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This didn‘t get the best reviews but I liked it a lot. More journalistic than academic but, like, I don‘t think we were expecting it to be academic? I‘m a younger millennial/gen z and I liked learning about some of the context and causes behind burnout. I really recommend

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I did it, I reached my Goodreads goal!
This book was depressing yet validating. It‘s good to know that I‘m not a loser for struggling with a broken system. The author covers a plethora of reasons why millennials are burnout: competition, the gig economy, impossible expectations, disintegrating boundaries, and the list goes on. Well done but very dry.

“Millennials became the first generation to fully conceptualize themselves as walking college resumes…we came to understand ourselves, consciously or not, as ‘human capital‘…”

Okay but I hate it here 😭

Listening to this today & this chapter had me nodding along the whole time. I‘ve been working for the last almost 10 years to become a dietitian. Next week I start a job as a defense contractor. Being tired of working for little pay while paying back lots of student loans & trying to afford a ton of continuing Ed credits was a big part of the reason I changed jobs. I‘m lucky I had the option. The moral of the chapter was “F passion, pay me.”

I‘ve stopped and started this #nonfiction multiple times; I‘ve found it difficult to concentrate on the subject matter. So glad I finally dedicated time to finishing it this afternoon (on my in-laws‘ porch as it rains). There‘s way too much epicness to fit into this small review, but I think the following quote from the book is pretty perfect: “We shouldn‘t have to choose between excelling in work and thriving as individuals.” Loved it 🌧 🌸

Breakfast 🥑 🍞 🍓 📖

It‘s finally Friday!! Squeezed in a few pages on the porch between dinner, gardening, and golf cart rides with my boys and my mom. I love warm weather and porch reading! 📖 🌸

The precariat.

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Started this new #nonfiction while on a mini vacation this weekend. Look how cute our hotel is! Also, this book — I‘m kind of loving it already. (Dollar bill for bookmark 😆)

Fantastic read. This book gave me the framework and vocabulary to discuss things I observed but did not know how to articulate regarding modern work and burnout.

“The overarching clarity offered by this pandemic is that it‘s not any single generation that‘s broken, or fucked, or failed. It‘s the system itself.”

A book that me feel so seen... Petersen is an incredible writer and she herself is a millennial and is able to speak to burnout from personal experience while adding on to the testimony of many others, and pointing to stats that exemplify why life‘s so precarious & burnout so prevalent now.

I loved this book! I would encourage every Millennial to read it. It shows that so many prevalent issues are not personal problems, they are societal and systemic problems.

This didn't wholly work for me. I felt unconvinced that this is a particularly millennial issue still, by the end of the book. It suffers from having been written prior to COVID-19, and not updated, it feels wildly out of date in some sections. Part of the main assumption here also relies on millennials being addicted to posting on social media, which I can't get behind.

Pour yourself a drink and prepare for therapy. I had so many epiphanies while reading this, a must for every millennial.

A great starter book for people who don‘t understand what my generation is up against, though it does read outdated already because of the pandemic. (Also I am quoted in the book!!)

Concerted cultivation, being “walking resumes,” pressure to succeed typified the millennial childhood. Kick the can became soccer leagues. They were told college was the key to the middle class instead of debt. This set them up for burnout as adults. Couple that with the instability of the “gig economy,” less full-time work with benefits available, & increased connectivity, many are struggling financially & mentally. A good look at the new normal.

An interesting read about the millennial culture, written by a millennial. Worth the read.

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