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#1 BSLChrisStoner

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Posted 05 December 2021 - 09:48 AM

The living generations are:

 

The Greatest Generation (born 1901–1927)

The Silent Generation / Traditionalists (born 1928–1945)

Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964)

Generation X (born 1965–1980)

Millennials (born 1981–1995)

Generation Z (born 1996–2010)

Generation Alpha (born 2011–2025)

 

 

 

Always lots of discussions on the different generations. 
Curious what your experiences and perceptions are working / interacting with other generations?



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Posted 05 December 2021 - 09:49 AM

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Posted 05 December 2021 - 09:49 AM

There’s Now a Name for the Micro Generation Born Between 1977-1983

https://didyouknowfa...ween-1977-1983/

 

I really identify with this. 


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Posted 07 December 2021 - 01:55 AM

Most of my professor'ing was done teaching Gen-Xer's... wonderful people... mostly happy to bust their ass to do what was asked of them... kept me on my toes with sharp minds, good grace, and humor...


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Posted 07 December 2021 - 06:39 AM

So which generation does most of the "entitlement" crowd belong to?



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Posted 07 December 2021 - 11:15 AM

So which generation does most of the "entitlement" crowd belong to?


IMO, Baby Boomers with Millennials close behind.


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Posted 07 December 2021 - 11:41 AM


IMO, Baby Boomers with Millennials close behind.

As a baby boomer, we didnt grow up entitled to anything.



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Posted 07 December 2021 - 12:24 PM

As a baby boomer, we didnt grow up entitled to anything.


You could also buy a house for $25,000. You could raise a family working 40 hours a week at the grocery store.

Times have changed.

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Posted 07 December 2021 - 12:44 PM

As a baby boomer, we didnt grow up entitled to anything.

 

Except, you know, the Federal Entitlements.

 

Not saying those are bad things, but they are literally the federal entitlements.  Jobs programs, unemployment insurance, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, and the big one...social security. 


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Posted 07 December 2021 - 12:46 PM

You could also buy a house for $25,000. You could raise a family working 40 hours a week at the grocery store.

Times have changed.

Baby boomers could not.

 

When I was in my late teens, interest rates were 15-19% for home mortgages.

 

My parents could and they did buy their house for 16K.

 

If we ate mcdonalds once a month, we were living high. Dad was solid middle class income. They just didnt spend it, and be head deep in debt, keeping up with the neighorbors.



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Posted 07 December 2021 - 06:41 PM

I think "what is the big event where if you remember it you're one generation and if you don't you're another generation" is an interesting thing whenever something like this comes up

 

Like I was 4 when 9/11 happened and don't remember it because I was in preschool and my parents made sure I didn't see it on TV, so I guess that'd mean I'm a zoomer more than a millennial  


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Posted 07 December 2021 - 08:22 PM

It still blows my mind that there are grown adults that don’t remember 9/11.

I. Am. Old.

There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note

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Posted 07 December 2021 - 08:31 PM

Today is Pearl Harbor day, btw.



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Posted 07 December 2021 - 08:34 PM

I think "what is the big event where if you remember it you're one generation and if you don't you're another generation" is an interesting thing whenever something like this comes up

Like I was 4 when 9/11 happened and don't remember it because I was in preschool and my parents made sure I didn't see it on TV, so I guess that'd mean I'm a zoomer more than a millennial


I guess my “9/11” moment was the Challenger. That happened when I was almost 4. No recollection.

There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note

"Now OPS sucks.  Got it."

"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."

"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty

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Posted 07 December 2021 - 11:31 PM

Most of my professor'ing was done teaching Gen-Xer's... wonderful people... mostly happy to bust their ass to do what was asked of them... kept me on my toes with sharp minds, good grace, and humor...

Sounds about right!! Most of us are still like that, the ones I know at least. The first generation of "Latch Key Kids", we had to fend for ourselves at a pretty young age for a few hours a day, and I think that helped in the long run, responsibility wise. 


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Posted 08 December 2021 - 12:28 AM

Baby boomers could not.

 

When I was in my late teens, interest rates were 15-19% for home mortgages.

 

My parents could and they did buy their house for 16K.

 

If we ate mcdonalds once a month, we were living high. Dad was solid middle class income. They just didnt spend it, and be head deep in debt, keeping up with the neighorbors.

 

In 1970 two story Colonials were being built in bucolic Glastonbury Connecticut for $45,000. Boomer Generation, lock stock and smoking barrel.



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Posted 09 December 2021 - 05:14 AM

Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom I was greatly influenced by members of the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation. My Aunt Alice was probably the pragmatic and even tempered person I ever encountered. My mom was a member of the silent generation and she raised three sons as a single mother. Her tough determination through some very real adversity has stuck with me throughout my life.
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Posted 09 December 2021 - 08:32 AM

There’s Now a Name for the Micro Generation Born Between 1977-1983

https://didyouknowfa...ween-1977-1983/

 

I really identify with this. 

 

Absolutely,  We're old enough to remember life without much of the "modern" technology, but also were young enough to be able to adapt a bit better than our parents.  And growing up in the 80's, man, what a time to be alive.



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Posted 09 December 2021 - 09:15 AM

Born in 84' technically makes me a millennial. But how people describe "millennials", isn't me at all. A lot changes for kids born in 84' vs. 95'. When I turned 30, there are people in my generation that just graduated high school. 

 

Recently found out the girl that has cut my hair the last few times went to the same high school as me. When I said class of 02', she was taken aback and was like, "a little before my time. 2013." Same generation. But I would not consider us alike in any fashion other than where we grew up. 


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Posted 09 December 2021 - 03:38 PM

A quarter of Gen Z respondents plan to retire before the age of 55, according to a Goldman Sachs survey of over 1,000 workers and retirees. Judging by previous generations, that’s an ambitious goal: in Goldman’s survey, only 8% of retirees stopped working before the age of 55. And while experts generally say people will need 80% of their former income per year in retirement, a third of respondents younger than 40 believe they’ll only need 60% or less.






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