What challenges did Generation X face that Millennials didnt experience?
What changed did Millennials deal with that Generation Z hasn’t had to face?
As it pertains to men ,young or old
What challenges did the Baby Boomer generation encounter that Generation X did not?
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Getting drafted
How to squander their wealth to destroy future generations, while gaslighting them into making them think they are the problem.
Have you ever tried to drive long distances without a cell phone and all the wonder it brings? Does anyone here know the struggle of a Rand McNally Road Atlas? I did not get one until my early 20s (and even then, got it for work), but what an amazing improvement.
Since concerts in the ’70s were $5 to $10, the hard decision was choosing which one to skip.
AIDS.
Generation X was the first to deal with high divorce rates, single moms, absent fathers, and being latch key kids.
Gen X dude here…. Gen X had the anxiety of not knowing who would pick up the phone when calling the girl they liked (landlines) as a teen. Anxiety of having a face to face conversation with many owners or managers just to find out if they had a job opening. Having to basically be self sufficient when going camping/ hunting in remote areas.
Theres a lot more examples Millennials will never experience, but we all have our own advantages/ disadvantages.
The Cuban missile crisis. They came close to nuclear war.
Boomers parents survived ww2 all kinds of fucked up. A whole generation with ptsd, and only alcohol to medicate it. The domestic violence that boomers grew up with is staggering by today’s standards.
Boomers had the draft.
Gen X had the technology boom. We were right in the middle of the analog to digital conversion. Landlines to mobile phones. Typewriters to computers.
Gen X. Every couple of years, all tech changed. From home micro computers in the 70s to powerful mobile phones, each iteration rewrote the rules at work and at home. The pace of change seems to have slowed.
Traveling without a phone. Had to hope and pray a phone booth was nearby and working.
You had to depend on a road map to travel.
Missed an episode on TV, well that’s it. There was a two-parter on Magnum P.I. once (They went back to Vietnam) I missed part two. Never got a chance to see it for years!
Missed phone calls.
Microwave ovens weren’t widely used until 1970.
Before the early ’80s, it took 20 minutes or so to heat up a frozen dinner in the oven after first taking 15 minutes for it to get hot. Why? Most didn’t have a microwave.