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Billy Antrim said:
Where did this fiction come from? My parents were dirt poor, so I worked summer jobs in Tennessee to earn enough money to pay my way through college. Got a degree and made good money as an engineer for 30 years. Took that money & bought a farm & worked my butt off for ten more years, then retired at age 60.

My parents were the greatest generation?? Based on what? Fighting in World War I & II maybe? Where did this come from?

I'm not sure how old you are, but does your generation have the same work ethic? I try not to be judgmental, so I'll leave it to you to decide.
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You can't say what all you've done and act like it's sone unheard of accomplishment. It's an accomplishment no doubt, but I've worked hard, struggled and bought land /house also. But I'm definitely not going to act like I need a ceremony from another generation. That's not called great. That's just not being a bum.

The greatest generation is a very well known saying, so yes. That's what I called them.

My work ethic is great, yours sounds great also. But for some reason everyone wants to classify people, good or bad, lazy or motivated, into a generation and you can't do that.
 
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scvolfan7 said:
It’s a game 😂

If they were threatening people or saying inappropriate things then there would be a problem. All they did was gator chomp mockingly at people that had been ish talking all night.
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I wasn't talking about last night idjit, I already said the scumbag Lizard fans deserve every thing they get..
 
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Billy Antrim said:
Where did this fiction come from? My parents were dirt poor, so I worked summer jobs in Tennessee to earn enough money to pay my way through college. Got a degree and made good money as an engineer for 30 years. Took that money & bought a farm & worked my butt off for ten more years, then retired at age 60.

My parents were the greatest generation?? Based on what? Fighting in World War I & II maybe? Where did this come from?

I'm not sure how old you are, but does your generation have the same work ethic? I try not to be judgmental, so I'll leave it to you to decide.
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good for you man. i bet you appreciated it a whole helluva lot more than if somebodied just gave it to you.

id be happy as hell to have a piece of lamd to retire on.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Just ftr, these 18-22-year-old college students are in Generation Z. They're not Millenials.
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Not quite. The technical definition for a length of a generation is 25 years. The consensus for the start of the millennial generation is 1980-1982. That would put the next generation as the kids that were born around 2005.

So, the kids who are about to start high school are the leading edge of the next generation.

In terms of technology, they're the generation who has never known the world without a smart phone. Socially, though, the age bracket you put is likely one of those "micro-generations" like the kids born in the early 1980s who had an analog childhood, but were among the first to experience the internet as teens. Those kids born between 2001 and 2005 were born into a post-9/11 world and have never known a time where we didn't have soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
 
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Sleegro said:
I'm in that gray area. I like to yell at kids to get off my lawn but I can also use a computer pretty good. I don't have Twitter or Instagram or any of that but I am on Facebook, which I think makes me about 54 years old in social media years.
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Feel like I’m kind of the same. I’d be definite as a millenial, I guess, but smartphones weren’t a thing everybody had until My college years. Most people I knew had dial up internet until around the time I started HS. Most of my peers had phones in middle school and HS, but they were cricket phones or Motorola razors. We could call and text each other with them, but there wasn’t much reason to be on your phone unless you were chatting with a friend.

Some people in their early 20s probably don’t remember a time without smart phones or high speed internet, but we’re both grouped in the same generation. It is what it is.
 
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RiotVol said:
Not quite. The technical definition for a length of a generation is 25 years. The consensus for the start of the millennial generation is 1980-1982. That would put the next generation as the kids that were born around 2005.

So, the kids who are about to start high school are the leading edge of the next generation.

In terms of technology, they're the generation who has never known the world without a smart phone. Socially, though, the age bracket you put is likely one of those "micro-generations" like the kids born in the early 1980s who had an analog childhood, but were among the first to experience the internet as teens. Those kids born between 2001 and 2005 were born into a post-9/11 world and have never known a time where we didn't have soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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I was under the impression that gen Z started around 1995 or so. Could be wrong though.
 
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RiotVol said:
Not quite. The technical definition for a length of a generation is 25 years. The consensus for the start of the millennial generation is 1980-1982. That would put the next generation as the kids that were born around 2005.

So, the kids who are about to start high school are the leading edge of the next generation.

In terms of technology, they're the generation who has never known the world without a smart phone. Socially, though, the age bracket you put is likely one of those "micro-generations" like the kids born in the early 1980s who had an analog childhood, but were among the first to experience the internet as teens. Those kids born between 2001 and 2005 were born into a post-9/11 world and have never known a time where we didn't have soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Wouldn't the accelerated advancement of technology right now shorten the generational length some? I do agree with yer post though. And the assessment of the micro generations.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
Feel like I’m kind of the same. I’d be definite as a millenial, I guess, but smartphones weren’t a thing everybody had until My college years. Most people I knew had dial up internet until around the time I started HS. Most of my peers had phones in middle school and HS, but they were cricket phones or Motorola razors. We could call and text each other with them, but there wasn’t much reason to be on your phone unless you were chatting with a friend.

Some people in their early 20s probably don’t remember a time without smart phones or high speed internet, but we’re both grouped in the same generation. It is what it is.
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I had dial up internet and a beeper in college. It was a simpler time back then. I used to internet search up hill both ways in the snow for my research papers.
 
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RiotVol said:
First I've heard of that. If you got links, post 'em. I'd like to know if I'm wrong.
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I thought that too. Here's The Exact Cutoff Year Between Gen Z & Millennials, Once And For All

According to Pew Research Center, millennials are now officially defined as the generation born between 1981 and 1996 — so, if you're turning anywhere from 22 to 37 this year, you're officially in the gang. The 1981 designation has been the millennial/Gen X cutoff for a while now, but the 1996 number is relatively new, with previous researchers suggesting millennials could include people born as late as the year 2000. But Pew Research Center says the 1996 cutoff makes sense for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that at this point a 37-year-old doesn't have a whole lot in common with a 20-year-old.
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Billy Antrim said:
Where did this fiction come from? My parents were dirt poor, so I worked summer jobs in Tennessee to earn enough money to pay my way through college. Got a degree and made good money as an engineer for 30 years. Took that money & bought a farm & worked my butt off for ten more years, then retired at age 60.

My parents were the greatest generation?? Based on what? Fighting in World War I & II maybe? Where did this come from?

I'm not sure how old you are, but does your generation have the same work ethic? I try not to be judgmental, so I'll leave it to you to decide.
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I've got a story much like yours. Through the years I have met a handful like us in the younger generations. There's still hope more will figure it out. But it seems to be getting tougher.

Greatest Generation was promoted by Tom Brokaw. My cynical side says it was to make money and stay relevant in media. Many were great in that generation. Their drive to succeed and parenting skills led to the hippie generation and boomers. So I guess it is all in the interpretation and eye of the beholder.
 
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Sleegro said:
Wouldn't the accelerated advancement of technology right now shorten the generational length some? I do agree with yer post though. And the assessment of the micro generations.
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As far as I know, demographers look at it from the perspective of reproductive cohorts as a starting point, and the shared life experiences of those people are why they seem to line up so well with technology, politics, etc. We like to use these terms as clearly defined groups, but those boundaries are pretty fuzzy.
 
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