, Columnist
This 1970s Bestseller Just Might Save Burned Out Millennials
For members of the “unluckiest generation” facing a midlife crisis, it could offer a way to regain a sense of optimism.
We all have our own passages.
Photographer: Visivasnc/iStockphotoIt seems like yesterday that everyone was complaining about millennials: their alleged laziness, self-absorption and general snowflakery. Time flies, though, and now the first wave of this much-maligned generation — those born between 1981 and 1996 — has hit middle age.
If recent coverage is any indication, millennials — famous for their individualism — are going to do the classic midlife crisis their own way. The cohort is deliberately eschewing the stereotypes of the boomer generation: the flashy sports car, the new, younger wife and hair implants.