Generational Questions :: A Survey

In My Humble Opinion
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A friend of mine on facebook replied to a most I made with some lamenting about how he (and the rest of Generation X) never got a chance, and how Boomers in the beginning and now in this recession generation Y have squeezed his and my generation out.

I am not nearly as much of a cynic as he is, but I do remember the 40 to 60 application forms for servers jobs in the late 80’s and early 90’s and now I see some of these same people laid off or struggling financially once again.

Not just Gen X is having a hard time though, boomers who were about to retire have lost pensions, and Generation Y is finding that there just isn’t any jobs out there.

There is lots of stereotype of each generation and I do want to hear some of them, but more than that, I want to hear how everyone’s work experience in life has gone.

On to the general questions:

1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?

2.) What year were you born?

3.) What was your first job?

4.) What was your last or current job?

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?

I will post my answers right after this.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?
Gen X

2.) What year were you born?
1971

3.) What was your first job?
Telephone Solicitor for Charity

4.) What was your last or current job?
Web Programmer

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?
Programming pre 9/11 ~65K/y

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?
$4.30/h in 1988

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?
2 years, but contracting when I could.

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?
I planned on going to school, becoming a programmer and really didn’t think further than that.

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?
Yes, I have grown up and realize I will need to keep adapting my skills and perhaps change my career many times over my life in order to keep working. I plan on remaining in IT, but to continue learning so I can be more valuable - I can’t say if this will lead to project management, or anything like that because I see my future as very fluid.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?
Yes and No, I know many people my age have changed careers and have had ups and downs, but being in programming and having been a techie since I was quite young, I feel I am younger at heart than many people my age.

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?
Boomers have weathered some previous storms (lay offs in the 1980’s for example), but they have been hit hard, some have lost the chance to retire for quite a while due to pension gambled on the market. I think boomers in general can keep going, but because of their age, they may be discriminated against when looking for a new job, or may have to take some blows to the ego and take jobs they feel are beneath them in order to survive. Some may have to rely on their late Gen X kids or Gen Y kids as well, and this will be difficult for a generation which has been the leaders and the rulers of culture even as teenagers. Some boomers have a touch too much hubris because of their generation’s influence, but this may be the time when boomers finally mature from the 1960’s rebels that some still think they are, eg “Just for Men Touch of Gray Hair Colour” commercial (The generation that swore it would never get old … didn’t). This may be the time when boomers stop thinking of themselves as the greatest achievement of all time & all culture, and finally step aside.

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?
Gen X will do okay. They started their careers in recession and they remember well how to live on a budget. Some are overly cynical and some will feel bitter. We remember being called slackers when there were no jobs, and even if we were in school and working, we were still slackers because according to boomers we weren’t on the career path. Sorry, the career path was a traffic jam filled with people a decade or more ahead of us, and we couldn’t even get on the bloody path. Fast forwarding to now, I have friends losing jobs, to Generation Y are getting paid less to do the same job. I have heard enough people say that just as they were starting to make it, getting managerial jobs, etc, that they feel like they were kicked back down again. They have kids, and they have homes to take care of, but they also are quite used to living on the cheap, and I am sure we will be willing and able to do what they can to take care of their needs - we may never be rich on average, but does that matter?

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?
Gen Y is seeing their first downtown. Most of their lives have been in good times, and the social and cultural climate of those times had left them expecting the world to fall into their laps. This is their reality check & once in an employer’s market where nobody is a precious snowflake, they’ll lose the sense of entitlement and their egos. They also will see their parents in trouble, and may realize that they may need to help their parents leading to less self centeredness and more of an altruistic spirit. They’ll do okay, in fact I think they’ll bounce back well.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?

I have no idea. I’m 30.

2.) What year were you born?

1979

3.) What was your first job?

Shelf stacker at Safeway.

4.) What was your last or current job?

Hub Operations Manager and webmaster.

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?

Hub Operations Manager and webmaster.

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?

Shelf stacker at Safeway.

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?

Dunno, few weeks?

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?

