Best for everybody if Gen X is quiet, because we're frustrated. Upset and open about being upset Gen X is bad. Bad, because we raised ourselves like packs of animals, and down inside our middle aged bodies we are still fairly primal and a bit savage.
As an X, I can say I out work, out think, and out perform the younger person in every way. And when I call them soft, they go to HR and whine like 7 year old girls.
Spent the better part of the last two years helping my mom as her health failed. Took a shit ton of energy, while still working full-time. I’m free from that now and am tired, and yes did spend a day last week sitting under the shade of a big tree, no phone, no company and it was good.
See… the thing is, we (genX) don’t put ourselves, our lives, and our daily doings out on display for all to see. That’s why this young lady doesn’t understand what we’re doing. It’s not broadcasted. 😊
@@lennybrewster4673my friend and I laughed SO HARD watching the Woodstock 99 documentary. Older folks: "We don't understand why they keep saying "F you we won't do what ya tell us!!!" 💯 too funny
Gen x never had it easy. We raised ourselves outside playing our friends. I have been an adult since 5 and I have worked immensely hard and long. We never needed or wanted or expected a trophy. We do what needs to be done. I am grateful for not being a Boomer or a Millennium.
I am a 73 year old "boomer" just repaired our microwave, fixed the broken front door, replacing a radiator in a Nissan Armada, and replaced a wifi router. I have had real jobs since I was 13 and MANY chores before that. We taught Gen xers how to work. Thank you very much. PS I went scuba diving in February this year in Belize.
Just thought I’d throw something out to you to look up… There’s a small subset of us that are late 70s called Xennials. There are some Gen X things that I don’t understand because I’m not older. There are some millennial things that I do understand a little because I’m so close to that dividing line. Maybe your brother feels the same? Btw, I love the DadBod videos because he’s closer to my age than the older Gen Xers. 👍🏻
@@ambermac77 I can appreciate the sub genre, it makes me feel dirty and not in a good way to call myself that lol. I prefer to admit to being a millennial and let other people go “you are NOT a millennial”. My brother is a five foot eleven, 130 pound walking meat sack of anger and repressed emotions that wrapped his legs and arms around the rail at the front of the pit at Pantera in the 90’s and literally growled like an animal to make the big dudes behind him trying to push up to rail to F off. He’s Gen X, why you trying to get my butt whooped by that man for asking if he feels like a Xennial? Kidding, 20 yrs ago he’d’ve gone off for that kind of talk, we’re too old now 😂 he prolly would tell me I’d lost my mind tho.
Yeah we just lost our mum last year. We're busy taking care of kids parents and working our jobs. Can't wait till it's our time to retire and have our kids take care of themselves .
All the Gen X I know are doing everything she says we are not. And then some. We are quiet because like always we are busy being responsible,accountable, providing and protecting.
A lot of GenX is taking care of their grandkids as well as their parents right now! We don’t have time to be doing all the things our kids are doing. It’s called RESPONSIBILITY……
Responsibility 💯 THIS! We are at a point in life where our responsibilities take over. Which means we don’t have time to wreak havoc on the Internet and TikTok. Instead, we are quietly in survival mode trying to get through mid life while everyone else wastes their life staring at a small screen. We are the CEO’s of our lives and we know it. We don’t have time to cause trouble. We keep our heads down and get things done. I wish everyone the best of luck.
My mother beat me and my sister mercilessly, but now we’re all she has. My worst fear used to be that she would get Alzheimer’s and start beating us again😂. But it’s cool, she’s a Christian now. 😂
A lot of us Millennials are also helping to take care of our aging parents who had us in their 30’s. Both my parents retired while I was in elementary to middle school.
Fellow veteran and born in 1977. Thank you my brother, this was well said! They just don’t understand that our generation went through the most change as kids, teens, and young adults. We have a certain level of respect among us, and we hold each other accountable for how we conduct ourselves--which is why we frown upon the foolishness.
Thanks for your service from one vet to another but I regret to inform you that you are NOT in anyway shape or form in the club. If you have zero recollection of the seventies and were not out of high school by 1989 you are not Gen-X. Sorry bud! Salut! 🍷💪🏼🏴☠️
@@GenXMafia Not in the club?? Can u not read or do math? 1965-1980. Otherwise they wouldn’t be categorized as “generations”, but decades. It’s regarding a collective experience. It’s not about YOU.
@@kelijohnson6675 Before there was GenX they referred to the beginning of my generation as the "Baby Bust" 65-66. It was only decades later that "GenX" was even a thing and I wound up retconned into it. There is a big gulf between the 60s and the 70s part of that cohort. For perspective I spent a long time being too young to do any of the cool stuff Boomers took for granted as a rite of passage. First legal beer at 18? Nope raised the drinking age to 19 that year. When I turned 19? Nope national drinking age was raised to 21. Too old for video games. But hey I did get to be the first group that had to register for selective service after it had been abolished for what were the worst of the Boomer generation. Their older brothers got sent to Vietnam. The younger ones became the Yuppies that gutted our industrial base and Marxist/ Maoist college professors that now have tenure and have been twisting up Millenials and Zoomers. Gen X could almost be divided into two generations. The same could be said about Boomers. I still sort of bristle at being called GenX but have resigned myself to it. I had sort of embraced and gotten used to being considered the financially and demographically worthless for marketing and political representation purposes "Baby Bust".
Watch the portrayals of Gen X in media, especially in the 90s. The sarcastic, apathetic, badass that wants to be left alone. Fairly accurate for the most part.
This message has been brought to you by all GenX-ers (1967). Dadbod could not have said it any better or more concise than he did and he speaks for all of us. We are taking care of our parents, still highly involved in speaking into the lives of our adult children, and enjoying the beauty of our grandchildren...and we're a little bit tired to say the least. I have come to realize that being a GenX-er is much like being a middle child. Basically, we want peace for everyone and we will do our best to bring that about and we don't want/need a trophy when doing so. This is just simply who we are and what we do. 'Nuf said...
Generation X is just not 65 Age 43 to 58 Gen X is is from 1965 - 1975 Gen Z 1997 - 2012 Millennials 1981 - 1996 Gen X 1965 - 1980 Boomers II 1955 - 1964 Baby Boomers 1920 - 1954
No this is wrong. You missed the silent generation and Xennials. The rest is mixed up there. There are no boomers and then baby boomers. Boomers are baby boomers. Baby boomers parents are the silent generation. Baby boomers kids are people like me Gen X and xennials. But it can get tangly when people have kids later or earlier
Absolutely the truth! We raised ourselves and then raised the next generation we are tired it’s not our job to fix everybody else’s problems! Leave us alone to have some actual downtime and enjoy our lives we deserve it!!
