Generation Jones
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I can't recall off the top of my head the starting and ending birth years, but some people believe that there is a, "Generation Jones," between the Boomers and Generation X.
This was news to me.
I am Generation X, raised in a family that precisely aligned with the WWI, WWII, Boomers, X progression.
I don't know which generation my brother, 14 years younger than me, and my sister, who was 12 years younger than me, would part of..., though; they definitely have/ had a different life experience than myself.
So, the theory is that Generation Jones was given the same set of expectations about opportunity as the Boomers, but received none of the same economic certainties. The theory is that this disconnect lead to despondency in this generation.
We Generation X people (if we were the least bit aware of such things) knew that we faced a different economic set of realities than our parents' generation.
It didn't take a Ph.D. in economics to figure this out, or to see the changes that were happening in real time in the '80's, or to see that the economic reality of the '70's was not applicable to us, because we were children and adolescents then.
I'm always interested in how people divide and describe generations.
My view of the number of generations after mine is hazy. I won't lie.
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More labels. Ugh. The Baby Boom was a distinct time frame after WWII. period. The term "boomer" I want nothing to do with nor do I share any of the mindset associated with the derogatory term "boomer". If I have to call myself a member of generation Jones to escape such a label I am proud to do so. I know people of the "boomer" mentality that are not even close to be being born during the baby boom or even a Gen-X'er.
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The only Boomers (sorry it's pegorative- that's not what I intended) I liked were my mother and father.
The others, starting with my mother's sister and brother, and working outwards to first cousins, etc., and including my father's brother and his wife, etc. were the most self-centered, most ruthless people I've met.
If my opinion sounds harsh, that's ok with me. This has been my experience.
I agree that not all people fit into generational labels nor labels in general.
But I think it's fair to label the WWI generation as such; they fought in WWI.
WWII, the same.
The large generation born post-WWII is a generation. I now see that the name they were given is pejorative. There's nothing I can do about that.
This generation had children sometimes in their early 20's (in my mother's case 19) and I can assure you that this led to Gen-X.
Who thought of "X" and why is a mystery to me.
I'm not trying to "label people" and there are exceptions to every rule.
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More labels. Ugh. The Baby Boom was a distinct time frame after WWII. period. The term "boomer" I want nothing to do with nor do I share any of the mindset associated with the derogatory term "boomer". If I have to call myself a member of generation Jones to escape such a label I am proud to do so. I know people of the "boomer" mentality that are not even close to be being born during the baby boom or even a Gen-X'er.
More labels. Ugh. The Baby Boom was a distinct time frame after WWII. period. The term "boomer" I want nothing to do with nor do I share any of the mindset associated with the derogatory term "boomer". If I have to call myself a member of generation Jones to escape such a label I am proud to do so. I know people of the "boomer" mentality that are not even close to be being born during the baby boom or even a Gen-X'er.
OK, boomer.
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More labels. Ugh. The Baby Boom was a distinct time frame after WWII. period. The term "boomer" I want nothing to do with nor do I share any of the mindset associated with the derogatory term "boomer". If I have to call myself a member of generation Jones to escape such a label I am proud to do so. I know people of the "boomer" mentality that are not even close to be being born during the baby boom or even a Gen-X'er.
OK, boomer.
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