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In addition to the movie and book reviews, continuous updates on my book revisions, etc., I want to eventually show up on camera! Yeah! I wanna make that leap one day!
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Such a great vid Rosey. We really did have it tough back then, but thank goodness we had each other for support back in those days. I remember playing video games at my local arcade and by the time I left I made 12 new friends. Now with all the drama and BS happening in the world, we really don't want to hear it. We finally got that peace we were looking for growing up and we just want to enjoy it now. Wishing you the best Rosey and thanks again. ❤
Yes, when we were younger, we were bullied at school, at home, and at work. Our friends were our peace and our support group. To be older and finally feel peaceful is a gift a lot of us wanted to sit back and enjoy. Now, we have to worry about the younger Gens trying to rile us up by bullying us with some grade school bullcrap. It's irritating! We want to be left alone. Hell, our parents did it, why can't they? Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
My Grandma had that couch
It's crazy how many people had similar or the same furniture when we were kids.
my scars, stitches and broken bones beg to differ. we are the hardcore generation.
Abso-freakin'-lutely! Thank you for commenting!
I was born in 1992 but i was raised Gen-X, its embarrassing being compared to others my age. Same exact age but somehow the others are stupid af. Everything from fashion to music, i can't belive how stupid people my age are. I was raised Gen X and I'm proud. And I'll 100% destroy other people my age.
Forget step parents. I didn't get along with my parents. Still don't.
Damn. I'm sorry to hear that.
Gen X is like a mix of the honey badger and the Tasmanian devil when you piss us off.
LMFAO! Very true! We're the FAFO Generation for a reason! Thank you for commenting.
GenX does have some well earned cynicism, that is for sure. Besides all of what you said, there is much else. GenX had high childhood rates of lead toxicity, poverty, bullying, violence, and suicides. A recession also affected many of us in the early 1990s. Then as adults, we were the first generation in recent history to be poorer than our parents' generation, following several generations of improving economic conditions. And we now have higher rates of midlife mortality than our parents. If Millennials and GenZ want to understand us, they need to realize we were the generation during which the decline began or at least when the consequences of the decline became undeniable. Rather than criticize us, look to us as potential allies.
YEEEES!!! Thank you so much for that!!!
GenX not caring has been a stereotype placed on us since we were kids. Older generations sometimes portrayed as the Lost Generation, as troubled losers and lazy deviants. But obviously we've cared, such as highly valuing family in ensuring our own kids weren't underparented as we were. On a political level, multiple major protest movements were filled with GenXers: WTO protest, Iraq War protest, Occupy Movement, BLM, etc. It's just we've never gotten credit for anything we've done as a generation.
Yes! I pointed some of that out in a more recent video "What Happened to Gen X?..." You should check it out here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/npl7u9ielsmdetI.html But we choose what we want to care about because as youngsters, we learned that caring too much hurt. We cared about what kids thought about us in school, and got bullied. We cared what our families thought and were (sometimes) greeted with disbelief or apathy. Yes, not caring was a stereotype, but nobody ever asked us with any amount of sincerity: "Why are you that way?" If they said anything at all, it was with cynicism, condescension, and an accusatory tone. Thank you for commenting!
@@Gen_X_Rosey - Thanks for a video recommendation. I do love to look at generations research, data, and commentary. But sadly, most of what one comes across is superficial and simplistic. I prefer your more thoughtful approach.
We were supposed to be the generation that kept the Boomers from going overboard.
No one can stop the Boomers. They owned every damned thing and still do! With a few notable exceptions, of course.
Question: What is the difference between Gen X and Gen Z? Are they the same generation?
Gen X is the generation born between 1965 and 1980. Gen Z is the generation born between 1997 and 2012. A lot of us Gen Xers are the parents of Gen Z. My kids are Gen Z.
@@Gen_X_Rosey Oh ok cool, X comes before Z so Xers were born first thus older than Gen Zs. That makes sense, thanks Gen X Rosey!
Gen X lost the most wealth, greedy boomers have taken everything from us, and now they want to take our social security and Medicare, which we paid 40 years into. For Gen X it has been one recession after the next. As a generation we have nothing to lose, not any more. So we are focused on family friends and our community, like we have always done. But our silence is not the same as not caring, because for every social movement a latchkey kid has their thumb on the scale.
Being able to not care is a superpower, it's lonely, but if you really don't care it doesn't matter.
That's very true. Thank you for commenting!
