Adulting is hard.
Some learn that sooner than others. Some don’t get hit with the hard truth until after college, but either way, being a responsible adult presents an entirely new set of challenges for young people.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, “adulting” is to behave in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially by accomplishing mundane but necessary tasks.
To find out which of those tasks annoy the most, AT&T’s All Home Connections team analyzed more than 44,000 tweets and found eight common adulting themes that people complain about the most: work, car, family, food, money, home, leisure, and health.
According to the data, the adulting problem Michigan residents are talking about the most relate to food. Tweet topics include meal prep, figuring out what to eat for dinner, buying groceries, eating healthy and buying too much pizza or candy in bulk.
Key words include food, cook, grocery, eat, breakfast, lunch, dinner, hungry, wine, beer, water.
Here’s an example.
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According to the data, the adulting problem Michigan residents are talking about the most relate to food.
Michigan wasn’t alone in griping about annoying food tasks. People in Florida, Illinois, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Hawaii also took to Twitter to complain about the various challenges of eating right.
You can see the complete “adulting” study here.