7 things Gen Xers should be proud of — even if no one ever told them
#article #genX #GenerationX
https://dmnews.com/ros-7-things-gen-xers-should-be-proud-of-even-if-no-one-ever-told-them/
It’s like the person who wrote this hasn’t even read Douglas Coupland. The whole point was that the odds were always stacked against us in “low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future” service sector ‘McJobs’. #GenerationX https://apple.news/AQxIcXXM1QFy-2u-gKcnV7w
"For many of the Gen X-ers who embarked on creative careers in the years after the novel was published, lessness has come to define their professional lives.
If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That’s because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically, shutting out those whose skills were once in high demand.
“I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,” said Chris Wilcha, a 53-year-old film and TV director in Los Angeles.
Talk with people in their late 40s and 50s who once imagined they would be able to achieve great heights — or at least a solid career while flexing their creative muscles — and you are likely to hear about the photographer whose work dried up, the designer who can’t get hired or the magazine journalist who isn’t doing much of anything.
Gen X-ers grew up as the younger siblings of the baby boomers, but the media landscape of their early adult years closely resembled that of the 1950s: a tactile analog environment of landline telephones, tube TV sets, vinyl records, glossy magazines and newspapers that left ink on your hands.
When digital technology began seeping into their lives, with its AOL email accounts, Myspace pages and Napster downloads, it didn’t seem like a threat. But by the time they entered the primes of their careers, much of their expertise had become all but obsolete.
More than a dozen members of Generation X interviewed for this article said they now find themselves shut out, economically and culturally, from their chosen fields."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html
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Released 47 years ago today
Generation X, the first studio album by English punk rock band Generation X, featuring the single "Ready Steady Go"
Generation X - Ready Steady Go ('Our Show' 4th February 1978)
47 years ago today
Generation X is the first studio album by English punk rock band Generation X, released on this day in 1978 featuring the single "Ready Steady Go"
Today I'm looking back fondly on my idyllic childhood and having to watch "The Day After"[1983] as a homework assignment.
Not bad song to drive into work while the sun rises in the east.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nzbOY4mGIug&si=6BYjOJmWMCtIrsmA
I often hear from #Millennials, #GenZ, in my area that people from #GenerationX, #Babyboomers and above can't do #IT. It's NOT true, I know quite a few #techsavvy Babyboomers and GenX's.
Geopolitical expert Peter Zeihan says the US will have ‘massive’ deficits as long as boomers live https://www.byteseu.com/766365/ #BabyBoomers #BudgetDeficits #FederalBudgetDeficit #generation #GenerationX #Geopolitics #PeterZeihan
https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung/113947660186859058
Our generation prided itself on apathy, mistook cynicism for wisdom & thought slacker nihilism was some kind of intellectual flex. Born in a moment of possibility, raised in the afterglow of the civil rights movement, & then... what?
We let the whole thing rot while we made mixtapes, bitched about the Baby Boomers & insisted that we were too cool to care.
GEN-X (noun): A generation that perfected skepticism, but mistook it for action, scoffed at heroism, and let the villains win. Now we must teach our children the urgency of a fight we were too cool to join.
Ich gehöre zur #GenerationX .
Und mich kotzt es an, dass #ElonMusk das #Twitter mit diesem Buchstaben geschmückt hat.
https://www.cyclingeu.com/505976/riding-against-walls-of-snow-views-views-views-the-euroshred-pt10/ Riding against Walls of SNOW | VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS!!!! | The Euroshred PT10 #AdventureMotorcycles #AdventureRiding #AggressiveAdventurer #Bicycling #BicyclingFrance #Biking #BikingFrance #Cycling #CyclingFrance #CyclingToursFrance #France #GenerationX #GrimselPass #GroupRiding #HarleyDavidson #MotorcycleAdventure #snow #TourOnABudget
Released 46 years ago today
Valley of the Dolls the second studio album by the punk rock band Generation X, featuring the eponymous song "Valley of the Dolls"
Generation X - Valley Of The Dolls - Top Of The Pops 05/04/79
46 years ago today
Valley of the Dolls is the second studio album by the punk rock band Generation X, released on this day in 1979 includes the singles "King Rocker" "Valley of the Dolls" and "Fridays Angels".
#Trump is YOUR FAULT kid.
"#GenerationX has never quite fit in within any easy political framing. It’s the generation that produced grunge rock and gangsta rap but also the (generation of) “greed is good" In fact, if there was any popular image of this generation’s politics, it was that they were apolitical... almost devoid of political inclination save a generalized cynicism..."
How #GenX Delivered the Election to #DonaldTrump
https://jjmilt.substack.com/p/how-gen-x-delivered-the-election #BoomersRevenge
@mrundkvist
I thought the #generationx thing was obvious. 
The mink thing was a smaller issue at the time.
Götterdämmerung 
