TEDxMileHigh - Nathaniel Koloc and Evan Walden - Shift Work

What does it mean to have purpose in profession? For a long time, the purpose was the profession---get a job, stick with it, retire. In other words, it was okay to settle as long as there was a steady paycheck rolling in. In this eye-opening talk, friends and business partners Nathanial Koloc and Evan Walden discuss a cultural shift in thinking about jobs, in which people desire to have purpose within their profession, seeking organizations whose missions align with their own, and never settling for a paycheck alone. Using their personal backgrounds as color, they show how they align impact-driven professionals with impact-driven organizations and vice versa.

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  Nonprofits & Activism

[Evan Walden]

oh I know that but hey you can still make a vid I got a vid here!

[Brian Caballo]

when u grow up.its weird u have same last name

[Evan Walden]

future of wut

[Evan Walden]

dude difrent Evan Walden

[Brian Caballo]

evan thats u in the future... dun dun duun

[Evan Walden]

Im Evan Walden but im a kid.

[Adam Smiley Poswolsky]

The speakers make an excellence case that the majority of Millennials, from all backgrounds, refuse to settle for a job that merely pays their salary. They want to make money, but they are willing to make financial sacrifices for increased social impact and purpose in their work. A recent Net Impact study of Millennials found that over 50% would take a 15% pay cut to work for an organization whose values matched their own. You have to work with purpose, on something bigger than yourself.

[Jeff Smith]

ok 500 characters so ill try to be concise. the 80 people that applied to your talent pool do not represent the generation of 80 million. this is known as a selection bias. i.e. upper middle-class white kids perplexed by the concept of not being ecstatic about work EVERY morning aren't going to indicate the opinions of a entire generation. please return to statistics 101 before you do any more "case studies" taught by nobel laureate astronauts because you're drawing conclusions from bad data.

[Phil Drolet]

Great work boys! Can't wait to see all the powerful changes you bring to the world in the coming years!