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[quote=Anonymous]While I never worked in a directly in a creative field, I still appreciate this Gen X jobs article and feel that many of the industries our generation entered went through big changes during our working years.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k4.eKMA.WgUHKCw0Qe88&smid=url-share

And if nothing else, I feel seen in the comments:
- No one could have predicted the rapid pace of change we've gone through, and now again with AI.
- We're resilient, latch-key kids and will get through this. 
- Feeling lucky to have grown up without smartphones and in the pre-digital era.

From the beginning of the article:

In “Generation X,” the 1991 novel that defined the generation born in the 1960s and 1970s, Douglas Coupland chronicled a group of young adults who learn to reconcile themselves to “diminishing expectations of material wealth.” Lessness, Mr. Coupland called this philosophy.

For many of the Gen X-ers who embarked on creative careers in the years after the novel was published, lessness has come to define their professional lives.

If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That’s because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically, shutting out those whose skills were once in high demand.

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