Generation X: Why We Deserve New Branding | Jacquie Jordan | TEDxUniversityofDelaware

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  • @jenniferjohnson460
    @jenniferjohnson460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    If you're really gen x, you don't care about branding. Branding is for advertisers pushing consumer goods.

    • @jacquiejordan771
      @jacquiejordan771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Which I state right at the top of the talk ~

    • @geminikb
      @geminikb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Agree. Unlike our boomer elders, we are tech savvy, and because we are so self-sufficient, we just find what we want rather than waiting to be told what we want.

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. Gen x And more to come

    • @patriciaschaffer
      @patriciaschaffer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@geminikb I love our generation. The best generation. The songs she mentioned made me emotional :-) We've been through everything, literally.

    • @reasonjo
      @reasonjo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree Jennifer. I don't care what 'they' (the other generations) think. I don't care about being forgotten - I'll just do my own thing. Not sure how I feel about this Talk, just doesn't seem to fit. 🤔

  • @Dobviews
    @Dobviews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    As a GenX all I can say is, "I've always been labeled. I just don't care. Their opinion of me is none of my concern." I always considered us the Chameleon Generation. We blend in, watch, take notes of what not to do, move on.

    • @jreyman
      @jreyman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      We're observant driven and intelligent. We not only learn from our mistakes, but also from the mistakes of others. We then use those lessons to find a better way to move forward.

    • @schwenke069
      @schwenke069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Didn't know I was missing until ... well ... I guess now. I'm okay with that.

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. And more to come

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. Gen x And more to come

    • @patriciaschaffer
      @patriciaschaffer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And are not really into political correctness.

  • @deanvaillancourt2881
    @deanvaillancourt2881 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    We raised ourselves and really don't care what anybody thinks. Tell us something shouldn't or couldn't be done and will prove you wrong every time. We are rebellious and survivors.

    • @Seattle41791
      @Seattle41791 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Even going to college, then earning an MBA in 10 months after the age of 50.

    • @MatthewStevens-du1hk
      @MatthewStevens-du1hk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100% if I say I can, and someone says I can’t, “watch me!”

    • @panchopistola8298
      @panchopistola8298 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MatthewStevens-du1hkYou couldn’t raise good kids … 😂 shut up old man …

  • @stoptellingmetolikecomment1624
    @stoptellingmetolikecomment1624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Gen X is awesome just as we are. We don't need rebranding.

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. Gen x And more to come

    • @sueblack5794
      @sueblack5794 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@myfootballjesus nah... they can F off as well.

  • @lesrolon40
    @lesrolon40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    I'm a latched key kid, did my homework, sucked it up, never embarassed my mom with attention seaking behaviour, radio music was my therapist and the TV fueled so many dreams and through it, I envisioned my future. I might be silent but I'm here and I know how to work with or without technology.

    • @angusorvid8840
      @angusorvid8840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I knew how to create my own world with my friends. We entertained ourselves and didn't need to be taught everything like babies. We had guts and ingenuity.

    • @lesrolon40
      @lesrolon40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@angusorvid8840 yes we did.

    • @jreyman
      @jreyman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@angusorvid8840 By contrast, many Mullennials can't even boil water, without instructions.

    • @dominysynclair
      @dominysynclair 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@angusorvid8840 We still do.

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. And more to come

  • @DavidCarloz
    @DavidCarloz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    I’m a 60’s Baby, 70’s Kid, 80’s Teen, 90’s Dad. I couldn’t asked for more. GenX is the best.

    • @PraveenSrJ01
      @PraveenSrJ01 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Congratulations 🎈

    • @frankthespank
      @frankthespank ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Right on man! 😎

    • @annmarieknapp2480
      @annmarieknapp2480 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same here except female version.

    • @belleooo
      @belleooo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same.

    • @annmarieknapp
      @annmarieknapp ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sixty-nine baby here! They suddenly want us to fix the nightmare generations left for us. Well, who's your Mommy and Daddy now??

  • @krash66
    @krash66 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I'm surprised she didn't say the phrase that describes us best, "Free Range Kids". We played outside and did what we wanted. Learned to take care of ourselves. NO helicopter parenting. A bicycle meant freedom. We could entertain ourselves for a whole week outside with a role of masking tape, some imagination and our friends.

    • @Mike_H76
      @Mike_H76 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You had masking tape?!?! Lucky dog! But I think I have you upstaged, there were gas cans all over and I learned when I was 10 how to accidentally make a flamethrower from what I thought would be a nice little firepit, RIP 10 yr old eyebrows. Such an early age to learn that gas doesn't behave like charcoal starter fluid.

    • @krash66
      @krash66 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Mike_H76 LMAO 🤣.. I seem to remember something similar where all the hair on my arm got singed off. Speaking of gasoline, my dad and I had to fix the gas tank in our van, so dad had me siphon the gad out of the tank. I ended up getting a mouthful and burping gas for 3 days. My dad just laughed and said I learned a valuable lesson. 🤣

    • @Mike_H76
      @Mike_H76 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@krash66
      Remember when gas station attendants would smoke while filling your car up? My uncle demonstrated to me that it's safe, by throwing a lit cig into a bucket of gas... it goes out before it can ignite (personally, I don't suggest this!)
      Siphoning, ugh... I can almost taste it! Valuable lesson learned indeed, I CAN'T TRUST YOU, it's a set-up!

    • @Seattle41791
      @Seattle41791 ปีที่แล้ว

      With my best friend, we, as preteens, would catch the 174 bus into Seattle. First stop, the International District.

    • @Seattle41791
      @Seattle41791 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A large cardboard box was magic.

  • @mikefink5847
    @mikefink5847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    GenXer here... 'GenX' couldn't care less about how its 'branded' or 'recognized'

    • @TheGenerations1
      @TheGenerations1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      that idea itself sounds sort of "on brand" for Gen X 😅to me but yeah I get the idea that's how many of you feel

    • @MrGloriousg
      @MrGloriousg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@TheGenerations1 True. But at least we have tried to resist marketing, as opposed to the Boomers and Millenials.

