Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

by Anne Helen Petersen

To be valuable in American society is to be able to work.

It makes quitting a job that relentlessly exploited you feel like giving up on yourself, instead of what it really is: advocating, for the first time in a long time, for your own needs.

burnout as the feeling “of having a hundred balls in the air, and knowing you’re going to drop some of them, but not knowing which ones and how vital they’ll be and the fallout of dropping them.”