Generation X: Check in here

Flash, here in the States, we're in the middle of a baby boomlet:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-07-16-baby-boomlet_N.htm

The article you posted is basically saying Xers have focused on their families rather than climbing the corporate ladder. They wanted to keep their kids in the same school rather than relocate to Buffalo.

I'm an Xer. More cynical? Yes. More conservative? Not no, but hell no. I've gotten more liberal, more green and more vegetarian.

And yes, like the article said, Ys annoy me sometimes.

 

I'm at the end of Gen X, pretty comfortable with technology (except that Twitter shit, just bizarre).

I don't have kids yet. Do I want one? Yea, but I'm not sure that I'm capable of getting myself to the point where I can trust someone enough to get married, and since I firmly believe that children need two parents, well, that kind of complicates things.

I'm more conservative socially than I was in college, but I'm still pretty close to a socialist overall.

 

Class of '91.

No kids (that I know of).

More liberal.

I hate ALL music currently played on the radio. I still lust for Winona Ryder. I haven't listened to a Nirvana album in years. I play acoustic instead of electric guitar.

I embrace technology so long as it meets my needs. I don't need to text. I don't need a website or myspace/facebook page.

Still cynical, but open to the idea that the world isn't inherenly evil. I've come to the conclusion that it's a daily battle, and if you survive it daily, you're golden.

I don't know. whatever.

 

Is a lack of trust a common thread in our generation?

 

Trust no one. But I'm willing to try.

 

I'm a cynical Gen Xer. I am not married and don't have kids. Most of my Gen X friends also are unmarried and childless. I'm talking about friends from way back, not people I've gravitated toward as I got older. My family is contracting -- the Gen Xers are not having kids. It's a strange phenomenon.

I'm very comfortable with technology. The only thing that keeps me from having more/newer gadgets is $$.

 

Class of 1986 here, just turned 40 a few months ago.

I'm damn tired of the Baby Boomers. Yes, they did a lot of great things over the years. But they screwed up a bunch of stuff too that'll be left for us and future generations to fix.

 

I don't know. I think mine comes from some pretty horrible personal experiences with men when I was a teenager.

 

Almost every vegetarian I know is an Xer, myself included. In fact most of the greenies I know are Xers as well. Being conservative at work doesn't necessarily mean we're conservative about everything.

 

Yes, good point, sc.

Like the article said, I don't trust corporations. (I do trust people.)

I think our generation is more nimble in the workforce. We're more willing to accept or be reconciled to job changes-- and quickly.

 

Likewise ... as well, when I was a teen, we were bombarded with messages about date rape and then GHB in my 20s.

Of course, no one ever thought it could happen to us, right? Riiiiiiight ...

 

I only caught the tail end of X, and in some ways I fall more into the classification of Y, but I'm not strongly either. True, I don't have any children yet, but it's because I'm trying to get beyond the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle first. It has nothing to do with not wanting them. If I had my way, I would already have two little rugrats.

I get pissed off every time I see some young, unmarried couple get pregnant, then run out and get the state to pay for everything with the child birth, plus all the medical bills the first few years, as well as food. It pisses me off because it's not fair. I'm married, I work, and I take responsibility for the things I do and mistakes I've made. Because of that, I'm denied (not that I would want them) the benefits given to these lazy, irresponsible little shits who get to do whatever the hell they want to do, when they want to do it.