    • @lowellaaroncourt
      @lowellaaroncourt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yah -- this seems to be awful to me, but it does make some interesting comparisons.

    • @ezkibela
      @ezkibela 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yap thats why you commenting it ai?

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. Gen x And more to come

  • @mattslupek7988
    @mattslupek7988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    As a Gen-Xer (1965), I can’t believe that she left out that we watched All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, Blazing Saddles, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin and didn’t scream “I’m offended!” at the top of our lungs before going to our safe spaces with our coloring books. We actually laughed at things that were funny!

    • @davidfarrell7560
      @davidfarrell7560 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Andrew dice clay would have made their heads explode.😂

    • @mattslupek7988
      @mattslupek7988 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davidfarrell7560
      OH…DEAR…GOD!

    • @PraveenSrJ01
      @PraveenSrJ01 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True

    • @MrBluelightning024
      @MrBluelightning024 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@davidfarrell7560 don't forget Sam Kinison

    • @davidfarrell7560
      @davidfarrell7560 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MrBluelightning024 Yeah, the list could go on forever, Don Rickles was hilarious.

  • @Truthseeker1515
    @Truthseeker1515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Born in 73', parents separated in 1981. I had a BMX, crashed the mall and hit the cinema practically every week to watch teen movies. "The Goonies" was only one flick, too many to list. No Internet, we were raised outside the home. Not that I regret it. You need to have experienced the 80s as a teen, late teen in some way or another to qualify....

    • @MrGloriousg
      @MrGloriousg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You speak the truth. I was born in 74 parents divorced in 77.

    • @thepassionofthegoose5472
      @thepassionofthegoose5472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, if you weren't in at least late elementary when the Challenger disaster happened you're living off other's memories.

    • @kohl2080
      @kohl2080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was born 3/3/73...slackers who have been the ignored generation that have quietly kept business going without recognition.

    • @LilStampBug
      @LilStampBug 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      1972 version here and I totally agree 👍👍👍 parents divorced in 82 :(

    • @aguy559
      @aguy559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Born in ‘75, parents divorced in ‘89, and my red and yellow BMX was my first true love.
      But I lived forty miles from the nearest movie theater, so it was a once or twice a year thing.

  • @stacieclymo3685
    @stacieclymo3685 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I saw a video recently on how to manage GX. "Let them do their thing, don't micromanage, give them as much training as they want, and expect them to stay in a job for 5-7 years unless you make it worth their while." Pretty accurate actually.

    • @audreywoodcock3869
      @audreywoodcock3869 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, we thrive on autonomy, will communicate honestly, seek connectedness without drama, know how to write a handwritten note so you know it is personal and from our hearts. We ask the right questions at the right time to motivate thinking and effect change without badgering or threats. We are able to feel reward from doing what is for the greater good. This is what makes humanity sustainable we know when to make a point and when to stop and let people embrace it instead of fighting until there is nothing left. We value being able to think because we remember the oppression of less fortunate people. Many of us believe in something greater than ourselves and what to do when there is NO money-yet still survive. We have great senses of humor when we examine the human condition, the frailty of life, and the irony of chance....

  • @grounded7362
    @grounded7362 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    As the forgotten generation a whole lot of people sure do turn to us when then need something done or something fixed.
    And then they forget about us all over again.

  • @huskyflylangley6053
    @huskyflylangley6053 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I'm Gen X and I don't need nor particularly want to be maketed to, entertained or catered to. If I'm overlooked by marketers, mainstream media and especially government, I consider that a badge of honor. We know what we like as individuals and don't need nor want anyone to tell us what we need to like. For myself, I loved my Grandpa's generation and gravitated to them, because like us, they don't thrive on self aggrandizement. We have a foot in analog and a foot in high tech. I can start and fly and fix a WW2 radial engine powered plane and navigate around high tech. Boomers and Millennials alike as well as some of my own generation for that matter, don't get what I'm about and that's okay, you live your life and I'll live mine. Many people my age feel the same. I have had a paying job since age 12, bought and fixed up my first car with that money, bought my own music, was and still am close to my parents and extended family., there is a tremendous sense of ownership in your life when you earn it yourself. I pass that on to young and old alike; don't let any person, group, or company, supplant your thinking and especially don't let 'em take your self reliance!

    • @BloodySoup74
      @BloodySoup74 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Greatly said! Born in 74 and loved my childhood. The greatest music, the greatest movies, and not the drama filled life we see now of kids. We did our jobs and never really fussed about it. Patience was key instead of having it now. We were the kids that didn't have technology. From having it and understanding it to not really caring about it. We have real friends and not the fake friends of social media. The world was so much better without it.

    • @huskyflylangley6053
      @huskyflylangley6053 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@BloodySoup74
      I was born in '72. I'm also disillusioned with my world today, but I kind of was as a kid back then too. I never understood why I never fit in; even with our own sometimes, but I would not like to be a kid today though. I'm glad I grew up when I did, while there were still some of the ww2 folks around. I'm 2/3 analog, 1/3 digital, I can appreciate TV and internet for what it is, but can happily live without it as well, (although music is somewhat of a necessity!) I'll just go play outside like I always have.

    • @Seattle41791
      @Seattle41791 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I, too, admired and had many I'd call friends who were from the greatest generation. I think they liked us because we are a lot like they were.

  • @anikadiamond007
    @anikadiamond007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    No contributions? We're the reason why we are on TH-cam watching this video! Among other tech innovations.

    • @jacobjudd3129
      @jacobjudd3129 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was thinking that exact thing!

  • @Martino2156
    @Martino2156 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    We also grew up in the cold war which meant we lived with the possibility of being destroyed by nuclear bombs at any moment or a post-apocalyptic future. Therefore the pandemic was no big deal to us because we were prepared. Some even laughed and said it was about time since we trained our whole lives for it

    • @shelleyphilcox4743
      @shelleyphilcox4743 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Martino2156 This generation are growing up with a new apocalyptic vision of climate change, with people terrified that CO2 will result in them burning to a crisp or drowning, rather than a nuclear bomb, marketed at them 24/7 through a zillion media channels, and therefore they have no future. That, and housing prices.
      At least here in the UK there were only 3 or 4 TV channels and they went off air at night!

