Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron | Carolin Würfel

By my age, my German boomer parents had kids, a house, a car, a garden. All I have is a nervous feeling whenever I open my banking app

A couple of weeks ago, I came across an Amy Poehler joke in which she sums up the different generational experiences of money: Boomers are all about money. Gen X is like: Is it all about money?' Millennials ask: Where is the money?' And gen Z is like: What is money?'"

It made me laugh - but it also hit a nerve. It felt painfully accurate and oddly comforting. Maybe it's not just me. I'm a millennial, and financial insecurity has been a theme in my life for a while. But recently, it's grown louder, and I literally can't stop asking: WHERE IS THE GODDAMN MONEY?"

Carolin Wurfel is a writer, screenwriter and journalist who lives in Berlin and Istanbul. She is the author of Three Women Dreamed of Socialism