Generations

[GloryDawg]

I’m sure you understand how not everybody making 22,500 can up and change jobs on a whim...as there isn’t enough high paying jobs. Or maybe you don’t understand that, I don’t know.

Are you looking? Where are you looking? I am not saying up and change jobs. I worked there four years before I found another better paying job. It's not going to come to you. You might have to make your self more attractive to a employer. But don't *****, do something about it.

 

[GloryDawg]

^^ doesn't understand what "wages haven't exactly kept up with inflation" means.

Looking to improve your situation has nothing to do with inflation. It might take several years of looking.

 

[GloryDawg]

Thanks for the input into how the economy worked for you almost 30 years ago, Gramps. That's certainly relevant to how the economy has worked for vast swaths of people in the last 5-10 years. Were Cokes a nickel back then, too?

By the way in 1992 the unemployment rate was 7.8% nationally. In Miss it was 8.1%. Don't think things were easy back then.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Not sure this is on subject.... but the generational differences don't bother me as much as the general population explosion. In 1980 there were 226 mil in this country, today there are 329 mil. I know you young guys don't feel it as much as us old guys but compared to 40 short years ago....this sumbitch has gotten crowded. I'm not blaming anyone or advocating we should have done something differently....I'm just saying this was a more comfortable place to live when there were 100,000,000 fewer of us.

 

[Palos verdes]

In lieu of making the Fall Ball thread too lengthy I chose to start this one. Johnson, this may answer your question about Goat:

Currently, five generations make up our society. Each of those five generations has an active role in the marketplace. Depending on the specific workplace, the workforce includes four to five generations. Here are the birth years for each generation:

• Gen Z, iGen, or Centennials: Born 1996 – TBD
• Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 – 1995
• Generation X: Born 1965 – 1976
• Baby Boomers: Born 1946 – 1964
• Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before

I'm willing to bet most people would disagree with where they supposedly fit or are labeled. I recently saw this and thought nope, Millennials are not 40 years old.

I'm not trashing that generation at all, just pointing out that the labels seem way off to what most people think. I prefer the Gap Generation or Oregon Trail Generation for myself as an '82 child. We grew up with a childhood both before and after the internet.

Discuss amongst yourselves. "I'm all veclempft."

No way in hell the Millennial Generation started in 1977. Those kids grew up at home without internet, social media, and even cellphones.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Are you looking? Where are you looking? I am not saying up and change jobs. I worked there four years before I found another better paying job. It's not going to come to you. You might have to make your self more attractive to a employer. But don't *****, do something about it.

Brother, the point is there are way more people needing higher paying jobs than there are higher paying jobs available. It’s why the middle class is shrinking and has been shrinking for a long time.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

I don't make fun of Millenials. I give that generation credit. They fought two wars at the same time. Those were Millenials going to Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe the last of the Baby Boomer and many Gen X but Majority was Millenials.

Negative Ghost Rider...

As of 2010, the time the big draw down in Iraq and the start of the slower draw down in Afghanistan, the mean age of those who had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan was 33.4.

The biggest group was born between 1980-85 and the second biggest was between 1976-80. In fact, as of 2010 over 50% of the Iraq/Afghanistan vets were born from 76-85. Which is kind of astonishing.

Xennials, Oregon Trail Generation, Catalanos, or whatever you want to call us... Those wars were ours. This is one more reason this group is so adamant about not being called millenials or gen x. And I can tell you for certainty that our generation had written Vote for Pedro on every porta potty in Iraq and Afghanistan by the time the true millenials showed up. An analog childhood, digital adulthood, and the war on terror define us.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK206861/table/tab_3_5/

 

[mstateglfr]

Not sure this is on subject.... but the generational differences don't bother me as much as the general population explosion. In 1980 there were 226 mil in this country, today there are 329 mil. I know you young guys don't feel it as much as us old guys but compared to 40 short years ago....this sumbitch has gotten crowded. I'm not blaming anyone or advocating we should have done something differently....I'm just saying this was a more comfortable place to live when there were 100,000,000 fewer of us.

I loathe how popular my metro has become over the last 15 years. Des Moines is exploding in new home builds and it just keeps spreading further out.

+1 to the comment about it being a more comfortable place to live!

 

[thatsbaseball]

I'm glad you get what I'm saying...it's just hard to believe the country has added so many people in my adult life time and as you said it's not just some numbers...you can actually see it and feel it. Now get off my lawn LOL.

 

[VegasDawg13]

In a microcosm, I don't understand the hate Boomers get. My parents didn't screw up my life. I'm here of my own accord, decisions (good & bad), etc.

Boomers rode the greatest economic boom the world has ever seen throughout their entire lives while exploding the national debt, leaving future generations to pay for their excesses. And now they complain constantly that those future generations don't just smile and say thanks.

Anecdotal evidence about two Boomers who happen to be your parents doesn't mean much.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

I loathe how popular my metro has become over the last 15 years. Des Moines is exploding in new home builds and it just keeps spreading further out.

+1 to the comment about it being a more comfortable place to live!

Nashville is the same way. There were over 100 people a day moving here at one point, it’s down to 83 now. Traffic has increased greatly and I hate it.