  • @PatriceMorris.
    @PatriceMorris. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    We are the bridge. The bridge to either lead a business across to the new innovation or we can collapse the bridge to stop the madness.

  • @forgoogletotrack7181
    @forgoogletotrack7181 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As a late Gen X-er, I truly don't care if we are ignored. It's better to move in the shadows. That way nobody sees you coming, or going, for that matter. Gen X is the entrepreneurial generation - we value autonomy and free-range living. Most of my peers are self-employed, freelancers or business owners.

  • @jimb8601
    @jimb8601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "Thank you, Milli-Vanilli". Words I never would have expected to hear in a TED talk.

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Every Gen X "kid" watching this video felt a collective chuckle at that reference.

    • @stacythomas9916
      @stacythomas9916 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just goes to show how out of touch and delusional this woman is. I say we take away her Gen X club card, and stop claiming her. She clearly doesn't understand what being Gen X even IS based on a lot of this nonsense

  • @jewelkray5919
    @jewelkray5919 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Gen Xer here: latch key, older.sibiing, trauma survivor, but not a slacker though. We are the influencers in so many ways!

    • @lorrainejohnson829
      @lorrainejohnson829 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gen x: latch key early tech user we did cell phn innovation, two little bros , 1 bro died on motorcycle- i was 20 and recovered by 25 yrs 😇

  • @anniesshenanigans3815
    @anniesshenanigans3815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Born a year before the 'label'of gen x, I identify mostly with it. Although I was not a latchkey kid, I was on my own much of the time because I was OUTSIDE. The first 'video' game I played was Galaga.... 70's, 80's music was my jam... still is really.

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. Gen x And more to come

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว

      1964? You're absolutely Gen X. Trust me.

  • @RedRiverMan
    @RedRiverMan ปีที่แล้ว +14

    wow!!!! As a gen x member I was tickled at this, sobering and real . This is a masterpiece talking about our generation. She didn't mention directly but we are the first in the US to grow u in an integrated country, the first to have easily divorced parents and the first to "come out" as lgbt . She is spot on by repeating the latch key experience as we were the first to come home to no parents and the first to have cookbooks especially made for us, with no parents to help.

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Every time I watch one of these videos about Gen X, I am blown away by just how many other latchkey kids were really out there. Now I wonder if any of them were chronic locker-outers like I was. At least I don't get locked out or lose my keys anymore. 😃

    • @smrk2452
      @smrk2452 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When my parents got divorced, we moved in with my grandparents so we were saved from being latchkey kids and were always told how lucky we were!

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smrk2452 Being a latchkey kid prepared us for the responsibility as adults to be able to let ourselves into our own homes. It also showed us how lucky we were that we were given the freedom to take care of ourselves rather than having the adults constantly around to take care of us.

    • @1Spunky
      @1Spunky ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m a boomer and both parents factory rats. My mom bought me a cookbook (Betty Crocker) that I could use on my own.

  • @droth1031
    @droth1031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    As a Gen Xer, all I can say is "Meh."
    Don't care about rebranding, renaming, or even recognition. We exist. We were here. Some day, we'll be gone.

    • @gempalm2003
      @gempalm2003 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      last bit hits a sour note for everyone that is =(

  • @Lylee-g5u
    @Lylee-g5u ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a cusp gen x’r, raised by a single dad in a house full of younger siblings, I can honestly say I could care less about branding and am happy to be left alone by the media.

  • @MrJeep75
    @MrJeep75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    You hit this on the head, born in 1975 last of the great time to grow up

  • @morewave
    @morewave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The funny thing is that Gen-Xer are defining the new wave of technology and transforming the world as we will know it.

  • @rosealexander9007
    @rosealexander9007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    First we raised our selves and then we’re ignored in later years.

    • @philippeassouline
      @philippeassouline 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We took good care of ourselves and were spoiled by the 90s.

    • @rosealexander9007
      @rosealexander9007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@philippeassouline that’s very true for me as well

    • @theacademictaskmaster6481
      @theacademictaskmaster6481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      While it's sad, but fractal. The boomers skipped their kid and went str8 to loving and spoiling their grandkids. Idk, how Gen X thought when they see their parents playing and acting like a loving grandparent to their kid like ",Why you didn't pay attention to me? But you pay attention to your grandkid?" I'm sorry Gen X as a Gen Z, but it seems like Boomers love being a grandparent with all the spoiling and being a "fun" parent type without all the responsibilities of raising a kid, like their Gen X kids. 🥺

    • @rosealexander9007
      @rosealexander9007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theacademictaskmaster6481 yes that’s exactly right. By the way my son is also gen Z and his grandparents my parents are boomers. Yes you’re correct. I don’t understand why either

    • @ShiftyBravo
      @ShiftyBravo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Boomers wanted to have us, they just never wanted to see us. That's why we spent so much time outside. But you're right. They absolutely love their grandkids.

  • @deesandman9477
    @deesandman9477 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am 1968 vintage. We don’t care about branding. We KNOW nobody caters to us. Our parents, advertisers, politicians ignore us. We can take care of ourselves. Always have - always will.

  • @SithCelia
    @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a great and inspiring TED talk! These videos make me feel connected to everyone else in my generation in a time when it's too easy to feel disconnected from everything. I'm just wondering when someone is going to call me out for my invocations of "CALGON, TAKE ME AWAY!" which are still necessary in the 21st century.

  • @alberoDiSpazio
    @alberoDiSpazio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So true my sister '71 raised my sister '80 me '79 while my mom worked miles away in another state. She hangs that over my head all time like I owe her. I think my my mom had her just so that she can babysit.

  • @BK_gamer_
    @BK_gamer_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I'm so Gen X that I reject "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as my anthem.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was 21 when that was released, so ya! Thank you.
      My anthem is more like "No Shelter" by RATM.

    • @stevewilson6723
      @stevewilson6723 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chiaralistica My anthem is Becoming by Pantera.

