Posted on 11/16/2011 2:49:35 PM PST by TheDailyChange
"Young professional women may not relate to the financial struggles their Millennial peers are protesting against during the Occupy New York movement. After all, these ambitious go-getters are working as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and advertising executives, blessed with great salaries, health benefits, and paid vacation.
But these women understand the protestors’ frustration and unhappiness over the fact that their lives aren’t supposed to turn out this way. This is why a growing number of young professional women who seem to “have it all” are burning out at work before they reach 30."
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I’m 26, I better get cracking .... or maybe not. Hard to breastfeed on the flight deck.
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Glad that I did the children, homemaker, rent, travel before I started my career. So now I’m 78 and still working. Not burned out yet, but some days I get tired easier.
Posting and running. Got to go to work. Later.
Never burn your bridges. My wife has a job interview with a newspaper (conservative) that she worked for 20 years ago.
“Hard to breastfeed on the flight deck.”
Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
BTW, I just heard on the telly that Kate Middleton is preggers.
Well if my 2nd. officer was female too maybe I could pass the kid over to her to take over. lOL - and ya, heard she was.
Thank God for strong women who have proven “Where there’s a will, there’s a way!”
For many millions of unemployed Men, they will really appreciate you strong hard working women.
Auto pilots are there for a reason....
I have heard that some just turn off the transponder to do their thing! /s
My wife’s income is our sole source of revenue. I better keep her in a style she’s grown accustomed to; work. My eldest daughter rents a room in our house. I better make sure she’s paying enough rent at the proper lease amount. This neighborhood’s pretty exclusive.
Couple problems I have with the article. First it’s vague and full of generalities. Second — and this is common when commenting on inter-generational dynamics — it doesn’t really define what age groups are being compared. Everybody has their own terminology. Lastly, Doctors? Shoot, many doctors don’t clear their internships & residencies much before they turn 30. It’s hard to lump them in with the other professions that begin practicing in their early-mid twenties.
So what are young women supposed to do? Young men in their early to mid twenties are not stepping up to the plate, starting their careers and proposing marriage in any great numbers these days. Are the women supposed to just sit around and wait for them? As for the differing attrition rates between the sexes as careers advance, I’ll bet you it’s mostly caused by marriages and childbirth, not by different burnout rates.
Whiners.
The whinning never stops, I guess. No one forces anyone to do anything. Big egos focused on self require a lot of feeding. Humanism is it’s own punishment.
I had a thrity something doc once. I called her Ms. Me. Pitiful, but not unusual for some in this age group.
When I interview for professional positions, I can pick them out a mile away. Usually their resumes tell the tale so you don’t have to waste your time.
The part they leave out of this story is that so many women bought into the leftist Hollywood movie version of life, where they thought they’d get the degree, land a well-paying job, and still have time for all of the sex-in-the-city stuff. Instead they find out that work sucks quite often, something that men always knew but were willing to do anyway to support their loving wives and families. Well, being a loving wife is so 1950s. Hollywood says you aren’t being a real woman unless you are busting your man’s balls 24/7. So now you are a young woman who men are reluctant to marry and you’ve discovered that work is not always the fun slumber party you thought it would be. Whoops.
Oh please. Men don’t have the luxury of buring out.
Try being the 30-40 year old unemployed guy. Ask how his dating life is going.
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