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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a 1972 X-er.  I don't really see myself as having much in common with either group, to be honest.  The boomers could get pretty far with a high school degree, and that's not true for my generation.  And I feel like so many of them voted for Trump, and I just can't relate to that.  Some of them seem very short-sighted, like they don't care what kind of world they are leaving for their kids and grandkids.

I don't really identify with the millenials either.  They seem constantly buried in their phones, and that drives me crazy.  Millenials on phones have pretty much ruined the gym for me, because they are all hogging the machines but not using them - just sitting on them, texting and scrolling.  I get tired of having to navigate around them - in a car or on foot - because they never look up.

They also don't seem to realize that a career involves some sacrifice of work-life balance and dues paying.  Most of the people I know who are my age did some sort of sh*t work to get through college or the years afterward.  We worked jobs with super long hours for very little pay and eventually didn't have to do that anymore.  We took jobs because we had to, even if it wasn't our dream.  It's annoying when you have a 22-year-old person who is the junior person in the department who isn't willing to make some copies.  Kid, we all made copies.  And we all have a degree or two - and still made the copies. We all pulled all-nighters at some point.  We all missed happy hour at some point for a deadline.  That's work.

So yeah.  I don't really identify with either.
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