young professionals

Early career workers

Young professionals are people in the early stages of their careers, typically in their twenties or thirties, working in white-collar or skilled occupations.

The term often carries connotations of ambition, upward mobility, and urban lifestyle: The neighborhood attracted young professionals with its restaurants and nightlife.

Marketing and real estate frequently target this demographic.

Sometimes abbreviated YP or, in dated slang, yuppie.

Opposites
age/career stage

young professionalsretirees

People finished working permanently

old-timers · veterans · pensioners · old guard · lifers

workforce status

young professionalsretirees

People finished working permanently

students · pensioners · college students · unemployed · dropouts

occupational class

young professionalsblue-collar workers

Manual labor employees

tradespeople · manual laborers · working class · day laborers · service workers

Family

young, younger, youngest, youngster, youngsters, youthful, youthfully, youthfulness, professional

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