Generation X

[bynddrvn5]

Boomer are not mature, they are narcissistic. Big difference.

I have been in top management positions, and I consider most Boomers to be lazy and whiny employees. Quite honestly I think the US will see the productivity spike once Gen X, Y, and the Millennials - start forcing technological changes and are not held down by Boomers who would rather bankrupt a company and get fired than to see any real change.

[jimjim13061]

Most Baby Boomers believe in a utopian society. When they were kids they had extended family support, mom stayed home, etc.. Genxers have been alone most of our lives. We're happy to have a good marriage and one good friend, while Boomers have a constant need to surround themselves with people who'll fill their utopian fantasy...and they, NOT gen-x, see themselves as THE PARENTS --- still.

[tecumseh751]

Im a GenXer and I think your on to something. I come from a more blue-collar mold, but your still right. Parents were never around and we had to fend for ourselves. So we had to grow-up fast. It was work hard/play hard. For me, I dont shuck my obligations as a man for my family, but also a sense of humor of a 16 yo. We see that life is full of purpose, but our own has none. Its a bitter pill. We are the glue that moved America into the information age. Anonymously keeping the ship afloat.

[HigherLunatic1]

I feel like we are a generation that is disenfranchised for trying to change things for the better. I think the boomers and millennial s better listen to US, not the other way around! All this crap that is going on now, we predicted 10 - 20 fucking years ago while we were KIDS. WE need to take the lead and not allow more of the same shit that has fucked America for the last 40 years!! And yes, to answer your question I do feel like a kid... STILL screaming out a warning.

[p717]

Secondly, I'm from South Texas, where the Boomer culture is such that my generation was expected to put in countless hours off the clock to keep the company functioning, because the Boomers just wouldn't do anything. Most of them are trust funders, so a company is just a pet project with their name attached, but for the rest of us in the talent, we held the company up working like proprietors, because we didn't have the "name" to market our talents as freelancers.

[p717]

I don't feel that way at all. I feel like a kid, but not in the same way. I was born from artist-hippie parental stereotypes. Essentially, I was an adult by age 10 raising my parents, and most GenXrs who grew up like me feel the same way. Leadership is ridiculous, because we've been forced to act like a "group" of "individuals" - like the temp supervisor in "Haiku Tunnel" - - "We're all adults..just do your work, and everyone will be happy".

[Interests2009]

Thanks for sharing.

I am a Generation Xer and I feel this way big time.

5 stars.

[cmtmj2006]

I think he is right about feeling as if we are children in an adult body, but the reason is we have always been under the heals of the selfish baby boomers. From the very moment we took our place in the real world we found out pretty fast we could not get around the boomers and those feeling of cynicism and doubt started to emerge. Now the economy is in ruins because of boomers we have even more to feel crummy about. Listen to Grunge. It speaks the truth about Gen X.

[ZombieCobain]

Sorry my fellow gen X-ers. With all the 401K devastation out there, the retirement of all these damn baby boomers we were all secretly anticipating will be delayed.

[lovedastench]

basically we are to pave the way for gen y. Then we will shovel shit for them.

[lovedastench]

I have no way to prove this but gen x was never meant to amount to anything. Look at the way we are depicted. Look at the trends that were coming through during our time.

[laughterdeepinside]

I completely agree with you and have been trying to point that out to people for some time. The trends were horrible and blatantly self destructive, as well as the depiction. I remember news casts basically saying that this is a do nothing generation and then switch to shots of concert goers, as if boomers never went to a concert. You are the first one I have ever seen or heard to bring this up. Good on you.

[fearlesssockpuppet]

Millenial here. I feel the same as you Xers. I feel the Boomers have infantalized us all.

This is the way I understood how the generations went:

Baby Boomers 1942-1958

Generation Jones 1954-1963

Gen X 1964-1979

MTV Generation 1975-1985

Gen Y / Millenial 1980-2000

There's some overlapping, but subgenerations tend to do that.

Gen Y looks like we know what we're doing, but we have an inflated sense of entitlement and older gens call us "douchebags". Gen X grunge far exceeds contemporary music.

[lovedastench]

First time I've heard about this overlapping generations. I always heard of Greatest generation (WW2), Baby boomers, Generation X, and generation Y. I was under the impression that there is only a ten year span between gen x and gen y. So If there is aprox a 22 year span between greatest gen and the baby boomers. Then why all of a sudden publicize gen y with only a 10 year span between gen x. Also who comes up with the terms for these different generations?

[fearlesssockpuppet]

There was about a ten year span between the boomers and Xers too. Who comes up with these terms? Generational demographers. Not me.

[lovedastench]

I don' know about that. The difference between me and the average boomer is about 20 years. Aprox a 10 to 12 year difference between me and a gen y.

[fearlesssockpuppet]

Good point. There's a five year gap between my brother (gen Xer) and myself (millennial). One could stick us both in the subgeneration "the MTV generation", as we were both born between '75 and '85. A lot of this "what generation do you fit into" has to do with:

1. when you were born

2. what cultural references you identify with

3. How you behave.

I am a millennial but I behave more like an X'er as I'm not bursting with self entitlement, and I do feel like a kid in an adult's body.

[howhore]

GEORGE CARLIN on Baby Boomers and Politicians

on youtube. I think you will like this.