Generation X: Check in here

[Flash]

The Managing Generation Y-ine thread got me thinking.

How's it going Gen X? We were marked as a cynical, non-breeding bunch. We shunned managerial posts, pushed the button on the eight-hour work week, watched as technology has grown.

We're approaching or in our 40s. Where are we now?

I found this on workopolis:

http://www.workopolis.com/work.aspx?action=Transfer&View=Content/Common/ArticlesDetailView&articleId=brent20080617File1Article1&lang=EN&articleSource=Brent

It seems that, sadly, we're growing up. We've become more conservative. Even I, a terminal procrastinator, have my on management. And luckily, I live in an economy that will allow me ...

How's you?

 

[Bubbler]

I still hate the hell out of the Generation X tag. A moniker put on us by Baby Boomers who wanted to make themselves feel better.

Other than that, I'm liberal as ever (our generation was pretty conservative to begin with), and **** anyone younger than me.

 

[Bob Cook]

I'm cynical, but I'm also a breeder, big-time, like Shawn Kemp, my junior by one day.

 

[Flash]

Most people I know, including two of my brothers, have two kids. My eldest brother and I have opted to go the non-breeding route.

But even my breeding brothers have held the generational line in comparison to our parents. But then again, my dad came from a family of eight and my mom, a family of 12.

We must be sorely disappointing our Irish Catholic heritage.

 

[playthrough]

That's funny, Flash. All of me and my wife's friends either have two kids, or one with one more intended or already in the hopper. We're on one and probably will in time go for two, but certainly not three, and I haven't heard any consideration for a third from any of the aforementioned friends.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

We're approaching or in our 40s. Where are we now?

More spry and youthful than I've ever been. I envy the kiddies nothing.

 

[Songbird]

Class of '89. Cynical as they come. Had a bar mitzvah (I was a good, little kid then) but disdain religion with every fiber of my being. As non-breeding as they come (so to speak). But the 40-hour-a-week thing is a misnomer. Not sure I've ever worked less than 75 hours a week, which is why I'm probably not breeding and haven't had a sniff of it in ... a long, long, such a long time. But that's for another thread, I suppose.

Politically? *******, it would be nice to have someone who speaks to me. In my lifetime, only Bubba has done that. I know I'm supposed to jump on the Obama Train, and even though one of his favorite books is my favorite book, there's something fishy about him. I suppose that's just me being cynical.

 

[bigpern23]

My eldest brother and I have opted to go the non-breeding route.

That's good ... they say breeding within the family can lead to some ****ed up kids.

 

[forever_town]

**** the Baby Boomers. **** 'em with a rusty Steely Dan. Just kidding. I think.

I'm not sure if I agree with the segment about the Gen Xer's comfort level with technology. I think those at the latter end of Gen X are nearly as comfortable with technology as the Gen Y gang.

Politically, I think I'm more liberal now than I was when I was younger. In fact, I know I am. However, I still don't identify with Dumbicrats or Repugnicans, nor do I put up with either party's ****. I also have been pondering getting out of this 60 to 80-hours-per-week work cycle and into a job with more sane hours. The corner office? Funk dat.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

I fit in neither generation. And it shows.

I'm breeding (we want three kids).

And I hate technology (I have no cell, no video games and no wireless anything).

 

[Songbird]

My eldest brother and I have opted to go the non-breeding route.

That's good ... they say breeding within the family can lead to some ****ed up kids.

3 points.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

My eldest brother and I have opted to go the non-breeding route.

That's good ... they say breeding within the family can lead to some ****ed up kids.

Outstanding.

 

[Lugnuts]

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.

 

[sportschick]

I'm at the end of Gen X, pretty comfortable with technology (except that Twitter ****, 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.

 

[Grimace]

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.

 

[Flash]

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

 

[Songbird]

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

 

[Dyno]

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 $$.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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.

 

[sportschick]

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

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