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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh, I tell you what.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Is this true? One and four?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
And because this qualifies because Sam, you're not going to
turn thirty for a couple of months, right. One in
four Americans hit their peak burnout before the age of thirty.
That's a lot meaning work burnout.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Ah, I could see that. I could see that happening
to people. I think that when you're young and you're grinding,
and you're like, you get out of college and you
jump right into your career, you go from decades of
school and then just straight into working for the rest
of your life. And I think that people are just
burnt out in life in general right now, and it's
just so much easier to get burnt out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Inordinate amount of gen z are saying, I can't do
this well.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The other funny thing is how do they know they've
reached peak burnout? The bottom could go lower. They could
get older and be like, oh no, I thought I
hit peak burnout, but it's just getting worse.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But I don't think they may not even be in
the game by the time there's the opportunity for that
bottom because they didn't give it.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
A chance, like they quit quit, But how do they live.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
See this is like my generation, the gen Xers, they
go back and live with their parents. You know, that's
what my generation is known for. Gen Xers were the
ones that like were the Nirvana generation or the Pearl
gem generation. Wore a lot of flannel, and we went
back and lived with our parents.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know a lot of gen Z have gone back
to live with their parents too. I don't know that
that's specific to your generation anymore. No, Millennials.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, I think ours was driven more by lack of motivation.
I think today's gen zs a lot of them have
jobs that live with their parents. I think a lot
of the gen xers back then did not have jobs
and video gamed in the basement and didn't talk to
their parents, but lived with their parents and expected everything
from their parents and food from their parents, and everything
(01:47):
from their parents, but weren't really contributors to society so much.
That's the gen X or slacker generation. Gen Z is Like,
we know people here that are living with their parents.
A lot of people that work here they live with
their parents, that come into work here their parents because
they haven't gotten that real adult job, that first adult job,
because nobody's hiring.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I know a lot of people that are in their
mid to late twenties that have full time jobs and
are making a lot of money, but they live with
their parents because why not, Like they're just saving money
and banking money, and they stay with their parents until
they have like a significant other that they want to
move in with basically, and they end up just making
bank and just sayings, so much money.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Can you think of a better deal than that?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When you're making all this money, you're living at your
parents' house and your parents are snowbirds, right, yeah, and your.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Parents are fairly well off.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, and they're like retired or semi retired, or maybe
they work half the year there, half their work, half
their job here, half there. And you're sitting there and
I just you have to jazz it up because I
picture that kid, that gen zer with a hot tub,
a pool of all the stuff because when he us
a pool much in the winter for the snowbirds. But
you got their place all to yourself, and it's like
and your parents love it because they've got somebody occupying
(02:58):
the home.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And then you're golden. Six months out of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Man, you're throwing whatever kind of parties and ragers you want,
and I mean, that's good living, and you're if you're
making some buck, you get that first job whatever you're
doing out of college, and you know it may not
be the most high paying job that you have of
your life, but it's what you need right now, and
you're paying everything off, you go buy a car.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's glorious living right there.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Understand what I don't get about the gen Zers already
burned out right now. I think they need to build
up a little bigger tolerance because you kind of have
to be able to provide and do things after the
age of thirty. You can't just shut it down unless
these gen Z's are all making a ton of money
winning the lottery. But this to me is kind of
like like you're going to vacuum the house and you
(03:44):
get the vacuum out of the closet and you don't
turn it on. It's like, okay, it's kind of the
same thing. It's like, I just I can't do this.
I got the vacuum out of the closet, because.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That's where they're at in life.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They're just they're not they get the whole house to vacuum,
but they haven't even really started yet, so you can't
really put the burnout too much on yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I agree with you in many many regards. I think
that a lot of what they're feeling, if they're getting
burnt out so young, I don't think it's just work
that's burning them out. I think that these days, to
be like a teenager and a young adult and an
adult in just society in general, it is way more
draining than I think that it used to be. In
a lot of that is social media, and it's everything
(04:24):
that you see online, and our brains are never able
to get a rest. And it's like we are not
meant to be so interconnected with so many people. I mean,
for us to be able to like be reached by
coworkers or other friends or whatever instantaneously. I don't think we're.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Really meant to be able to do that as a species.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
As a species, yeah, I think that it kind of
messes with our brains a little bit, and you do
get burnt out. Your brain's never able to really relax.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So shut it off.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Everybody just shut it off, but you can't because it's
that's the dopamine effect.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a dopamine effect. And plus it's not really socially
acceptable to shut it off. If you shut off your
phone for a few hours at night so that people
can't reach you, it's almost like, I mean, that's an oddity,
that's like weird. It would be weird for someone to
do that, because what if a coworker needs to reach
you before meeting tomorrow or something. They just expect to
be able to reach you. And I get that, and
they need you, and.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You need them. You need to be there for them,
I know.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But but it's like that I think is really really draining.
