Burnout Is For Millennials (And Millennials At Heart)
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Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The millennial generation came into adulthood during an American recession, an era of crushing student loan debt and the rise of temporary workers and independent contractors. Add a global pandemic to that precariousness and you’ve got a perfect recipe for burnout.
Today, Greta talks with author Anne Helen Petersen about Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. It's our October pick for the Nerdette Book Club. And even if you aren't a millennial or haven't read the book, we want to hear from you. Tell us about your burnout feels! Record yourself on your phone and email the audio to nerdettepodcast@gmail.com and you may hear yourself in our longer panel discussion later this month.
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| 0:35.6 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is the Nerdat Book Club. |
| 0:37.9 | It's just like a normal book club, except sometimes the author stops by. This month's selection is can't even how millennials became the burnout |
| 0:44.1 | generation. It's by Anne Helen Peterson. And it's an expansion of an article that she wrote for |
| 0:49.3 | BuzzFeed a couple of years ago that went super viral. The book and the article are both examinations of the numerous |
| 0:56.9 | forces that have led people to just be completely exhausted. And, you know, just to name a few, |
| 1:02.6 | we've got student loans or the recession or the prevalence of smartphones. Maybe the cost of |
| 1:09.6 | healthcare. There's like literally a million other things, |
| 1:12.7 | let alone the pandemic. So, of course, there is lots to discuss. And welcome to Nourdet. |
| 1:18.8 | It is my pleasure to be here. So before we get any further, I think we need to do some definitions |
| 1:24.1 | of terms. Let's start with millennial. How are you defining that? So I define it as |
| 1:29.9 | like 1980, born in 1980 to 1995, technically. But here's the thing. I think you can be a millennial in your |
| 1:38.3 | heart. If the experience of being a millennial is defined by precariousness, there are people who are |
| 1:47.1 | technically millennials who maybe do not have the same, you know, they do not resonate with that |
| 1:53.3 | feeling of like everything is hard and I'm overwhelmed all the time. |
| 1:58.0 | Okay, so what about burnout? How are you describing that one? |
| 2:02.8 | The best way to think of burnout, |
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