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What's an aspect of your job that college didn't prepare you for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 8 months ago

I have friends who work in data. The amount of stories I hear about well drawn up reports, forecasts, and estimates they give leaders to only be thrown out with leaders saying "yeah but I don't think this is right" is just astonishing.

There really is a generational divide. Older leaders just go off what they feel. millennials and younger want some facts to back up those decisions