Karen McCullough Loves Generation X

In this clip, motivational speaker Karen McCullough from Houston, TX gives us a funny portrait of the average Gen Xer in the workforce today. Taken from her keynote on the four generations in the workplace.

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[chroniclerofthe70s]

Generation X is a generation of many firsts: A tv in almost every household, arcades games, home gaming consoles, VCR's, video disc players, tv remote controls, color instant cameras, personal computer, hand held scientific calculator, microprocessor, space lab, space shuttle, cd players, cable tv, MTV channel L.E.D. watches, small affordable microwave ovens.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

The majority of Generation X shared most of these cultural media experiences as children/ and or teenagers: Night of the Living Dead Planet of the Apes series Exorcist Dirty Harry films Bruce Lee films The Godfather Deathwish films Blazzing Saddles Young Frankenstein Texas Chainsaw Massacre Jaws 1 & 2 Rocky 1,2,&3 The Bad News Bears series Star Wars Trilogy Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind Smokey and the Bandit 1&2 Saturday Night Fever Halloween Warriors Alien Friday the 13th Heavy Metal

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@26789mzx I agree. Individuals born in 1943 and thereafter would share many common cultural experiences.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@26789mzx I agree, 1961 marked the year of J.F.K's first term in office, the separation of East and West Germany via the Berlin Wall, and beginning of the Apollo program. J.F.K's term marked the beginning of both government and social changes within the U.S. Since I'm a mid GenXer I experienced what my early GenX siblings experienced but also experienced what my younger late Gen X siblings experienced. There is some overlap between the late and early members of successive generations.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@26789mzx I agree to a certain point except the boomers were the result of most GI's having children after they returned home in 1945. One needs only to research the birth records and compare the birth rate before and after 1945. The high birth rate continued into the early 60s. However, the majority of boomers lived their childhood during the late 40s and 50s. The majority of boomers experienced duck and cover drills during the 50s and most were drafted into the Vietnam War.

[26789mzx]

@chroniclerofthe70s (Part 2) By contrast, children born in the early 1960s and after had a VERY different coming of age experience--and in fact, some of the most influential cultural definers of Gen X were born during that period between 1961 and 1964, from Doug Coupland (who coined the term Generation X) to Barack Obama (who pegs himself a "post-Boomer")”.

[26789mzx]

@chroniclerofthe70s Strauss and Howe define Boomers “from birth years 1943 to 1960, a 17-year span”. The H&S definition is “social and cultural rather than simply demographic: Boomers are anyone who were too young to have personal memories of World War II, but old enough to remember the post-war high. Someone born in 1943 may not have been part of the post-war demographic bulge, but they came of age during the same historical era as the children in the birth cohorts that followed".

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@26789mzx She is not referring to a biological generation but a cultural generation. Strauss and Howe are not experts, they're academic hacks. A generation shares common cultural experiences, technologies, and social norms.

[sisyphus650]

@chroniclerofthe70s

I remember him. Didn't really care...But I remember him.

[26789mzx]

Gen Xers are born between the years 1961-1981 (NOT 65-78). The total U.S. Gen X population is 93,000,000 people. See New York Times bestselling book titled "Generations" by experts Strauss and Howe (page 318).

H&S project the Millennials at 76,000,000 people in the U.S. (updated to 90 to 100 million) -- see page 336

Baby Boomers are estimated at 79,000,000 people in the U.S. (see page 300)

The "Silent" generation is at 49,000,000 people in the U.S. (see page 280)

[4gazelle]

All the generations being discussed in this video are all going to have to quickly come up with solutions to turn this country's economy around. So much has been written about how GenX is stuck cleaning up the mess the boomers made, well, it's time to stop blaming each other, put aside differences and fix this economic mess now! We are all in deep trouble.

[sisyphus650]

Mrsouthbanker...Quit hating.