Managing Through The Millennial Career Crisis

Mar 10, 2026

Janelle Abrahami, a career coach with a background in organizational psychology and corporate HR, explains why millennials are reevaluating work. She outlines six pathways to reclaim career control. Short takes cover stabilizing roles, redefining success, strategizing for leverage, building your own projects, diversifying income, and resting before big moves.

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Stabilize By Negotiating What You Need

Stabilize first by negotiating for the concrete benefits you need (hours, pay, healthcare) before making drastic exits.
Small changes at your current job can secure your life while you plan next moves.

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Redefine Success On Your Own Terms

Redefine success by creating your own rubric instead of measuring against external milestones.
Janelle recommends releasing timelines like '30 under 30' and deciding what 'making it' personally means at 30-plus.

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Strategize To Build Visible Leverage

Strategize to build leverage and visibility so decision-makers know your name and can offer opportunities.
Move from private planning to visible action (content, projects, internal initiatives) to get feedback and open doors.

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If you’re disillusioned with your current job, you’re far from alone. Turns out, a whole generation is looking for a better road to career “success.” In the face of all this well-deserved disillusionment, I sought out the person behind the trending “millennial career crisis” hashtag to really get to the bottom of what the phenomenon is and why it seems to be affecting my generation especially.

Janel Abrahami is a career coach whose background in organizational psychology and corporate HR, and her own career crisis, make her the ideal advisor and spokesperson for forging a better path. Janel argues that, thanks to a heap of daunting factors, a “successful career” looks a lot different than it did in our parents’ day. She joins me to break down her six pathways that help us take back ownership of our careers in the face of despair and disillusionment

Retake control and design your own success:

Six pathways that let you choose your own adventure;
Why career dissatisfaction seems to be hitting millennials hard right now;
The importance of resting before we jump and strategizing before we build;
The broken social construct facing everyone working today.