Let me show you something!

Bonus points if the kid gets the reference.

Now that most WWII vets are gone, Gen Xers are the best of what’s left of all generations alive.

GenX checking in. Article nailed it

I have done both with my girls.

Works pretty good.
Eldest is a freshman in Stanford.
Middle is a sophomore in high school.
Youngest is 7.

All three are straight A students and well mannered around their elders.
Know how to cook,clean and manage money.

We're literally the opposite of Karen's. We tend not to give a shit unless you impose your stupidity on us.

We generally can't be bothered to Karen stuff. We'll mostly just mock you and move on

 
 76 checking in

Gen X was never more than 10% of the voting population. We couldn’t exert any political power, it’s always been Boomers and Millennials in a tard fight.

Wife was born in 1980.

Did not know how to manage money or most other things.
I had to teach her and let her learn on her own.

Lockdowns have been hard on her as she is use to visiting all the time.

I am fine being on my own 99.9% of the time.

Every time I have to fix some sort of technology issue for my boomer in laws or my own teenage kids, I make sure to shout "Gen X to the rescue! Again!".

Movie idea. All of the Gen Xers get raptured or taken by aliens or whatever, and society crumbles within 2 days.

The vast majority of Karens are women over 40. Gen X probably has the highest rate of them.

The chosen generation.

Our time is coming. Sooooo close. The Boomers are clinging to power with their liver spotted hands, but they're getting older and that grip is about to give out.  Oh glorious days when the Generation X'ers finally rise to run this world.

Dude, really?

Haha, that would be hilarious.  The Boomers and Millennials would be at war with one another in short order.

We're the sane generation, the voice of reason, the only generation by virtue of our latchkey status as children and Nihilist tendency not completely self-absorbed.

LOL no they didn't. My depression era grand parents taught me. My mom and day spend like drunken sailors on shore leave.

All the Gen X people disappear and some guy driving goes out of service and switches to the radio.

They notice that the classic rock station isn't playing the same 5 songs all day long anymore, and they go "interesting"....then get back into service and turn the radio off because that's Gen X shit.

Otherwise nobody notices that the silent generation has disappeared.

Truth.

Elon Musk is Gen X.  A Gen X'er will put mankind on Mars.  The Greatest Generation did that with the Moon, but we haven't been anywhere else since. The Boomers and the Millennials aren't going to get us to Mars.

I think boomers had parents that TRIED the hardest to teach their kids about finances because the depression made such an impact on them. Did it work? Ehhhh, like every generation, we knew better then our parents. I didn't when I was younger, when I got older I realized Dad made a hell of a lot of sense.

Divorces are also a great financial teacher.

man you were a poor. Any geek worth his salt had 3 lines. 1 phone, 1 modem and one for the BBS.

Master PC race was on the BBS since the early 80's looking at the ASCII poorn!

Ditto!  

Gregarious introvert here.  6th child of 7.  I entertained myself, hiked the woods all day often alone, got lost in books on rainy days.  

To this day I am very comfortable being alone for long spells.  Getting quarantined??  I lol’d that was like king sized sending me to my room as a kid.  No big downside!  

Seriously, I could be a lighthouse keeper.

The funny thing is that the "lock down" hasn't changed my life at all.

Hell, I didn't like people before they were handing out respirator vacations at the local ER.

Why, the actual fuck, would I want to go around them now?

Until that car broke down and it was too sophisticated for a Boomer to work on and too much actual labor for a Millennial to fix. The poor Zoomers would just be scared and confused resorting to doing bizarre things on Tik Tok to cope with the situation.  

Face it, this world would cease to function without Gen X'ers.  

A GEN X'er will put a man on Mars. The Boomers gave up the Space Program, because that meant less money to funnel into their pockets in the short term.  Millennials are too concerned with social equity and whether NASA is concentrating hard enough on promoting mathematics in Pan Pacific Island tribes.   The Zoomers probably think that mine craft is a good substitute for CAD/CAM.

GEN X are the chosen ones. Our time approaches.

1969 checking in.

My parents were pre boomers.   They taught me finance as in what not to do.  Not really their fault, I was watching them paying bills or trying to during  the Carter Administration.  They worked and paid bills, we had frugal vacations usually camping not far away.  There wasn’t a lot extra.

You ever looked in the background when Musk is in the engineering spaces and control rooms?

He's the oldest guy in the room by a decade.

1967 model, vintage GenX.    

Legos back when you had to use your imagination.
Sat morning cartoons.
Riding a bike to school, uphill, both ways.
Getting smokes at the 7-11 for your mom.. (rode bike, uphill, both ways)
etc
etc
etc

Notice how you don't see anybody saying "oh I was born in 1975 but I consider myself a millennial." Boomers and millennials may laugh, but they know GenX is best gen.

