Millenials and Burnout

[zesty_pinto]

I don't have much time to talk about my life, but I just wanted to say I read this article about millenial burnout, and I felt I related way, way, way too much with the scenarios depicted here. The lack of satisfaction of a job well done, the constant concern for money, the need to feel like I am missing something that should be done despite how much Michelle says I did in a day...

I take break times too (the post I pushed aside was going to be about me ranting about how I waste too much time with the Switch), but I don't feel like I've rested enough. I don't think I feel like I've ever rested enough and I'm always full of anxieties.

Maybe once Michelle has only one job it'll be easier for her, but I get concerned about her load still because she doesn't want to go home since it adds miles to the car and it's more effort for her to drive home and back to pick me up.

I can't really blame her, sigh. If this doesn't help ease her life, then I might consider quitting soon as well, ease of it be damned. Buying a car for this second job is not worth it when I'm only using it for this job and taking into account that it's only getting me 100 a week.

Welp, a proper post will be made later on. Sharing this one because the article really felt so revelatory to know that I wasn't the only one that has been feeling this for so long.

Comments

[zesty_pinto]

There is that, too and I think you need to encourage yourself to find a way to have a drive and a goal for it too. I'll concede I was a lot like that until my 20s too because I was always railroaded along to whatever decisions my parents told me to do with little of my input even mattering. When I had the freedom to do things myself and put time into those projects and realize the cost and benefit of these things though was when I realized I needed to push myself to do better.

This is probably another reason why I think everyone deserves that one moment in humility when they have to live in a moment of desperation just to give them the incentive and desire to push themselves to do better since every decision matters. I don't think a lot of people are willing to acknowledge it or even desire it because you have a political side that believes it means you failed and another political side that sees it as a form of cruelty, but I think of it like a necessity to understand what survival is like.

That might be the other reason I poisoned the well that is Facebook with political posts since I want to spam the hell out of all the awfulness I see until I encourage more people to care. At the worst, I ruin Facebook. At the best, I get people to start thinking more about the problems at stake. Either way it's progress since I like both results.

[padhopper]

We all need a reality check. We all need to lose our jobs and work ourselves into a solution .

Don't censor yourself on Facebook. If you are not pleased with the politic mess you see speak up. Someone is thinking what you are thinking and needs to see they are not alone in that.