We are the "Don't start None, Won't be None" generation. I get weird looks when I say that to people, but I stand on that business 100%. PLEASE, let us be... You've been warned 😂❤
Exactly! I agree. Thank you for interacting, Boo!
“I don’t care if you use me again”. -- The Cars
In a nutshell, from a job recruiter: "Ooh, I see your resume is very impressive. You've worked at NASA, HP, and Microsoft. Everybody starts at the same rate of $13/hr. and there will be 20+ hours mandatory weekly overtime. How does that sound, champ?"
We care. Just not about your feelings. We don't even care about our own. Laugh clown and move forward.
i think we were called that by the boomers. you know the real slackers?( vets excepted of course)
When you look around on KZread, there were news stories out about us back in the 90s.
@@Gen_X_Rosey as i said. my point stands :)
I call 🐂💩 on that!!! I was mowing lawns at 8, and working in a parts store at 14! I had to lie about my age to get that job! I told them I was 16! Out of highschool straight into the military. I've worked all my life to pay for my property and possessions. Wtf are these idiots saying we're slackers? Gen Xr of 67.
You mess with bull... You get the horns... 47... This month...
Indeed! Happy Birthday, by the way. I'll be 48 in about two weeks, myself.
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Skidmore did what was needed to rid itself of a one man terrorist. Hats off to them.
I agree! He'd have only gotten worse had they not done it.
As to the "not caring". Another reason we don't care? Because it was DRILLED in to us as kids by our parents. "Why do you care what they think? Who are they to you? They don't like you screw them. Well now you know who your real friends are. Just don't pay attention to it. If you ignore it, it will stop. If you cry they will just keep doing it." For the most part, unless it got REALLY bad, our parents didn't go to the teacher or other school staff about it. We just had to "tuff it out, in 5 months you'll be out of school and maybe won't have classes with them next year".
YES!!! Oh my gosh, that is so true!!! I didn't raise my kids like that. For them, the bullying got so bad, I pulled them out of school after 6th and 8th Grades and homeschooled them. Even when the bullying was taken to the teachers, the vice principal, the principal, and other school administrators, nothing was ever done about it. After that, they gained some confidence and are very intelligent. Even with that, though, I have to admit that NOT caring or giving a f*ck is very freeing. It's easier. It eases your mind that what another person thinks of you is irrelevant in the big scheme of things. When what this bitter person says to you can go through ear and out the other, or you read it and it goes into one part of your brain and immediately seeps away, it's then that not caring can be cathartic. In high school, life seemed to hinge on another person's perception of you. When I learned not to care anymore and their words didn't affect me anymore (because by twelfth grade, they managed to drain me of tears and every bit of emotion I had left until only hate remained) It freed me. That was when I learned, they cared way more than I did because their words served to get a reaction from me. When I started to look "through" them instead of AT them, they would get mad, and I would slightly smirk. Thank you for interacting!
This is actually a really good point. I'm a late Xer (born in 1977). I remember being told all of those things growing up. My late mother, bless her, had a favorite saying whenever any of us kids would bust out with "That's not fair" as kids do. Her response was always the same, "Life isn't fair". My wife, an early millenial, who grew up with disabled parents, so didn't have an easy childhood, just can't get it when I say the same thing to her when she says X, Y or Z isn't fair, and I respond with "I'm gonna tell you what my mother told me growing up ... life ain't fair". Or when she gets pent up because of some slight (or more often a percieved slight) and she's going on and on, eventually I just bust out with "Why do you care what they think about you?". To a degree, those were valuable lessons, because yes I do genuinely think that Gen Xers do have 'thicker skins' than Millenials. They seem to just get so worked up about everything, all the time, even over the tiniest of things that when I was growing up wouldn't have even been something to give a second thought about. On the flip side, it also means at times we bottle everything up to an unhealthy degree. It took untill my very early 40s, and a major depressive episode, and a lot of sessions with mental health professionals, to 'learn' that it is ok to have feelings and express them sometimes. So it is all a bit of give and take. Sure, they could learn to toughen up a bit, but we could learn to be a bit less insular. Just my opinion.
I love books, but I have to resort to audio books, because of comprehension issues due to what I mentioned a couple days ago.
I'm so sorry. I wish there was a version on audiobook I could leave.
@@Gen_X_Rosey I'll look on audible
I just found your channel, but a lot of things you talk about, I went through.
Thank you! I'm glad to have you here!
