Ask A Millennial: What Do You Worry About the Most?

From financial trouble and career goals to safety and housing, here are the problems Philly's millennials are worried about in their own words.

By Nick Vadala· 11/21/2013, 3:56 p.m.

What Do You Worry About the Most?

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Matt Wicks, 28, Rittenhouse

“My career. I’m always working extra hard to get to some point that I think I should be at. And I feel like I’m almost there, but … I’m not where I had foreseen myself at this age.”

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Darcel Grant, 28, Northeast Philly

“My career, because right now, I’m doing what I love to do, but I’m not doing it full-time.”

Kurt Gies, 23, Roxborough

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“Just being safe if I’m walking around at night.”

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Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, 23, Kensington

“I definitely worry about money, because I make very little and I want to do a lot of things.”

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Ben Lewis, 18, University City

“I worry about time. It’s something I write about. I write rap music. When I deal with time, I deal with aging and how we don’t have much time on the planet.”

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Talia Vanwestrienen, 30, Old City

“Can I say parking?”

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Adam Teterus, 26, South Philly

“Financial issues. Particularly relating to college and everything that I owe to Temple University. That is an unwanted, unnecessary damper on my otherwise stellar life.”

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Alyssa Horn, 28, Fishtown

“Finding the right place to have a family.”

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Abbey Plesser, 31, Narberth

“My future. If this is the right career for me, where I want to be, if I’m going to settle down, with who, whether or not I’ll have a family. Now that I’m in my 30s, I realize the last 10 years have flown by, and it’s terrifying to think that the next 10 could go as quickly.”

Ask A Millennial: What Do You Worry About the Most?

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What Do You Worry About the Most?

Matt Wicks, 28, Rittenhouse

Darcel Grant, 28, Northeast Philly

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Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, 23, Kensington

Ben Lewis, 18, University City

Talia Vanwestrienen, 30, Old City

Adam Teterus, 26, South Philly

Alyssa Horn, 28, Fishtown

Abbey Plesser, 31, Narberth

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