    • @gempalm2003
      @gempalm2003 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevewilson6723 im broken would fit us better i think

    • @PNHassett
      @PNHassett 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like Pearl Jam was any better.

    • @michaelyounger4497
      @michaelyounger4497 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Naa "Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechanics was a better theme for us

  • @reasonjo
    @reasonjo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Isolated children??? My childhood & adolescence was the most social period of my life!

  • @zelaznognaner
    @zelaznognaner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    11:14 GEN X ..... no problem, we got this 😁👍❗️. SO TRUE ❗️

  • @MrJeep75
    @MrJeep75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Proud to be Gen x

  • @mesky222
    @mesky222 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Marvelous speech! Latch key kids were in part independent, but we knew how to ask for help when we needed it. After all, we didn't have GPS, so we had to ask for directions, and had to pull off the highway to use a payphone sometimes.We actually memorized phone numbers! Learning something new of course was not digitally at our fingertips, but required a trip to the bookstore, library or having a real life tutor or learning from a box of VHS tapes. Maybe that's why we have the patience to teach. It's strange that the generation that brought neon colored clothing into fashion in the 80's has such a lackluster image.

  • @danielnovak4284
    @danielnovak4284 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So true about many of the things you had said. Thanks for sharing! God bless you!

  • @DP-hy4vh
    @DP-hy4vh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:11 - I'm Gen X and never heard of Martha Quinn probably because I never watched MTV.
    Our MTV was Friday Night Videos on NBC.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I watched both but I loved that show.

  • @kkcamp02
    @kkcamp02 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    We were called slackers but most of us had jobs (legal or illegal) when we were teenagers

  • @lowellaaroncourt
    @lowellaaroncourt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Douglas Coupland, who wrote the famous book in 1991 -- Generation X, was in fact a boomer.
    It would be funny to send him a message saying "Okay boomer, you're fired!"

    • @lowellaaroncourt
      @lowellaaroncourt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Okay -- I just did! :)

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@Katalin Migray yes, there was a shift post-1960. Anyone after is an Xer. I can see it in people I know and meet.

    • @jessj.j.french7482
      @jessj.j.french7482 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What's funny is whenever a millennial doesn't like something. They say to a gen x "okay, boomer" some of these millennials. I swear their brains are below their beltline

    • @theblackwholemy
      @theblackwholemy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People born 1962 onwards are gen Xers.

  • @joeevett9007
    @joeevett9007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I don't need branding. I don't care what people think so long as I get to go about my business and you leave me alone. I can do what ever I want and while I appreciate help I absolutely don't need it. I don't need anyone to notice me all I care about is being reasonable and polite as long as it doesn't put me off track to far. I will treat you with respect until you show me you don't deserve that respect and good luck getting it back once its gone. I work for me and my family not for you. Companies and people have become untrustworthy so expect me to worry about me and be skeptical about you. I'm competent at anything I need to be. "A Jack of all trades master of none is still better than a master of one" Although I'm a master of one I don't have to rely on that one. I will do what ever I need to to get what I want and expect to have to work to get where I want.

  • @chrissyavalon
    @chrissyavalon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Not enough love from the audience, but MUCH love here!
    Few people understand.
    It's time we educate such people.
    💜 Hugs XO

    • @myresponsesarelimited7895
      @myresponsesarelimited7895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Fkem, let them think what they like ...we know and that's all that really matters 😉😁😎

  • @dominysynclair
    @dominysynclair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Dear World as it currently is,
    Please continue to carry on as though we're not here.
    Sincerely (no, seriously),
    Generation X

    • @rubiesofgold7698
      @rubiesofgold7698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂👍

    • @melodyseverything6999
      @melodyseverything6999 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Right?!?? I really don't want the attention!

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amen!

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you, someone had to say it. Perfectly put. Now leave me the heck alone; I appreciate it though. Later dude

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      ( 1969 )

  • @waynethompson1115
    @waynethompson1115 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    71' gen xer here. I don't need or want validation from other people.

  • @marylawwill9846
    @marylawwill9846 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    76 here, and i believe gen x stopped the bs and thats our mo not the forgotten generation, no one really wants to get us started, were tired and want to be left to rest, since we started working younger and inflation has been skyrocking ever since the 90s, and cost of living has always barely covered our needs without borrowing. we are the working to make others rich generation, and also the patriots that will save our country, the last hardworking balls of steel generation. we also let music bring us all together, rap became a catagory on the mtv awards. we have united the world. Music will save the world and a Gen X patriot will save your life.

  • @KelticKabukiGirl
    @KelticKabukiGirl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "We're the MTV Generation, we feel no highs nor lows." "What's it like?" "MEH...."

    • @jreyman
      @jreyman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Precisely.

    • @myfootballjesus
      @myfootballjesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Supreme Court.. already three. Gen x And more to come

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm proud to say that I was an MTV kid back when it was still "music television" and had actual music videos on it. 😄

  • @sb-tb1oh
    @sb-tb1oh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    15:43. She forgot "mowing lawns when we were kids" i had to mow our lawn when i was 10. And im female 😅. Dad taught me. Also taught me how to drive a stick shift and change a tire.😊❤ rip dad, love you 🎉🤤🙏💪

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Jacquie Jordan, could you make another video about Generation X?

  • @mwfmtnman
    @mwfmtnman ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the things not talked about is how Gen x men are high up there on suicide rates and depression. A man and a gen xer, the truly forgotten.

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup. That's because they changed the rules in the middle of the game for us dudes regarding chicks. I fricking hate feminists.

    • @ozarkrefugee
      @ozarkrefugee 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most homeless I see are gen x males. I used to deliver mail, over the last twelve years there have been people who buy a used rv cheap then park it out in the woods and avoid society, they don't even want to get their mail, all gen x.

  • @JewellDWilliams
    @JewellDWilliams 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Someone finally said something about us GenXers. Now back to Rockin the Casbah because we are all Men at Work. No Blaming it On the Rain here. Come on, Eileen, you know this was awesome. 🤣🤣🤣Ok, I'm done

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I believe it was Plato who said that "People are people, so why should it be that you and I should get along so awfully?" I just can't understand what makes a man hate another man. Please, help me understand! 😁

  • @clubberlange4119
    @clubberlange4119 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This Ted Talk is the least Gen X thing anyone could do. Your Gen X card has been revoked.