Hard Times Create Good Men, Good Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men...Be Strong Gen Xers, Because we're the only ones holding this sh1t show together!!
IMO that is exactly what we have been doing...letting the next generation get a head start. We are coming behind a generation that still won't let go of the world and look where we are now.
I just wanna say as a 37 year old man. Millennial. I take care of my family, hold my own. Don’t complain and just keep trucking. Learned from my elders how survive and take care of my own. There’s still younger generations grinding and not expecting others to take care of us !
As a 71 model I just got my son graduated and taking care of my 74 year old father with early dementia. I have been doing all of this as a single father for last 5 years
Sitting on the porch in a favourite chair, beer in hand and snacks by my side....... Watching the world heat up ...... Like a cake full of crazy, rising and ready to pop.
i see things like this and chuckle, me in my mid 40's still working my factory and warehouse jobs pushing myself to the breaking point and the young ones complaining saying it's too much, had a young one start the other day, quit after 6 hours, a 12 hour factory shift is too much i guess, and while i don't begrudge him, hey find your happiness young one, understand us older ones will and can do anything, we can eat poop if we have to and still smile after it all, we can take on anything, it's not that we want to it's that we'll get done what needs to get donenot so sure about the youngings but hopefully they get there in time ((as for the 12 hour shift, it sounds harsh but it's not, we work 3 12 hour shifts, show up on time they pay you for 40 and get 4 days off like i thought it was all about getting time to be you))
As someone who has worked in fast food for nearly thirty years I can relate lol The teens find it hilarious I can and do run circles around them, I find it hilariously sad
I'm 54 and I work the similar 12 hour schedule with one week being 3 days and the next being 4 days with the same amount of days off in a row every other week. After I finished my tour in the Persian Gulf war and afterwards wasted two years of my life in college before I realized it wasn't for me. I've busted my ass from 25 years old until 52 years old averaging about 60+ hours a week sometimes even as early as two years ago putting in 85 hours in a week. Not anymore as I've paid my dues over the many decades as now I just do my 12 hour work schedule and being with my current employer 22 years has afforded me 7 weeks of vacation year coupled with my normal weekly days off I'm finally slowing down and enjoying life a little more, but the kids of today they want what I have and more immediately. I've worked hard over the decades and you know I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world as that was my purpose and I enjoyed my work and the people I work with. I've raised my kids and now it's their turn as I sent them off into the military to turn them into productive adults.
Yup still paying off my millennial’s college tuition. Arranged it so my gen z daughter has free college (moving states, changing jobs at a great loss to ourselves) and she doesn’t want to go to college now. She doesn’t know what she wants to be or to do. Guess what she has to get a stupid job doing anything she can now. Just like her parents did. So much for wanting better for our kids at least the millennials a college graduate and working full time now. Too bad I co-signed her college. Retiring sounds lovely after working for 40 years already. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I’m a younger Gen X. I was late to the parenting game. I have one kid who is in middle school. He’s already saying he doesn’t want to do college. I’m trying to not pressure him like I got pressured as a kid, because I tried college for several semesters over many years. I never got my degree, and I still have lots of student loans to pay off. 🤦🏼♀️ I’m hoping he comes around, though, because he’s a much better student than I was in school. My husband has a Masters in business administration. Even with ADHD, he was able to do it. Our son and I both have ADHD as well. He’s hyperactive type and I’m inattentive type. Anyway, I hope your daughter chooses what works for her. It’s a tough decision.
College isn't necessarily better anymore. Have you seen how kids are coming out of those institutions now? Damn near brain dead, being taught by people with zero experience in what they're majoring in. How many college professors teaching MBA programs ever even owned a business? Probably less than 1%. Today, college is mostly a scam. You just saved yourself a ton of crippling debt.
Love your posts.❤ When I was a young Boomer, I feared Gen X would amount to naught. I lamented my fellow Boomers raising latchkey kids. Where were their Moms? At work. 😢 Where were their Dads? Many only showed up on weekends/holidays.Yet here I am, hearing that thousands of you turned out just like your Grandparents, and like thousands of we Boomers. Hard working, tax paying, responsible citizens. Thousands of us Boomers took care of our Greatest Generation parents (even when many of them weren't 😢) The kids are alright. 🇺🇲🍺
I literally just sat down after "doing something" all day hoping to be entertained for a few minutes before starting dinner for the family, just to be told we're not doing anything. I guess break time's over. WTF
What am I doing. Lets see. Working to provide. Providing support for the kids who moved out already. Trying to teach the youngest one stuff you need to know to be able to cope with the world. Minding my own f'ing business. As should you.
I spent A LOT of my childhood in my bedroom. I just preferred it that way. 😂 I was used to being ignored by my boomer parents and my much younger millennial siblings. I only came out for school, rare “family time”, food, to use the bathroom, go on a bike ride, or go to a friend’s house over the weekend. I just wanted my family to leave me the hell alone.
I love the whole thing!! Just an additional point, the gentlelady seems to have some genuine curiosity about X, which i consider a good thing in a me-me-me world. In general I love it when anybody stops and thinks, "you know, what DO you do all the time?"
Love this. I have always said that if I had and believed in a spirit animal, it would be a bear. I like to eat, I like a long nap sometimes, I'm big, I'm an elder GenX'er who learned survival skills because they were needed to get me here, and I'm usually cuddly and friendly. But, I also have three young daughters that I love more than life. So please, younglings...listen to the wise video sage's advice. Don't poke the bear. You don't realize how dangerous that can be.
My three children were very upset when i said i was moving to México. They even asked who was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. 😂😂 They asked what about your grandkids. Been 5 years living in México. I like the sound of the birds not kids . 😂 Enjoy your content!
As a gen x, let us be, don’t poke a giant bear with a hot stick! 😂 We are just doing “life” things and taking care of business so for your well being young lady don’t worry about it!❤
I simply don't have enough energy to restrain all of the hate in my heart for the dumb-ass generations ours was surrounded by. I conserve it by staying away from them.
We Gen-X made so much noise back in the day in our struggle with “the man” that it is now our time to sit back and enjoy our fruits and see what this new generation can do. Seedless weed for one thing is a major plus.