GenXer here. You know your generation is cool when they have a radio station for it in GTA San Andreas.

This. My wife and I were all over during Covid and enjoyed having all the sheep stay home.  We hit a few dozen breweries all over rhe Sotheast, flew to Saint John's USVI, tried to find any country dancing place in 250 miles from home....lockdowns were freedom for us!

Bingo.

And more keep trying to pile on.
Meh.

Aren't 99% of Karens GenX?

Btw: I'm a 1971 model.

Credit=paying on a dead horse.

Ha, yes, sent to the store with a dollar for smokes and could buy a candy bar with the change.

Fellow Gen X'r here and those times will never happen again. Little supervision , no internet , and we survived.

It's true, my Gen X parents were not good with money.

The gen x'ers in GD are the ones that want crank windows and carbureted V8's in all their vehicles. Electric vehicles and fuel injection scare them so they just call it gay.

Gen X ENTJ checking in...

Yeah, lots of truth in that article.  

I'll do what I want or what needs to be done, and don't care whether others approve or not.  

67 here, I don't get the anti social tie in for Gen X. I definitely understand the independent part.

We went to school, we were out with our gang until the street lights came on getting into mischief, and mayhem.

The neighbors were definitely not afraid to let our parents know when our mischief, and mayhem got a little out of control.  lol

We always had summer, and winter jobs for the taking. 74-80 was the best time ever to be a kid. I saw star wars at the drive in when it came out.  

That's not really true in my experience.  Not even close.

I'm Gen X.  When I first started shooting at ranges in the 1990's, I was the only one there who had a black rifle.  All I got from the older generation was scowls.  They didn't like seeing a young fella with an AR-15.  Nobody was willing to help me navigate the hobby nor were they interested in helping me get into the shooting sports.  I went to my first matches by myself.  

Over the last few years I have taught dozens of youngsters to shoot.  I've built several AR-15s on my bench for some other young people who were just getting into the firearms.  Showed them how to put a lower parts kit together.  Taught them all about concealed carry options, the law, and let them shoot countless rounds of ammo.

I see ALL the guys my age in my circle doing the same thing.

The YouTube videos showing people how to use firearms?  Guess what?  Gen X represents the majority of those work watching.  We pioneered that shit.  Chances are you learned a lot about firearms from Gen X shooters.

Look, I don't care about getting some sort of "credit" for doing this stuff.  That's not the point.  There are plenty of shitheads in every generation.  Plenty of great people too.  But as a whole, Gen X changed firearm ownership from a "good ol boys club" that was largely exclusive into something much more inclusive.

Why?

Because the boomers are the ones that saddled us with the AWB, the Brady Bill, etc.  We understand that in order to save the shooting sports you have to be an evangelist.  It isn't 100 percent altruistic, though I dearly love to teach and bring new people into the sport.  

That exclusive club bullshit has to go.  I wish we'd done even more.  We've got 20 maybe 30 years left if we're lucky to pass along as much as we possibly can.  

Hopefully your generation picks up the torch and far exceeds anything we've done in that regard.  

By the way, I know for a fact that Gen X wasn't taught much about personal finance in school.  Had to figure that out on our own if our parents didn't teach out.  And the boomers did NOT.  Their parents did teach them because they understood the importance of money and savings.  The Great Depression will do that to you.   I learned more from my grandparents than my parents in that regard.

The education system is predominantly liberal.  The people teaching you are not high earners, typically.  If you're expecting low wage folks with socialist tendencies to teach you about money, you're going to be disappointed.  We need to fix that.  But if people understand money, they are less likely to be socialists.  Ignorance about finance serves the socialists.  

Hit the quote button instead of edit button.  That's what I get for multi-tasking.

I still eat SpaghettiOs.

Hmm. We need a gen x entj master race thread.

Amen.

Nothing worse then still paying on something that is broken.

I'm a boomer [albeit on the tail end] and my first rifle was an AR. Still own it in fact.

Being a teenager is the '80s was so fucking awesome!

Sad the boomers were too busy working and starting a family making millennials to enjoy it.

Okay.  But I'm willing to bet, whether you're willing to admit it or not, that you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about when it comes to how exclusive the boomers were back then.

GenXer here.....


I fucking hate people... I don't care if you like crossfit,  soy lattes, are a vegan with your rescue/therapy dog, hove covid.

Stay away....

My post from a couple weeks ago...

What dad there is missing or junior doesn't get: daddy's supposed to help junior get his starter job.

Duh.