How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

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[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not finished reading the article, but I am 17 and in generation Z, and experience the same type of burnout and paralysis, as I have for a while now.

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Things that should’ve felt good (leisure, not working) felt bad because I felt guilty for not working; things that should’ve felt “bad” (working all the time) felt good because I was doing what I thought I should and needed to be doing in order to succeed.

Hehe, I'm pretty sure I felt the same way in middle school! This is a familiar feeling.

Edit 2:

While writing this piece, I was orchestrating a move, planning travel, picking up prescriptions…

I would be exhausted even at this point. I guess I get burned out easily.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's about millennials because they are hitting the 30-levels of age (basically the 'old' age of having all your stuff pretty much figured out like job, house, partner and/or children.). But Gen Z (or whatever) will go through the same unless, unless the house market crashes soon and resets in reasonable waters. AKA unless 'we' fix it soon.