PUBLISHING DATE: AUGUST 2015
(Original Submission)
GENERATION NOW
Every generation has its name. It comes with living in a world that struggles to embrace equivocal ideologies but tries too hard to pin them down to specifics. But as complex the human condition is, such definitions fray when stereotypes are challenged. This generation isn’t exempt just yet, with variations of millennials, hipsters, and yuppies spawning terms like yuccies (young urban creatives) and yupsters (yuppie hipsters). It’s this frame of thought that the very era today is confronting, cracking the walls that society boxes us into. Tiffany Go, a graduating college student, gives light to what the millennials are emerging as, and it’s not the entitled intelligentsia mold shoved down our throats.
Tiffany Go appears to be your typical 21-year-old. A graduating Applied Economics student of De La Salle University, Tiffany loves to travel, is very much into food, and is in the hobby of looking for more hobbies. But beyond the semblance is a reflective soul contrary to the technology driven, short-attention-span archetype. If anything, information readily ingested has made her analytical and ambitious. Influenced by the past generations, cultural changes, and resources present, she belongs to a breed of go-getters steeped in spirit, prudence, and social awareness.
Tiffany’s craving for travel feeds her need for knowledge, a quest she sees as unceasing. “It's different when you're in a foreign land because you see things and experience them firsthand. No one knows you, and for me, the feeling of being utterly insignificant sinks in and keeps you grounded. I've come to realize that there's still so much to be done, so much things to see, so much things to improve on. When I [realize] how much I [don’t] know, I [strive] to learn,” she shared. It’s the kind of realization that drove her to take courses in Stanford University after graduation. She’ll be studying International Management, Human Rights, and Technology & Innovation.
GENERATION NOW
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Every generation has its name. It comes with living in a world that struggles to embrace equivocal ideologies but tries too hard to pin them down to specifics. But as complex the human condition is, such definitions fray when stereotypes are challenged. This generation isn’t exempt just yet, with variations of millennials, hipsters, and yuppies spawning terms like yuccies (young urban creatives) and yupsters (yuppie hipsters). It’s this frame of thought that the very era today is confronting, cracking the walls that society boxes us into. Tiffany Go, a graduating college student, gives light to what the millennials are emerging as, and it’s not the entitled intelligentsia mold shoved down our throats.
Tiffany Go appears to be your typical 21-year-old. A graduating Applied Economics student of De La Salle University, Tiffany loves to travel, is very much into food, and is in the hobby of looking for more hobbies. But beyond the semblance is a reflective soul contrary to the technology driven, short-attention-span archetype. If anything, information readily ingested has made her analytical and ambitious. Influenced by the past generations, cultural changes, and resources present, she belongs to a breed of go-getters steeped in spirit, prudence, and social awareness.
Tiffany’s craving for travel feeds her need for knowledge, a quest she sees as unceasing. “It's different when you're in a foreign land because you see things and experience them firsthand. No one knows you, and for me, the feeling of being utterly insignificant sinks in and keeps you grounded. I've come to realize that there's still so much to be done, so much things to see, so much things to improve on. When I [realize] how much I [don’t] know, I [strive] to learn,” she shared. It’s the kind of realization that drove her to take courses in Stanford University after graduation. She’ll be studying International Management, Human Rights, and Technology & Innovation.
But it isn’t just about bigwig universities and charming travel spots. For Tiffany, learning is about seeking experiences wherever that may be, even if it means working as a server for a restaurant. She took a stint in 12/10 to further her understanding of the food industry. 12/10 is a trendy non-traditional Japanese restaurant in Guijo Street, Makati run by likeminded youngins.
After seeing a Facebook post that said they were looking for servers, Tiffany immediately went for it. “I was forced to interact with people I barely knew and that really pushed me out of my comfort zone. There was one time I really felt looked down on. That really changed the way I saw things. I learned to think on my feet. I learned to prepare myself for the unexpected. I would have said that working for 12/10 showed me that nothing comes easy, that without hard work, nothing happens. But then again, I was taught that a long time ago,” she answered when asked what she gathered from the experience. And at a young age, she uses these moments to form the kind of career and life that fits her type: a future social entrepreneur and women’s rights advocate who knows the significance of work-life balance.
Tiffany represents an era of young adults taking risks to explore their passions, people who do not constrain themselves to embrace a rigid identity. Tiffany’s life mantra sums it up. “You’ll never know until you try.” It’s a future of entrepreneurs and a working class who aren’t only driven by profit but by a sense of creative fulfillment and social responsibility.
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