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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.[/quote]

Millennials don't beginning until 1980 at the very earliest and 1983 at the latest. 1975 is still solidly X[/quote]
Above list does not differentiate enough between groups.
I call anyone over 35 yo = BOOMERS. Culturally, they are similar.
They include Gen X and Millennials born by 1985. Physiologically most are old enough to be in similar stage of life. For example, they are old enough to have a kid starting college. Also they are retired or planning/talking about it.[/quote]

There’s that lack of a fully developed frontal lobe.[/quote]
I know, it stings when the younger generation thinks you are lame.   :D [/quote]

It really doesn’t.  I found turning 40 to be remarkably freeing in part because I no longer felt any pressure to think/act/look “young.”  In my 30s, I felt a lot of pressure to still be able to pass for 20s so I wouldn’t be “old.”  But the day I turned 40, not only did I stop caring, but it felt affirmatively silly to try to fit in with people in their 20s.  I appreciate them when I encounter a promising new hire at work or a store worker who provides good customer service, but I don’t particularly care what they think of me (which doesn’t mean I am rude or disrespectful to them, I am simply unconcerned with whether they think I’m old).

My 40s are awesome.  I am fit and healthy, and my body does everything I want it to do.  I kick ass at work because I really know what I’m doing in a way you simply can’t when you don’t have a lot of experience.  I have a spouse I don’t have to worry about impressing anymore because we’ve seen each other at our best and worst, and have a deep trust and faith in each other that you can only develop over time (and that you can’t really imagine when you’re young and haven’t had a relationship that lasted more than a few years yet).  Hopefully you’ll get here too someday, but unfortunately you’ll have to wait a bit longer because you’re not old enough yet.[/quote]

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