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Boomers to Gen X: So You're Middle Aged, Now Let's Talk About Us Some More
Lost in the media hubbub about the first baby boomers turning 60: the first Gen-Xers turned forty last year and entered midlife.
No one noticed. Google reports 377 hits on "gen x" "turn 40", but 64,300 on "baby boomers" "turn 60."
Yes, that's 170 times as many mentions.
Our guess is that mainstream media, dominated by boomers, forgot about the milestone.
But that's nothing new for Gen X. They've spent their lives in the demographic shadow of the baby boom.
Well, Gen X visitors, you're welcome here at LifeTwo, where our goal is to help you improve the middle part of your life. Let's hope this post gets you from 377 Google hits to 388.
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Baby boomers are defined by demographers as those born 1946-1964, while Gen X is 1965-1975.
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Demographers-schmemographers
Hi, Greg, There's much more to understanding generations than listening to US Demographers' clumping. The valuable insights about generations come from understanding their life courses. The work of Strauss and Howe is the best source for this. They place Boomers as those born from 1943 - 1960, which for nearly any early-wave GenXer (1961 - 1964) makes a lot more sense.
Here's a start for reframing the Boomer/GenX years: http://jessienewburn.typepad.com/musings_trends_capitalism/prophetic_ide...
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