I'm not waiting until I read the olds thread

[Deleted]

I thought the WWII generation was dying off and/or was being packed into nursing homes. I'm absolutely certain they are different than baby boomers.

So what the hell exactly are baby boomers crowing about how much they've done for this country? By my account, all they've really done is drink, womanize, bake cookies, build the suburbs and pretty much had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.

[wawa]

Can we clarify what the cutoff for the boomers (and subsequent generations) actually is?

[marie427]

Boomers - 1946-1964

[hopecounts]

Technically baby boomers are 1946 through 1964, so not the WW II generation but their kids.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

[hawkeye]

So WWII gen are what years?

[meshaliuknits]

1927-1945 - Silent Generation or Traditionalists

1946-1964 - Baby Boomers

1965-1983 - Gen X or the Busters

1984- 2002 - Gen Y or the Millennials

2003- Current Gen Z or the Digital Generation


ETA: Forgot my citation: askville.amazon.com/cut-birth-dates-generations-baby-boomers-gen-Gen-generation/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9298486

[msmerymac]

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:42 GMT -5 hawkeye said:

So WWII gen are what years?

Sometimes "the Greatest Generation" a la Tom Brokaw.

They come after "the Lost Generation."

[hawkeye]

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:53 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

1927-1945 - Silent Generation or Traditionalists

1946-1964 - Baby Boomers

1965-1983 - Gen X or the Busters

1984- 2002 - Gen Y or the Millennials

2003- Current Gen Z or the Digital Generation


ETA: Forgot my citation: askville.amazon.com/cut-birth-dates-generations-baby-boomers-gen-Gen-generation/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9298486

Am I the only one that feel like these ranges are way too broad?

I mean, how much in common does a 1984 baby honestly have with a 2002 baby?

[msmerymac]

Jun 27, 2012 15:48:20 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:53 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

1927-1945 - Silent Generation or Traditionalists

1946-1964 - Baby Boomers

1965-1983 - Gen X or the Busters

1984- 2002 - Gen Y or the Millennials

2003- Current Gen Z or the Digital Generation


ETA: Forgot my citation: askville.amazon.com/cut-birth-dates-generations-baby-boomers-gen-Gen-generation/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9298486

This is close to what I see the most. However, being born in 81, some lists consider me a Gen Yer, starting that group in 80 instead of 84.

I'm '82 and I've always thought that Gen X stopped in 1980, and we're Gen Y/Millennials.

[marie427]

Likewise, do people born in 1964 share a lot in common with people born in 1946? Not entirely, but the range has to begin and end somewhere. I think as we age, perhaps similarities in the early and late end of the Gen Y range will become more obvious. Obviously, a 10-year-old won't have much in common with a 28-year-old.

[curmudgeon]

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:45 GMT -5 nuggetbrain said:

Pretty much the Boomers were able to reap the rewards of all the crap that their parents went through to rebuild our country after the Depression and WWII.

Yup, after everyone came back from the war and women left the workforce they made as many babies as possible. The Boomers had to "deal" with the affluence of the 50's and free drugs and love in the 60's. Boofuckinghoo.

[hawkeye]

Jun 27, 2012 15:50:44 GMT -5 marie427 said:

Likewise, do people born in 1964 share a lot in common with people born in 1946? Not entirely, but the range has to begin and end somewhere. I think as we age, perhaps similarities in the early and late end of the Gen Y range will become more obvious. Obviously, a 10-year-old won't have much in common with a 28-year-old.

I agree it has to end and begin somewhere, but I think the differences are much,much more pronounced in the more recent generations because technology moves a hell of a lot faster with each passing year.

[marie427]

I was born in 1982 and DH was born in 1976, and our generational differences are actually really apparent despite us being "only" 6 years apart. It's so obvious he's a Gen Xer and while I do share some similarities with Gen Xers, it's not enough for me to think we "belong" to the same generation group.

[meshaliuknits]

Jun 27, 2012 15:48:20 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:53 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

1927-1945 - Silent Generation or Traditionalists

1946-1964 - Baby Boomers

1965-1983 - Gen X or the Busters

1984- 2002 - Gen Y or the Millennials

2003- Current Gen Z or the Digital Generation


ETA: Forgot my citation: askville.amazon.com/cut-birth-dates-generations-baby-boomers-gen-Gen-generation/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9298486

This is close to what I see the most. However, being born in 81, some lists consider me a Gen Yer, starting that group in 80 instead of 84.

It varies depending on where you're looking. Often 1979 (AKA the year the planet was graced with my awesome) is the end of X. But you've gotta start and end somewhere.

[ttt]

1927-1945 - Whiny Old People

1946-1964 - Whiny Soon to be Old People

1965-1983 - Angsty Grown Latchkey Kids

1984- 2002 - Spoiled Brats Who Spend All Day Texting

2003- Children Raised by iPads



HTH

[curmudgeon]

Jun 27, 2012 15:52:09 GMT -5 hawkeye said:

Jun 27, 2012 15:50:44 GMT -5 marie427 said:

Likewise, do people born in 1964 share a lot in common with people born in 1946? Not entirely, but the range has to begin and end somewhere. I think as we age, perhaps similarities in the early and late end of the Gen Y range will become more obvious. Obviously, a 10-year-old won't have much in common with a 28-year-old.

I agree it has to end and begin somewhere, but I think the differences are much,much more pronounced in the more recent generations because technology moves a hell of a lot faster with each passing year.

