The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race

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Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

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I've thought this for a while, but maybe our service to country isn't done with a DD214. The current situation in the US and world at large makes me think I can still do some good. Maybe politics needs more people who think like you and me.

I got told once in the military:

If you don't want to be in charge of a bunch of idiots, one of those idiots is gonna be in charge of you.

And it's pretty accurate, even on the civilian side.

Politics definitely needs people who think like both of you.