#quarter-life-crisis

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Mental health
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 days ago

The quarter-life crisis is the new midlife crisis: Young people's problems are crushing the unhappiness curve

Unhappiness now peaks in early life and declines with age, eroding the midlife hump and reflecting rising quarter-life crises linked to smartphones and pandemic.
fromFortune
3 days ago

Gen Z's angst, the death of the midlife crisis, and young worker 'despair': 2 top labor economists study the mess on the ladder to success

From chronic struggles with burnout to a pragmatic, even skeptical take on how to lead their careers, the generation that entered the workforce during the age of quiet quitting has come to exemplify the quarter-life crisis. But what if this is the new norm, and the midlife crisis is going extinct the way other trappings of the 20th century have, like dial-up internet and Kodak film? What if Gen Z has giant, macroeconomically valid reasons for being plunged into a collective quarter-life crisis?
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