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

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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.

Yeah, the Millenial hate has been great for Gen Xers image, but before us the boomers hated Gen X. You were the "slacker" generation with no ambition or work ethic.

I know, we were the slackers. But most everyone I knew had a part time job in highschool, and we used our own money for clothes and movies, etc. Everyone worked during college. Even after college, if my friends didn't jump into a career, they paid their rent by waiting tables or whatever. Where did the "slacker" label come from?

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I’m a 76’er. If I had to pick, I’d go with the millennials. I especially like the way they have forced more efforts at work life balance and diversity into the workplace. The boomers seem like selfish dinosaurs and I resent that we (Gen X, millennials and Gen Z) will likely have to bail them out financially because they haven’t saved enough for retirement.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That really does describe it. The dates are always changing.

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Boomers 100% and I’m a younger Gen X, born in 76

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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!

I saw this also as an NTT professor and annoyance with students was one of things that factored into my decision to leave academia. At the time I chalked it up to the university which drew a lot of wealthy students--I was a first generation college student with a strong work ethic and was aghast at some of the excuse-making I was hearing. One student complained about me on a teaching evaluation because I refused to excuse her absence from class for a charity bike ride (as if that was related to class!).

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I was born in December of 77. At almost 42, I relate more closely to Millenials. However, the older millennials-- not the ones born in the '90s lol.

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Anonymous wrote:1970 and millennials. My SO is a boomer (1964) and we laugh often that those six years are like 30 sometimes. SO was married and a dad when I was 13.

‘64 isn’t really a boomer. When they used to define boomers they stopped at 1960. When they invented Gen-X,they started with 1970. They soone said, “oops”,and they stuck the first half of the 1960’ with the boomers and the second half with the Gen Eers. But heightened fit well at all IMO. (Born July 1964).

Significant events for boomers are supposed to be JFK’s assassination. (Dead before I was born)
Summer of Love and assassinations for MLK and RFK - (I learned about them in a recent history class in HS).
Moon shot - all I remember of that is being woken up in the middle of the night and told to sit don and shut to and watch history.

The defining event for the boomers is the draft and the Vietnam war. Their experiences of either serving in the Vietnam era or being worried about the draft, either for yourself or your same aged friends truly marks the line between who is or isn’t a boomer.

If you or your peers were not subject to the draft, then you are not a boomer. So, anyone born after 1955 is not a boomer.

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Born in 72 to Silent Generation parents. I relate most to the oldest Millennials.

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I am in the microgeneration between x and millennial - the xennials.

In reading the definitions of the microgeneration, it explained why I never truly felt like a gen xer

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 70 but in Europe, but here since 90s, I think I am Gen X, and nothing else. I actually don't think that either, I think I am 80s generation and don't really understand this generation thing if I am being honest.

OP here, honestly I don't really get it either. and think it's largely B.S. But I guess culturally, I tend to feel more of a connection who those who graduated HS in the late 70's, than those who graduated after 1995, even though I graduated in 1990. I just feel like I shared more of the "same world" as them.

Neither. Gen X has its own feel IMHO.

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1971 and I am more of a Millennial because I appreciate they they ushered in the flexible schedule and the casual-dress workplace.

My parents are typical selfish Boomers who tick all the boxes:

Didn't save enough for retirement
Can't figure out how to recycle so don't bother
Need constant desktop support for basic life
Self-involved to the point that they are checked out of grandchildren's lives (and not just mine)

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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.

Yeah, the Millenial hate has been great for Gen Xers image, but before us the boomers hated Gen X. You were the "slacker" generation with no ambition or work ethic.

I know, we were the slackers. But most everyone I knew had a part time job in highschool, and we used our own money for clothes and movies, etc. Everyone worked during college. Even after college, if my friends didn't jump into a career, they paid their rent by waiting tables or whatever. Where did the "slacker" label come from?

+1. I was born in 1978 and had the exact same experience. Also, we were too old to be able to stay on our parents' health care until age 26 and too young to walk into a career that offered excellent health care and an employer-funded pension.

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Gen Xer here. I feel a much stronger connection to the Boomer work ethic and their doggedness. I don't feel any connection to Millennials because they don't seem to want to work very hard and I really don't appreciate their use of hyperbolic language on everything. Just going to the park with my youngest and listening to some of the 30-somethings speak to their children is disheartening. For some reason the Millennial generation doesn't seem to understand how their negative tone and polarizing language labels negatively affects others.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is why I think the micro-generation 1975-1985 ish makes sense. The "Oregon Trail" generation or the "Bridger" generation, sometimes Xennials. Basically those of us who grew up without the internet and cell phones, etc. but were introduced to these things early enough to adapt to them fairly easily.

/older Millenial

Yes, I was born in 69 and still have difficulty in understanding where to put the string and tincan on my smartphone. Thank God for those younger genXers. I wish I was a digital native that could just grok all this technology. :Rolleyes:

Yea, that was totally her point.
See how I inserted the eye roll?
Gen Xer 1977

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah, the Millenial hate has been great for Gen Xers image, but before us the boomers hated Gen X. You were the "slacker" generation with no ambition or work ethic.

I know, we were the slackers. But most everyone I knew had a part time job in highschool, and we used our own money for clothes and movies, etc. Everyone worked during college. Even after college, if my friends didn't jump into a career, they paid their rent by waiting tables or whatever. Where did the "slacker" label come from?

+1. I was born in 1978 and had the exact same experience. Also, we were too old to be able to stay on our parents' health care until age 26 and too young to walk into a career that offered excellent health care and an employer-funded pension.

Also born in 1978 and completely agree. My Boomer parents expected me to be independent and earning my own money at a young age.