The Gospel of GenX continues…and yet people still …do… not… listen… We of the Latchkey, the Outside, the OG Struggle Meals and the Real Fisticuffs …we earned our grays and wisdom from relying on self and expect others to follow suit.
As I crest into the fifth decade on this journey I note children in University, parents in Care and Bills coming from both. Gen X is too busy carrying everything for everyone else to do much of anything else. Leave us be, leave us be…
Thank you Sir! As a Gen-Xer who's been working since I was 12, put myself through school, grateful to have a roof over my head and food on the table but parents only in sight to tell me what to do when i was doing bad, now taking care of them as they are dying, doing the best I can while working full time because there is nobody to take care of me but me and God. Sorry to this young woman FILMING HERSELF while laying in bed under the covers with no shirt on in her bonnet, asking why I'm not throwing barbecues. I'm still healthy and strong as all get out at 56, but I'm freakin exhausted. Get the f out of bed, put some clothes on, have some self-respect and throw your own damn barbecue!
Im busy raising and homeschooling a drug-addicted millenial couple's child, now ours, while in long-term recovery from a stroke AND helping my wife in her long-term recovery from breast cancer all while dealing with the last years of my mother's life, having buried my father and a brother. Kinda busy.
I agree we are forgotten... We accept it. When we are needed, please do not hope we care how the shite gets done, just leave the critism out when it's fixed!
You're the epitome of our generation Sir! Keep up the outstanding work the stellar representation of the fine citizens known as genX! 🇺🇸🗽 this is the vid that finally made me sub!
Born in January of 1965...first year of GenX...very good summarization of in my thinking. Thank you for what you do...your talks are better than anything I could expect out of my company's EAP.
Agreed good sir, we have done our service to our families, jobs and some even our country and now it's the next generations turn to take on that responsibility. Do not poke the Gen X bear kids, you will regret your decision massively. 😂
Circa 1968. Busted my hump since I was 5. Worked so hard, my body’s falling apart now. That said, you do not want to mess with us. Even bent & w/ some of our parts missing, you don’t want to rile us. “Homey don’t play that.”
1968'er here. Our biggest folly may have been the creation of the Millennials This is one that we have to own, folks. We will need to live into our 80's or 90's to make up for that. I do, however, have some Gen Z's coming up that have promise, then there is what I can do to influence the grandkids following them..... Crap, I may need to hang around till 100 or so. Well, if anyone can do it, GenX can. We may be the final hope for a different future, before we enter Valhalla.
I'm always busy with crisis control, so, yeah, it's sorta difficult to have a life. We just do what needs done, usually working behind the scenes like stealthy ninjas, so of course it's not noticed 🙄
GenX. My Millenial kids are living with me, along with one's spouse, my grandkid, and a mom and her kids because my grieving process after I lost my husband was to take care of people. For a majority of the lot, was supposed to be a temporary situation. I'm so very tired. I get the challenges of today's economy, but I'm done. They have been notified of Das Boot that's coming so I don't feel as much guilt administering Das Boot.
Sooner or later, I will have to take on my own responsibilities for myself the moment I move out by myself. I firmly believe we are all capable of doing things on our own, even when we live in a nuclear family. In this case, no one should be attacking Gen X people for anything beyond their control. In the end, we won't always have someone to guide us and eventually we will have to guide ourselves. However, let's also remember that many people including myself are disabled, mentally or physically or both, so not everything will be easy. Nothing is ever easy, but you don't have to give up on your dreams and goals. To the Gen X folks, you did all you could to help the younger generations, including myself, so many blessings to you all.
"rip your arms off and beat you with it" An perfect phrase for the generation that grew up with the og Star wars. As a fellow genX, i appreciate you, sir.
So very true!!! I am a few years away from sitting on my front porch so I can yell at the passing kids and adults to "Stay off my lawn!" Something to look forward to. But until then, I have things to do and places to go. Stay thirsty my friends. Thanks
This new generation has no clue what ww went through (1970)!! Generations before us worked harder they were our examples. We also have respect for our elders as well even if we didn't agree with them !!! We were latch key kids most of raising ourselves & looking after younger siblings. It boils my blood to hear them complain. Ive been working since 10 years of age. Started helping with chores younger. So no wonder why all us gen xers are tired!!!!! We need a break & dont want no damn drama (peace)!!!!
I would cast my vote of approval. Would’ve loved to hear how the McDonalds at that time had ashtrays. Perhaps they phased them out before 83. Can’t remember. Extra points for rotary phones, had to do chores for 2 months to save up money to buy a 30 foot cable so I could chat with my friends in another room. Said cable was purchased at… you guessed it. Radio Shack.
Boomer here. Love you Gen Xers so much. 😊 I remember those ashtrays! I also remember one of their first slogans : "Cange back from a dollar." Yep, you could get a hamburger, small fry, and Coke for under a dollar - as G-d is my witness. 😄 A little advice? Install a landline, aka telephone ☎️. That way you can call someone when your iPhone dies or you need 911 when the power's out, because the cell towers go down as well.
81 Xennial here. With two older Gen X siblings. I was not raised millenial. I rode my bike in swim trunks only. No shoes, no shirt and what is a helmet? All I know is that I am in a sub catagory even more forgotten. Which is nice. I get to stay out of the "wars" which is great because childhood was war enough.
You sir! Dadbod Vet! You expressed this so very well! Gen X half raised themselves, had jobs younger than most generations, understood hard work, and is sick and tired of catching crap and cleaning up others messes! I do think we have failed in one respect, we collectively have failed to pass on the same fortitude that we were built on! So many said “I’m going to do better by my kids”! And that led to an entitled generation of incompetent narcissists! Soft times breed soft men! Then we get hard times! Hard times breed hard men! Then we get a cycle of never ending bullshit because somehow we can’t make a future generation understand the past! Valhalla is calling to me at this point! I yearn for the Valkyrie’s grasp!
You couldn't be more wrong . We raised our kids smarter and stronger ...atleast in the area I live. Our kids are know as gen z and blowing millinials and boomers out of the water with the wisdom and fortitude their Gen X parents have raised them on.
1967, held a job since age 14, we don't complain, we're tough and resilient, we know how to take care of things and figure out any problem. I speak for us all. Don't bother me. Signed, Gen X
We're doing ALL those things. We're just not posting it on social media. We're not seeking accolades. We're just minding our own dang business, trying to get through another week, dealing with the idiot generations we've allowed to wreck our society.
