Millennial Burnout

[Joker]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/c384d54a-0116-437f-83e8-ddbca65b6c06

[Joker]

What a joke this article is. The person actually writes:

“I think I’m one of many in my generation suffering from ‘millennial burnout’. This is not currently a recognised medical condition”

[Jonnybegood]

Im proud to say I’m a millennial who’s relaxed and doesn’t feel burnt out.

[cuppabo]

I don’t feel butnout but I feel like I keep consuming time all the time. I worry about what to do in next hour. But I don’t suffer because I think it is a part of living.

[John_Raven]

I’m gen z so I don’t have millenial issues.

[anon9798425]

Are you a millenial, @Joker?

[Clint]

@anon9798425

Are you a millenial, @FadeToBlack?

Treebeard seems to have an opinion about people speaking negatively about millennials a lot…

Poll: Hating on younger generations

Do you realize how often the word “millennial” is thrown around here? Do you think people who hate on younger generations have forgotten how they used to be? And have forgotten that they used to be hated on by older generations when they were young? Do you think they understand that calling young people lazy and morally degenerate is one of the biggest clichés throughout all of history? That it dates back to writings from Ancient Greece, and probably also to the time when we sat in caves and started using language to describe each other’s age and actions? Do you think these old farts just need to lighten up, get a little creative, and stop using younger generations as a scapegoat for eve…

[anon9798425]

Yes, I think it’s pretty stupid to look down on younger people, thinking your generation was so much better when you were young. It’s also pretty obnoxious. And old grumpy people have been doing it for thousands of years.

[SkinnyMe]

I agree. Nothing is worse than old people hating on younger people. And I’m an old person.

[Andrey]

Quite a few old people in my country refuse to acknowledge the changes in fashion and lifestyle that young generations have adopted. Why are they so bitter? I don’t get it.

Live and let live, man…

[everhopeful]

This is me :

[SkinnyMe]

That is so funny!!!

[Joker]

Yep, I am 31 years old.

[Joker]

I am not hating on millennials. I find that in fact the person who wrote this seems to be victimising people in this group.

If your job consumes your life and you feel like the writer of that does, then you either get another job, or stop giving out ridiculous deadlines like they admitted to doing that makes the laptop open every night.

If you think having the internet is negative, then don’t use it. I actually like being connected 24/7 so you know what’s going on.

As for life admin, learn how to use a spreadsheet and extract that rubbish from your head and manage it properly. Writing to the BBC and moaning about it is a load of rubbish. Life requires paperwork, and once you move out it’s really not that hard to put everything on direct debit. I don’t worry about any of it as the bastards who want money for this and that get it once a month and you don’t have to lift a finger. I have a cupboard with 6 months worth of letters in it and I don’t get upset about it.

Medicalising this as a ‘condition’ is nuts. This person is just not mature or has too much stress to handle her current life, and this does not apply just to millennials but people across the board. I manage what she does with my diagnosis, so it must be her situation that is the problem, not an entire generation.

I for one think as a millennial we benefit from technology and working in a service based economy. Not so long ago we were more industrial and most people worked in manual labor making things in factories.

[ZombiePupper]

I really don’t think it’s well understood just how stressful things are for the current young working generation. The burnout is real. I’ve seen it firsthand with my friends many times, and with myself way more times than I can count.

[Clint]

@ZombiePupper

I really don’t think it’s well understood just how stressful things are for the current young working generation.

I don’t know how you guys even communicate on some topics while trying to conform to modern standards of political correctness. I’ve had a few jobs recently in which I’ve spoken all day for a living, but it was stressful.

No wonder ‘oral communication’ is said to be the most sought after skill by employers. Everyone is scared half to death of saying something that can be twisted to sound politically incorrect, having it put on YouTube, and having it held against them for decades.

https://www.google.com/search?q=one+of+the+most+sought+after+skills+is+oral+communication

Very stressful.

[anon31257746]

Your lucky. Burnout is not fun.
Usually happens when we take on too many things and too high of expectation and not meeting that high expectation furthers it. And unfair comparison to others.

Like if we compare ourself to a high functioning type A personality normie. That’s just a bit unrealistic when we have mental illness

My pdoc told me to give myself some slack and that Im not lazy just have mental health issues

[bluerose]

I’m a 86 millennial and I am burntout but not from work from years of cannabis use in my teens

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@anon9798425

I think it’s pretty stupid to look down on younger people

I look down on lazy people at work. Unfortunately, too many of them are millennials. The following generation, Z, seem to have headed in the opposite direction. The majority I’ve worked with (generally students so far) have excellent work ethics and they either don’t carry phones or they stay firmly tucked away. Me likey.

[anon9798425]

I think you can find good and bad things about all generations. Judging a whole generation on a single criteria and based on such a limited sample doesn’t seem very rational.