Simple reason to stick with boomers . . .
I hope not to write a post that is too snide, but this post from Greg at LifeTwo really has me thinking. Ostensibly the point is that the mid-life crisis that people born between 1978 and 1998 (Generation Y) is going to be much worse than anything we’ve seen before. According to the post, many of them are far more Narcisistic and self-satisfied and those particular maladies are difficult maladies to treat:
Perhaps more Gen Y’ers will go through classic midlife crises, and they’ll be deeper and longer than the current norm (a period from a few weeks to two years). Whether they can make the necessary adjustments is questionable — narcissism generally can’t be treated. In forty years we may have a lot of unhappy, but self-satisfied, sixty year olds.
Now, I’m firmly Generation X, though that term seems to have ceased garnering any of the lavish attention that Boomers and folks younger suffer from Marketing newsletters and Publicity blogs and such. But still I’ve spent my life working with, for and about Boomers, now so more than ever, and it bothers me not in the slightest.
Maybe actual boomers recall the first time it dawned on them that people with actual experience are worth knowing and working with? At any rate, moving abroad, one quickly learns that it is a different caliber and personality of person that one meets while traveling and living somewhere where things are less than totally familiar. Sure, I still get stuck in tourist haunts “overrun with fanny-pack wearing gringos laughing too loud,” (as Nancy at Countdown to Mexico so nicely put it), but wouldn’t you rather live somewhere where the midlife and (sigh) quarter-life crises are all miles and miles away?
Add comment February 28th, 2007