Born in '71. Took care of my boomer dad for 5 years after his stroke. At the same time I took in and am raising my grandson. Not one regret on either decision. I dont post my life on FB, IG, or X. Keeping our business to ourselves ensures that we are a mystery to others. I'll continue to watch from the sideline bench while others drown themselves in bottomless drama. Dont bother wondering where we're at. We know where you're at, thats why we're not there.
We moved to another state they followed us. I like seeing my grand kids grow and I don't mind babysitting , but when I want to go away with hubby for a little while I sure like it if they didn't give me a hard time about whose going watch there kids. That'd there problem. My hubby has more vacay than them so we can things together we didn't have many vacay when we were young to busy raising kids and yes my parents didn't watch them hubby was in the military so they couldn't and neither could inlaws we weren't living close to them besides mum and dad were always traveling.
As a fellow gen x'r i often wonder, why does it always seem to fall on us when shits all screwed and going to hell. I work with boomers and i work with millennials. Why when thing go to shit, we're always the ones who just look around at everybody else and have to take the reigns and basically show them how to do theirbown dam jobs. Falls rite under the i only get paid to do my job, not yours too. But i have to in order for everything else to freakin work. Drives me nuts
Im a millennial and i was raised by boomers and gen x, i was raised doing gen x stuff as he explained so what does that make us millennials who were raised by boomers and gen x? Gen x millennials? Because from what i see of millennials i fall into a whole different category and I'm pretty damn sure im NOT the only millennial with boomer and gen x attitude and mentality
IME there's a split around 1990, where Gen X fits more with Boomers if they graduated high school before then, and with Millenials if they graduated after. I think a lot of it is based on access to technology and whether or not they had one working parent or two. That's why there are terms like Xennials, which sounds like you fall into.
I'm here to make things even stranger. 😄 I'm an 68 yr old Boomer. I was raised in the Army. That makes me an Army Brat. My Dad fought in WWII and stayed in for 25+yrs. I was privileged to see a bit of the world when the world was still young. And I can tell you that, reading through these comments, I identify with your generation sooo very much. Have faith, little friends. Keep praying for our younger generations.
Gen x aren't posting every aspect of their lives all over the internet, whining and complaining about e v e r y l I t t l e thing and oversharing their every mood, food and opinion. We're just getting on with it, like we always have and we're tired, sick and tired. Let us rest, leave us be, we're fine outside of the chaos.
As a Gen X’r , I can’t speak for all , but I’m sure most will agree. Leave us be .
The Gospel of GenX is being spread far and wide and yet remains ignored. Please leave us be. (1970)
Some of us aren’t as polite with the leave us alone, my go to is fuck off 🤣
polite doesn't work anymore, so fuck off does get the point across.
It's like that video of the guy hitting a wall and different generations and their reaction. Well Gen X was not fazed!
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When something is done well, it seems effortless. There is a reason you don’t notice us.
"People only notice you when you fuck-up!"
"Nobody ever notices Gen-X!"
This should tell these dumb-asses something. Should.
Well said!
No doubt… 🤘🏽
I cannot express how much I love this statement.
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Best for everybody if Gen X is quiet, because we're frustrated. Upset and open about being upset Gen X is bad. Bad, because we raised ourselves like packs of animals, and down inside our middle aged bodies we are still fairly primal and a bit savage.
And we turned out JUST FINE. Why does everyone see something wrong with us but us🤭🤔
Truth.
Yeah the comment about don't poke is. We're like a wild tiger gonna rip your arm off is wholly accurate.
And what we lack in brawn, we are abundant with firepower.
I prefer the phrase "Beat a MF'er with a MF'er" in this circumstance.
As an X, I can say I out work, out think, and out perform the younger person in every way. And when I call them soft, they go to HR and whine like 7 year old girls.
7 year old boys whine worse than girls these days.
No they don't whine like a 7yr old. That is a GenXsquared person. They are nearly as feral as we
Spent the better part of the last two years helping my mom as her health failed. Took a shit ton of energy, while still working full-time. I’m free from that now and am tired, and yes did spend a day last week sitting under the shade of a big tree, no phone, no company and it was good.
As you should! Enjoy your glory days ahead!
@@thedadbodveteran Thank you man, will do. Keep preaching truth!
Kudos to you my fellow GenX. Enjoy the relief.
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@@emquinn I think you, it’s a new life really. Looking forward to it.
See… the thing is, we (genX) don’t put ourselves, our lives, and our daily doings out on display for all to see. That’s why this young lady doesn’t understand what we’re doing. It’s not broadcasted. 😊
Heh, right? I'm currently building an online empire...
Yes!
Big A$$ Facts!!! ❤
Fuckin A right
Faaaaaaaactssssss
lol not sure why everyone thinks we have disappeared. We were never in the limelight. The forgotten generation and we like it that way.
Nobody could figure us out. It was hilarious
we grew up knowing it was better to not be noticed, you could do a lot more that way.
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Can I get an amen?
@@lennybrewster4673my friend and I laughed SO HARD watching the Woodstock 99 documentary. Older folks: "We don't understand why they keep saying "F you we won't do what ya tell us!!!" 💯 too funny
As a fellow GenXer (1968), I approve this message.
"I approve this message"! 😂😍 That's the X approach as i know it: "that guy said it right!" That's this X's approach anyhow
Totally agree! Circa 1975.
@@missunderstanding357 "Miss Understanding" now that's a fun name! You must be some kind of kindred spirit for sure😁
As a 1985er I approve!!
May I also add; if they look in the mirror they should probably see it was built by a gen x “er”
1969 here,yup, right there with ya on this.
Gen x never had it easy. We raised ourselves outside playing our friends. I have been an adult since 5 and I have worked immensely hard and long. We never needed or wanted or expected a trophy. We do what needs to be done. I am grateful for not being a Boomer or a Millennium.
Millennial?
Bullshit
Yes.
I like Millennials, it's gen Z that scares me lol
I am a 73 year old "boomer" just repaired our microwave, fixed the broken front door, replacing a radiator in a Nissan Armada, and replaced a wifi router. I have had real jobs since I was 13 and MANY chores before that. We taught Gen xers how to work. Thank you very much.
PS I went scuba diving in February this year in Belize.
As a millennial (1985) with a gen x brother (1979) these videos are like poetic essays that speak to my soul. Thank you sir.
Just thought I’d throw something out to you to look up… There’s a small subset of us that are late 70s called Xennials. There are some Gen X things that I don’t understand because I’m not older. There are some millennial things that I do understand a little because I’m so close to that dividing line. Maybe your brother feels the same?
