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I picked Graham, a friend of mine up from the train station some hours ago. He's going to be spending the next 6 weeks at my home and will be my house/dog sitter while I tan my already very well tanned arse in The Maldives.
Right now we are making crab cakes, scoth eggs, drinking kir royale and jamming to 70's 80's disco. Bee Gees's, Van McCoy - The Hustle, Donna Summer - Last Dance also Mcarthur Park, Atlantic Starr, Rose Royce, oh yeah, oh oh oh oh, those poor excuses for humans next door ain't gonna rain on my parade.
Sorry got carried away by the music . Gram is 56 and he joked about a baby boomer New Years Eve....I'm mid 40's and don't consider that baby boomer age, non?
anyone born within the decade after WWII ended (my take), but this generation has been painted with a broader stroke by most sociologists (1946-1959 maybe?). basically the worst generation in american history. entitled queens that became the hippies, yuppies, and latte liberals of today and did nothing to leave America in better shape than previous generations. they bred too and poisoned the minds of the youth/young adults of today. gen y and z are going to get shafted, no matter their ideology. all of these boomers are about to suck every last bit of wealth from the social security/medicare trust (ponzi scheme). reality sucks
There are different definitions with different cut-off years with the widest range being from 1944/45 till the late 60s. To me a baby boomer is more somebody born shortly after World War II.
Technically, it's the first generation born to those who served or could have served in the military in WWII. All of those pent up soldier hormones spawned a bunch of babies when they got through fighting.
I go with the definition of being born between 1946 (mid year) and 1964 since this is when the birth rate was high. However, this is a very broad swath of people. I'd further define it as follows:
Early - these people have more in common with the small cohort born between 1938 and 1946, who have no memory of the Depression and the war years are but a minor memory. For most born between 1938 and 1950, their childhood was a time of security and they were able to enter the workforce at a time when good jobs were plentiful and a good education, really set oneself up. By the time of the recessions and economic calamities that characterized the 1978 to 1995 period, they had plenty of house equity, savings and a secure position in middle management. However, their parents were very much moulded by their Depression experience. This set up a lot of conflict.
Middle - Born between 1951 and 58, their experience depended upon how high they set their sights. Those who just left high school and got a secure job and a house, often did well because such jobs were still available prior to 1977 and housing prices really took off after 1975, leaving them with lots of equity. Those who invested in education usually did poorly. This was probably the worst time in the century to invest in further education and the contrast with their low aspiring peers was often painful. Most of their parents were usually less traumatized by the depression but this depended on the age they got married. The early women's movement had a great impact here. The highest divorce rate is for a couple with the average of their birth dates being 1955.
Late - Born between 1959 and 1964, this group knew that there were no easy options and could plan accordingly. Many just continued their education until things started to improve in the late 1980s and then were able to get by until the boom of the 1990s. Housing prices were reasonable during this period and interest rates were declining so many from this group did well on housing, especially since many of their households had 2 good incomes. Many affirmative action programs had their peak during the 1980s and early 90's when the males in this group were starting out. Where I worked, we had a policy of hiring an equal number of males as females. This was despite the fact that only 14% of applicants were women. I doubt that this was that uncommon since women were in much greater demand. They had a much easier time moving to better jobs and were constantly leaving for greener pastures to the chagrin of management who wanted to show what they were doing to help promote female employees. An unrecognized consequence of this was that during this period, the ratio of males to females in college went from 2:1 to 1:2. The younger parents of this group were like the early baby boomers and therefore this group was more likely to be indulged like those born after 1964.
Right, I know it's 1964 for the ending number, but now I know it is 1946 for the beginning number. That's 18 years and, more or less, a generation.
To the OP, you bring up disco. I can't help but laugh at that one, especially the mention of Donna Summer "McArthur Park," and the bad clothes and bad hair people had in that day (1978 +/-). Who owns the Maldives? Are there Komodo dragons running around? I think I'll stick to the resorts on the Mediterranean.
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. Gram is 56 and he joked about a baby boomer New Years Eve....I'm mid 40's and don't consider that baby boomer age, non?
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