  • @73twall
    @73twall 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1973 model here. Preach it! Wish I had a 1986 dollar for every time a Boomer labelled my whole generation as 'apathetic', all the way until I graduated HS. I appreciate you aknowledging the fact everybody forgot us. Nobody really advertised to us the way they do to the younger (and older) generations. Talk about ironic apathy. We had to either blend in with the Boomers, Millenials, or be forgotten altogether. Which the latter is fine by me. I grew up being ignored by the world. I will make it, because I've made it 50 years, and I think I am good for 50 more, if that's the length of my Earthly sentance. Thanks for shouting us out.

  • @isaacjohnson4511
    @isaacjohnson4511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Gen-X: sticking it to Boomers since 1965. 😎

  • @ThrashLawPatentsAndTMs
    @ThrashLawPatentsAndTMs ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The "Boomers" were called "The Me Generation" until the they gained control of the levers of media.
    The X-ers were called briefly called "The Reagan Generation" until those same Boomers realized that this might have political ramifications.
    Branding matters.
    And The Unification Generation works for me. After all, we watched East and West Berlin/Germany unified, nations unified more than ever before and travel restrictions melted away, and seamless communication makes knowing someone in Korea as each as someone in Peoria, Montgomery, or DC (or at least it should).
    And besides, our job isn't done.

  • @aguy559
    @aguy559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’m a Gen X-er, and I had no idea who Martha Quinn was. I grew up in a little hick town that didn’t get cable until the 90s.

    • @tylerboone6584
      @tylerboone6584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, MTV, canned music programmed by Yuppies. And she was born in 59.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My sincere condolences, as you were robbed of a serious part of your childhood.

    • @aguy559
      @aguy559 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chiaralistica With respect, so were you. Hunting, fishing, shooting off fireworks in your own front yard… it was great in a lot of ways.

  • @rubiesofgold7698
    @rubiesofgold7698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So good. Something interesting that my husband and I (both Gen Xers) have noticed is that very few people in our age group are physically going to church. We’ve gone to large churches, small churches, different denominations and styles and wonder where all of the people in their 40s, 50s and early 60s are. Not sure if it is a local phenomenon but it is curious. Maybe our peeps are so independent that they watch church from home.

    • @paganbornspiritbear8249
      @paganbornspiritbear8249 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I’m a few months late to this party, however…a thought…perhaps it stems from our natural leaning towards autonomy…we’ve developed personal relationships with our God/Creator/Source, and thus don’t feel the need for the more communal aspect of a church setting. Combine that with our natural tendency towards cynicism, and it makes sense that we’d forge our own path, and not rely on the interpretation of a church/religious system.

    • @Sam-dc1sf
      @Sam-dc1sf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We seek the truth. So those of us who believe in God can see the obvious hypocrisy in most churches. When the churches didn’t speak up against meanness and cruelty, I left. Never going back. They showed their true colors. Also, the patriarchy of the church completely turned me off after #45, as he made it clear as day and I woke up.

    • @mwfmtnman
      @mwfmtnman ปีที่แล้ว

      Hate to tell you, but most of us are atheists.

    • @mcrachelgrace9568
      @mcrachelgrace9568 ปีที่แล้ว

      '65 here raised by agnostic silent generation parents who believed I should be allowed to grow up and decide for myself which, if any, religion to follow. Happy atheist here.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We realize that you can pray anywhere. You don't need a building for that.

  • @kkcamp02
    @kkcamp02 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Our Wikipedia was the Encyclopedia Britannica

  • @dawnhandschy8111
    @dawnhandschy8111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm a gen xer and I love that. We dont need rebranding. Genx accurately describes us because we fit in so many categories. I say leave it alone.

  • @whatsitgoingtobetheneh
    @whatsitgoingtobetheneh 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Both my boomer parents were born 9 months after their fathers returned from overseas after WWII. Two very different generations.
    My grandparents grew up in the great depression and saved every penny. My parents were the first generation to have a TV and spent money like it was going out of style. My generation was the last to grow up without the internet. I'm so unbelievably grateful for that.
    I was a latchkey kid. I walked to and from school by myself starting in grade one. I changed schools in grade four and that's when I started taking the subway by myself. I came and went as I pleased in the summer, just as long as I was home for dinner. I didn't have a curfew in high school.
    I really gravitate to people from my generation. They're the coolest, most no nonsense, down to earth people I know. Most sarcastic too.

  • @urmommabear5monthsago
    @urmommabear5monthsago 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I had a TV remote when was she born 65? The best music ever. Snoop and Dre😍 We had whiteout tape that was instant

    • @ijn1216
      @ijn1216 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly wth

  • @gustav24-7-52
    @gustav24-7-52 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Being outnumbered by the generation before us and after us, we are simply ignored because we don't make the same amount of noise and don't take up the same amount of space as those other generations.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, we were the baby bust generation. We were also the bottle baby generation, born as the women's rights movement surged. Those Boomer women gave girls like me more options and opportunities and for that I am grateful.

    • @sunshinelively
      @sunshinelively ปีที่แล้ว

      Gen X is only outnumbered because Pew Research redefined the boundaries. If you go with the original birthyears of 61-81, we are a larger generation than Boomers. They want a smaller generation so they can force policies on us that will benefit Millennials but not Gen X. We will be outvoted bay Millennials on some issue or another.

    • @CJM6
      @CJM6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alot of our generation, who could have exsisted, don't.

  • @princesssadieloo
    @princesssadieloo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    GenXers! Truly Independent, technology fell on our laps and we ran with it! We laid the blue prints for today’s social media everything! We had MTV we had all day trips to the mall and hung out with friends! We had part time jobs, we lived in nice homes and saw our parents work hard and we emulated. I’m on the tail end of GenX, but I’m no Millennial! I’m a GenXer all the way!

