Burnout by 30

Audrey a Roma exhibit

"One reason that women are burning out early in their careers is that they have simply reached their breaking point after spending their childhoods developing well-rounded resumes. . . These women worked like crazy in school, and in college, and then they get into the workforce and they are exhausted . . .

Many also didn’t think of their lives beyond landing the initial first job . . . They need to learn life is a marathon, not a sprint . . .

They expected things to be better now that they’ve arrived and made it.  But instead they are starting over on the bottom rung and still striving.  You can’t see the end of the tunnel because they are so many twists and turns.  It’s impossible to see what life will be like in 20 years these days.  It’s hard to look just 3-4 years in the future.   They don’t know what they are striving for, which makes it really hard to move forward . . .

Millennial women are tapping into their Type-A personalities to combat this fatigue. . .  It’s important to analyze what is causing the dissatisfaction . . .  The old adage, ‘Out of the frying pan and into the kettle’ is filled with wisdom: often we leave a job because of unhappiness and in our zeal to get away, we fall right back into the same traps, the same situations.” 

Forbes Article: "Why Millennial Women are Burning Out at Work by 30"  http://www.forbes.com/sites/larissafaw/2011/11/11/why-millennial-women-are-burning-out-at-work-by-30/

I have some time to learn from these women's mistake.  I have barely set foot in Corporate America and am already starting to feel burned-out myself . . . This is a marathon, not a sprint.  There was no solution in this article and that worries me.
Love,
Nat