“It’d be interesting to see statistics on this sentiment rather than anecdotal evidence everyone spouts.” My sentiments exactly. These pieces seem to pop up every six months or so, always with the same attitude: “Kids these days…” The last thing anyone needs is another series of loosely co-ordinated interviews with the privileged progeny of the Toronto establishment. Been done: “Tiffany, 24, recently started as an assistant at a marketing firm and she’s worried she might not be running the company before she’s 30.” It’s not a story.
Here’s the story, if you ask me: The boomers are a demographic bubble and their kids are an echo bubble. In between, there are gen x-ers (like you) who are too few to destabilize workplace dynamics. We’re in a strange overlap period where 25-year-olds and their parents’ generation are working in the same office. Give it a few years; gen x-ers will be running things and the (insert trite, patronizing label here)-ers won’t have any more quotes to give magazine writers for stories about how we’re somehow simultaneously entitled and apathetic. _ Dave Godsall
Writer, editor and occasional triathlete Dave Godsall is currently completing a media studies Master’s at Concordia University in Montreal and is an editor at enRoute Online. Visit him online at A Smooth Surface.
Tags: boomers, Business, Generation X