    • @angelwishes3213
      @angelwishes3213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Although social welfare helped poor families, not all had nice homes especially in comparison. There were households with either no income - lived in projects, low-income housing, trailer parks, etc. - or low-income like $10,000 to $20,000 per year. Many kids had moms either in the streets on drugs or something similar or just missing from the home and missing dads so many didn't really have a home.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hear you. I'm an early X and in no way shape or form am I a Boomer. My parents are Boomers.

  • @joelleaittama1416
    @joelleaittama1416 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Adaptable is our strength!

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly, we just make whatever is around us adapt to us. And if it doesn't, oh well, F it.

  • @ruiribeiro833
    @ruiribeiro833 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We are independent. Resourceful. Adaptable. Intelligent. Our childhood was a permanent trauma(!) but we overcame it... from then on, between ourselves, with our friends... or alone... we were used to it. In spite of the trauma... we are deeply nostalgic of those times... because we were free, we wandered off, our range was wide... That's why we became strong! Self reliant. We know what we are and what we like and we don't take bs easily!
    The only analog/digital generation in History! We made the (big) change! But we are now, too much enjoying Life, to brag about it! That's why we're overlooked.
    We don't fit... We don't care of what others think of us! We don't "go along"... And that gives me the greatest joy!
    I like my Generation! I'm really proud of us!

  • @clubberlange4119
    @clubberlange4119 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She forgot one really really really important point. We don't care what anyone says about us. And we prefer that nobody mention us. We will come out of rooms and save the day as usual. But then return to our sanctuary, Crank up whatever of the myriad styles of music we like and performed in our youth making clear we do not want to be bothered. We are built different. We don't want you but more importantly we don't NEED you and we know it. So kindly leave us alone. You know nothing about5 us. If you did you would never call anyone from Gen X a "Karen" when "Heather" is more appropriate and would gain you a little respect!!

  • @WhiteCrayonComposer
    @WhiteCrayonComposer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There is a lot of variation on the beginning and ending dates of the generations depending on which sources are cited. Especially when you get to the more recent generations where there seems to be a trend toward creating "micro generations." That being said, from my own experience, I don't have a problem with the Boomer generation being from 1946-1964. Most sources I have seen would use those years for the Boomers. Pew Research uses 1965 - 1980 for Gen X, and 1981 - 1996 for Millennials. These date ranges seem to be getting adopted more commonly these days. However, having grown up in the 80's, I don't entirely agree with these dates. It seems like all the demographers want to cut Gen X short so they can fit the Millennial generation nice and neatly around the turn of the millennium. But if a generation is describing a cohort of individuals with similar experiences, than it does not seem to work so well to cut Gen X short. That being said, I would propose that Gen X would be 1965 - 1983/84, and the Millennials would be about 1984/85 - 2003.

    • @genaeyoung180
      @genaeyoung180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think the Millennial Generation should start closer to 1990 perhaps around 1986/1987 when Cable Television started to enter the scene. That would make the oldest of them children when the internet started to become a thing and teens in the early 2000’s for the chat room/ my space era. Those to me were “Millennial-ish” technologies that shifted experiences and generations. Gen X (I’m included ,1979) could claim that these things shaped our generation: sitcom’s color tv’s, albums, tapes, microwaves, VCR’s, and Macintosh Computers with the “Oregon Trail” and “Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?” computer games, Atari, arcade games, mall hangouts, board games, playing outside all day without “play dates” was post boomer era so yes from 1964- 1986/7 ish.

    • @WhiteCrayonComposer
      @WhiteCrayonComposer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@genaeyoung180 I certainly agree that the ending dates for Gen X should be later than the early 80's. I would add to your comments that the latchkey kid phenomenon was still common when I was growing up in the 80's. It wasn't uncommon for my brother and I to get home from school and find the key to the house hidden under a rock in a flower bed next to the house with no parents at home. This phenomenon was pretty rare, or even nonexistent, by the time the Millennials showed up. What cracks me up is that based on the year I was born, I could be labeled three different ways. I think most sources would say I belong to the end of Gen X (thankfully). But according to some others, I could be a Xennial (1977-1983). This label does not seem necessary in my opinion. All the sources that want to say the Millennial generation starts before 1981, even as far back as 1977, would say I am a Millennial. I don't tend to agree with these sources. I just can't swallow the idea that someone born in 1977, or even 1980, would be considered a Millennial. If a person were born in 1980, they lived through the entire decade of the 80's without the internet. By the time such a person did get the internet in their teen years it was aol dial up. Certainly nothing as fancy as what the Millennial folks had. LOL!

    • @fakereality96
      @fakereality96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree as someone born in '83.

    • @WhiteCrayonComposer
      @WhiteCrayonComposer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fakereality96 Yeah those of us born in the early 80's don't belong to the Millennial crowd in my humble opinion. My brother and I were latchkey kids a good amount of the time. I don't think Millennials were as familiar with that kind of life.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว

      Gen X is anyone born after 1960. There was a decided shift after 1960. The next shift was 1980.

  • @SanalOyuncu-un8ht
    @SanalOyuncu-un8ht 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Listening to you makes me feel good.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gen X, contribute some of your material possessions to help build the culture.
    There is a museum that is creating a Gen X exhibit.
    It is called Growing up X and it is in Springfield, Illinois.

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good luck with that ! Lol 😆 🤣 😂

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dalerushton1394 The exhibit has been created and is showing now. It's a good thing you aren't a leader in anything you do. You are responsible for the decline of the nation.

  • @soundprod3709
    @soundprod3709 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Looking forward to learn more and make changes to my life.

  • @JimButler1234567890
    @JimButler1234567890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I remember the first time I ever heard the term "Generation X". I resented it. I didn't like the idea that pundants presumed to understand us to the point of generalizing us and even went a step further to label us. I knew that the name did not fit, but then as in any situation, once a label is given it is very difficult to rebrand in the eyes of the masses and so I have accepted the name but am careful to filter the descriptions of us.

    • @jimburow706
      @jimburow706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don’t mind the name. Better than generation doofus or something. What i do like about it is it promotes an air of mystery to us. The generations around ours just can’t figure us out and we don’t mind that one bit.