I still have PTSD and flashbacks from my past. I'm now a disabled 40 year old due to an intentional accident that changed my life when I was 8 years old. I remember the 1992 LA Riots. 1992 I was in the hospital for 3 consecutive months. I was born at the end of Reagan's 1st term.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. The L.A. Riots were traumatic for us. We saw a lot of traumatic shit, and none of us were prepared for it.
@@Gen_X_Rosey There's absolutely no way to ever prepare for any traumatic events. The first news report I remember very vividly was the fall of the Berlin Wall.
@@K1ll3r84 Yeah, I remember that one too. I remember thinking how great that was for Germany, but wondered, "But does that mean anything for the rest of us?" I was 13.
@@Gen_X_Rosey I was only 5. but there's things you remember and you can't explain why.
I would stay up in front of my VCR recording my favorite videos. I remember Adam Curry and Ricky Rachman. I loved making VHS mix tapes. I really wish I still had them.
My best friend at the time had so many recorded episodes. We'd "pregame" with the older episodes before watching the newer ones that same night.
I would consider myself an Elder Millennial, but being raised by an actual boomer, I have the complete Gen X mentality. being raised in a very unsafe environment, I have gone through things I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I learned work ethic before the age of 10 by shoveling snow and cutting grass around my entire neighborhood. I never had more fun in my entire life helping people around my community as well.
Yeah, Gen-X tends to really respect Elder Millennials, because you're so much like us. Thank you for interacting!
You touched on something interesting. As Gen X we were told not to show any emotions, and as a result we buried everything. As adults members of Gen X created bands like Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack, Korn, Papa Roach etc. which were very rage filled bands. We then had both the boomers and millennials tell us the music was to "emo" so basically we were told again not to have emotions.
Yep! And now, those bands were seen as "too whiney". It's exhausting. Thank you for watching and commenting!
I didn't get off the hook I remember picking out the switch I was about to get punished with
Yeah, same.
Just remember gen z snow babies,mess with the bull,you get the horns! 😈😈😈😈😈😈
I can’t tell if this is supposed to be a comedic commentary or not. (And sorry about that.) Look. Let’s be 14.75% serious here for a moment. I am CLASSIC GenX (closer to the start). I ABSOLUTELY do care. About a lot, actually. Family. Business cohorts. The Republic. I care. I probably don’t care about YOU (GenZ) but it’s certainly not because I “hate you.” That’s just dumb. When we were turned out at 7am in the summer, we ran like wolves but we weren’t criminals. There were rules. We made them up collectively as kids. We enforced those rules and mores. No parents. No “grown ups” had to mediate for us. We ran a democracy out there for 12-14 hours at a time. The doing of that made us rabidly independent. You had to think on the fly… make decisions on the fly… and be decisive (if you wanted to be heard). You had to learn how to negotiate and persuade. Most of the kids in our tribe had guts. We cared about each other and looked after our own safety. Those that did NOT meet the requirements, we kept at arms length. The reason I point this out is because our current times seem (!) to be peopled by individuals who EXPECT to be heard, considered, and respected without putting an inch of skin in the game. You haven’t met us, have you? I never think about you. You impact my life exactly naught. Zip. Zero. I don’t know you. I may never know you. Do you even think that bothers me for a split second? I might end up caring what you think. Depends on a few factors I’ll keep to myself. I don’t hate you, though. And don’t say that. It’s just that I don’t care about you… yet. And don’t assume I will as if I owe you something. Because I’ll jam that right back in your face and you will have awoken the monster in the maelstrom. Bad policy, GenZ. Bad planning. /end serious/
Not exactly comedic, but if people find it funny, that's fine. But I don't give my "cares" to people who just expect it or demand it. I don't give it to people who feel entitled to it. My care (or more accurately, my fucks) have to be earned. So, I get it. I was without adult situation for a lot of my life too. My mom had to work for our survival. Thank you for your input.
@@Gen_X_Rosey I think it’s the common thread in GenX. I find them to be kind and thoughtful… as long as you don’t PRESUME. GenX doesn’t owe anyone and if they try to press the matter, they’ll get an earful from us. And then immediately ignored 😉
It didn't help that the Boomers ended 1/3 of us before we even got to the starting gate. Those of us who lived were barely parented at all. We grew through it and hopefully we will do better for our kids. Great video as always.
Thank you so much!
Surely the best generation is the one living with their heads buried in their phones, typing tough and doing nothing to make the world a better place while ensuring the celebration of greed gets stronger and false beauty standards are made stronger every minute...no?
