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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Muir

The year of the bucket list lifestyle: why young professionals don’t want to wait for adventure

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What’s on your bucket list? Whether it’s, say, walking with elephants, seeing the northern lights or trekking through a rainforest, generally there’s one thing in common: it’s something you can’t do in ordinary, everyday life. Most of us wait until later in life to start ticking it off, let alone deciding what should be on it. But what happens if you don’t want to wait? This, apparently, will be the year of the “bucket list lifestyle”, as young people entering the workforce change one of life’s fundamental questions from “how do you make a living?” to “how do you live?”

Trend forecasters have spotted the rise of the bucket List lifestyle, and believe this will be the year it goes mainstream, with a younger generation now prioritising seeing the world’s wonders, rather than being tied down by a location-dependent bricks-and-mortar workplace.

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