Btw, I love the DadBod videos because he’s closer to my age than the older Gen Xers. 👍🏻
You are gen x because Gen x doesn't end till 1984 and since you have a bro born as Gen x you are grandfathered in
@@mikejohnson7825 Gen X ends in 1980.
@ambermac77 in what world I have been called Gen x since I was 7. I was.born in 81
@@ambermac77 I can appreciate the sub genre, it makes me feel dirty and not in a good way to call myself that lol. I prefer to admit to being a millennial and let other people go “you are NOT a millennial”. My brother is a five foot eleven, 130 pound walking meat sack of anger and repressed emotions that wrapped his legs and arms around the rail at the front of the pit at Pantera in the 90’s and literally growled like an animal to make the big dudes behind him trying to push up to rail to F off.
He’s Gen X, why you trying to get my butt whooped by that man for asking if he feels like a Xennial? Kidding, 20 yrs ago he’d’ve gone off for that kind of talk, we’re too old now 😂 he prolly would tell me I’d lost my mind tho.
I do not like these people trying to call us out! Taking care of aging parents is the hardest thing I've ever done. Do not start with me!
Same
Ditto
Right here with you 🌻
Yeah we just lost our mum last year. We're busy taking care of kids parents and working our jobs. Can't wait till it's our time to retire and have our kids take care of themselves .
I hear this. You’re not alone, friend. It’s rough.
All the Gen X I know are doing everything she says we are not. And then some. We are quiet because like always we are busy being responsible,accountable, providing and protecting.
You mean gen x yes?
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I sure did! Thanks. See I’m currently watching my grandchildren and taking care of my mother with dementia!
I’ve made that mistake before, too… saying Gen Z when I meant Gen X. Lol
@@ambermac77
😂 I’m glad I’m not alone!
I'm 43. I'm tired, my joints hurt, and I've rendered insane by years of having to deal with morons.
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Right!?!?! I've went full hermit for their sakes, these kids should be glad they don't see my cranky feral ass 😂
A lot of GenX is taking care of their grandkids as well as their parents right now! We don’t have time to be doing all the things our kids are doing. It’s called RESPONSIBILITY……
Responsibility 💯 THIS! We are at a point in life where our responsibilities take over. Which means we don’t have time to wreak havoc on the Internet and TikTok. Instead, we are quietly in survival mode trying to get through mid life while everyone else wastes their life staring at a small screen. We are the CEO’s of our lives and we know it. We don’t have time to cause trouble. We keep our heads down and get things done. I wish everyone the best of luck.
My mother beat me and my sister mercilessly, but now we’re all she has. My worst fear used to be that she would get Alzheimer’s and start beating us again😂. But it’s cool, she’s a Christian now. 😂
Literally THAT ☝🏼😑
@@ProbablyStonedCommentsSame here and guess who's taking care of her mia the oldest!!
A lot of us Millennials are also helping to take care of our aging parents who had us in their 30’s. Both my parents retired while I was in elementary to middle school.
Fellow veteran and born in 1977. Thank you my brother, this was well said! They just don’t understand that our generation went through the most change as kids, teens, and young adults. We have a certain level of respect among us, and we hold each other accountable for how we conduct ourselves--which is why we frown upon the foolishness.
Thanks for your service from one vet to another but I regret to inform you that you are NOT in anyway shape or form in the club. If you have zero recollection of the seventies and were not out of high school by 1989 you are not Gen-X. Sorry bud! Salut! 🍷💪🏼🏴☠️
@@GenXMafia Not in the club?? Can u not read or do math? 1965-1980. Otherwise they wouldn’t be categorized as “generations”, but decades. It’s regarding a collective experience. It’s not about YOU.
@@kelijohnson6675 Before there was GenX they referred to the beginning of my generation as the "Baby Bust" 65-66. It was only decades later that "GenX" was even a thing and I wound up retconned into it. There is a big gulf between the 60s and the 70s part of that cohort. For perspective I spent a long time being too young to do any of the cool stuff Boomers took for granted as a rite of passage. First legal beer at 18? Nope raised the drinking age to 19 that year. When I turned 19? Nope national drinking age was raised to 21. Too old for video games. But hey I did get to be the first group that had to register for selective service after it had been abolished for what were the worst of the Boomer generation. Their older brothers got sent to Vietnam. The younger ones became the Yuppies that gutted our industrial base and Marxist/ Maoist college professors that now have tenure and have been twisting up Millenials and Zoomers.
Gen X could almost be divided into two generations. The same could be said about Boomers. I still sort of bristle at being called GenX but have resigned myself to it. I had sort of embraced and gotten used to being considered the financially and demographically worthless for marketing and political representation purposes "Baby Bust".
Also .. it's not our job to do it! THIS! I've been repeating this line a few hundred times!
@@GenXMafiaborn in 73 graduated in 91 and yes I am gen x
Finally, after 50+ years, a voice for Gen X. Thank you kind sir.
Watch the portrayals of Gen X in media, especially in the 90s. The sarcastic, apathetic, badass that wants to be left alone. Fairly accurate for the most part.
“Bueller… Bueller …. Bueller”
You better check yourself before you wreck yourself 😂❤Mommy’s old and tired.
Do Millennials and Gen Zers even know what that phrase means?? 😂 I haven’t heard it I think since high school. I feel so old. 🤣
We do all the things she mentioned. We just do it quietly and without a fuss.
And without the need or desire to post it online.
This message has been brought to you by all GenX-ers (1967). Dadbod could not have said it any better or more concise than he did and he speaks for all of us. We are taking care of our parents, still highly involved in speaking into the lives of our adult children, and enjoying the beauty of our grandchildren...and we're a little bit tired to say the least. I have come to realize that being a GenX-er is much like being a middle child. Basically, we want peace for everyone and we will do our best to bring that about and we don't want/need a trophy when doing so. This is just simply who we are and what we do. 'Nuf said...
I've done my duty. My parents are in Valhalla, we have no kids.
We want to be LEFT ALONE!
Generation X is just not 65
Age 43 to 58
Gen X is is from 1965 - 1975
Gen Z 1997 - 2012
Millennials 1981 - 1996
Gen X 1965 - 1980
Boomers II 1955 - 1964
Baby Boomers 1920 - 1954
No this is wrong. You missed the silent generation and Xennials. The rest is mixed up there. There are no boomers and then baby boomers. Boomers are baby boomers. Baby boomers parents are the silent generation. Baby boomers kids are people like me Gen X and xennials. But it can get tangly when people have kids later or earlier
@@alricaneshama Same. No kids, parents gone. Stay away from me.