Whereas twenty five years ago or whatever it is, before
everybody was so connected, you just didn't have that we
are able to. Yeah, And I think that that leads
to a lot of this burnout feeling all right.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well i'm gonna quit, I'm done. Some kids just come
over here, run the board.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm out for for good. I mean, I'm going to
be thirty here a couple of months up in August.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Great, thanks babe.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well yeah, yeah, I don't know. I couldn't imagine. I
was so excited at radio before thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I just loved it. I would have done it for free.
I mean, I know, I just loved it so much.
I mean, I still do.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's different now, I mean, the expectations are so differ.
I mean there's a lot of things that make it tougher,
a lot tougher, but and climate is a lot different
than it was then.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But I just I slept at the station, you know.
I mean, I'd sleep in a closet.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know. I just had so much fun. It wasn't,
you know, like an ego thing. It was just a
fun thing. It was just a blast. So it was
like college radio. My whole career has kind of been
like college radio in a sense.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's a fun job. It's a lot of work. It
can be a lot of work for sure, and it's
training for different reasons, but it is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Then I got a wife, and I had to go
home every now and then, and I had kids, and
I had to go home even every now and again.
On top of that, I couldn't stay at the station
so much anymore. With the music and all the microphones
and all the buttons and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You can't be bachelor man just hanging out.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
This was my first love. Radio was my first love.
I mean totally it's it's crazy to say that. I
mean I never had sex with it, but I mean
I never tried either, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
If you were going to try, how would you do
that logistically?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Well? Here, let me look.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The headphones. Hey, it's the perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That was a shot. Thank you for listening to this
episode of I Tell You What.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You'll find more on the iHeartRadio app, anywhere you get
your podcast, rate, review, subscribe, download, share, and like.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Please thank you,
Welcome to another episode.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh, I tell you what.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Is this true? One and four?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
And because this qualifies because Sam, you're not going to
turn thirty for a couple of months, right. One in
four Americans hit their peak burnout before the age of thirty.
That's a lot meaning work burnout.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Ah, I could see that. I could see that happening
to people. I think that when you're young and you're grinding,
and you're like, you get out of college and you
jump right into your career, you go from decades of
school and then just straight into working for the rest
of your life. And I think that people are just
burnt out in life in general right now, and it's
just so much easier to get burnt out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Inordinate amount of gen z are saying, I can't do
this well.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The other funny thing is how do they know they've
reached peak burnout? The bottom could go lower. They could
get older and be like, oh no, I thought I
hit peak burnout, but it's just getting worse.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But I don't think they may not even be in
the game by the time there's the opportunity for that
bottom because they didn't give it.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
A chance, like they quit quit, But how do they live.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
See this is like my generation, the gen Xers, they
go back and live with their parents. You know, that's
what my generation is known for. Gen Xers were the
ones that like were the Nirvana generation or the Pearl
gem generation. Wore a lot of flannel, and we went
back and lived with our parents.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know a lot of gen Z have gone back
to live with their parents too. I don't know that
that's specific to your generation anymore. No, Millennials.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, I think ours was driven more by lack of motivation.
I think today's gen zs a lot of them have
jobs that live with their parents. I think a lot
of the gen xers back then did not have jobs
and video gamed in the basement and didn't talk to
their parents, but lived with their parents and expected everything
from their parents and food from their parents, and everything
(01:47):
from their parents, but weren't really contributors to society so much.
That's the gen X or slacker generation. Gen Z is Like,
we know people here that are living with their parents.
