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Why Gen Xers Hate Corporate Jobs

10 reasons you won't find Xers in an executive suite

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted May 21, 2008 9:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – Generation Xers don't seem to be clambering to the top of the corporate ladder in the numbers they should be—and many are turned off by corporate life altogether. BusinessWeek has 10 reasons why this might be so:

Xers started their careers just as the

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