Something in IT. Well paid.

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?

I’d like to do something in the crative industries. Writer. But I don’t have what it takes.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?

Not really.

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?

Who?

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?

Who?

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?

Who?

I will post my answers right after this.

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For those unsure about generational terms, in general:

Baby Boomers: Post war baby boom generation about 1943 to 1960~
Gen X: 1961 to 1980~
Gen Y: 1981 to 2001

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?
Boomer

2.) What year were you born?
1952

3.) What was your first job?
After college? Working at the local OTB television station.
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4.) What was your last or current job?*
Instructional Technologist

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?
This job, this year.

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?
1981. I was unemployed most of the year.
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7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?*
For a regular job? Almost a year.

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?
I never had any. I did have a dream of being a science fiction writer, but I never expected it to be a career.

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?
I am a science fiction writer.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?
Atypical. I never had a job for more than three years until I was in my 40s.

Generational Questions:

*11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?*Just fine.

*12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?*Just fine.

*13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?
*Just fine.

The division into generations is just silly and arbitrary; there isn’t any real difference.

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Generation Y

1984

I worked as a teacher’s aide for a Catholic elementary/middle school near my college. I’ve always suspected that “teacher’s aide” is a specific position that requires some sort of training a freshman engineering student in college would not possess and thus could not do, but I worked in a classroom with a teacher and aided her. I don`t know a better term for what I did.

I run a technology startup I founded after graduating from college.

2009

My first ‘year’ working was Freshman year and I made less than $10,000. After the end of that academic year my parents told me they would not support me financially and in the first year I was really trying to make ends meet by myself, May 2003-May 2004, I made about $23,000 while attending college full time.

I have been employed continuously since first entering the workforce at 18.

I anticipated earning quite a bit of money in some entrepreneurial pursuit.

It’s been slower than expected, in large part because of the poor economy, but my expectations are largely the same.

My job experience isn`t typical of anybody. There’s nothing unique about me or what I do that precludes anybody else from doing it but in reality they rarely do.

I like Baby Boomers. The only thing I don’t get about them - and this applies to Gen Xers too - is the proclivity to be very anti-equities when it comes to long term retirement saving. I talk to people and they warn me to not put any money in stocks because they never make any money. Now, I don`t have 30 years experience saving for retirement but I do have a BS in finance and I just don’t understand what people are doing with their savings if none of it is in stocks. Are people in their late 50s keeping their entire nest egg in CDs? My own mother, a baby boomer, owns almost no equities but does own a lot of investment properties. It’s a little quirky but she’s been buying houses for decades, most have been phenomenal investments and she’ll either be able to live off income from paid-in-full investment homes or sell them when she wants to retire. But I know lots of people in their 50s who neither own a dozen houses nor have hundreds of thousands of dollars they’ve been slowly moving from stocks to safer assets as they got older. So I wonder about people like that and how they’ll get by.

I guess I just don`t know enough Generation Xers. I know some very young Gen Xers (late '70s to 81) but I have a hard time thinking of them as separate from me, and the older Gen Xers are off my radar. I work with a lot of Baby Boomers but almost nobody from Generation X

I think one of the best lessons I could possibly be learning as an entrepreneur and a businessman is how powerless I am to do anything about this recession and what it’s doing to my business. Experiencing a bad recession while young is probably a good lesson in general for us Gen Yers. We’re too young to be permanently blown away, so we’ll have to weather it.

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I don’t want to hijack this thread too much, but I was born in 1978 and I never really felt like I fit in with Generation X or Generation Y, and many of my friends born on the “generation cusp” (around 1976-1983) seem to feel the same way. It’s like we’re a bit too young to relate to the Gen-Xers and a bit too old to relate to the Gen-Yers, yet there are still aspects from both groups that we do share. [end hijack]

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)? Gen X
2.) What year were you born? 1971
3.) What was your first job? (underage) general clean-up and balancing tills in my parents’ store; (of age) bagboy in a grocery store.
4.) What was your last or current job? university lecturer (non-tenure-track)
5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year? last year, ~$60K
6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year? graduate school: some years, $0 except for student loans.
7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work? Never except occasionally while in school.
8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience? That I’d get a permanent university position.
9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how? Yes: universities are hiring fewer and fewer tenure-track faculty, and unusual specialties (folklore, Celtic) are no longer welcome.
10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation? Yes.