    • @eljefe8149
      @eljefe8149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love the name. I think it sounds cool.

    • @norwegianblue2017
      @norwegianblue2017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I used to roll my eyes at all the advertisers tried to put the letter X into everything in a very transparent effort to target us, when it was very clear they didn't really get us.

    • @corimyers4985
      @corimyers4985 ปีที่แล้ว

      I loved it. X unknown. When DMX came I loved it even more.

  • @ryantinker8598
    @ryantinker8598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    True story! Great talk. 1970 here.

  • @mollyesther1
    @mollyesther1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can’t believe she didn’t mention Douglas Coupland.

  • @thetakenking7061
    @thetakenking7061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The Gen Xers will straighten out the mess the Boomers left. The generations after are weak. It is up to Gen X to save the world.

  • @WJFK480
    @WJFK480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Gen x was also the first generation to have millions of our fellow gen xers lives taken by legalized abortion, they truly had no voice and as a survivor, I speak for them.

    • @dominysynclair
      @dominysynclair 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow, never thought about that.

    • @melodyseverything6999
      @melodyseverything6999 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm so glad you made it through! 🥲

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On the other hand, I'm a girl who had the luxury of choosing when to become a parent.

  • @joelleaittama1416
    @joelleaittama1416 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another obvious point here. We’re funny!
    Millennials, but more importantly Gen Z’s have zero humor.

  • @elipercival7354
    @elipercival7354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am gen x however my life was different seeing how my grandma and 2 older siblings were around at all times.

  • @rich4444hrsm
    @rich4444hrsm ปีที่แล้ว +7

    GenX'ers are the last generation to be tough. Yeah, we fought on the playground, and in the bars, and work hard, and demand the American Dream. We're the generation who's had to roll their eyes at "I'm not good with computers". Young people now (younger generations) are NOT good with technology for the most part, they are good at being END USERS. That is a whole different thing. We are also still good sports, which I feel has been lost on the "I QUIT!" youth.
    That is the difference, and unlike the Boomers, we're not going to be soft in our old age, we're going to be demanding.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว

      True, but we will age with the medical advances brought about by our Boomer parents.

  • @ct3po776
    @ct3po776 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Apparently our generation has currently taken over entertainment!
    Stranger Things, Goldbergs, Young Sheldon, etc, and many movies with 80's themes/references, (Friday Night at Freddy's only exists because of ShowBiz pizza/Chuck e Cheese!) not to mention video game systems often throw back to Atari, and Nintendo, so yeah, we are actually everywhere!

  • @lulumoon6942
    @lulumoon6942 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Ya hate us, 'cause you ain't us!" 🤪

  • @bertmunoz7100
    @bertmunoz7100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They always forget one of the most important things about GenX. Unlike Millennials and GenZ we were not an isolated generation. We grew up with our fathers and grandfathers music, movies and TV shows. Ours was never the excuse "that was before my time" or "that's old school". Because of westerns we had an idea of what previous generations had to do to survive. We saw the transition of back and white tv to color. We learned from the Silent and Boomer generations because they created TV shows, movies and music with us in mind.

  • @JohnSmith-em9ks
    @JohnSmith-em9ks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gen X by the way is when X-Stream sports really got started. That's what I like to think it means. BMX, Motocross, you name it, we started all that shi$. You're welcome.

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup, I did BMX, motocross, skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding before they would allow us snowboarders on the ski slopes. We were used to being unwanted though from always getting kicked out of places for skateboarding. By the way, what's with all the helmets and pads and safety gear nowadays ? We even gotta wear seatbelts now and can't drink in the car ( ? ). I miss all the 2nd hand smoke 🚬 inside everywhere too.

    • @chiaralistica
      @chiaralistica ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, X Games are called that for a reason.

  • @kohl2080
    @kohl2080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    So true....we are not respected because we literally were a transitional generation. Hopefully one day we will gain our voice once again. Whether we have money or not we all lived the same basic experience and are now in a sandwich generation caring for our kids and parents as well. At the end of the day we need to connect regardless of economic situation.

    • @grounded7362
      @grounded7362 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a Gen X'er, we never had a voice to begin with.
      We were unseen and unheard.
      Unless something was wanted of or from us. Still that way today.
      In the workplace the Boomers and millennial's are heard and listened to and us Gen X'ers are expected to perform and deliver and say nothing.

    • @kohl2080
      @kohl2080 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@grounded7362 I concur. It's really sad.

    • @corimyers4985
      @corimyers4985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We have a voice, it’s quiet rage. We observe before we act…the way smart folk should.

    • @audreywoodcock3869
      @audreywoodcock3869 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, people know if we show up for a demonstration, or a special vote that the issue is VERY needed we are the "tipping point". Our quiet resistance, reliability, and caring for humanity can stop riots, rebuild after a pandemic, and create something out of nothing. All we want is a thank you...or a smile remebering our name.@@corimyers4985

    • @stacythomas9916
      @stacythomas9916 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What do you expect from an entire generation that was raised being told "Children should be seen, but not heard"? We learned to either keep our opinions to ourselves, or at most grumble about them amongst our close friends.

  • @anonymouscrank
    @anonymouscrank ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In 1992, shortly after graduating college, a woman at work asked me "What are you? What generation? What are you called?" I had no idea what she was asking me. I thought of myself as "me," an individual, not part of a demographic cohort. Later, I realized she was a "Baby Boomer" and it all made sense.

  • @Seattle41791
    @Seattle41791 ปีที่แล้ว

    In my second job, I walked the union (UFCW 1105) strike for 8 months before I was 21.

  • @EmilyTVProducer
    @EmilyTVProducer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Delayed gratification and patience are virtues for sure. What are those, you ask? ha ha

    • @lowellaaroncourt
      @lowellaaroncourt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like replying to a TH-cam comment 4 months later, and not expecting any response!

