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.
Trying to show me up, are ya? YOU put more exclamation marks than I!!!!!!!!!
:)
I had champagne instead(:
I love how these kind of articles always bring the cranky fogies out of the woodwork to carp about how youngsters are no good these days... completely forgetting that it was their own generation that ushered in so many monstrosities in culture and politics in the 60’s and 70’s. If Gen Xers can at least blame poor parenting for their entitled attitude, who do Baby Boomers have to blame for their life-long selfishness?
Awwww geez... don’t go to work your first day DRUNK, K?
;)
Reminds me of the service ditty:
"Old soldiers never die,
The young ones wish they would."
Abbie Hoffman.
I’m self employed and create and provide employment
but I will still try to die quicker for you little brats ...pass me the morphine pump and some Meddle please
ingrates
Last night was the last drink for a while.....I ate too much on unemployment and cocktail hour was at 3:00 when Hannity came on the radio....I had enough!!!!!
Hi! Fogie here!
Why, WE were raised by The Greatest Generation, silly!!!
The difference being..... I don’t blame them for ANYTHING good OR bad immy life.
Gotta go now for my Geritol Treatment.
The only downside to this Beverly Hills society run amok is that life is terminated at thirty years of age. When the Life Clock (a crystal imbedded into the palm of each citizen’s hand at birth) begins blinking red, the poor sod has ten days in which they can seek Life Renewal in the fiery ritual of Carousel.
Phew! :)
(Don’t .. burp .. out loud in the boss’s office, either.. )
You otta be. Lotsa people haven't punched a clock in almost three years.
A note of advice to Tiff:
1. Pursue your jewelry hobby.
2. Just keep in mind that your biggest sellers may be what you consider to be cheesy.
3. Artisans frequently do massive amounts of cheesy stuff in order to pay for and to provide time for the stuff that they really like to do. Photogs do yearbooks and wedding photography, corporate events, commercial artists do ads for the newest taco shop on the local strip. Just the way it is...
4. Sell it through Facebook.
You got it easy kid, take advantage of it.
Whoops. Typo
Immy= in my
One good look at Jenny Agutter au natural would just about finish me off. But it would be worth it.
Freaking A. Boomers complain about the younger generations debt? Look in the mirror fools. Debt AND no retirement cuz ya spent it all, and now they feel entitled to have their job for life.
The hypocrisy is so thick I could build a house on it.
She is kind'a easy on the eyes. ;o)
Yep - and if we all retired and started collecting our Social Security, they would still be mad because of our "bleeding the system dry". Most of us boomers grew up hearing stories of the Depression and had hard working, moral folks giving us guidance as we grew up - too many associate us all with the commie/hippie dweebs...
Boomers keep working to support their Gen-X kids. Thanks the invisib1e hand.
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