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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a young Boomer but sans grandkids.

My friends all babysit their grandkids for trips or special occasions. But not doing full time childcare, because they are still.working or brand new retirees who are enjoying free time.

But not doing childcare.

[b]Boomers worked all their lives and now enjoying free schedules and traveling.[/b]

That is unlike the greatest generation and silent generation grandmas, which didn't have the burden of full time jobs on top of all the work at home.[/quote]

Except most Boomers will never work as much or as hard as their millennial children because they began their careers at a time when work/life balance still existed in most industries and they spent the majority of their working years without cell phones and an expectation that they would be accessible to work 24/7. So, as usual, the millennials are left with the short end of the stick while the Boomers are just tone deaf and don't realize how much different their children's working and parents lives are. [/quote]

That's not true for attorneys and doctors. We had pagers, Blackberries, email and phones. Accessibility was expected for those professions. [/quote]

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