@@miker953 Had to read this 3 times to understand you're referring to genx. "living with their heads buried in their phones" Are you really suggesting genx are smartphone addicts? I've never owned one. I'd like to see the study that shows genx use smartphones as much as younger generations. "celebration of greed" A core genx trait is a distaste for sell-outs. If one of our hero musicians appeared in a commercial for jeans or something, we didn't think the jeans were cool. We felt betrayed by our hero for selling out. "false beauty standards" Are you familiar with the genx term "poser"? It's an insult aimed at people who are vain.
@genxjack72 I guess you should try a 4th time. I'm not talking about Gen X who didn't even have smart phones growing up.
@miker953 Sorry, my bad.
You're so right...i just commented regarding this matter in some other X channel, other day. That ' I don't care' label thing is so subjective. The fact of not caring is caring itself. We are one of the most emotional and trully spiritual generation of modern era. We are most likely ( as i'm seeing already ) , the generation that will lead the spiritual revolution. As i grow older being an X i want to see what's behind the matrix ( cause we alredy know of it's existence) , connect with the superior, the higher up. Cause this reality is rigged and the only way to change it is achieveng a higher consciousness. I love seeing Allison in the end of the video cause she was my favorite character of a classic movie of a generation that guess what ?! Answer : Cared. From minute one the characters showed they did care ( in their own unique ways ) the fact that their parents didn't care about them...then they played the 'I don't care' card for a few minutes and already started showing they did care about each other. 'Don't you forget about me' was the first anthem of our generation...'1979' was the second...these two songs ( protest songs just as the blues was back in the day and Nirvana ) they 'talk to each other' ...and as of movies , clearly , best representaives were : 'Fight Club' , ' The breakfast club' , 'Home Alone' and 'Uncle Buck' ...there you have, the full spectrum of genX and total accordance to your point. Thanks for the video
Thank you for your comment. As I've grown older, I've started questioning everything. I have one or two videos about manifestation, and how I manifested a storyline. There is something greater than us out there. Even the government has publicly come out and admitted to the existence of aliens. I know the Universe has greater things in store for those of us open to receive it. As for The Breakfast Club (one of my all-time favorite movies), John Bender was the perfect representation of a kid pretending not to care. He did. He cared about his image and looking cool and tough to the other kids. But his feelings were hurt when Claire and Andrew did what they could to tear down his self-esteem. He tried to look unbothered, but Judd Nelson did a great job of showing what it's like to try swallowing those feelings back to play up the "I don't care" card. By the end, they all broke that shell, pushed past the barriers of class, and the forced high school hierarchy of bullies vs jocks vs nerds vs misfits vs "princesses" to see each other as humans... as friends. And in the cases of John & Claire and Andrew & Allison, lovers. Again, thank you for watching and commenting.
@@Gen_X_Rosey yes , so true...100%. And another thing : ( you probably already did watch but just in case ) there's a 'deleted scenes part-1' from the breakfast club in which shows the entirety of Carl the janitor's speech that didn't make the final cut. The way he speaks to the kids like if he doesn't care but caring ( in the inside ) is amazing, the way it played out, one of the best parts of the movie ( so much authenticity ) and it goes so much towards your point. You can clearly see him caring while perfectly playing the 'i don't care' card, so representative of our generation and yet not shown in the movie. Maybe Hughes kind of felt that he was giving out cheaply the essence of the movie and we should realise that by our own, later in life as a general thing, not necesseraly a generational thing? And thats where the universal ( as universe, all things, not just a afternoon in detention ) meaning of the movie ( a bridge to every generation understand each other )is ? Something way much bigger than just a seasonal teen movie? I don't know, maybe...it really took me a while ( to be honest ) to realise that we actually care/cared and the card was a self-protective mechanism we activated to keep going...and thats why i "stumbled" up in your video i guess, cause i was as well starting to question that card/label lately, so much .. anyways...thanks again for the video and the reply.
Thank you for bringing up the bullying. I suffered for years from that. When 90's grune discussed this, it resonated. Now parents go out of their well to spare their kids this. No one helped us and we got grief for even bringing it up. Dad would say life isn't fair. You need to get used to it. So high school was pure hell. No one cared about us, so we stopped caring ourselves. We picj and choose what to give a flip about.
Yes, exactly! In my senior year, I tried to "unalive" myself in my first-period class. It took a while for the kids to notice I was popping pills one by one. It took a few of them to wrestle them out of my hand. I asked them, "Why do y'all care now?" My mom told me that if I had told her I was being bullied that badly, she'd have transferred me to a private school. After that, I became more of a goth. Never smiled, wore all black with blood red lipstick. Hated everyone. Never spoke to people at school. They never bullied me again, but it was too little too late by then. Ongoing since 2nd or 3rd grade. I talked about it in another video, but it was bad. So, now, I DGAF anymore. It's easier that way.
