If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:Overall, I find generations to be too large. Generations would be more accurately depicted if they were broken down by decade. Millennials span from like 1980 to 2000, which is way too large.

Good point. I was born in 1955 - which I think is supposed to be the middle of the baby boom. But people keep going on about baby boomers like we all came out of school into a fabulous job market which was not the case for people not in the leading edge of the boom. I came out of school into a weak job market affected by stagflation.

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In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

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64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

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Born in ‘63 and don’t feel part of either the Boomers or GenXers. Parents are Greatest Generation and we lived in a large city.

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I was born in 1964 to Greatest Generation parents. My parents were "ancient" when I was born (my dad was 40 and my mom was 30) and I was their oldest child. Sometimes I feel like a Baby Boomer because of the age of my parents and the way they raised me. But I also feel like a Generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 72, so definitely a generation Xer, and I always find it strange when demographers consider people born in the early 60's as baby boomers. I mean technically they may have been born during the time of an elevated birth rate, but they have nothing else in common with older baby boomers. It seems to me that generations should consist of people who shared a common culture when growing up. My parents were boomers born in the late 40's and they spent their high school years in the pre-drug, pre-sexual revolution era. People born in the early 6o's can't even remember that world. I've always considered those born in the early 60's to be honorary Xers.

When they were first dividing up Gen X and Boomers they ended the boomers in 1960 and started Gen EX in 1970. Then they figured out that there was a missing decade. AS a result, they split the difference and put 60-65 as boomers and 65-70 as Gen-Ex, but we really are neither.

I see the same thing with the kids born from 1995-2000 and being dumped into millennials - but they don't really fit into anything yet.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

And I (pp) was in my mother’s womb, preparing to come out

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Anonymous wrote:Born in ‘63 and don’t feel part of either the Boomers or GenXers. Parents are Greatest Generation and we lived in a large city.

Why don't you feel like an Xer?

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My mother was born in 65 and she considers herself a Gen X’er.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

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The cohorts on the cusp between two generations typically don't feel strongly a part of either. This is true of the "Star Wars generation" born in the late 70s and very early 80s; it makes sense it would be true of those born at the very beginning of Gen X, also.

- Born in '79

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Anonymous wrote:Overall, I find generations to be too large. Generations would be more accurately depicted if they were broken down by decade. Millenials span from like 1980 to 2000, which is way too large.

This. As an early 80s millenial a lot of the generalizations don't really apply. And when my early 40s colleagues complain about millennials they don't seem to realize this includes people who are solidly into their 30s.

79 Baby here. They call our micro generation Oregon Trail Millennials. It fits, at least for me. I always felt like I was too young to be Gen X even if I had more in common with them, and Milennials just make me feel old.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother was born in 65 and she considers herself a Gen X’er.

Anyone who was in HS in the 80's is definitely an Xer.

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Born in 1960 to a Greatest Generation father (mother was European). Definitely identify more with Gen X. I find Baby Boomers annoying.