Yup, I definitely identify with Gen-Y ('82) and have seen cutoffs for '80-'84. I think the huge distinction is that we were the first that had computers in our formative years (as opposed to my dad who used a stick and a flat rock).

[meshaliuknits]

Tangent:

I was at a talk discussing the look of the 2020 workplace. Since the Boomers got the pill first, they had fewer babies than folks did previously. As a result, there aren't enough Xers to take over all the positions they're vacating as they retire. Also, Xers still have to adhere to the Boomer's philosophies since we can't oust them by sheer numbers. Xers and Ys have more in common with each other than Xers do with Boomers, so once we get enough Ys in the workplace, we can force a regime change, so to speak.

The lady giving the talk said that X really got the short end of the generational stick. lol

[hawkeye]

I feel like people born in the late 70s and early 80s are in some kind of generational no-man's land.

[msmerymac]

Jun 27, 2012 15:52:15 GMT -5 marie427 said:

I was born in 1982 and DH was born in 1976, and our generational differences are actually really apparent despite us being "only" 6 years apart. It's so obvious he's a Gen Xer and while I do share some similarities with Gen Xers, it's not enough for me to think we "belong" to the same generation group.

Same, although my husband was born in '74. We had really different cultural experiences in childhood and our teen years.

[basilosaurus]

Jun 27, 2012 15:55:18 GMT -5 ttt said:

1965-1983 - Angsty Grown Latchkey Kids

Yep, that's pretty much me

[Deleted]

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:53 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

1927-1945 - Silent Generation or Traditionalists

1946-1964 - Baby Boomers

1965-1983 - Gen X or the Busters

1984- 2002 - Gen Y or the Millennials

2003- Current Gen Z or the Digital Generation


ETA: Forgot my citation: htt'p://askville.amazon.com/cut-birth-dates-generations-baby-boomers-gen-Gen-generation/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9298486

Who the heck went back in timetjat to rename a generation the "Silent Generation or Traditionalists"? That's new

I was born in 1963 and my momwas born in 1943. It used to be that we were both considered part of the baby boom generation.

I always thought baby boomers (her part of the generation anyway) was credited with civil rights, womens rights, gay rights, the sexual revolution, etc? In general, they fought for individual rights and questioned authority.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Yeah, I don't feel like I fit in with any generation. 1980-born kid. Although I totally agree with ttt's "angsty grown latchkey kid."
Or "I am the perfect age to have tried every bad fashion trend in the 80s and 90s."

[Deleted]

Jun 27, 2012 15:48:49 GMT -5 hawkeye said:

Jun 27, 2012 15:45:53 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

1927-1945 - Silent Generation or Traditionalists

1946-1964 - Baby Boomers

1965-1983 - Gen X or the Busters

1984- 2002 - Gen Y or the Millennials

2003- Current Gen Z or the Digital Generation


ETA: Forgot my citation: askville.amazon.com/cut-birth-dates-generations-baby-boomers-gen-Gen-generation/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9298486

Am I the only one that feel like these ranges are way too broad?

I mean, how much in common does a 1984 baby honestly have with a 2002 baby?

And how much are they really different? I might have more in common with someone 20 years older AND 20 years younger than me, than someone my own age.

These arbitrary divisions crack me up. Like some cataclysmic event happened that changed babies born in 1984 from babies born in 1982?

Or why is the generation 1984-2002 instead of 1994 - 2012?

It's all completely bogus to give magazines something to write about and I'm surprised the people here take it so seriously.

[2vermont]

Gen X'er here.

[eclaires]

I think the boomer generation range is actually pretty good. My grandparents had their first kid in 1950 and their last in 1961 (they had 5 kids).

ANYWAY. The Boomers suck monkey nuts. But I also dislike the WWII generation as well. Mostly b/c they raised the Boomers and they are the ones who refuse to believe that Social Security reform won't affect them, even though they are 90 years old. I love my grandma very, very much, but she is so stubborn on this point, it's ridiculous. As is every other old person I've met.

[eclaires]

Oh and I'm an '81 baby.

Generation w/out a name...

[jigsy]

I was born in '85 and I feel like my experience growing up was different than that of my siblings who are just a little older than me (late 70's/early 80's). I have basically always had the internet in my life, I remember getting it first hooked up, but I was pretty young. I've esentially grown up on the net. Same goes with cell phones. I had my first cell phone when I was in 8th grade and I was one of the first kids to get one.
So I can see the gap...however, I recently had a class with a girl who graduated high school early and started college at 16. So she was born in 1996...There were so many pop culture things she did not get, but maybe that is because she was homeschooled.

[WOT?*]

Baby boomer who identifies as a GenXer signing in.

[hubes]

We have 4 women and 4 generations in our office. There are marked generational differences.

The baby boomer is definitely the whiner.

[Melissa W.]

Jun 27, 2012 16:02:40 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Tangent:

I was at a talk discussing the look of the 2020 workplace. Since the Boomers got the pill first, they had fewer babies than folks did previously. As a result, there aren't enough Xers to take over all the positions they're vacating as they retire. Also, Xers still have to adhere to the Boomer's philosophies since we can't oust them by sheer numbers. Xers and Ys have more in common with each other than Xers do with Boomers, so once we get enough Ys in the workplace, we can force a regime change, so to speak.

The lady giving the talk said that X really got the short end of the generational stick. lol

This is absolutely happening on the nuclear industry or at least at Dh's plant. There will be a huge retirement boom soon. They are hiring in prep for it.
Also maybe with fewer workers Wt can become more efficient.