Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen, 2020
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change**
Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book?
hatte von euch #millenials in der schulzeit jemand auch das Häfft-Hausaufgabenheft? Gibts das noch? So in klassisch mit Brot und Schwein? Der Verlag existiert noch, aber das Häfft finde ich nirgends mehr. #haefft#schule#hausaufgaben
new snuts album is so beautiful.. can't get butterside down / circles out my head.
my vinyl copy will arrive soon but i won't be in this weekend. first world problems 😭
Kylie has a secret that she daren't share with any of her friends. She is certain they won't understand what's happening to her. A recent visit to the doctor didn't reveal anything physically wrong with her, but she knows something is terribly wrong. She has turned to one of our advi
Even if #millenials can afford to buy a house, the fact that the big #insurance companies -- at least in #California -- aren't writing homeowner policies make such an investment really risky. I wish this #WashingtonPost article had mentioned these 2 things: 1) the fact that #StateFarm, #AllState, #Farmers, and #USAA are "putting a pause on these policies" (words used by agent) because of 2) #ClimateChange.
Pres Biden & Dems have the support of the world's biggest popstar, esp. from #GenZ & #Millenials. Swift's IG voter registration post resulted in record-breaking reg. numbers.
I remember being this free as a kid. We were out for hours without a call from my parents. We knew: stay close, be home at 6. That’s it. We played basketball or catch, roamed the near fields, built wooden sheds.
My parents weren’t ignorant, they just knew we are safe.
Sad new world. ☹️ #millenials
Maybe this is sacrilege to ask here, but what traditional/mainstream #social platform are #millenials using these days?
I've decided to have one traditional social media account to be able to check up on old friends and family. For a long time, insta was the thing, but I've noticed that a ton of my old friends aren't active on there anymore. Is it that they're using something else now, or are we millenials just not as active on social media anymore? (Which I fully support lol)
My autistic grandfather dutifully cared for his wife (the grandmother I never got to meet) at the end of her fight with breast cancer.
Grandma Mary really wanted marijuana joints to cope with her pain, but the doctors only permitted her to use morphine (this was in the late 1970's). She couldn't administer it to herself so my grandfather injected it into her veins for her.
He told me this story one summer day when I was over at his apartment with my father. I was 10 years old at that time .
What prompted the story was grandpa Bill giving us a tour of his tackle box. I saw a syringe next to the rubber worms, and I asked what it was for. He explained that the fake worms injected with air made them seem life like to the fish, they'd wriggle about in the water, and were more likely to get a bite.
Then, he paused and told the story of that needle, and what it was originally for. After grandma Mary died, he kept all those remnant from that time, and everything seemed to have a repurpose . I watched him grimace as he took the morphine syringe in his hand and he angrily snapped it in two, and threw it away.
That was the first time I ever seen the gentle man look angry, actually, full of rage.
Only now, as I lay here in the hospital bed, after having a dose of Dilaudid, as the burning hot pain relief sears through my veins and breaks open my weary heart. I feel my grandmother, and I didn't have to meet her, to begin to feel her pain.
I feel grandpa's pain too. Repurposing the hurtful memories, the tools we are are actually given , when what we needed was something totally different. The autistic tendency to survive and "make due" with rampant unfairness.
I can’t help but wonder - the experts seem surprised by how well the US job market and economy is performing. Maybe it’s as simple as the boomers are retiring and we’re getting some new energy and technological advancement as younger generations get a chance to lead the way.
I think many millennials are secretly unbloomed xenobiologists, xenopaleontologists, or xenarcheologists. We grew up seeing all those promises of technological wonder and new discoveries, only to become grown ups worrying if tomorrow there will be breathable air, food, and a home. With this came an unhealthy (for our minds) hate towards managers, oligarchs, and politics for ruining the world and our inner child dreams.