@@jetta.silence6356 My parents were Silent Generation. I was born in 1973.
Absolutely the truth! We raised ourselves and then raised the next generation we are tired it’s not our job to fix everybody else’s problems! Leave us alone to have some actual downtime and enjoy our lives we deserve it!!
Amen! Trying to explain that to my grown adult children. Nah.. I'm retiring from being responsible for your life.
Gen X is too damn busy working our Arses off being that things are to expensive! A lot of us will not have retirement!
Once again perfection! We are doing all of that and more we just aren't as concerned with posting it to social media to prove it to anyone.
Hard Times Create Good Men, Good Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men...Be Strong Gen Xers, Because we're the only ones holding this sh1t show together!!
😂So true! Everyone else is too self involved...as always it's up to us! Hugs❤.
IMO that is exactly what we have been doing...letting the next generation get a head start. We are coming behind a generation that still won't let go of the world and look where we are now.
3 generations will have to pry the torch from the boomers stiff dead fingers
We are the keepers of the Torch 🔥
I'm tired.
Someone else can have my goddamn torch.
I just want everyone to GO AWAY!
We are also a dying breed.
I just wanna say as a 37 year old man. Millennial. I take care of my family, hold my own. Don’t complain and just keep trucking. Learned from my elders how survive and take care of my own. There’s still younger generations grinding and not expecting others to take care of us !
Sometimes, I think you're too easy on the younger generations. You nailed this one, though.
As a 71 model I just got my son graduated and taking care of my 74 year old father with early dementia. I have been doing all of this as a single father for last 5 years
Sitting on the porch in a favourite chair, beer in hand and snacks by my side....... Watching the world heat up ...... Like a cake full of crazy, rising and ready to pop.
i see things like this and chuckle, me in my mid 40's still working my factory and warehouse jobs pushing myself to the breaking point and the young ones complaining saying it's too much, had a young one start the other day, quit after 6 hours, a 12 hour factory shift is too much i guess, and while i don't begrudge him, hey find your happiness young one, understand us older ones will and can do anything, we can eat poop if we have to and still smile after it all, we can take on anything, it's not that we want to it's that we'll get done what needs to get donenot so sure about the youngings but hopefully they get there in time ((as for the 12 hour shift, it sounds harsh but it's not, we work 3 12 hour shifts, show up on time they pay you for 40 and get 4 days off like i thought it was all about getting time to be you))
I left manufacturing after 25 years. Don't miss it. I work in the food industry now. Best of luck to you!
As someone who has worked in fast food for nearly thirty years I can relate lol The teens find it hilarious I can and do run circles around them, I find it hilariously sad
I'm 54 and I work the similar 12 hour schedule with one week being 3 days and the next being 4 days with the same amount of days off in a row every other week. After I finished my tour in the Persian Gulf war and afterwards wasted two years of my life in college before I realized it wasn't for me. I've busted my ass from 25 years old until 52 years old averaging about 60+ hours a week sometimes even as early as two years ago putting in 85 hours in a week. Not anymore as I've paid my dues over the many decades as now I just do my 12 hour work schedule and being with my current employer 22 years has afforded me 7 weeks of vacation year coupled with my normal weekly days off I'm finally slowing down and enjoying life a little more, but the kids of today they want what I have and more immediately. I've worked hard over the decades and you know I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world as that was my purpose and I enjoyed my work and the people I work with. I've raised my kids and now it's their turn as I sent them off into the military to turn them into productive adults.
Yup still paying off my millennial’s college tuition. Arranged it so my gen z daughter has free college (moving states, changing jobs at a great loss to ourselves) and she doesn’t want to go to college now. She doesn’t know what she wants to be or to do. Guess what she has to get a stupid job doing anything she can now. Just like her parents did. So much for wanting better for our kids at least the millennials a college graduate and working full time now. Too bad I co-signed her college. Retiring sounds lovely after working for 40 years already. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I’m a younger Gen X. I was late to the parenting game. I have one kid who is in middle school. He’s already saying he doesn’t want to do college. I’m trying to not pressure him like I got pressured as a kid, because I tried college for several semesters over many years. I never got my degree, and I still have lots of student loans to pay off. 🤦🏼♀️ I’m hoping he comes around, though, because he’s a much better student than I was in school. My husband has a Masters in business administration. Even with ADHD, he was able to do it. Our son and I both have ADHD as well. He’s hyperactive type and I’m inattentive type.
Anyway, I hope your daughter chooses what works for her. It’s a tough decision.
@ambermac77 Trade schools are better. They won't turn your kids into communists or activists, either.
College isn't necessarily better anymore. Have you seen how kids are coming out of those institutions now? Damn near brain dead, being taught by people with zero experience in what they're majoring in. How many college professors teaching MBA programs ever even owned a business? Probably less than 1%. Today, college is mostly a scam. You just saved yourself a ton of crippling debt.
Love your posts.❤ When I was a young Boomer, I feared Gen X would amount to naught. I lamented my fellow Boomers raising latchkey kids. Where were their Moms? At work. 😢 Where were their Dads? Many only showed up on weekends/holidays.Yet here I am, hearing that thousands of you turned out just like your Grandparents, and like thousands of we Boomers. Hard working, tax paying, responsible citizens. Thousands of us Boomers took care of our Greatest Generation parents (even when many of them weren't 😢)
The kids are alright. 🇺🇲🍺
I literally just sat down after "doing something" all day hoping to be entertained for a few minutes before starting dinner for the family, just to be told we're not doing anything. I guess break time's over. WTF
As a member of this generation I thank you for educating the younger generation
What am I doing. Lets see. Working to provide. Providing support for the kids who moved out already. Trying to teach the youngest one stuff you need to know to be able to cope with the world.
Minding my own f'ing business. As should you.
From one Gen X to another. Well said my good man!
😎 …. Truth 💯
Amen brother preach on!!!!
Got my subscription. We will proudly let you speak on behalf of the last generation that isn't drunk on our own narcissism
We are traumatized. That's where we are.
I wouldn't say "Tramatized"
We have Trama sure, lots of it even. But as Master Yoda said; there is no "tized", only do.
I sent myself to my room when I was ready.
I spent A LOT of my childhood in my bedroom. I just preferred it that way. 😂 I was used to being ignored by my boomer parents and my much younger millennial siblings. I only came out for school, rare “family time”, food, to use the bathroom, go on a bike ride, or go to a friend’s house over the weekend. I just wanted my family to leave me the hell alone.
