Millennials are Quitting Corporate for 'Micro-Retirements'

Would you take a micro retirement. Thanks for watching don't forget to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE!!!

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🏰CHAPTERS:

0:00 - intro
2:08 - what is a micro retirement
7:00 - Freelance trend
9:00 - is this realistic?
10:50 - Sabbatical
13:40 - 600k in Retirement
16:00 - my thoughts
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[Cauldron]

Hi! I’m one of the millennials you’re talking about! I’m on a “break” because I caught myself, whilst driving to work one day, considering the logistics of how I could drive into a telephone pole and hurt myself just enough so that I wouldn’t have to go into work that day. I might be in the minority, but my “micro retirement” was a matter of life and death.

[missm]

Not surprised so many younger workers are embracing micro retirements. They know they'll likely never make to the typical retirement age, whether due to health, disability, the climate crisis or unforseen tragedies. Life is too short to work all the time.

[dimexy]

Man life is not promised. Corporates don’t care if you live out your life or slave for them. If you got the money! Do it!

[cronical]

Bro, this used to be called taking a damn vacation.

[jennya]

Burn out for me led to not only a desire to prioritize my happiness but my health. The years of chronic severe stress and overworking myself has led to having disabling health conditions in my early 30s. Having the privilege to take time to prioritize my health is a different kind of investment in my future that can’t be measured monetarily.

[AnimeProduction]

I work in healthcare, I constantly see people in their 60’s dying. People who either just started their retirement or who are about to retire. The one that hit me the hardest was a man who was 64 coming in for some spinal surgery. He retired on a Friday and that following Monday he was scheduled for his surgery. He did this so that he can recover without the stress of getting back to work quickly. This was a teaching hospital and sadly a resident (doctor in training) cut an artery and he started to bleeding out. They couldn’t get it to stop and he died. He never got to experience retirement. His wife and him were planning to go see all of the national parks after his physical therapy. That happened in 2019, and it breaks my heart to this day.

[kayleehog]

I’ve accepted that I will not own a home. Unless I marry rich somehow I’ll be renting my whole life and I’m at peace with that. But I would absolutely save money to take a year off and live a little.

[ThrivingNotDying]

No one is promised the ability to live to retirement. Also, who can afford a home anyway WITH working nonstop?! No one. At least not the younger generations. Take the micro retirements. Travel overseas for an extended period of time. Do all the things! I got forced into a micro retirement (got laid off) and it's been wonderful. Leaving a toxic workplace is also helpful for your mental health.

[RaenaSloan]

Unfortunately, no. In late stage capitalism, there's not a safer way. Corporate America was making me physically and mentally ill. I'd rather be poor & die young with a life well lived. I was BARELY less poor with a full time job bc it COSTS money to work.

[stevenbyrd]

A young person making $90, 000 is exceptionally unlikely to happen. Even hoping for $40, 000 is aiming high.

[pickledpeaches]

I am a recent millennial retiree! I didn’t even know this was a thing people were doing. I have a corporate job i absolutely hate and I am so excited to finally finish. My partner and I have cheap rent, no kids so he is able to pay for the both of us, I am going to spend time focusing on my health and finding out more about what I want from life and a potential career. Can’t wait :)

[UnimpressedViking]

because of global warming & no prospect of a future. i doubt i’ll live long enough to use my 401k and, even if i do, i doubt i’ll ever be able to stop working. so, might as well have fun now

[danishacothiere]

I did this while transitioning jobs 2 years ago and it was the best thing I’ve ever done for my mental health. My career path went in a better direction because I was able to have better clarity.

[nadia.illustrates]

This generation and the ones that follow will supposedly work till we're old because we wont be able to retire, but bold of anyone to assume that automation wont wipe out jobs and that there will anywhere to show up at all. I swear I'm making myslef mentally ill overthinking about how we're living in a world where corporates keep snatching away peoples purpose and stability.

[NeighborhoodWatchMann]

I'm a 32-year-old millennial, I make over 100k, and I'm a manager at a Fortune 500 company. I decided to quiet quit about 6 months ago whenever they gave me more work with no extra pay. This is what's known as a dry promotion. I definitely wanted to continue working, so for the past 6 months I've been looking for a job. But I think we all know what the job market looks like. And with 10 years of experience, I can't get a call back to save my life! And at this point I've quiet quit so hard that now they're starting to question my productivity. So I see the writing on the wall. I'm going to get fired soon and I'm totally okay with that. I'm just going to collect a check until I can't. And then I'm going to just take a break for a while. I'll probably try my luck in the stock market, because I'm not too bad at that, I've really done well the past few years in the stock market. But all of this, I'm ready to let go because they're trying to stick it to me with no Vaseline. And I'm not having that.

[heartgirl]

I was unjustly let go from my live-in nanny job with a whole 3 days to pack up and move out in April of 2023. I'd been working around the world, more often than not in VERY full-time intensive roles, for 17yrs and that BS firing was the straw that broke the camel's back. I took my savings (~30K) and decided that I was taking a career break and wandering the world until the money ran out. It's October of 2024 and I'm typing this from Kyrgyzstan 😂😂 I'm running a marathon in the UAE in December and then I'll either have to find a way to make some more money online or fly home to start over. Either way, I'm glad I took the break. Money will return, but the years of my fleeting youth won't

[virtualinlife]

The expected work model in the USA, does not factor in that SOME people die before they can even get to age 65. So yeah, I am all for people doing what they need to do to preserve their joy. Never trust corporations nor the government. Live your life while you have it. ❤

[lili-srbi]

Guys, move to Europe. We got labour laws out here. Vacation days of minimum 20 days a year plus bank holidays, at least 10 more depending on the country. USA is crazy. This video has almost no relevance to a European. We are protected and mostly workaholics have these problems, but they do it to themselves.

[elin_]

I don't blame them.. Life is exhausting and you constantly risk burnout if you work much. People should favor happiness in front of hustling and money.

The idea that we should work ourselves to death during our most healthy years is insane. Once we do actually retire, so many of us are broken physically or mentally.. and many of us are broke.

I got burned out early into my adulthood.. after graduation and all the childhood trauma. It's been over 10 years and I'm still not recovered. I also have no money left to save for retirement.. so if I even make it to that age, it will just be more suffering in poverty. There is no future for me..

[chronicles]

I am not shocked people are prioritizing their happiness over these jobs and corporate greed we haven't forgotten about that Wells Fargo employees that was deceased in her office for days and nobody knew about it. That just goes to show you that these companies do not even see their employees as even human beings. I work in HR and I have come across so many companies that block employees from even taking PTO because your manager has to sign off on it and I have literally heard people say their employer tried to force them to continue working with no vacation time and when they refused they would either bad mouth the employee, put them on Performance Improvement Plan, or they will set you up to be fired because of your manager does not approve your PTO and you still take off days those count as you just not showing up to work and they will leverage that to retaliate and fire you in a heart beat.