What ‘Generation’ Are You Part Of
Someone told me the other day that at my age (???? - what generation am I?) I should be more than aware of the fact that ‘we,’ ‘ Baby Boomers’ are re-setting the levels and seriously making someone re-write the book on retirement, old and middle age, marriage, parenting, grand-parenting and socially acceptable mid to late life behavior and dress standards.
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Unlike our parents, and certainly their parents before them, we are doing it (and everything else) 'our own way'. Are we actually achieving anything? Personal opinion and those of our friends and peers would have me answering with a resounding ….YES!
Ask our kids, and they would likely tell you that, right now is not a good time and that they are busy enough without having to worry about 'our' behavior and irrational decisions. They would likely proceed to add, with staunch conviction' that it is about time we started ‘acting our ages’ and ‘taking things a little easier’. Oh dear, we are not still embarrassing the little munchkins are we?
Seems, from a great article by Penelope Trunk titled ' What Generation Are You Part Of Really,? Take This Test,' - I am in the Generation X group – this is due to the fact that I know how to use a computer, I can email, upload and download music, I have my own web-page and so on and so forth.
May I say however that as good as I am at using all this new found knowledge and equipment, when it comes to a breakdown of any size or magnitude, it is enough to send me seriously looking for a significant alternative such as a ‘sea-change’ or ‘ a nice quiet retirement home.’
Penelope also suggests that ‘We should determine our generation not by our age but by how we use media', she also goes on to recommend that 'We should not judge people rigidly by the years they were born.'
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Penelope’s article is a most enjoyable read and she also provides an interesting test that she has put together. So if you are really keen to know just where you sit in this 'Gen Era Ladder of Importance', visit Penelope at her site, do the test at Penelope Trunk.com – add up your points and you too will be able to figure out what generation you're really a part of.
Oh dear Penelope, we cannot thank you enough.
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Generational differences are easy to see if one really takes a second to look. Unfortunately, I was born into a technological generation deprived of face to face communication. I truly fear for the younger generation as technology exponentially grows. At the rate its going, if all trends continue, this younger generation will have absolutely NO people skills :/
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Mmmm! Well Mark I can see what you are getting at and it is rather an unsettling thought when you look ahead at what may be in store for the younger generation. Although on the people skills thing … man a lot of people our age don’t have them … never have .. and I fear never will. And, its the combination of the technology problem and these guys that really will ensure that the younger generation will have no chance or idea of or about what ‘People Skills’ even means!!
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when i was younger and naive i didnt used to belive in a difference of generation. however now im getting older im seeing a huge difference between the kids of the new generation and my generation.
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I started noticing the difference between generations as soon as we had kids of our….never been the same since!!
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This was a wonderful post, and very affirming for me. I took Penelope’s test and not surprisingly found I was in the Gen-Y category, at least based on my use of media. Technically I’m middle-aged, but I have a very hard time identifying with that label. Not because I mind the years, but because ageism is very real and so many ‘youngsters’ (lol) don’t expect people my age to be progressive thinkers.
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Aah yes, why is it that young people do seem to think we ‘aged folk’ (that is anyone over the age of 40) have problems understanding and handling a lot of things.
I noticed that with my kids – suddenly they had this notion that I needed ‘supervision’ doing things I had been doing all my life, like choosing what to wear, how to wear my hair, what to eat, what to cook etc.
My grandchildren on the other hand see me as ‘super woman’. Think I’ll hang with the ‘grandies’ more often.
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