Yes my room was my sanctuary!
I love the whole thing!! Just an additional point, the gentlelady seems to have some genuine curiosity about X, which i consider a good thing in a me-me-me world. In general I love it when anybody stops and thinks, "you know, what DO you do all the time?"
She lost by asking for BBQs, babysitting and ya know ... Trying to say we aren't responsible for her children.
Love this. I have always said that if I had and believed in a spirit animal, it would be a bear. I like to eat, I like a long nap sometimes, I'm big, I'm an elder GenX'er who learned survival skills because they were needed to get me here, and I'm usually cuddly and friendly. But, I also have three young daughters that I love more than life. So please, younglings...listen to the wise video sage's advice. Don't poke the bear. You don't realize how dangerous that can be.
My three children were very upset when i said i was moving to México.
They even asked who was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. 😂😂
They asked what about your grandkids.
Been 5 years living in México.
I like the sound of the birds not kids . 😂
Enjoy your content!
As a gen x, let us be, don’t poke a giant bear with a hot stick! 😂 We are just doing “life” things and taking care of business so for your well being young lady don’t worry about it!❤
I simply don't have enough energy to restrain all of the hate in my heart for the dumb-ass generations ours was surrounded by. I conserve it by staying away from them.
We Gen-X made so much noise back in the day in our struggle with “the man” that it is now our time to sit back and enjoy our fruits and see what this new generation can do. Seedless weed for one thing is a major plus.
We somewhere minding our business enjoying peace lol. As he said, don't poke the bear😮
The Gospel of GenX continues…and yet people still …do… not… listen… We of the Latchkey, the Outside, the OG Struggle Meals and the Real Fisticuffs …we earned our grays and wisdom from relying on self and expect others to follow suit.
As I crest into the fifth decade on this journey I note children in University, parents in Care and Bills coming from both. Gen X is too busy carrying everything for everyone else to do much of anything else. Leave us be, leave us be…
Thank you Sir! As a Gen-Xer who's been working since I was 12, put myself through school, grateful to have a roof over my head and food on the table but parents only in sight to tell me what to do when i was doing bad, now taking care of them as they are dying, doing the best I can while working full time because there is nobody to take care of me but me and God. Sorry to this young woman FILMING HERSELF while laying in bed under the covers with no shirt on in her bonnet, asking why I'm not throwing barbecues. I'm still healthy and strong as all get out at 56, but I'm freakin exhausted. Get the f out of bed, put some clothes on, have some self-respect and throw your own damn barbecue!
Standing O, Quantum!
Preach brother. Thank you.
Oh you said this so beautifully well
Oh gawd, I sooo feel this 😂
Im busy raising and homeschooling a drug-addicted millenial couple's child, now ours, while in long-term recovery from a stroke AND helping my wife in her long-term recovery from breast cancer all while dealing with the last years of my mother's life, having buried my father and a brother. Kinda busy.
I agree we are forgotten... We accept it. When we are needed, please do not hope we care how the shite gets done, just leave the critism out when it's fixed!
Well said !!
We’re still here, but unlike some later gens we don’t feel the need to announce our presence to the world 24/7. We’re not a ‘look-at-me’ generation.
You're the epitome of our generation Sir! Keep up the outstanding work the stellar representation of the fine citizens known as genX! 🇺🇸🗽 this is the vid that finally made me sub!
Small warning- Leave those of us who even know of Ice Cube, let alone quote him, ALONE! We are different and will hurt your little feelings 🤷🏻♀️🤣
😂😂 this is funny stuff, my brother. This is such a great follow up.
LOVE THIS GUY!!!!
Amen
and
AMEN
We are Tired & Living OUR lives!
Born in January of 1965...first year of GenX...very good summarization of in my thinking. Thank you for what you do...your talks are better than anything I could expect out of my company's EAP.
Agreed good sir, we have done our service to our families, jobs and some even our country and now it's the next generations turn to take on that responsibility. Do not poke the Gen X bear kids, you will regret your decision massively. 😂
We like being in the background. Leave us alone.
Circa 1968. Busted my hump since I was 5. Worked so hard, my body’s falling apart now. That said, you do not want to mess with us. Even bent & w/ some of our parts missing, you don’t want to rile us.
“Homey don’t play that.”
1968'er here. Our biggest folly may have been the creation of the Millennials This is one that we have to own, folks. We will need to live into our 80's or 90's to make up for that. I do, however, have some Gen Z's coming up that have promise, then there is what I can do to influence the grandkids following them..... Crap, I may need to hang around till 100 or so. Well, if anyone can do it, GenX can. We may be the final hope for a different future, before we enter Valhalla.
I'm always busy with crisis control, so, yeah, it's sorta difficult to have a life.
We just do what needs done, usually working behind the scenes like stealthy ninjas, so of course it's not noticed 🙄
Thk you ...well said good man 👍😜
Yep spoken well.. most dangerous people are the ones who just want to be left alone! Model 1973 X
GenX. My Millenial kids are living with me, along with one's spouse, my grandkid, and a mom and her kids because my grieving process after I lost my husband was to take care of people. For a majority of the lot, was supposed to be a temporary situation. I'm so very tired. I get the challenges of today's economy, but I'm done. They have been notified of Das Boot that's coming so I don't feel as much guilt administering Das Boot.
Til' Valhal! Skål!
Ugh, I feel so old!! And I’m only 46. 😭💀
Sooner or later, I will have to take on my own responsibilities for myself the moment I move out by myself. I firmly believe we are all capable of doing things on our own, even when we live in a nuclear family. In this case, no one should be attacking Gen X people for anything beyond their control. In the end, we won't always have someone to guide us and eventually we will have to guide ourselves. However, let's also remember that many people including myself are disabled, mentally or physically or both, so not everything will be easy. Nothing is ever easy, but you don't have to give up on your dreams and goals.
To the Gen X folks, you did all you could to help the younger generations, including myself, so many blessings to you all.
Wow.... Outstanding!
"rip your arms off and beat you with it"
An perfect phrase for the generation that grew up with the og Star wars.
As a fellow genX, i appreciate you, sir.
Feeling this one pretty hard. I'm just ... Tired.
So very true!!!
I am a few years away from sitting on my front porch so I can yell at the passing kids and adults to "Stay off my lawn!" Something to look forward to. But until then, I have things to do and places to go.
Stay thirsty my friends.
