GenX
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Anonymous
Wow , yes. Genx don’t care much but reading is fundamental. Yes my older sibs, also genx, to the max, like they introduced me to Atari and blonde, are now turning into crotchety boomers. Attitude wise. You speaka the English? As shawna/Jeannie says on Ferris Bueller. |
Anonymous
The very oldest Millenials are just over 40. I work with plenty of 30 something Millenials who aren’t married or uninterested in children (Bay Area). |
Anonymous
I agree with this and I’m a Gen Xer. My parents are Boomers and they are good people, but they’re sitting on millions in real estate through no effort of their own except buying at the right time. They also went to state college almost for free. |
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Anonymous
Plenty of gen X are still in their 40s. Check your math. Or did you learn all that new math and can’t do basic math? |
Anonymous
Yeah, the oldest Millennials are like 41. I’m a youngish Xer and am 45. |
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I think that on the margins, your generation label is best considered in the context of your family structure.
Born in 1965: Dad fought in WW2, you’re the 5th of 5 children. You are more like a Baby Boomer - literally, you are on the tail end of your family’s boom. Born in 1965: Parents are 21, were babies when WW2 ended, you are first born and will have siblings born in 1968 and 1971. You are Gen X. |
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Anonymous
No necessarily true. I was born in 1965. I am the 3rd of 3 and my parents were 32 and 39 when I was born. My siblings are both very clearly and almost stereotypically boomers. But there was a 5 year gap between them and me (they are 5 and 7 years older). That gap was quite telling. When I was in grade school, they were in high school and became a lot more independent, so they weren't around as much. When I was in middle school, both of them went to college. They both graduated and moved to start jobs elsewhere in the country when I was in high school. So, in many respects, I was much more like an only child. I am very different from my siblings and I am much more of a stereotypical Xer. When I was in grade school, my mother went back to work and I was a latchkey kid letting myself into the house and having a couple of hours of caring for myself until my parents got home (among other things). My parents were very different when I was young vs when my siblings were young. And my parents adopted different parenting tactics because a lot of life had changed for them when my siblings were in HS and later in college. |
Anonymous
This. I mean we were coined Gen X because we kind of didn’t fit into any box neatly. The group that wasn’t really a group. No labels. |
Anonymous
Aren't Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kurt Cobain all Gen X? |
Anonymous
Obama could go either way, Gen X or Boomer. The rest are solidly Gen X. Sorry about Elon Musk, what does he smell like? |
Anonymous
You're so jealous it's hilarious. Millenniasl are a deeply uncool generation. We all see this -- Boomers, Gen X, Gen Z. Your pop culture was lame, your participation trophies turned you into snowflakes, you think you invented every human experience known to mankind (marriage, birth, parenting, student debt etc.) and your fashion sucks wet a$$ |
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Gen Z kids are wild and might really make a difference.
Love to see it after the milquetoast millennials. |
Anonymous
Obama cannot go either way. He's 1961- that's a straight Boomer. |