A lot of people that work here they live with
their parents, that come into work here their parents because
they haven't gotten that real adult job, that first adult job,
because nobody's hiring.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I know a lot of people that are in their
mid to late twenties that have full time jobs and
are making a lot of money, but they live with
their parents because why not, Like they're just saving money
and banking money, and they stay with their parents until
they have like a significant other that they want to
move in with basically, and they end up just making
bank and just sayings, so much money.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Can you think of a better deal than that?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When you're making all this money, you're living at your
parents' house and your parents are snowbirds, right, yeah, and your.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Parents are fairly well off.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, and they're like retired or semi retired, or maybe
they work half the year there, half their work, half
their job here, half there. And you're sitting there and
I just you have to jazz it up because I
picture that kid, that gen zer with a hot tub,
a pool of all the stuff because when he us
a pool much in the winter for the snowbirds. But
you got their place all to yourself, and it's like
and your parents love it because they've got somebody occupying
(02:58):
the home.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And then you're golden. Six months out of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Man, you're throwing whatever kind of parties and ragers you want,
and I mean, that's good living, and you're if you're
making some buck, you get that first job whatever you're
doing out of college, and you know it may not
be the most high paying job that you have of
your life, but it's what you need right now, and
you're paying everything off, you go buy a car.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's glorious living right there.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Understand what I don't get about the gen Zers already
burned out right now. I think they need to build
up a little bigger tolerance because you kind of have
to be able to provide and do things after the
age of thirty. You can't just shut it down unless
these gen Z's are all making a ton of money
winning the lottery. But this to me is kind of
like like you're going to vacuum the house and you
(03:44):
get the vacuum out of the closet and you don't
turn it on. It's like, okay, it's kind of the
same thing. It's like, I just I can't do this.
I got the vacuum out of the closet, because.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That's where they're at in life.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They're just they're not they get the whole house to vacuum,
but they haven't even really started yet, so you can't
really put the burnout too much on yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I agree with you in many many regards. I think
that a lot of what they're feeling, if they're getting
burnt out so young, I don't think it's just work
that's burning them out. I think that these days, to
be like a teenager and a young adult and an
adult in just society in general, it is way more
draining than I think that it used to be. In
a lot of that is social media, and it's everything
(04:24):
that you see online, and our brains are never able
to get a rest. And it's like we are not
meant to be so interconnected with so many people. I mean,
for us to be able to like be reached by
coworkers or other friends or whatever instantaneously. I don't think we're.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Really meant to be able to do that as a species.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
As a species, yeah, I think that it kind of
messes with our brains a little bit, and you do
get burnt out. Your brain's never able to really relax.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So shut it off.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Everybody just shut it off, but you can't because it's
that's the dopamine effect.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a dopamine effect. And plus it's not really socially
acceptable to shut it off. If you shut off your
phone for a few hours at night so that people
can't reach you, it's almost like, I mean, that's an oddity,
that's like weird. It would be weird for someone to
do that, because what if a coworker needs to reach
you before meeting tomorrow or something. They just expect to
be able to reach you. And I get that, and
they need you, and.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You need them. You need to be there for them,
I know.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But but it's like that I think is really really draining.
Whereas twenty five years ago or whatever it is, before
everybody was so connected, you just didn't have that we
are able to. Yeah, And I think that that leads
to a lot of this burnout feeling all right.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well i'm gonna quit, I'm done. Some kids just come
over here, run the board.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm out for for good. I mean, I'm going to
be thirty here a couple of months up in August.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Great, thanks babe.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well yeah, yeah, I don't know. I couldn't imagine. I
was so excited at radio before thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I just loved it. I would have done it for free.
I mean, I know, I just loved it so much.
I mean, I still do.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's different now, I mean, the expectations are so differ.
I mean there's a lot of things that make it tougher,
a lot tougher, but and climate is a lot different
than it was then.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But I just I slept at the station, you know.
I mean, I'd sleep in a closet.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know. I just had so much fun. It wasn't,
you know, like an ego thing. It was just a
fun thing. It was just a blast. So it was
like college radio. My whole career has kind of been
like college radio in a sense.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It's a fun job. It's a lot of work. It
can be a lot of work for sure, and it's
training for different reasons, but it is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Then I got a wife, and I had to go
home every now and then, and I had kids, and
I had to go home even every now and again.
On top of that, I couldn't stay at the station
so much anymore. With the music and all the microphones
and all the buttons and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You can't be bachelor man just hanging out.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
This was my first love. Radio was my first love.
I mean totally it's it's crazy to say that. I
mean I never had sex with it, but I mean
I never tried either, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
If you were going to try, how would you do
that logistically?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Well? Here, let me look.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The headphones. Hey, it's the perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That was a shot. Thank you for listening to this
episode of I Tell You What.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You'll find more on the iHeartRadio app, anywhere you get
your podcast, rate, review, subscribe, download, share, and like.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Please thank you,
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