In a cautionary tale coming out of Brooklyn, NY, 28-year-old marketing executive Donna Tregalis has officially achieved every single thing she aspired to, which means there’s nothing left but to do that stuff forever.
Devastating! Like, forever forever?
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved making ads,” she told reporters gathered at the scene. “I would make these videos with my sisters when I was younger and invent new products to show my parents. I’ve worked my entire life to get here, and now that I’m here, I’m kind of like…huh. That’s it?”
According to sources, yes!
Now that Donna has fought tooth and nail to become one of the youngest creative executives at her firm, she’s staring down the barrel of the rest of her life, and it pretty much looks like this.
“I guess now there’s nothing left to do but…keep doing this forever?” she asked, pausing for a long time in the hopes that reporters would tell her there was something more to strive for. “Damn. I guess I never really thought about what would happen if I made it this far.”
Donna was quick to qualify that not all of her goals were career-oriented, of course.
“My other goal was to one day leave my home town of Phoenix and move to New York,” she continued. “Huh, guess I’ve done that now, too. Get a girlfriend? Damn, have one of those also.”
This continued for some time, with Donna periodically remembering a past goal and realizing she had already achieved it.
Donna has sacrificed plenty to get where she is, pulling late nights, networking her ass off, and now that she’s here, it’s definitely fine.
“I’m really happy to be here, I swear,” she continued, seemingly afraid someone might take her achievements from her if she were not grateful. “But now that I’m not striving for anything else, I don’t really know what to do with myself.”
“We’ve seen this kind of melancholy in a lot of young adults who have achieved their dreams, as well as plenty who haven’t even come close,” said psychologist Peter Westin. “Turns out, there’s kind of no way to win. Isn’t that something?”
Awesome! There’s always the “toil forever” option!
As of press time, Donna was trying to set new goals to make her life interesting, but all she’d come up with so far was “promotion?”