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession? Poorly; it seems to be their policies and beliefs that created the mess.
12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession? Poorly; they were raised by Baby Boomers in largely boom times, and don’t have the coping skills.
13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession? Much better. They are younger and more flexible, and they do not expect the certainties GenX & BB whine for.

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I know what you mean. I was born in 1980, and I feel the same way. I’ve always identified a bit more with GenX than GenY though.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)? Tail end of boomers, I think.
2.) What year were you born? 1960
3.) What was your first job? Babysitting. First ‘real’ job: working in an art supply store.
4.) What was your last or current job? Owner of a Civil Engineering company.
5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year? Probably a few years ago, when the building boom was at its peak.
6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year? When I was a student. I made about $2,000 one year (early 80’s).
7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work? A couple of weeks, tops, not counting college.
8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience? I had some vague idea of going to school & getting a degree. I was only 14.
9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how? No, not really.
10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation? I don’t have enough data to make that assessment.

Generational Questions:

Lumping these all together, I think they all will be fine. I can’t really tell much difference between the ‘generations’.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?
A) Gen Y

2.) What year were you born?
A) 1989

3.) What was your first job?
A) My first real (tax worthy) job was a PC repair technician at a local computer shop during high school.

4.) What was your last or current job?
A) Interning at a steel producer

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?
A) The internship year

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?
A) Second year of college

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?
A) about 8 months

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?
A) some kind of IT work, perhaps software engineering

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?
A) I switched to making things from fixing things that are barely documented anywhere. I can still do that, but I don’t want to.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?
A) No, I don’t think most people my age have had similar experiences.

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?
A) Time to move on, huh? Oh, wait, you can’t afford it. . . . Dammit, we’ll be the ones paying for you.

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?
A) You seem better able to handle change, but I hope you keep up and push us as well.

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?
A) Give us a chance. Half of our generation aren’t even working small jobs yet.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?

X, I guess.

2.) What year were you born?

3.) What was your first job?

Dishwasher at a local restaurant. Unless you count “paperboy” at the age of 10.

4.) What was your last or current job?

Current: Analyst for Fortune 500 Retailer.

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?

Last year, if you count total package. Salaries were frozen this year (no raises) and they halted company match on 401K. Salary-wise, this year since I’ve had this salary since day one.

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?

My first job. $3.65/hr. So that’d be 1993.

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?

Since I started? About one year when I was a teenager. Haven’t been unemployed since.

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?

I was pretty clueless and didn’t know what to expect. I figured I’d get a desk job and figure it out from there.

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?

They haven’t appreciably. I expect more just due to my increased knowledge, skills, and seniority.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?

For the most part, yes.

**Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?**

Generally, I think they’re most likely to get screwed. They’re closest to retirement at a time when the market is at its lowest and don’t have the time to get things back together. That means that they’re likely extending their careers longer than expected to make up for income shortfalls, thus keeping at least parts of the working world harder to move up in for the younger generations.

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?

I think we are in the best situation in this recession. We’re young enough to still have time to rebuild investment portfolios prior to possible retirements but old enough to have our careers in swing.

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?

Less likely to be screwed than the Boomers but less likely to be in as good a situation as X. They got into the business world just a few years too late to have their pickings of a booming economy. They’re likely stunted at this point in their careers when compared to how most of X was but the older they are, the more likely they managed to get some kind of foothold on their careers.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)? Gen X

2.) What year were you born? 1973

3.) What was your first job? Janitor at airplane-painting business, if you don’t count the paper route

4.) What was your last or current job? Extra-help librarian at public library

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year? not a clue–1997?

