The meaning of life or just plain lazy?

People used to wait until they hit their 40s or 50s to have a midlife crisis. Now, in keeping with t...

People used to wait until they hit their 40s or 50s to have a midlife crisis. Now, in keeping with the general acceleration of the pace of change, they have speeded up the process of dissatisfaction. It is called the quarter-life crisis: terminal angst about what you are doing with your life, setting in at about 30. According to research, 30-somethings are becoming increasingly fed up with their working lives, both in the UK and in the US. In the UK, Common Purpose, which runs leadership programmes, surveyed the work attitudes of 1,000 people aged 25 to 35 during May this year. Even thoug...