[Blueflag]

and she expects free healthcare and full retirement.

[gaijin]

Sugar baby.

[ConservativeDude]

I know millennials are annoying....but I like that article. I celebrate when someone can go over the wall and survive. More power to em. So long as they pay their own bills, I think it’s a good thing to leave the rat race behind every now and then....

[Reagan Disciple]

Burnt out putting on heels and makeup............

I wonder what any WW II/Korea/Vietnam/Gulf Wars vets would think of that kind of “burn out?”

To get a job like that requires connections. To live in Hawaii and still do all that glorious travel requires the same.

Just another pampered baby. Rome v 2.0 is officially here.

[GOP Poet]

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[BBQToadRibs]

I don’t think Millennials know what it’s like to really work. To not show up on time, but show up early. Turn your phone off and focus on the task at hand. To shoulder some extra work because it simply needs to be done. You’re not looking for praise, you’re just looking to get the job done right.

Kind of sad for them, actually. Missing out on the satisfaction of a job well done and knowing you truly earned your pay that day.

[gaijin]

A young, female Sex And The City devotee who later realized she wanted SOMETHING ELSE:

WhouddaThunkIt...?

Ever notice how you never hear about Demi Moore..?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"We’re waiting for retirement at 67, and they keep bumping it up — who knows what age it will be for me — 70s? I thought it was foolish not to [leave]."

Interesting article and this guy brings up a good point. Many of these young people (I get to say that since my kids are this age) probably do see the whole social security thing spiraling out of control and no one doing anything about it. It gives a sense of helplessness to them.

I agree with many of them, go do what you want to do in life. You don't have to wait until you are old to do it!! My only fear is I think a lot of these people may be bored with a normal job and life because they have no spiritual balance and they are going off to try to find that. No one gets satisfaction out of just a job, you have to have something else. Whether its a family, community service, your church or all of the above (preferable).

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

She’s probably still making a good amount of money, to support her new lifestyle. Travel can be cheap, and it also, easily, be very much the opposite. Coupled with a beachfront rental...Gal must be swimming in it.

[AppyPappy]

It’s all fun and games until the money runs out

[McGavin999]

I think you guys are missing the point. These people are beginning to understand the price they pay for the lifestyle they were leading. People used to be able to get away from work. You had an actual life. It’s not normal to work 24/7

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

She’s married. Her husband is paying for it, IIRC.

[Skywise]

There’s some jealousy here to be sure - we’d all love to live this life. But she’s your typical Millennial hypocrite. She’s a one percenter who obviously has here had to struggle in her life to make ends meet and makes a ton of wealth that she spends on extravagances and probably shows up at all the appropriate protest marches because “she cares”

In other words - entitled, spoiled brat.

[Bonemaker]

“Over the past 10 months, she’s scaled volcanoes in Guatemala, soaked up the waterfalls of Bali, Indonesia, and basked on glorious beaches halfway around the world.”

These are the kind of shiftless “adventure tourists” who wind up falling off a cliff in some exotic far away shithole or stepping on a stonefish in Australia. Meanwhile, normal people tough out their despised jobs, and raise and support their families. She’s getting money from somewhere.

[Dilbert San Diego]

So these young people, who have apparently saved money or have sources of income while they travel, are ditching work to go to Bali or India or other places. They have no family responsibilities since they don’t have children.

Is this really a major trend, or just a human interest story about a tiny number if New York based yuppies?

[sphinx]

People have made income vs lifestyle choices since time immemorial. I certainly have, and I’ve made different choices at different stages of life. Being an older parent with two adopted kids shoved my life course somewhat off the standard path. As long as people own their decisions, don’t fall into the entitlement mentality, and don’t resent the success of people who make other choices, there’s nothing wrong with marching to a different drummer.

[Luircin]

ONLY two weeks of vacation per year?!

I’m grateful for ONE!

[Buckeye McFrog]

But she yearned for something more and resented only having two weeks of vacation a year.

When I was her age I was working 60, 70 hours per week in schlep jobs, trying to raise a family, and lucky if I could even take my two weeks of vacation.

With this generation of snowflakes we are DOOOOOMED.

[luv2ski]

My son and his wife just left Brooklyn and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand for 9 months (+/-) in June. They were tired of the rat race in NYC that bleeds you of every dollar you make and the difficulty of living in NY. They are both working remotely but the cost of living is so cheap, they don’t have to if they choose not to. The rent on their new furnished apartment is $550/ month in a gated, new community. Their attitude was “if not now, when?” as a young married couple. They spent last weekend in Cambodia viewing the Angkor Wat temples. They wanted to do it before they had kids. When they come back to the US, they are not returning to NY.

[Dilbert San Diego]

If they are in stressful jobs they decide they don’t like, then it makes sense they would quit.