I am sick and tired of the baby boomers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"now I am 30 and make 180k and can't afford to buy a the equivillent sized boomer house because I bought after 2005 and can't sell my current small one."

And of course none of the boomers understand why this is happening because to do so would admit that THEIR having these things is the result of luck and not just their hard work.

My in laws bought a house in N. Arlington for $35K 30 years ago. My FIL went right out of college into a cushy job and was head of his division without 10 years. He retired making over a million dollars with a BA.

Whereas me and DH have grad degrees and are struggling, making less than $100K. Of course ILs don't get it, since $85K was a lot to them when they started. We are always being asked why we don't buy a house someplace a little further out, like Del Ray, or why we don't just save a little? They literally DO NOT GET IT.

I'm so tired of me and DH being made to feel like losers because I didn't have the opportunities and LUCK they did.

Step two: learn how to properly use pronouns.

This may be why you aren't making a lot of money, seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a boomer and worked for every single thing I've ever had. Our generation didn't feel entitled to things we couldn't afford. Now, everyone has a cell phone, computer, tivo, cable, etc. Get a second job if you can't afford things...that's what we did. Plus, we never went out to eat in college...now all college students seem to.

Honey, GenX hasn't been in college for years. Those kids would be Boomer spawn. Their eating habits were formed by Boomer mom and dad.

[Anonymous]

WHY don't you boomers understand that the rules have changed?

My father, the lawyer got:

-a BA
-a JD
-a job in a respected firm making tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses every year
-a nice, cushy life

I graduated law school 30 years later and I got:

-a BA
-a JD (from the same school as dad! And graduated higher in my class than him! And worked my ass off in prestigious internships every semester from 2L on)
-an LLM
-a job at a respected firm making shit bonuses
-laid off for economic reasons
-bills that I can't afford to pay

HOW did I not work as hard as him?

I--and tons of others in my position--played by the old rules. But THE RULES HAVE CHANGED. And the baby boomers had a big part in the why of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never know what I am. Am I a baby boomer or a Gen X? I was born in 1967. I am 44.

You are Gen X

[Anonymous]

I'm a Gen Yer and I think Gen Xers sound like entitled whiners who cry because things aren't fair. Life isn't fair. Get over it. Things have changed and bitching about how much easier it was for baby boomers isn't going to change things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The skills of the younger generation surpass the boomers expesically since the boomers still use old business processes and communications that are obsolete. So yes can't wait till you all go away.

Then who would be left to edit (i.e., rewrite) all your sloppy and incoherent work?

[Anonymous]

You can never find an ice flow when you need one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sick of millenials who want flexible jobs and high salaries but don't want to put in the time to succeed.

I am sick and tired of the Gen Xers, Gen Y's, Millenials who think the world revolves around them and anything pertaining to them. They are terrible parents with spoiled rotten children, selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed, lazy, have babies as fashion statements. All of you make a lot of money so STFU. Yeah or Baby Boomers and I am not a baby boomer.

[Anonymous]

I'm a boomer and worked for every single thing I've ever had. Our generation didn't feel entitled to things we couldn't afford. Now, everyone has a cell phone, computer, tivo, cable, etc. Get a second job if you can't afford things...that's what we did.

+1

[Anonymous]

If there's such an immense crisis in Social Security and Medicare, why are all the reform plans post-dated a good decade-plus?

[Anonymous]

"Maybe you should ask them to share their cushy $20K a year in Social Security with you. Boo hoo."

My mom and dad are both Feds. When they retire in a few years in their late 50s they will receive around 80+% of their salary for the rest of their lives. Then on top of that, they both get an extra $20K in SS? They don't need it. I'm paying for part of it--and I can barely afford to make ends meet because my Fed job was cut last year.

How is this fair to anybody?

If your parents have been feds for that long, they won't get social security. They'd be under the old civil service retirement system, which means they don't pay into SS. The current system (I don't know when it was put into place) has feds paying into SS and receiving a significantly smaller pension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there's such an immense crisis in Social Security and Medicare, why are all the reform plans post-dated a good decade-plus?

Because the boomers rigged things so the reductions wouldn't harm then.

[Anonymous]

I'd just be happy if the area boomers would get the F out of Whole Foods and stop ramming my cart / leaving their cart in the center of the aisle blocking 78 other people while they ponder: Icelandic butter? or Plugo? hmmm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"now I am 30 and make 180k and can't afford to buy a the equivillent sized boomer house because I bought after 2005 and can't sell my current small one."

And of course none of the boomers understand why this is happening because to do so would admit that THEIR having these things is the result of luck and not just their hard work.

My in laws bought a house in N. Arlington for $35K 30 years ago. My FIL went right out of college into a cushy job and was head of his division without 10 years. He retired making over a million dollars with a BA.

Whereas me and DH have grad degrees and are struggling, making less than $100K. Of course ILs don't get it, since $85K was a lot to them when they started. We are always being asked why we don't buy a house someplace a little further out, like Del Ray, or why we don't just save a little? They literally DO NOT GET IT.

I'm so tired of me and DH being made to feel like losers because I didn't have the opportunities and LUCK they did.

Step two: learn how to properly use pronouns.

This may be why you aren't making a lot of money, seriously.

This is part of the boomer mindset, they have no real skill to create products so they will nit pick at things like grammar and spelling. While the younger generation is done communicating 500 ideas quickly and done implementing them, the boomer is still trying to work on the problem number one.

+1

[Anonymous]

This has to be one of the dumbest threads ever. How this world still revolves when it's so full of simple-minded people is beyond me. You're hopeless. No wonder you're not happy with your lot in life. I'm guessing you never will be. And no, I'm not a boomer.