They will be very shocked to find GenZ's willingness to take up roles of almost any kind with ease and immediacy. Working at the coffee machine, online research, data entry, gardening, cleaning, teaching, helping out at the stores... Maybe not as diligently at home but with certain understanding of tasks at the workplace and pronto, to carry out the work.
Reading online about them, you will know they are natives to the digital world. My three girls grew up with the now-archaic Apple PowerMacs nursery games almost from hospital birth.
These are our nation builders. They grew up in an online world where they farmed vegetables for gold coins. Sold vegetables. Traded. Built more farm houses. Built hotels. Built homes. Learned to save. Collected more Nuggets. Planted carrots. Worked as a cashier. I honestly can never remember the names of the games they played and are playing now, except one. But I do extract from them their whys and 'what's-happenings'. I only know of the YoVille that my wife and I family-ventured with them. At my last check YoVille is now YoWorld. Certainly most appropriate name change to mark the coming of the generation.
They don't really have much chips on their shoulders. They know they just have to get things done. This is a generation that has built cities, villages, homes and businesses. They have traded globally from the age of five.
And in Malaysia where we live, GenZ do not start out in life having to think of buying homes. They are seeking their roles to play in the worldplace. I have not seen Malaysian youths take up holiday jobs with so much ease as now. Or maybe I was in a cocoon.
While these are clearly my opinions, they are witnessed from growing up with all 3 GenZs at home. I look forward very much as they have already started transiting their roles to the 'real' world. Here again lies the ponder - Is the virtual world also not a real world?
Welcome, to the kids with the mark of Z.
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