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The Baby Boom generation is often thought of as the generation that had the easiest time getting into a middle-class lifestyle, since an ordinary high school graduate could get a factory job at age 17 that allowed him to support a family, pay off a house in 2 years, etc. Let's be honest, though: How many of us today would take a job at a Plymouth motor plant even if it paid well? I wouldn't.
The luckiest generation was the one born in between the Baby Boomers and the Millenials, the one that was young adults during the computer revolution of the 80s and 90s. That's when women had entered the workforce, there will still enough jobs to around, and the new types of jobs being created were desk jobs that paid a lot (in the purchasing power of their era). Back then, college wasn't expensive, and if you got a college degree, it actually meant something and you could easily get a job in the booming computer industry. Median wages in dollars were about the same as today, but you could get a 1-bedroom apartment for $200/month. The high-paying white-collar jobs hadn't yet been shipped to India or reserved for H1B Visa workers from India.
The Baby Boomers were not the luckiest generation of Americans
Yet you post photo of Bill Gates, born in 1955, i.e. a baby boomer, now richest man in America. LOL.
You might have done a little more thinking on that one.
I thought the Baby Boomers were defined as the generation that came of working age during the 50s and 60s. In any case, to clarify, I'm talking about the generation that came of working age in the 80s and 90s, whatever that generation is called.
I thought the Baby Boomers were defined as the generation that came of working age during the 50s and 60s. In any case, to clarify, I'm talking about the generation that came of working age in the 80s and 90s, whatever that generation is called.
1976-ish was the cut-off point for those cushy factory jobs.
If you were born in 1964, by the time you entered the workforce, they were no longer hiring and never would again at that rate of pay and with the same benefits.
Generally speaking, it was the last generation to face conscription. .
Interesting factoid about that.
Any male born between the middle of 1958 to the end of 1959, was exempted from even having to register for the draft. They were the only age group that ever got such an exemption.
Every male born from 1960 on is required to register upon turning 18 and that requirement even holds even today.
Last guys drafted were born in 1952. There is a good chance that some died in Vietnam.
I thought the Baby Boomers were defined as the generation that came of working age during the 50s and 60s. In any case, to clarify, I'm talking about the generation that came of working age in the 80s and 90s, whatever that generation is called.
boomers were born from 1946 till early 60's
gen x (the gen after the boomers) starts 1962 or 64 depending on which description of the generation you look at
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