Generation Y Michigan Invites Guest Essays

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Michigan Radio
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Michigan Radio and Generation Y Michigan are inviting the audience to submit guest essays for publication on this website. If you’d like to publish an essay, please send it as an attachment to generationymichigan@umich.edu. Make sure to include “Generation Y Michigan Essay” in the subject line. We encourage you to provide a short bio (40-80 words), contact email (if different than the one used for submission), and a photo of yourself. UPDATE 11/13/09: Please follow the instructions on our Guest Essay Submissions page.

We are still working out the specifics of this new aspect of the project, and we don’t have too many requirements at this time. The essay should focus on the topic of young adults in Michigan, and the reasons why they would move to, stay in or leave the state. These can be based on personal experience, observation, interviews or research. The length should fall in the range of 500-2,000 words, with some flexibility. Your essay should be an elaboration on a theme or idea — in other words, please don’t submit a list of pros or cons about Michigan. Feel free to include an image to go with your essay, as long as you created it or you have the right to use it (include a link to the original image if it’s a Creative Commons photo from Flickr or a free-use image from a stock photo website like Stock.xchng).

At this time guest essays will not appear on the front page of Generation Y Michigan. However, they will be published under a Guest Essays tab in the site navigation and the Recent Posts box in the site sidebar. Essays will be subject to the terms of Michigan Radio’s User Agreement, specifically in regard to discrimination and hate speech. Michigan Radio will not edit the content of essays, but we may make grammatical corrections according to AP Style.

We want to clarify that we will not be taking pitches, selecting from submissions or paying for essays. We will publish any essay that meets our general guidelines.

GenerationYMichigan.org is published under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-SA license. By submitting, the author agrees to have the essay published under the conditions of this license. These contributor requirements are subject to change at any time.

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  • Adam Goodman
    Should I stay, or should I go? That seems to be the question floating around the heads of Generation Y. I was born here. I lived here all my life, and can't imagine living elsewhere. However, most of my friends have abadoned this state years ago. I now have friends in New York, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, and Texas. It makes it quite difficult, to get together all at once. They left for one reason, and one reason only. Work. They all graduated with undergraduate degrees, and toughed it out in Michigan as long as possible. They didn't want to leave, but it seems that the state pushed them out. The opportunities for young people are not as great here, as in some other states. When I ask my friends "Why did you leave?" They all have the same answer. I'd move back if I could. I hear it a lot. Unfortunately the professions that young people seek aren't located in Michigan, but there are still plenty of other opportunities. The medical field hires in Michigan, just like it does elsewhere. Michigan needs to transform from an industrial state to a service state. Service jobs are always plentiful. If you're looking to work in a factory, then you may want to pursue other areas. If nursing is in your future, Michigan could accomodate you. If the next generation chooses professions that are in demand, than there should be no reason to leave home.
  • You have a good point about the need to transform from an industrial state to a service state. However, one could say it's a problem that so many of Michigan's cities are bolstered by hospitals and universities. And I've heard of recent nursing graduates having trouble finding a job in the metro Detroit area, so I don't think that's an invincible industry anyways. I think high tech jobs will be more sustainable, from biomed to web-related jobs.
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