Cash, that is totally me and my brother. My parents had me really young (mom was 18, dad 19) and they had nothing. I appreciated everything I got as a child because I didn't get tons all the time. By the time my bro was in his teens (born in 77), they were doing very well. He was completely spoiled. I resented the hell out of it until I was old enough to see that I was the lucky one because I'm completely independent. At 29, he is still leaning on the parents (now with added wife and 2 kids). Ayayay.
t returns cool-ass 1970 handshake
Frank, born in 1966 puts you in Gen X.
Huh, Wikipedia agrees. I coulda sworn there was a group in between the Boomers and the X-ers.
shrugs
X-Wikipeding
Huh, Wikipedia agrees. I coulda sworn there was a group in between the Boomers and the X-ers. shrugs
You think you are entitled to your own personal generational designation, don't you?
Nah, remember how we were always the "Baby Bust", before we decided to give ourselves a cool-sounding slacker-hip new name instead?
You think you are entitled to your own personal generational designation, don't you?
Yep. I'm a child of Mr. Rogers (though moreso Sesame Street/Electric Company).
Sixes?
(Hey, I'm entitled to em!!)
Well, in general there is a lot more of:
I'm glad my dad has this semester off teaching. He's very old school and I think he is thisclose to flunking the next student who tries to negotiate their way out of some policy stated explicity in his syllabus. What makes it worse is the U's administration can be completely spineless about backing up their own student policies.
I secretly think his last semester of teaching? He needs to go medieval on everyone. It'll be good for him.
I resented the hell out of it until I was old enough to see that I was the lucky one because I'm completely independent. At 29, he is still leaning on the parents
DH luckily bears no resentment--it's frustrating for him because he can't understand why his sibs WANT to depend on their parents so much. He's fiercely independent.
With me & my twin, we were lucky that my parents had more when we were growing up than my older siblings. BUT not so much that we were spoiled and didn't appreciate what we got. The two of us actually are doing better than all our older siblings in regards to career and life success and independence.
