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6 stories about life with your adult children

In "Slouching Toward Adulthood," Sally Koslow shares what she learned about the differences between the boomer and Facebook generations.

5. Staying at a job

While no one would disagree the job market is dismal, Koslow talked with many 20-somethings who said they left a job, without securing another one first, because they didn't like the work they were doing or their co-workers, an idea Koslow says would have been foreign to their parents who often stuck with a job no matter what. "Our generation will find a new job as quickly as we leave the old one, taking the place of the older person who used to hold that position and was let go," said one young adult, Ariel Stepp. "We will do the same job ... but better, more efficiently." However, some companies are annoyed. "I've had six employees, all young, leave within the last five months," a CEO named Obi Orgnot said of his Internet company, Orgnot Ltd. "This quitting phenomenon is pretty much exclusively a U.S. and U.K. young worker issue."

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