I've been told by peers outside of my generation(i.e. non-Millennials) that the use of "adulting" is a very Millennial term. I blame that on my age demographic growing up with the expectation of going to college, magically having a job straight out of school that provided financial stability, a house with a yard, etc all before you turn 25. The only Millennials I know who achieved that are people I grew up with in Tennessee who either have parents paying for it, or married young and have a strong joint income(though most of those couples I know also had significant financial help from their parents...). Everyone else seems to be stuck with struggling with an identity crisis between the responsibilities of adulthood without the status-symbols we were told we would have at this point, and leaning into nostalgia of simpler times of childhood. Personally, I think the term is vastly overused at this point, but that doesn't mean that the majority of us aren't completely burnt out with no remedy in sight.
I've been told by peers outside of my generation(i.e. non-Millennials) that the use of "adulting" is a very Millennial term. I blame that on my age demographic growing up with the expectation of going to college, magically having a job straight out of school that provided financial stability, a house with a yard, etc all before you turn 25. The only Millennials I know who achieved that are people I grew up with in Tennessee who either have parents paying for it, or married young and have a strong joint income(though most of those couples I know also had significant financial help from their parents...). Everyone else seems to be stuck with struggling with an identity crisis between the responsibilities of adulthood without the status-symbols we were told we would have at this point, and leaning into nostalgia of simpler times of childhood. Personally, I think the term is vastly overused at this point, but that doesn't mean that the majority of us aren't completely burnt out with no remedy in sight.