Thanks
This new generation has no clue what ww went through (1970)!! Generations before us worked harder they were our examples. We also have respect for our elders as well even if we didn't agree with them !!! We were latch key kids most of raising ourselves & looking after younger siblings. It boils my blood to hear them complain. Ive been working since 10 years of age. Started helping with chores younger. So no wonder why all us gen xers are tired!!!!! We need a break & dont want no damn drama (peace)!!!!
I would cast my vote of approval. Would’ve loved to hear how the McDonalds at that time had ashtrays. Perhaps they phased them out before 83. Can’t remember. Extra points for rotary phones, had to do chores for 2 months to save up money to buy a 30 foot cable so I could chat with my friends in another room. Said cable was purchased at… you guessed it. Radio Shack.
I miss Radio Shack.
@@kellyroyds5040 As Radio Shack misses us. Tragic
@@OldBrownWookiee Very.
Boomer here. Love you Gen Xers so much. 😊 I remember those ashtrays! I also remember one of their first slogans : "Cange back from a dollar." Yep, you could get a hamburger, small fry, and Coke for under a dollar - as G-d is my witness. 😄
A little advice? Install a landline, aka telephone ☎️. That way you can call someone when your iPhone dies or you need 911 when the power's out, because the cell towers go down as well.
Amen
"While you sleep, I destroy your world.." The main thing is whatever we are doing we are probably not documenting all of it on social media.
81 Xennial here. With two older Gen X siblings. I was not raised millenial. I rode my bike in swim trunks only. No shoes, no shirt and what is a helmet? All I know is that I am in a sub catagory even more forgotten. Which is nice. I get to stay out of the "wars" which is great because childhood was war enough.
Don't start nothing..won't be nothing! Sincerely GenX
As a Gen X-er, we are/have been doing those things. That's why you "can't" find us. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a farm to run.
You sir! Dadbod Vet! You expressed this so very well! Gen X half raised themselves, had jobs younger than most generations, understood hard work, and is sick and tired of catching crap and cleaning up others messes! I do think we have failed in one respect, we collectively have failed to pass on the same fortitude that we were built on! So many said “I’m going to do better by my kids”! And that led to an entitled generation of incompetent narcissists! Soft times breed soft men! Then we get hard times! Hard times breed hard men! Then we get a cycle of never ending bullshit because somehow we can’t make a future generation understand the past! Valhalla is calling to me at this point! I yearn for the Valkyrie’s grasp!
You couldn't be more wrong . We raised our kids smarter and stronger ...atleast in the area I live. Our kids are know as gen z and blowing millinials and boomers out of the water with the wisdom and fortitude their Gen X parents have raised them on.
We passed it on to many of them. It's just that the ones doing things aren't the ones making videos crying about things.
1967, held a job since age 14, we don't complain, we're tough and resilient, we know how to take care of things and figure out any problem. I speak for us all. Don't bother me. Signed, Gen X
We're doing ALL those things. We're just not posting it on social media. We're not seeking accolades. We're just minding our own dang business, trying to get through another week, dealing with the idiot generations we've allowed to wreck our society.
Does gen x take any responsibility for raising up a generation of idiots?
Them: Where are Gen X?
Me: Who is John Galt...?
The chair is against the wall
Born in '71. Took care of my boomer dad for 5 years after his stroke. At the same time I took in and am raising my grandson. Not one regret on either decision. I dont post my life on FB, IG, or X. Keeping our business to ourselves ensures that we are a mystery to others. I'll continue to watch from the sideline bench while others drown themselves in bottomless drama. Dont bother wondering where we're at. We know where you're at, thats why we're not there.
👍They should BE GLAD we're not there - It's for their own good, really
This man is both a gentleman AND a scholar. Thank you, sir. We are tired indeed.
Yep. Theres a reason i moved 435 miles away from my children when they were in their 20s.
We moved to another state they followed us. I like seeing my grand kids grow and I don't mind babysitting , but when I want to go away with hubby for a little while I sure like it if they didn't give me a hard time about whose going watch there kids. That'd there problem. My hubby has more vacay than them so we can things together we didn't have many vacay when we were young to busy raising kids and yes my parents didn't watch them hubby was in the military so they couldn't and neither could inlaws we weren't living close to them besides mum and dad were always traveling.
As a fellow gen x'r i often wonder, why does it always seem to fall on us when shits all screwed and going to hell. I work with boomers and i work with millennials. Why when thing go to shit, we're always the ones who just look around at everybody else and have to take the reigns and basically show them how to do theirbown dam jobs. Falls rite under the i only get paid to do my job, not yours too. But i have to in order for everything else to freakin work. Drives me nuts
Most of us are still working because that’s the only thing we know what to do. We’ve been in the outside for most of our lives.
The delivery, the message it was all perfect
Im a millennial and i was raised by boomers and gen x, i was raised doing gen x stuff as he explained so what does that make us millennials who were raised by boomers and gen x? Gen x millennials? Because from what i see of millennials i fall into a whole different category and I'm pretty damn sure im NOT the only millennial with boomer and gen x attitude and mentality
IME there's a split around 1990, where Gen X fits more with Boomers if they graduated high school before then, and with Millenials if they graduated after. I think a lot of it is based on access to technology and whether or not they had one working parent or two. That's why there are terms like Xennials, which sounds like you fall into.
@@PaulGuy thank ya Paul 😁
You’re not, my son is as well. He’s a millennial and complains about Z and Y.
I'm here to make things even stranger. 😄 I'm an 68 yr old Boomer. I was raised in the Army. That makes me an Army Brat. My Dad fought in WWII and stayed in for 25+yrs. I was privileged to see a bit of the world when the world was still young. And I can tell you that, reading through these comments, I identify with your generation sooo very much.
Have faith, little friends. Keep praying for our younger generations.
82’ and I identify with Gen X’s values and I feel every word you spoke in my bones. Thank you
68 year old Boomer and I'm right here with these Hardworking Gen Xers! The kids turned out just fine. Some of us Boomers musta did somethin' tight.
I guess people my age kinda fall in between gen x and the millennials. I grew up learning to mind my elders and keep my dang elbows off the table lol
Raising a family. Hunting, fishing, hiking, barbequing, working, working out.
Doing "the" things. Significant other had cancer.
As a fellow GenXr, (1969), I approve this message.
Gen x aren't posting every aspect of their lives all over the internet, whining and complaining about e v e r y l I t t l e thing and oversharing their every mood, food and opinion. We're just getting on with it, like we always have and we're tired, sick and tired. Let us rest, leave us be, we're fine outside of the chaos.