentially high maintenance employee who would be always telling someone how to improve their business but not necessarily be there to improve it. Given you don’t work in a highly skilled field with limited demand, I would rather have an average employee who quit after 9 months than someone like you based on your blog posts.

When I was in my 20’s, I wasn’t much different from this perception. I thought that I was the highest performing waiter/retail/counselor there was but in reality I was probably just better than average but made up for it by being a punk.

Your posts have shifted and are less career killing but until you are able to implement some of your ideas rather than write about it, I don’t see you as that different from myself in my 20’s.

Great post!