CP: Are you a Millenial?

[LoveTrains]

Noooo I refuse. Born in 1980.

[LoveTrains]

Aug 1, 2015 23:04:49 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Noooo I refuse. Born in 1980.

No Facebook in college and no cell phones in college. I can't be a millenial. Plus I graduated college before Great Recession.

[sangria]

I'm 78. Self proclowned "lost generation

[panicked]

84, so I grudgingly fit the title. Although I've been told I'm in a super special group called "aging millennials," so I'm okay.

[starburst604]

1975, so Gen X?

[wesleycrusher4ever]

'86 in the house! Facebook started my freshman year of college. I went to grad school right after undergrad because of the economy but it worked out for the best. I'm finally ready to buy a house though, had to pay down student debt.

[suzubell]

Born in 1982 and do not feel like a millennial.

[LoveTrains]

Aug 1, 2015 23:13:41 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

I'm 1983, and I feel very Millenial. I was very much a victim of 2008, so I feel it crazily. I have a scary amount of grad school debt trying to get back on my feet.

I think that's a big difference. My H and I were both already 5 years into our careers by that time and did not suffer career wise in 2008. We also don't have debt from grad school and our undergrad loans were consolidated at 3% or less in 2003. But that's not uncommon for our friends born in 1980 who graduated from college in 2002-2003.

[arterr0]

1979. I don't feel like I fit in with either. Oregon Trail generation here: socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generation/

[elleblue]

Aug 1, 2015 23:17:54 GMT -5 arterr0 said:

1979. I don't feel like I fit in with either. Oregon Trail generation here: socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generation/

Same, I was just coming in to post I'm Oregon Trail generation. lol

[pinkdutchtulips]

74 ... tail end of gen X

[aurora]

No, not technically and *definitely* don't feel like one.

[lilibet]

1985 and definitely a millennial. I got hit hard by 2008, as did many of the people I went to college with, and am really just now feeling like I'm finally getting everything togethe.

[elletr13]

1984, so yes. But at least my childhood was not consumed by technology and social media I always tell my sorority girls I advise--"I remember college BEFORE Facebook." (I think my school got it towards the end of my sophomore year).

[rootbeerfloat]

1976, Gen X

[josieposy]

'81 here and I feel very much like a transitional mini generation.

[nsuhomer]

1982. Don't feel like a millenial at all. My H and I weren't really hurt by the recession. Careers solid, sold & bought homes at right times, etc.

My youngest sister was born in 1990 and I feel worlds away from her in so many ways.

[secretlyevil]

Aug 1, 2015 23:07:31 GMT -5 sangria said:

I'm 78. Self proclowned "lost generation

sits on this bench.

[mbcdefg]

1983

[madisen]

1976 checking in - bicentennial baby and gen x'er all the way.

[curbsideprophet]

Not a millennial. Oregon trail is a much better fit.

[heyjude]

Millenial's are an awesome generation and if 1980 is Millenial I'm proud to be a Millenial.

Mostly though I identify as a "lost generation" person. Neither fit me perfectly.

[cap]

Aug 2, 2015 0:26:03 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Aug 1, 2015 23:07:31 GMT -5 sangria said:

I'm 78. Self proclowned "lost generation

sits on this bench.

Also here. 

Except I'm not "proclowned."

[gibbinator]

1984. Facebook just came out in my last year of university, people were just getting cell phones, campus residences were getting wired for in room Internet, students were just starting to bring their own computers instead of using the school computer room. I still used floppy disks to transfer files though.

I was another 2008 casualty, spent my post-uni years working part time minimum wage jobs. I'm 30 and still making about the same although at least I'm breaking into an actual career now.

[katfco]

1980, so technically, yes, by your definition, but I'm really neither. Another member of the Oregon Trail generation checking in.

[mrsukyankee]

The end of '68, so a man on the moon baby (my parents held me up to the tv screen to watch it at almost 1).

[underwaterrhymes]

'74, so Gen X

[Velar Fricative]

'82. Sure, I'm a Millennial and I'll own it, but I'm not one of the obnoxious ones featured in NYT articles.

ETA: Ha, I didn't even see until after I posted that there was a sympathetic article down below. Off to read.

[klingklang77]

77 here, so Xer, but I feel like part of the lost generation, or whatever they call that in-between generation. 

[irishbride2]

Yes.

Although I don't embody all of their characteristics, I'm proud to have their optimism unlike the gen Xers