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wasn't the Xer stereotype a slacker that did not really run the race?
This is because the parents of Boomers invested in their children but Boomers did not invest in their children. We were shat out and expected to get a job and "just do it" without support.
Xers tend to have the silent generation as parents unless they are younger ones. 20 years seperates generations which is getting to the time when folks have kids and boomers were the first to start putting it off till more like 30 than 20.
Boomers produced a great number of Millenials even though the majority surely came from Gen X.
basically X started in the 60's so if they were impregnated before 80 it was likely illegal. Im sure though that plenty of older Xers had kids in their 20's though.
Yeah, but that stereotype was only because we didn't have families or places of our own to take care of yet. We got older and almost all of us (not me, tho) joined the race alongside everyone else.
Yep, but it's been pretty hard to exist while also remaining true to that ethos. Never been a ladder climber, but I have a corporate job working for a good boss at a good company that still sucks my soul away.
Recently I've realized I'm old enough that the end of the road doesn't feel so far away as it once did. Would be good to be able to just enjoy my family, but there's the little problem of being able to afford to live during retirement. :)
im there and even feel I do a good days work with my job but I work at my pace and at my current compensation 40 hours and no more.
This is why I work in public sector, with a solid retirement plan, and put in an additional 15% into retirement. I'm not making the big bucks now but am saving them for later.
As those people have gotten older, that has seemed more and more aspirational than the reality.