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year? now, probably

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work? I got laid off in April, so several months, unless maybe my older daughter’s first year of life

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience? Once I got my MLIS, to combine SAHMing with occasional hours at the library, ramping up to half-time and eventually full-time as kids got older

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how? Yep. I decided to homeschool the kids. I still expect to work part-time when possible–when the budget recovers? My daydream would be to work ~15 hours/week in the children’s room, and the kids could come along and study there. There’s local precedent, so it’s not impossible.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation? No, but not terribly unusual either. I know many SAHMs who work a bit here and there.

Generational Questions: I have not a clue; have not thought about it generationally at all. Mostly I’ve been thinking how we are going to survive the next few weeks.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)? Gen Y

2.) What year were you born? 1986

3.) What was your first job? Fast food working at a well-known sandwich shop.

4.) What was your last or current job? Last job: temping for a month at a local charity.

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year? Highest paying was probably 2008; I was continually employed and got a raise when I worked full-time over the summer. Still broke as hell, though.

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year? Probably 2006, because I spent half of it living in London, a city which is not cheap.

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work? Five months, between returning to the US in Jan. 07 and starting a summer job in May.

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience? Not very high; I knew my (then in-progress) degree isn’t particularly profitable, but I did think that it would help me get a decently-paying job within two months of graduating.

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how? I no longer have any expectation that I will get that decently-paying job without a master’s degree or some other further certification. I also assume that for the next several years, I - as someone who is still entry-level - will be edged out by those who have several years worth of experience.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation? Pretty much. I do know that of a sample set of about 30 of my peers from both high school and college, less than half are employed full-time, and many of those are working for relatives. If you got in two years ago you may be okay, but if you’re just entering the real, grown-up workforce now you’re competing with more advanced people for entry-level positions.

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession? I think they’ll do fine, because they’ve got the most roots. They’re the guys in charge at this point, and at worst they’ll have to put off retirement for a couple years or, if they’re the lucky ones at the executive level, take a paycut.

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession? They’ll have a tough time, because they’ve been cruising along in good times their whole lives. Half their generation missed the worst of the Cold War, and they were all of age by the time our little War on Terror started. I get the impression that significant hardship is something of an unknown to this generation.

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession? We’re going to flounder, because we by and large just aren’t established in the professional world yet. However, we’re also much more politically active than our immediate generational predecessors and just had a lesson in how to successful agitate for change. So I think we’ll pull through, and I also think that once things significantly improve, we’ll have a tremendous upper hand, because A) we’re younger and B) we’ll have been through the worst of it.

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Your general terms don’t match up with the Wikipedia page you cited. And for someone like me born in 1962, it’s especially confusing:

Your chart would make me a Gen Xer.
Wikipedia says that the generational “cohorts” table would make me part of Generation Jones.
The same page says that the Census bureau says that I am a Baby Boomer.

But I’ll answer the questions as best I can.

1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?

I don’t know, as I said above.

2.) What year were you born?

1962

3.) What was your first job?

McDonalds, when I was in high school.

4.) What was your last or current job?

Software Engineer

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?

Software Engineer, currently

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?

McDonalds, 1978

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?

Since college, a month or two.

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?

To become a scientist.

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?

I wasn’t that good at pure research in graduate school; industry paid much more.

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?

Not at all

I have no opinions about the values of various generations; the question is meaningless to me.

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?
X

2.) What year were you born?
1966

3.) What was your first job?
Crispy Cream Doughnut Boy

4.) What was your last or current job?
foreign aid worker

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?
current year

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?
probably 1985-1986, right out of HS

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?
Few weeks

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?
Didn’t have much expectations, mostly I knew what I didn’t want, not what I do want

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?
Yes, I have a pretty clear career path in mind

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?
No

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession? Probably not equipped to handle it well, they are a generation used to getting what they want, deferring adulthood, and responsibility.

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?
Well, I’ve been through a couple of recessions, not that scary or big of a deal. In fact, if you have money, it is not bad at all for an individual (but not, of course, for society as a whole).

