Why I Keep Quitting My Jobs

Nicole Elizabeth
6 min readMay 2, 2022

The summer between junior year and senior year my dad got me a job working at the Internal Revenue Service. I don’t remember exactly how much I was making, but I remember that my first paycheck after 2 weeks was $523. So, I was probably making about $7/hr. I worked in the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. Most of my time was spent in the file room. This was a room with a few desks and rows and rows and rows of vertical shelving…

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Nicole Elizabeth

“disaffected and directionless” — that is the Oxford dictionary definition of Generation X. Accurate or misunderstood?