TLDR: It's an anectode of "an associate professor of education-policy studies" at Penn State who suffered from burn-out.

I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from her story. Don't work too hard and learn to say no, I guess. There is no clear narrative and the article reeks of self pity (she does not get tired of mentioning that she's a "twice an immigrant" and a woman).

EDIT: what bothers me about the article is that there is no root cause analysis and no solution is offered.

Also, I am unsure the n-th order immigrant argument is valid. The very concept of a second order immigrant seems bizarre to me. And if they exist, it remains to be proven that k-th order immigrants have it strictly more difficult than l-th order immigrants for all k>l.