5 Reasons Gen X is Cool with Gen Y....

I'm Gen X and I approved this message...

I like Gen Y types and think the hype about how they are different is overplayed.  Among the reasons I'm  cool with Gen Y as a member of Kurt Cobain Nation:

1.  I'm young enough to remember how clueless I was...

2.  Somebody’s got to do the work...

3.  Like Gen X, Gen Y is going to start having kids...

See the rest of my reasons and notes in an article I have up at Workforce.com...

Comments

[Michael Homula]

Good article KD. You can pretty much sort out what generation you are in by how quickly you identify the man in the picture on this post. My time, .0037 seconds.

Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winters on its way
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah

I am Gen X and proud.

[Jessica Lee]

like the article. agreed - a lot of it is hype driven by the media and consultants. i can't wait to see what the next generation is labeled though and what traits we riff on them for.

by the way, who is that in the picture? lol.

[KD]

Since Homula started it, anyone who checks in today on this riff your favorite PJ lyric... JLeee may be PJ challenged...

"Glorified version of a pellet gun...feel so manly..... when I'm armed....."

--eddie vedder

[Jessica Lee]

come on! joke! i'm from seattle and used to wear plaid.

i'm more of a sap and have to go with something off of vitology-

"waitin, watchin the clock, its four oclock, its got to stop... "

goodness, that song makes me want to go call EAP.

[Michael Homula]

Oh man is this a stroll down memory lane. Most of those memories awash in ripped jeans, plaid shirts, angst and bad beer choices.

Vitology was a great album - err - cd - err, whatevetr the kids call it today. For my money it has to be Ten.

I have to throw in more lyrics...can't help myself.

Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me
As her body once did
All five horizons
Revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn
Ooh and all I taught her was everything
Ooh I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything

[chris]

KD - totally agree with you about the overblown "issues" with Gen Y entering the workforce. It always amazes me that those who are most in fear of Gen Y in the workplace are... they're parents! Most Gen Xers I meet are like you - unfazed by the entrance of Gen Y into the workplace. It's their parents - the Boomers - who have no idea how to handle them.

I will swllow poison, 'till I grow immune;
I will scream my lungs out, 'till it fills this room;
How much difference, does it make