Generation Xer's do you feel more similar to baby boomers or millenials?

[Anonymous]

Born in ‘71. Absolutely siding with Millennials and Gen Z. Boomers had an opportunity to save the world and squandered it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really depends on the topic. I was born in 1974, which is closer to millennials than boomers.
I was politically active as a teenager / young adult, fighting for the environment. Millennials took that torch. Then GenZ.
I believe in healthcare for all, great public schools, and a “safety net” for when people fall on hard times. But I don’t believe in supporting someone that doesn’t attempt to work. I am for social equality. Which I think boomers are for too.
I don’t believe in publicly shaming everybody that shared or liked an “offensive” meme 10 years ago - unless it is an abundant amount over many years. Example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/27/reporter-who-outed-racist-tweets-by-viral-fundraiser-leaves-des-moines-register-after-his-own-offensive-posts-surface/
I had kids late in life, so I am raising my children alongside the Millennials. I don’t side with the boomers when it comes to children. I don’t believe every child gets an award for participation but I also don’t believe in telling children that life‘s not fair and suck it up. There’s a position in between those two mentalities.

Are you really trying to say Boomers weren't politically active?

No, just not so much for the environment. That’s a Gen X thing.

[Anonymous]

I was born in 1966, so I'm more boomer than millenial for sure. My parents were also older, so that may be part of it too. My dad served in WWII.

[Anonymous]

1972 here. More millenials if I had to pick. Raising my kids in the city. Ditched the landline in 2006. Never had cable. Don't have a pension and never will.

[Anonymous]

Born in 68 and don’t feel like either. Technically my dh is a boomer (62) but he doesn’t feel like them either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1972 here. More millenials if I had to pick. Raising my kids in the city. Ditched the landline in 2006. Never had cable. Don't have a pension and never will.

+1
Plus many boomers are resistant to change and selfish. Not environmentally aware and pockets of them are terrible bosses and terrible voters. Millenials only crime so far is navel gazing but at least they are adaptable and idea people in general.

[Anonymous]

1978

I agree that my own generation I relate to best but from reading on here that some consider themselves generation x born in 1960 I can’t relate to them either.

If I had to choose I would say Millennials but there’s still a bridge between us.

[Anonymous]

I hate both.

I love Gen Z. I really admire them.

[Anonymous]

Definitely Millenial. I was born in 1975 and my mom was born in 1950. She was the baby boomer, not me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't identify with either Boomers or millennial.

I don't actually identify with boomers either, but they seem more like "my people" than millennials do. I guess since generation X always gets left out of the generations debate, I feel like I tend to side more with baby boomers than millennials, although tbh I don't really "side" with anyone.

Really? I'm 44, and I identify MUCH more with people who are in their mid-30s than people who are close to retirement in their mid-50s, or already retired with grandkids in their 60s!

[Anonymous]

1978 here. I think a lot of us younger Gen Xers bridge the gap between the Boomers and millennials. There are aspects of both that we can’t relate to, but a lot that we can. It’s a unique position to be in, really. We are the pragmatists who can deal with both sides - if they cared to listen to us, that is. Shrug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More with the millennials, possibly because baby boomer professors seemed to hate my cohort in college and tell us how lacking we were. There just weren't as many of us.

Interesting. I'm Gen X and the one way I definitely identify more with Boomers is the Millenial entitlement when it comes to school. I remember being just absolutely flabbergasted when my Gen X friends who were just starting their tenure-track jobs relayed all the complaining and grade-grubbing and entitlement of their Millenial students. I also started law school a little late and saw this in student who were just 4-5 years younger than me as well -- crying about how something or other than happened during the exam distracted them and they needed to be able to retake it! In an Ivy League law school!

[Anonymous]

Millennials

[Anonymous]

Gen X and an early one. My coworkers have generally been older so I am more comfortable with Boomers. My field is extremely technical and conservative though. We tend to value experience possibly called wisdom sometimes. Millennials tend to grate on my nerves. They do things differently just to be different. That's not the best justification I have ever heard.

[Anonymous]

Boomer = anyone 10 years or older that annoys me, especially conservatives and/or richer than me.

Millennial = anyone 10 years or younger that annoys me, especially liberals and/or richer than me.