    • @tudelu8746
      @tudelu8746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMFAO 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 ( to both re-comments above )

  • @John-uz2sz
    @John-uz2sz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Im Gen X. But no generation is more relevant or important than the others. All generations are important. To say one is more important or influential than others is nonsense.

    • @jacquiejordan771
      @jacquiejordan771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No one says one is more important than other, but we can not deny cultural influences as being imprinted on different generations differently.

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea, I don't know about that. I'm pretty sure Gen-X reigns Supreme over all other generations before us and after us. At least we're honest about it.

  • @brockabaddy985
    @brockabaddy985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gen X - feral, independent, resilient, tough... raised themselves.

  • @PaulGuy
    @PaulGuy ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gen X here. Leave me out of your "rebranding". This feels like it's trying so hard to make a point that we don't care about. Lots of desperate grabs at lingo we don't use or abandoned decades ago. It ain't the 80's anymore, thank the gods.

  • @scottbrawley2599
    @scottbrawley2599 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my favorite GenX traumas was when teachers hyped a rocket launch and a bunch of astronauts that we watched explode live on TV. There was no counseling, hugs, or reassurance, just "OK, kids, get out your English Textbooks."

  • @picantel
    @picantel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Gen x is is all about hard work. Boomers take everything and give it to themselves. Millennials want everyth

    • @marybell2002
      @marybell2002 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There might be some truth to that. It might also be why people from your generation are the stingiest ones I know. My aunt and her husband said they were embarrassed when one of their Gen X friends pulled out a coupon book at dinner. I tried dating a few GenXers hoping they would be more grown up than millennials but they're so so cheap. Get X men come off as gold diggers to me.

    • @SithCelia
      @SithCelia ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marybell2002 That's called being practical with one's money. Coupons aren't for social media clicks, but actually save money for anyone who doesn't have much of it to begin with. If the friends were so embarrassed by this coupon-wielding Gen X'er, they could have offered to pay the bill instead. That would have been the decent thing to do.

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly 💯, we didn't have B.S. magic unicorns that farted money to us. We actually had to work for it.

    • @stacythomas9916
      @stacythomas9916 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@marybell2002 You're ashamed to use a fekkin coupon, and then you run around crying and not understanding why you're broke and can't afford to buy a house. Also if you think WE are embarassing with our coupons, you should have met my grandma that went through the Great Depression. You'd probably die of shock watching her use a rubber spatula to remove every last bit of mayo from a glass jar and then wash and save it, so she could re-use it to can home grown vegetables. That way she didn't have to waste money on either the Ball Jar or the food. We saw, and we learned that's probably WHY these people HAD money when they died. The biggest lesson I learned from her is that it's the small things from day to day that really sap away most of your money. The extra dollar or 50 cents here and there adds up super fast and is usually a bigger issue to financial wellbeing than the bigger buys you at least stop to think about.

  • @cousinjeb7116
    @cousinjeb7116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Boomer: Strike three! You failure!
    Gen X: Strike three! Go sit down.
    Millennial: Strike three! Aw nice try!
    Gen Z: Strike three! Take your base.

  • @MB-gh1gv
    @MB-gh1gv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Born gen x middle child... I thought all that was being a middle child 😅 I need her to write my resume 😆!

  • @DarrelllCampbelll
    @DarrelllCampbelll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Gen X dont care what everyone thinks

  • @elmobolan4274
    @elmobolan4274 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My sister and I were latch key kids, parents were married but both wked. My mother always told us, "DO NOT CALL HER AT WK, UNLESS IT WAS AN EMERENCY!!" My little sister like to threaten me if she couldn't boss me around and would say, "I'm gonna call mom!!" I would encouraged her to do it, just so I could watch her get in trouble when mom got home!! 57 yrs old

  • @raistlinrodriguez5696
    @raistlinrodriguez5696 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Gen X'er I had heroes, Eddie Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio maybe they weren't main stream but they were heroes that inspired me to become a musician and chase my dreams, a lot of which I achieved. We had heroes they just weren't the kind Boomers had.

    • @tt1212hahu-yj6bu
      @tt1212hahu-yj6bu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Uh they were mainstream.
      And they are Boomers.
      ?

    • @tt1212hahu-yj6bu
      @tt1212hahu-yj6bu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Their first fan demography were Boomers.
      Are you for real ?

  • @overtheGarage-ue8lh
    @overtheGarage-ue8lh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like being ignored. Who wants to be recognized by all these crazy people? Do you really want that? Careful what you ask for. Invisible is to be invincible.

  • @mr.matteroffact2822
    @mr.matteroffact2822 ปีที่แล้ว

    She is projecting, no one can forget Gen X unless you can ignore MTV, rap, Extreme sports, video games, fast cars technological advancement and house parties that didn’t get broken up. Kids today still enjoy hip pop, amazing video games and technology but their house parties have declined.

  • @cheezycatnip8352
    @cheezycatnip8352 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Im gen X, I ask that you leave us alone, no noticing necessary, keep walking, nothing to see here. Leave sleeping dogs alone, we may be ragtag, frayed at the edges, but we really do bite when poked.

  • @marshinz5696
    @marshinz5696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    They are rebooting all of our stuff to Replace us! We were here dammit!

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude, don't worry, we blazed the trail for them and definitely left our mark ! As long as we know who cares. Oh well, whatever, nevermind....

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      ( I think we should rename that song "Sounds like Millenials whining" )

    • @gempalm2003
      @gempalm2003 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dalerushton1394 and change history nty

  • @rata-pk4bw
    @rata-pk4bw ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gen X is responsible for current fashion trends. We wore ripped jeans bc we refused to let our moms sow on patches

  • @JaredMerlin
    @JaredMerlin ปีที่แล้ว

    At 15 years old, in high school, I stopped caring. I did what I wanted, lived my life, and everyone else be damned. Not my problem if you couldn't deal with someone like me and I don't give a damn bout my "bad reputation". Oh no... NOT ME!

  • @Austinkungfuacademy
    @Austinkungfuacademy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I like this speech! But "May-rio Brothers"? C'mon!

    • @dalerushton1394
      @dalerushton1394 ปีที่แล้ว

      She has something against Pac-Man ?