Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
2021 • 320 pages
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Ratings7
Average rating4.1
An incendiary examination of burnout - what got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic change Are you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow it's never enough? Does your job seep into your evenings and your home life creep into your work? Does the bottom half of your To Do list feel unreachable? This is burnout and it is affecting how we work, parent, socialise and live. Through her own experience, original interviews and detailed analysis, Anne Helen Petersen traces the institutional and generational causes of burnout. And, in doing so, she helps us to let go of our guilt and imagine a possible future. 'Genuinely enlightening... Can't Even is a reminder to the burned out generation that things can be different' Observer
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A really interesting read about what our society has become for us millennials regarding the expectations we were taught growing up and how many false promises we grew up with that don't verified at all once we grew up. Be it the importance of going to the university, investing / drowning in work to climb the ladder, ... it also shows the toxicity levels we set up for ourselves in a lot of life's areas. Quite a read for any millennial struggling to cope with life as it is!
