Ugh, did she have to use Kanye as an example of our generation?
LOL. Is Kanye now going to be the Costco of this thread?
I refuse to accept Kanye as a representative of my generation! (At least I think 1981 falls into this lost generation. I'm not a millennial or a gen x-er, dammit! Funny side note though - my hometown has a gen x radio and they were playing some mid80s music where it's usually early 90s and my husband was like this is way too old to be gen x radio! I responded that I didn't think he knew the definition of gen x since both of us are at the tail end of gen x and people born in the 60s are part of gen x.)
I will say I do like the Generation Catalano. That made me laugh.
LOL. Is Kanye now going to be the Costco of this thread?
I refuse to accept Kanye as a representative of my generation! (At least I think 1981 falls into this lost generation. I'm not a millennial or a gen x-er, dammit! Funny side note though - my hometown has a gen x radio and they were playing some mid80s music where it's usually early 90s and my husband was like this is way too old to be gen x radio! I responded that I didn't think he knew the definition of gen x since both of us are at the tail end of gen x and people born in the 60s are part of gen x.)
I will say I do like the Generation Catalano. That made me laugh.
OMG yes! My cousin was born in '67 and was a Gen Xer. I think the people born between, say, '64 and '68 might technically be Gen X rather than Boomers, but they probably have a lot of the same reservations about their placement as those born between '77 and '81.
Post by pescalita on Sept 18, 2013 12:16:59 GMT -5
I think it's both. As a lost generation member (82) I definitely had my quarter life crisis over the loss of that exceptional life I was "promised" as a smart kid in the 80s/90s.
When I read the original blog, I kept wishing the author would add the economy to the equation. It needed the inverse of the baby boomer chart, with the lush green lawn enhanced by good economies. It needed the flowers and unicorns lawn above the reality that the economy has thus far provided us.
In my day, we got laid off, and walked 10 miles in the snow to collect our unemployment. And we took out 5 figures of student loans to send us back to school for more degrees and to live on. And we liked it! /shakes cane