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?
I think Gen Y is flexible enough to weather it, they’re growing up in a post-empire America, where nothing is taken for granted.

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On to the general questions:

1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?
Boomer
2.) What year were you born?
1951
3.) What was your first job?
Depends on what you mean. I was a paper boy, I had summer jobs, I was an RA, TA and instructor in grad school. My first real job was Member of Research Staff for Western Electric
4.) What was your last or current job?
Senior engineer.

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?
I made over $200 K during the bubble, but some of that was options, etc.
6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?
$35K right out of grad school, 1980. Happily it’s been up since then.
7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?
About 3 months after I took a nice buyout from AT&T, but there was a start date for my next job, so it was more like a sabbatical. Besides that, I’ve never been out of work (knock on wood.)
8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?
Doing cool researchy stuff and having fun.
9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?
Nope. For the past 30 years, with the exception of about 18 months, I’ve been doing cool researchy stuff and having fun. A lot of it paid off for my employer, but I like that kind of research, connected to real problems.
10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?
Not at all. I’ve been lucky.
Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?
From what I’ve read we’ve done better than most, perhaps from having little debt and putting off retirement. I think a lot of us absorbed our parents’ experience during the Depression.
12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?
A bit tougher, especially if they are in high risk jobs.
13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?
Really tough, since it is so hard to get started. Both of my kids are in school, which is a great place to be in a recession.

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On to the general questions:

1.) No idea/None of the above

2.) 1962

3.) Cutting grass and baby sitting. First paycheck job was demolishing a school for a friends’ construction company. First steady paying job was washing dishes at an all night place called Country Kitchen.

4.) Project manager for SAP projects.

5.) When I was an ex-pat I had a year in which I hypothetically made $250,000, but that mostly taxes and mark-up. I’d say about $125,000. This was in 1999.

6.) 2004 when I was trying to start a business I lost about $200,000.

7.) About six months, but I wasn’t really looking.

8.) Find something someone would pay me to do.

9.) Not much. It’s nice to have work that’s interesting, but it isn’t always there. Kids got to eat, mortgage must be paid, etc.

10.) I don’t know what’s typical of my generation.

Generational Questions:

11.) I think the concept of an entire generation that is self centered is kind of freaky. Some media blowhards that were born after the war came up with this idea, but it’s just a lazy way of labeling people. People born in the early 60s hardly have a similar cultural experience as persons born in the mid-to-late 40s through 1950s.

12.) Again, not sure what Gen X is supposed to be, exactly. Is this people who grew up on video games or something?

13.) Not sure what Gen Y is. What happens after Z? Do they go back to A, go with Z’, or just give up?

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)? Boomer

2.) What year were you born? 1954

3.) What was your first job? Truck driver

4.) What was your last or current job? Software developer

5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year? This job, this year

6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year? Truck driver $2 per hour to start, 1973

7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work? 5 months

8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience? I thought I was going to be a rock star

9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how? Rock star didn’t work out

10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation? No

Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession? Recessions come and go. People of all ages get hurt, most survive just fine

12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession? See 11

13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession? See 11

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1.) What Generation are you (boomer/genx/geny)?
Gen X
2.) What year were you born?
1963
3.) What was your first job?
Real job - Engineering Assistant
4.) What was your last or current job?
Project Scheduler
5.) What was your highest paying job or fiscal year?
Last year, I reckon
6.) What was your lowest paying job or fiscal year?
My first year
7.) What is the longest period of time you were out of work?
7 months
8.) What were your career expectations at the beginning of your work experience?
Professional career
9.) Have those expectations changed and why/why not and how?
No
10.) Do you see your job experience as typical of your generation?
Yes
Generational Questions:

11.) What is your opinion of Baby Boomers and how they will weather the recession?
I think they’re selfish and sucked up all the good stuff
12.) What is your opinion of Generation X and how they will weather the recession?
I don’t know; we’re the first generation in a while that has to deal with having less
13.) What is your opinion of Generation Y and how they will weather the recession?
I don’t really know