Posted on 09/18/2011 2:04:40 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
NEW YORK -- In Tiffany Spaulding's 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked for three companies, two of which no longer exist, and relocated to four states.
Now 39 and living in Brookfield, Conn., she hasn't had a promotion in five years and says she sees no chance to advance, stuck behind a wall of baby boomers. She would quit and turn her hobby of jewelry design into a business, she says, if not for the home and school loans that eat up half her salary.
Spaulding, according to a new report, is a typical member of the relatively small group called Generation X, 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1978: They're ambitious, squeezed by debt and frustrated by people who aren't retiring on schedule. More than a third hope to leave their jobs in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 members of Generation X by the Center for Work-Life Policy found.
She’s 39. She has almost 30 more years before she reaches retirement age, if they don’t raise it by then. The Boomers will be gone long before then. She has the biggest problem for all Gen X’ers: a lack of patience. And worst of all, when she is 57 or so and refusing to move out to pasture for the younger workers because she needs things like food, shelter, and health care; she won’t remember her angst today about those people ahead of her refusing to die on her schedule.
Every generation has one ahead of them blocking the meteoric rise they think they deserve and one behind them wishing they’d die or go away.
Well at 30 bucks a month they have her right where they want her.
I disagree with that first part, but that’s a different story.
Nope. Not all...actually, I’d bet most DIDN’T!
At least the next batch can blame ritalin.
You know, I’ve never understood bitchin’ about your ‘lot in life’. There will always be people above you and below you on The Food Chain. I thank my Lucky Stars every DAY that I’m not on the bottom, LOL! And I’m not motivated, cruel or ruthless enough to be at the top; I thank my Lucky Stars for THAT as well...
Consider yourself a Free Agent, build your skills set as you go, find people that will pay you for the use of your talents and get the Ef ON with it! Your days are numbered! All of our days are numbered...
*Shakes Head, Walks Away*
Gen-xers have many of the mores of the idle rich.
I know a lot of Boomers who got the early ho too but many of them own their own businesses now.
as in, "new money" minus the "money?"
wow. talk about bankruptcy!
Boomers have to keep working because they can’t afford to retire.
And because their damned Generation 'X' offspring won't move out of their basement.
After being on unemployment for 5 months I finally am starting my new job on Tuesday.....I’m thrilled and grateful!!!!!!!
“Why are they the lamest generation?”
Because they think their problem is the previous generation, when really it’s the fact that they’re all still paying off student loans at age 39, like the woman in the article.
The Boomers have a lot of negative qualities, but they didn’t come out of college 100,000 grand in debt. Or take out mortgages they had no hope of repaying.
Gen X algebra: Entitled + (seeing yourself as a vicim) x (looking for someone else to blame) = Lame
Correction:
I know a lot of Boomers who got the early heave ho too but many of them own their own businesses now.
Congratulations!!!!
Thanks!!!!!!!
Sweet!
Ok, I’ll have a #3 combo with large fries and a vanilla shake. ;)
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