{"id":59057,"date":"2025-09-12T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:53:13","slug":"gen-z-seeking-careers-with-higher-purpose-as-they-observe-global-crises-and-face-into-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59057\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z seeking careers with \u2018higher purpose\u2019 as they observe global crises and face into future of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Young workers are often paid little, but still expected to live and thrive\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gen Zers are seeking careers with purpose and fulfilment. Photo: Getty\/Stock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages_1823936905.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gen Zers are seeking careers with purpose and fulfilment. Photo: Getty\/Stock<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Generation Z are choosing careers with purpose, hoping to change the world with their work as they watch global crises unfold and face a future they fear could be dominated by artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gen Zers \u2013 people born between 1997 and 2012 \u2013 are often criticised by older generations for what is perceived as a lack of work ethic, but young Irish people yearn to work for social good, rather than just for personal gain or status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young workers are often paid little, but still expected to live and thrive Gen Zers are seeking careers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,3498,290,52,18,19,17,71,2188,72,82,22482],"class_list":{"0":"post-59057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-dublin","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-laura-lynott","18":"tag-palestine","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-trinity-college-dublin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}