num_pages: 304
description: An incendiary examination of burnout in millennialsthe cultural shifts that got us here the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic change Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because youre too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt or feel like you work all the time or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era in Cant Even BuzzFeed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to perform our lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersens viral BuzzFeed article on the topic which has amassed over eight million reads since its publication in January 2019.Cant Even goes beyond the original article as Petersen examines how millennials have arrived at this point of burnout (think: unchecked capitalism and changing labor laws) and examines the phenomenon through a variety of lensesincluding how burnout affects the way we work parent and socializedescribing its resonance in alarming familiarity. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework original interviews and detailed analysis Cant Even offers a galvanizing intimate and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation and will be required reading for both millennials and the parents and employers trying to understand them. 
language: English
title: Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
publisher: Mariner Books