MYTH BUSTERS: Krystal Bellamy's generation is more ambitious to succeed than ever. Picture: Liam Kidston Source: The Courier-Mail
AMBITIOUS, savvy, and hard-working, Krystal Bellamy is among a growing group of Gen Ys showing their older colleagues they have the drive to achieve a successful career.
The 27-year-old Brisbane-based legal support officer said she was determined to put in the long hours to ensure she had a comfortable future.
"Especially in this day and age, because it's so hard for young people to get a foot on the property ladder at all now," she said.
Ms Bellamy is part of a growing number defying the perception her generation is lazy and has a poor work ethic. In fact, a recent survey has revealed Gen Ys are more ambitious than ever.
An online poll of 600 Australians aged 18 to 30 conducted by REST Industry Super found two-thirds of respondents have high aspirations for career success, to live a comfortable lifestyle and own their own home.
In the next 10 to 15 years, 29 per cent of Gen Ys believe they will build their own career, 75 per cent expect to live a comfortable or very comfortable lifestyle, and 90 per cent expect to own property at some stage.
REST Industry Super chief executive officer Damian Hill said Gen Ys were stamping out the wrongly perceived image of being lazy and unmotivated.
"They do appear quite ambitious but good on them for being that ambitious ... ultimately they have to turn that ambition into reality."
Mr Hill said many Gen Y Australians were spending more time studying.
"This is going to be the most educated generation," he said.
"They've painted a very bright future for themselves, the challenge is to make sure they do their best to turn that into a reality."
Ms Bellamy was convinced the best way to achieve success was through hard work.
"Hours in the legal industry are always quite long," she said. "But I enjoy working. I was raised by my mother and she always instilled in me that if you want a good life, it's important to have a good work ethic."
Social analyst David Chalke said the survey results were not surprising.
"(Gen Y) have been called lazy, work shy, won't commit to anything, self-indulgent and it's not true," he said.
"Relative to any other generation in their 20s they are no different, except I think they are probably better adapted to the world that they're facing than the generations that preceded them.
"They aspire to all the things that the previous generation aspired to - a happy family, a home, a good career - they are optimistic and that's a characteristic of being young."
Mr Chalke said they were often mistaken for being "work shy because they stay at university for three to six years".
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