The August 21 issue of Fortune magazine asks an important question: "Have You Outgrown Your Job?"
According to Fortune publicist, Erin Clinton, "A generation of younger workers can’t get ahead—because the boomers above them won’t budge. Twenty-, thirty-, and even forty-something managers are in trouble. Fifteen-hour days have become the norm. Untethering oneself from one’s BlackBerry is, in many fields, considered high treason. All this might not be so terrible if that big promotion—the one that catapults an up-and-comer out of middle-management hell and into the senior ranks-were around the corner."
"But increasingly," says Ms. Clinton, "younger workers are finding that no matter how many hours they put in or how much their bosses rave about their work, they’re just plain stuck. An entire generation is bumping against something no amount of youthful vigor can match. Call it the Gray Ceiling."
One 36-year-old finance manger states: "I'm under so much pressure here, but the rewards just aren’t coming. I have to get out." Click here to read the article.
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