Generation WTF?

Welcome to Generation WTF. I started this blog to give me a place to Rant, Vent, and share my views with the rest of the world.

What is Generation WTF? The Baby Boomer generation ended in 1964. (12/25/1964 is my birthday) Generation X began in 1969-1970 Those of us born in between are basically nameless. But we are a special group. We have been described by people who study such things as the first generation to be worse off than are parents (long term job security, and entrepreneurial opportunities) Our parents, and older siblings in the Baby Boomer generation were able to work hard at learning a trade, get a higher education, and have a stable career. They were able to work hard at a business and compete on a level defined by the local markets.

Generation WTF was the first group to get “Downsized”, and “Corporate Raided” in the beginning of our careers. We were “Walmarted” and “Circuit Cityed” out of business before we could get our momentum up.

WE missed out on all the “free love”, and cheap weed of the 60’s and70’s, but were not born into a technology intense life taken for granted by generation x. We have to work hard to learn new technologies and adapt from the life we were raised to expect, to the cut throat world of today.

Generation x doesn’t have a clue what its like to live without video games, cd players, microwaves, and cordless phones.

The Baby Boomers are going suck the Social Security system dry and become the single most most powerful demographic in history.