Please put batteries in your smoke detector. No one wants to listen to that.
1. I know that. 2. I did. Thank you for your concern.
@@Gen_X_Rosey Awesome!
Changing cloth diapers for 6 other siblings. Shootin Copperheads so Pops didn't get bit clearing brush. Had to learn to drive 3 on the tree at age 12...bike ramps...if it was jumpable, somebody tried it...and we all paid for the attempt at one point. Work...always work to do...and "play" was outside in the "fort". Mixed tape creation was an art form... ...and the "Fire" we didn't start according to Joel...got shoved in our faces from day 1. What we saw...did not jive with what was "Right". (and it's happening again) So...like Twisted Sister said, "We Ain't Gonna Take it". Loved the commentary btw.
Thank you, sweetheart! And you're 100% right! With the copperheads, you are much braver than I am! UGH!!!
@@Gen_X_Rosey You're awesome...(scratching something with scissors on a detention desk and thinkin...ET would have got all my Reece's pieces too.)
Me: Combat Vet - No family, No kids, No Friends Left, No cares left - trust me, my apathy and indifference to you - is a blessing.
Thank you for your service!
We were let off the hook because nobody cared about us.
I know it definitely felt that way, huh?
That's nonsense he was a tyrant and the legal system in this area is not capable of fixing a problem like this lived my whole life except when I was in the military in this area and that's the way it works around here. It had to happen and it did.
Hey, I'm with you! As you said, it had to be done because that was the only way the people in that area got any peace. I think it's weird how some in the area feel like they were forced into silence or that the people shouldn't have taken the law into their own hands. But had they not done it, how much longer would those people have to live in fear? No one should have to live their lives in fear the way he had them. And his wives were so brainwashed that the one still alive (if she is, indeed, still alive) is still convinced that he was "a good man". I just hate that his kids and grandkids are convinced it was unjustified. They were kept in the dark about how horrible he was, and now, they live their whole lives believing some saint was martyred in a lawless town.
How are is kids convinced he wasn't a child predator? He literally stalked and raped a child. If they need evidence it's literally them. The children born out of that rape. Like wtf @@Gen_X_Rosey
It has to be a very good reason for us to care. We spent so much time just surviving and adults kept letting us down. We made our own families from our friend groups. But yeah,most of us are definitely just tired.
Yes! We had to create families from our friend groups just to feel like we had a support system. Thank you so much for commenting!
It's not that we didn't care. We were just really busy "adulting" before it was a thing, while still having fun.
Perfect explanation! Yes! Thank you for interacting!
As a 1966 Gen xer. I really don’t care who you are. If I got something to say I say it. Hurts their feelings? Don’t care. The majority of my Gen x friends and family are the same. Not sure but I think you are in the minority on that one.
Darlin'... what I meant when I said that was, a lot of us don't hurt people's feelings just for the sake of doing it. Are you gonna just randomly walk up to a person who did or said nothing to you and call them a dumb, ugly motherfucker just because they're standing there? If your answer is "Yes", then YOU, sir, are just an asshole for the sake of bein' an asshole. If I'm disrespected, I get more disrespectful. I don't hold back when someone comes at me wrong. If you disrespect me, then I'm gonna give it just as good, then, I go rogue and start to go into what you might be self-conscious about just to make it hurt worse. So, no. I'm not "in the minority." I'm just not an asshole unless it's brought out of me. Thank you for your comment.
@@Gen_X_Rosey kinda what I thought. You are way more millennial than Gen X. Cause yes I have seen many do it as have I. Gotta love the snowflake in Wal Mart with the blue hair. Walk up and ask them who told you that was cool. You should slap them because they lied to you. Now is that being an asshole or just telling the truth?
Most Gen X were bullied and picked on. Most of us fought back. Because of fighting back, we are not easily intimidated. Go ahead, run your mouth, my mouth is worse. We will hurt your feelings and hurt you physically. We fought in real life. Not behind screens.
YES! THANK YOU!
We don't care, but we can.... And NOBODY wants that. Remember, Boomers invented the internet, but Gen X built it.
Yes, EXACTLY! Thank you for interacting!
