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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most Gen Xers have Boomer parents and even fewer, Silent Generationers.

I’m one. Born 1970 to parents born in 1934 and 1937.

DH has parents a full decade younger.
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Boomers were born 1946 to 1964

GenX 1965 to 1980.

Most GenX have silent generation parents. [/quote]

GenX here.. (born in 1971) parents are boomers born in 1948 and 1952[/quote]

Gen xer here (1970) with parent from 1944 and 1942. I always called them war babies I had no idea “silent generation”  was an expression. I changed my profession multiple times during the course of events (cashier - journalist - photographer - web designer- PR - SAHM - management consultant.) I had a Eurajlpass in the early 90s  and visited 20 countries with no phone and stayed at youth hostels. My first car I earned the money for working at the mall and it was an old Honda Civic with 150k miles and  no radio or heat. my brother had a dirt bike and skids were big. My  older sister went to secretarial school to be Working Girl on Wall Street like Melanie Griffith and I was the first to go to college.  I have moved and lived in four states. i worked in downtown Manhattan   during both World Trade Center bombings. (Yes it happened twice.) .
Currently  I am paying for the kids braces, saving for college and also helping my elderly parents out at the same time.  I have very little retirement saved up and am looking  in the face of major recession.

I have lived a good  life and have seen a LOT but I am so tired. And I am sad my kids will have way less than I had in this stupid world of iPhones and Ai and Trump and techbros.

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