If you want more of my thoughts read The Self Esteem Trap. The first third of the book talks about all that shit.
I am a network manager and I basic question I ask of entry level network techs is "What is the CIDR mask of /22 when represented as a subnet mask?
Well in your case they were right. On the other hand there are plenty of your generation that are doing great and aren't whining about how they were given a raw deal. Maybe if you stopped being a little whiny bitch you might be alright.Then they tell us we're fucked up and lost and useless.
Well in your case they were right. On the other hand there are plenty of your generation that are doing great and aren't whining about how they were given a raw deal. Maybe if you stopped being a little whiny bitch you might be alright.
It ain't easy being an X/Y'er.
Boomers took away our pensions so now we are fighting with 401k's and the vesting schedules for that.
Social security might as well be dead by the time we get around to cashing in.
We have been told that we need college educations to succeed by our parents and teachers and go into debt up to our eyeballs for a piece of paper only to find that jobs are incredibly hard to come by.
And when we do get a job there's no real guarantee that we'll keep it because the boomers and their demand for profits to keep their retirement portfolio looking good make it easier to lay off a bunch of low income grunts than some middle manager making 3x that of his underlings.
Lots of people in their 20's and 30's walked into a stacked deck that wasn't in their favor. Luckily some of us have some sense of work ethic instilled from our parents that gets us through most of the challenges, but it's an uphill battle.
Yep, our generation got FUCKED by the boomer generation. They're the ones shipping our jobs away. Greedy little fucks cry about taxes but at the same time would revolt if their social security/medicare got taken away.
They have destroyed the environment with their giant houses and SUVs and desire for cheaply made goods from China.
Eh. I think that's just as much of an issue with X/Y as it is the boomers. McMansions and SUV's are more of a Gen Y driven with a trickel down to X effect than anything done by the boomers. It's the boomers that are the developers and peddlers. X & Y are the consumers.
Eh. I think that's just as much of an issue with X/Y as it is the boomers. McMansions and SUV's are more of a Gen Y driven with a trickel down to X effect than anything done by the boomers. It's the boomers that are the developers and peddlers. X & Y are the consumers.
Are you kidding? The SUV boom started in the mid 1990s, Generation Y was still in elementary school and Generation X was in their 20s, they couldn't afford McMansions or SUVs.
I dunno, I only know one person under the age of 35 that's bought a car new from the dealership, but almost everyone I know over 40 bought their car new regardless of their financial state. I know a lot of X and Y people that share houses or rent, even when they can afford a home, but I see a lot of Boomers struggling to stay in oversized houses they couldn't afford in the first place.
The baby boomer generation is/was one of the most destructive generations of people that ever lived.
They have devastated us financially. They have ruined the political environment and turned it into a circus. They have destroyed the environment with their giant houses and SUVs and desire for cheaply made goods from China.
And my experience is completely opposite. I'm 32 and almost every person I know within a few years of me has bought at least one new car if not several. And many of us have owned new construction houses.
The boomers took all the goodwill generated by the greatest generation and smoked it away in the 60s. Now they're like spoiled little children who demand all their entitlements because they were too stupid to save any of their money when they were working.
And therein lies the flaw with both our sets of anecdotal evidence.
I do have some issue with that generation as well. They have done a lot of good for society, but there was a lot about that supposed "greatest generation" that I think was really screwed up.
They brought us McCarthyism, Socialism of the 60s, restrictions on free speech in the 50s, racism in the 50s and 60s, etc. People back in those days also had very little ambition and were not very well traveled or learned culturally.
I respect their accomplishments, especially their war heroism, but I refuse to call them the "greatest generation."
How did you multiquote like that? Manually?
I just have to wonder how much of that is due to regional cost of living. I base my opinions on living in IA, central IL, AZ(pre-bubble), and NE. All of these are/were high value COL areas where homes were much more in line with incomes.
We rejected a roommate we were interviewing because he told us about an attitude like that. He was jobless, just graduated from Digipen, and refused a job offer because, "the recruiter was supposed to call me sometime Monday but he called me Tuesday and said he was sorry he was too busy to call. I'm not working for anyone who disrespects me like that!"This one kid came in and interviewed with us. He was something else.
Acted as if he was teaching us everything he was talking about like we had never heard about it our lives. Would MAYBE have been acceptable if he actually knew what he was talking about, but he didn't have a clue. The guy literally just through random ideas together and was so pie in the sky that nobody could follow him.
It's really been hit or miss for us lately. We haven't really had a candidate that was somewhere in the middle.
I'd still argue that Boomers outspend the Xers, both in actual dollars and in percentages of their income. You can pull data from the same source to argue though (eating out, alcohol, etc
Boomers also don't have daycare costs which are a mortgage in themselves. My daughter cost me $1200 a month when she was an infant.
But boomers/really old x'ers could argue that about paying for their kid's college.
my college would never, ever teach someone to write a 2 page resume.
(not saying they aren't used, but if you're in college you probably don't need a 2 page resume)
Well you're probably the exception to the rule. You know, worked hard, paid his way through college and understands that his life and career is what he makes of it. There's a lot of you like this out there. It just seems as the generations go on including mine more and more think they are entitled to success just because as is demonstrated in this forum daily. For every Anand there are hundreds of Tridents.
We rejected a roommate we were interviewing because he told us about an attitude like that. He was jobless, just graduated from Digipen, and refused a job offer because, "the recruiter was supposed to call me sometime Monday but he called me Tuesday and said he was sorry he was too busy to call. I'm not working for anyone who disrespects me like that!"
We predicted he'd be jobless for quite a while.