UnsilentMajorty

Are you an "overeducated, underemployed" member of Gen X or Gen Y (1969-1976)?

What are your freakishly marketable skills that pay the bills?

Mine are:

-I can use an Excel Spreadsheeet for more than just organizing my Anime and DVD collection. Who would have thunk it?

-I have a four year degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Human Resources (hiring, firing, interviewing)...

Which is about the equivalent of a Philosophy, or Liberal Arts degree as far as the (U.S.) business world goes. Although, strangely enough when I was laid off not too long ago (am working again, now), the guy who gave me the bad news actually had a Liberal Arts degree from Fresno State. Irony is a bitca, huh? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

And most of all...

-I posssess a rare, yet widley used skill that is good anwywhere on the planet Earth where there is a standard U.S. Keyboard, a mouse and monitor.

No. It's not producing internet porn... yet...

It's what I'm doing right now to fill out this message board post [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

What's your Gen X/Y skills?

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Chiqa

which years are Gen Y? I am assuming (1969 - 1976) is Gen X.

I'm Gen Y. I would join you but it's too depressing....

Eidolon14

I'm guessing I'm Gen Z. It's a sad, little world I live in.

UnsilentMajorty

According to various sources... Gen X is '69-'75 and Gen Y '70-'76 and on.

The whole labeling of Gen X and Y goes back to a book that was written by Paul Fussell on American class structure titled "Class".

In his final chapter, Fussell named an "X" category of people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern existence." Douglas Copeland then wrote his own book that expanded on this "new generation".

Here is some more info. that the WF's board should have:

http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/genxintro.htm

So... Are you saying you have absolutely no marketable skills whatsoever (if you're not still in high school or Junior High? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Joshua

I have no skills of any kind, I was born in 83, I'm not sure what I'd be..lol

onionroach

My one and only skill is my complete and total apathy. LOL

Well, I spent a huge amount of money to get a biology degree at a private school where I met and married someone who's money making potential overshadowed whatever aspirations I might have had. So now I'm a housewife that has a huge video game addiction.

Mariael311

Ok...so now I'm confused! I was born in "81 and I'm assuming Jaye was born in '80 since she graduated a year before me...so how does that make her a Gen Y? And what would that make me?

UnsilentMajorty

Well, you have to remember that the whole labeling and grouping of the "letter" generations isn't a scientific thing at all. It's more of a social commentary, satrical look at the post-Baby Boom (my parents; possibly your parents or grand parents) generation that just don't want the whole "corporate ladder to success" thing that caused a lot of the problems in the 1980s with "Greed is Good" and all of that.

As for yourself, you'd technically, probably, be Gen Z if we keep going by the letters since the distinction is every 5 or 10 years according to which "scale" you use (a generation is usually defined by 10-15 years).

Jaye is interesting because I think what they did was add a bit of Caroline herself into Jaye's "bio"... Which would make her -- Caroline -- Generation Y (she's 26) and Jaye Generation Z (she's 24) if we're going to be technically accurate here... But Generation Z just doesn't have a nice ring to it does it? And you can't use witty word play like "Jen Why?", or Gen Why, etc, etc.

Mariael311

This just reaffirms why I hate labeling!

Thanks for the clarification! That stuff never made sense to me! I mean when I was younger, it was kinda drilled into my head that I belong to Gen X but it seems like my bro does and I don't! I wonder wht Gen Z has to say for itself by now!

Chiqa

Unsilent, did u make a mistake? Cos for example someone born in '72 would be generation X and Y according to what you wrote.

UnsilentMajorty

See, this is the problem with these "labels".

If you go to that link I gave (above), it says contradictory stuff like this because this is NOT a real, scientific category and more of a social anomoly/commentary on the offspring of the post-Baby Boom generation.

I'm 29. I was born in'74 (will be 30 very shortly). So, I am at the very back end of Gen X according to that one link. But again, even it says that isn't the only "scale" to use.

Of course, a lot of people born in 1974 have their own sociological phenomena in that we are what is called the "zero population boom" meaning that while we were born, a lot of us were/are only children and were born when there was NOT a lot of births as far as a national average.

What does this have to do with Gen X, Y, Z?

Absolutely nothing. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

pacifierrocks

Lets just say that Gen Y is people from wherever X ended to the present. Because lets face it, Z sounds stupid and i refused to be part of a Gen Z. [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

I am currently in college to get a degree in i don't know what. I'm what you call a coaster. I coasted through school an basically everything else. I never really exerted myself in school. I'm proudly apathetic, cynical, and my sarcasm is what i consider to be my greatest gift.

Simon Cohen

I was born in 1190. am I Gen Y? or Gen Z?

Anyways I feel like I'm going to end up like Jaye, overeducated for my future career.

Mariael311

I believe you really belong in the Gen Y group! [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Yeah, Gen Z sounds stupid! Its the last letter of the alphabet so what does that mean about our generation? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

I can't believe scientists spend their time studying this crap! Get a grant for research that has something more meaningful to society than some stupid ass labels! IMO, I find this crap annoying!

But I would think of my self as Gen Y!

GACT16

This is all very confusing, but I thought it was whoever were in their 30's now were X and peoples in their 20's were Y. But if I go by you guys as a 21 year old I would be Z. Z as in Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
As for ending up like Jaye, I might be headed that way. I'm a digital art major, and there aren't a whole lot digital design jobs left, not like when I was in high school. But who knows.