Not sure how stirring up a generational war is going to serve ANYONE needs... And as a GenX myself, I certainly don't feel like we're under attack... Usually because it's US doing the attacking! But I will say this... WE brought the younger generations into THIS world! WE DID! So did we fail them...? Or... Did they fail themselves? And I shall leave it there... Because I know the answer to that question, is FAR more complex than most people think!
If you can't adapt, you are screwed. Life is extremely hard when you are young, because 85% of the time, it is because you are making it harder by not observing or listening. Step out into the light and make your way the best way possible for you.
When I seen your video I had to watch it. Of course I knew about the story of the song. I've been a fan of this song since the first time I heard it. I know it came out in 1980 but it was re-release I think in 89. For years I have debated if this was my favorite song of all time. I'm 69 now and I think I can say this will always be my favorite song of all time. It is just a beautiful masterpiece song. I used to hear it play in stores some years back and it always sounded so much more beautiful on their music systems. Thanks for giving this song and Benny Mardones credit for this beautiful beautiful song. I believe Benny could have been more famous because of his talents but his musical career took a huge nose dive after he started being recognized by the public and others. He just couldn't rise out of his addiction in time to climb back into the music realm. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for your kind words. I appreciate that. And thank you for watching. It makes me feel better after someone told me earlier that the video sucks.
I think it not that gen x doesn't care, but more about you can believe what you want. Genx has been thu many upset and downs, how many times has the government said the world is going to end?
Way too many times. Didn't we just have an "apocalypse", like, last year? I stopped counting. It's not that we don't care at all. We just don't give a fuck... which is way different. You can check out my most recent video for that one. Thank you for commenting!
Thanks Rosey. Here is my advice to our younger siblings (Millennial, Gen Z, etc): Life is NOT Fair. We, Gen Xers learned that lesson from an early age. But, you have (3) options in dealing with said sh*t show: (1) Whine and Complain (2) Give Up (3) Keep on Trucking. Option 1 is what we Gen Xers are good at. Hell, we perfected it. Watch movies like "Clerks", "Boyz n the Hood" or "Trainspotting" and you'll understand why. Spoiler Alert: most "true" Gen X films are not warm and fuzzy because life for us was not warm and fuzzy but you already knew that. Fun fact, the original ending for "Clerks" was changed because it was too depressing. In the original version, Dante, the main character, gets shot and dies at the end kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zplt28uriJyxhbw.html. Fun Times. Secondly, I knew a few Gen Xers who chose door number 2 and "clocked out early" (in other words, they are now dead and buried). I do not recommend option 2. Option 3 is what I tell my 18-year-old daughter who is about to go to college and, personally, I think it is the best option. I also tell her that when life gives you lemons, you need to make lemonade. Final Words of Advice: 1 - Stay strong and keep on trucking. Remember that life is a marathon, not a sprint. Take all those lemons that life gives you and make lemonade. Hell, mix in some vodka and make it a "grown-up" lemonade. Whatever you want. You do you. However, do drink responsibly. If it becomes a problem, get help (see Advice Tip #6). 2 - You're smart. To quote Doctor Suess, "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes". Just make sure you put both of them to good use. 3 - Keep your skills up to date. Never let the ink dry on your resume. 4 - If you make a mess, clean up after yourself. 5 - Try not to get triggered when someone who loves you gives you heart felt advice. (sarcasm alert: like right now). 6 - If you got a problem, work it out (that's what we did). You have the internet (which is something we didn't have growing up). Anything you can't figure out, Google it. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you're stuck. If you don't ask, you don't get. However, understand that we Gen Xers have been crapped on since day one of our existence so we do not "suffer fools gladly" (in other words, we don't have time for BS). Hell, we're just trying to get our sh*t together before taking that long dirt nap. :( Now please stop bothering us. We're tired. We got bills to pay. We love you but we don't have the time nor the energy to fix all your problems. That's your part of the piano. Oh yes, and about that little feud you're having with the boomers (yes, we were paying attention), please don't involve us. See Final Words of Advice #4, #5 and #6. Good Luck.
Perfect words of wisdom! Thank you!
I retired at age 53. I didn't do that by slacking.
Absolutely not! And congrats on a successful early retirement!
As a GenXer, I’ve been there! Home was rough, school was rough and life in general was rough. But it taught us to appreciate the good moments which could seem all too few and far between back then!
You're right about that, hon. Those times were hard for so many of us. Many of us Xers tend to look back with rose-colored glasses because of our movies, music, and whatever pop culture we had back then. But many of us trudged through hell back in those days. Because of that, drama and petty internet bullshit are some of the things up with which I refuse to put! Thank you for commenting, love!