Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

by Anne Helen Petersen

“Risk management used to be a business practice,” Malcolm Harris writes in Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. “Now it’s our dominant child-rearing strategy.”

Boom.

because she doesn’t really know what she might want to do if it’s not work.

Me too

the message of her childhood was that her status as a “smart kid” was the only way her family would regain financial security. Her parents had fallen out of the middle class

Hitting Close to home

And I internalized that working all the time was the surest way to make yourself feel less panicked about the things you couldn’t control.

Ouch

no matter the cost.

Bingo

But we should also be honest that if you want to be a licensed plumber, you don’t need to have an English degree, or a four-year degree in any form.

Nailed it