There’s no doubt that the Millennial Generation crowd of 35 and under is a mixture of strong personalities, overbooked work calendars and extreme multi-taskers.  This day and age, marriage isn’t a big goal at LEAST until you’re mid to late 20’s, and children? HA! Don’t even talk about children to a Millennial until they’re at LEAST 30-32 years old! That is simply NOT an option right now. No time and not enough in the nest egg for that nonsense.  You’re lucky they find time to even date!

How does a female Millennial, who JUST turned 30 years old, deal with life? Well, she recently switched from hard liquor to the more eloquent wine choices for her cocktails. She’s single. She’s a working professional with the flaw of overloading herself with work. She’s got to be Superwoman! If she misses ONE day of work, in her mind, the entire company will crumble. This definitely qualifies her to put any and all free moments she may seem to find, into planning her weekends accordingly…and fast!

Monday:   She sees the calendar for the week and already knows it’s a long one!

She has 4 deadlines to meet for her direct report, and she’s got 6 (hour-long each) training calls set over the next 2 days and will be presenting/teaching at an on-site training for 3 straight days.  Though she’s recovering from the “hurting” that the previous weekend put on her, she’s already texting and posting on her friends Facebook pages to establish the agenda or game plan, “WHERE ARE WE GOING THIS WEEKEND?!?  BETTER START THINKIN’!”

Tuesday:  After staying up all night to make sure everything for her 2 deadlines today are completed, she sits behind her desk in her office eating her quickly put together peanut butter and jelly sandwich during her “lunch break” and gets on her chat to figure out who the “ring leader” is for the weekend, who’s making the dinner reservations at that new sushi restaurant in town, and who’s going to try to pull off getting the VIP sections everywhere (because we don’t do the twenty-something packed crowds in general admission – they’re too much to deal with and way too wild for our taste).  By the time the day is done, all the reservations are on all the VIP lists.  COME ON SATURDAY!

Wednesday: She has a scratchy throat and tired ears from having been on non-stop phone calls over the first half of the week and refuses to answer her own cell phone when it rings after work hours. She starts planning the training sessions for the next few days; she realizes that in the midst of the office insanity and anxiety, she’s just about bitten off all of her nails!  SHE’S GOT TO BE EFFICIENT!  At lunch she goes down to the nail salon and gets them fixed while steady working from her cell.

Thursday: She’s still looking forward to the weekend ahead! After work, she’s headed to the mall to go pick up 2-4 dresses as potential outfits for Saturday night!  She knows exactly what style she’s feeling that day, but “EW! OH, NO NO! NONE of these dresses look good on me when I look so pasty, and that extra bloat from those brown paper bag lunches I’ve been chowing down on is totally showing! Wearing SPANX to slim this figure is simply NOT an option when I’m trying to dance and move!” She makes her choices and picks up a few pairs of pumps to match before heading home…for a salad instead of the easy-to-fix premade skillet she planned on whipping up for dinner.

Friday: Her focus is tested throughout the day as she looks at the clock every 20 minutes anxiously waiting for that magical 5:00 hour to arrive. She’s already knocked out the task of dealing with the woes of going to the gym. After a long 8 hours of meetings and presentations, she heads out of the office and straight to her appointment for a Sauna to sweat off that water weight, get a hydrodermafusion full body skin care/vitamin bath, and seal it off with a sunless session at her local Planet Beach spa. Now she feels better about how she looks for this weekend and when she’s out with her favs! 

Saturday: Sleep in. Go to the gym. Back to Planet Beach to get another Sauna session. Try on all of her new dresses and choose the evening’s attire. Clean the apartment a bit then starts thinking, “That dress is too ‘cleavagy,’ I shouldn’t.”  Tries on the dresses again, this time adding a few other outfits never worn, that she pulls out from the back of her closet. Decides on one of those that originally didn’t make the cut. Starts her process of getting ready around 4:30, out the house at 6:30, dinner at 7:00, and the first stop of the clubs for the rest of the evening at around 10:00!  AND GOODNIGHT!  SHE’S FINALLY LET GO OF ALL THE WEEKLY STRESSES!

Sunday: “OUCH! WHY DID I DO THIS? I’M NEVER GOING OUT AGAIN.” This will spill over into Monday morning.  I should check on my friends to make sure they’re still alive then I’m ordering a pizza, staying in bed, and leaving the Lifetime Channel on all day.  MOM, PLEASE stop calling me, I’m napping! Now my boss is calling me!?  WTH?! I’m putting my iPhone on Do Not Disturb. Ugh! I need a Bloody Mary.”