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No, it's not just the guys doing it - I've heard of some Millennial ladies doing it too, including one in my extended family (you could probably search the Internet for some other examples).
Wow. This was honestly the first I ever heard of it, but I'm older.
Who is "older" and doesn't know how to use a computer? I'm in my fifties and have been using a computer for email, word processing and statistical analysis since college. Or maybe you're talking about the men in their 50's and up who didn't think they needed to learn how to touch type (not being women who might end up in the "secretarial pool"?).
Yeah, I was thinking the same. I was well into my sixties at my last job still trying to teach 20 and 30 year old guys how to use the simplest programs when inputting their sales reports into our computers. Half the time I had to just wind up doing it for them when they couldn't get the hang of it no matter how many times I showed them how to do it.
I've been using computers ever since they plopped one on my desk in the 70's and before Windows when you could only open one screen at a time.
Okay, just so I won't be accused of going OT, I don't see the problem with silver hair on young people. Or even grey. Celebrities do it all the time. Sia wears a white wig. This whole thing just sounds like another trend that will burn out when people get tired of it. Not a big deal.
I'm retiring next month and thinking about doing my hair in sapphire or teal, mostly to drive my purple-haired daughter nuts.
She called me from a coffee shop in the city where she lives and said, "Mommy, everybody here has colored hair and a pierced septum just like me."
I told her that's what happens when you're a conformist. You look like everybody else. Be different!
Yes! I loved the 80's, everyone was well dressed and doing crazy things with their hair...not much different than today. I love the purples, greens, and blue colors the kids are putting in their hair...I think it's wild and looks great. People across all time have wanted to do something unique. As long as they are not hurting anything let it be. It's an expression.
Who is "older" and doesn't know how to use a computer? I'm in my fifties and have been using a computer for email, word processing and statistical analysis since college. Or maybe you're talking about the men in their 50's and up who didn't think they needed to learn how to touch type (not being women who might end up in the "secretarial pool"?).
That's what I don't understand at my job. At night, I am working with three other people---two over the age of forty and one over the age of sixty. They have been working since they graduated from HS and subsequently college. They have been working in this profession for over twenty years, which requires the use of computers. I am talking about men and women. For the life of me, I don't understand why they can't use basic Microsoft Office programs. We don't use those types of programs very often but we are on the computer every day, mostly using other software. Unfortunately, this seems sort of commonplace in my profession and I don't get it.
I have to help them with basic things, like searching through e-mails (or even finding the icon to get to their email in the first place ) or filling in an Excel file that is already loaded and ready to go. They were blown away that I was finding pictures of things to look at (sometimes you're not quite sure what you're looking at so you look for images to support your theory, so to speak) and they were blown away that I was doing that. I was literally just typing something like, "ATYPICAL LYMPHOCYTE" into Google and looking at images. I wish I was exaggerating, but they were like, "Man, I wish I knew computers like you."
Practically everyone who works the evening and night shift (in my field) over the age of forty is like this and I would be more understanding if they were new to the working world---but they are not. I don't know why but day shift seems to be much better with the computers.
The folly of youth. And here I color MY hair to look younger.
I asked the gal that cut my hair if they color hair. She must have been all of 20 or so, with the whitest hair, I have ever seen; she said everyone wants white now. (Thinking to myself; wait 50 years, and it's yours! ) Some movie stars, like Marilyn Monroe, seems like Carol Lombard (before my time) were very blonde; (did they call it platinum blonde?) Styles go around and come back again. At least, I am "with it," now. Ha!!
I'm retiring next month and thinking about doing my hair in sapphire or teal, mostly to drive my purple-haired daughter nuts.
She called me from a coffee shop in the city where she lives and said, "Mommy, everybody here has colored hair and a pierced septum just like me."
I told her that's what happens when you're a conformist. You look like everybody else. Be different!
Reminds me of my younger brother and his friends during high school when they all dressed in black rock band shirts, wore the same kinds of shoes and ripped jeans and had the same basic hairstyle to look different.
As far as gray hair, I have prematurely gray hair and I'll have to say I think it did help when I was running construction job sites in my mid twenties that it had become visible by then. Now I'm 45 and well past salt and pepper, though not quite to Roger Sterling, but almost.
I have dyed my hair pretty much every color of the rainbow, but developed a PPd allergy a few years ago. It's a compound found in almost all commercial dye, which pretty much put an end to my hair color experimentation. I do like the pastel colors that have been popular lately, though. That lavender blonde and very, very pale pink are nice on some people. The pale purples do look silver/grey sometimes, but the headline is probably stretching it.
It is weird how many people have such strong reactions and judgements toward bright hair and piercings. Thankfully, I work in a creative field from home, so no one cares what we look like, but I have a bobbed brown wig for professional settings if my hair is wild. The important thing is to be adaptable. A person shouldn't have to hide who they are, but employers do have a right to request a certain image within reason (ie: grooming, dress code etc.).
Adolescent behavior and mindset seems to be creeping further forward chronologically. 30 year-olds behave as 16 year-olds once did. A whole segment of the population are frozen in peripubescence. Where are society's adults going?
Just another example of more money than brains and the inability to be yourself, pathetic.
The idea that people should just "be themselves" is a myth. What exactly is "being yourself"? "Being yourself" is not a static, singular phenomenon. Each of us displays more than one self. People are never "themselves" all the time, including you most likely, CSD. We display different personas around different people depending on the situation. When we're at work, we usually have to work with people we dislike, thus we act more agreeable than we would be at home and even when we run out of steam, we keep going because that's what the job demands of us. We want to stay employed, so we do it. When we first start dating someone, we want to make a good impression, so we avoid passing gas, act interested in all our date's conversations, dress to the nines, and compliment them frequently.
When we're at home, we may act more introverted when we're out with out friends, dress more casually, forego wearing makeup, and leave the house cluttered. When we go out for a night on the town, we're gregarious, dress up, go places we wouldn't otherwise because that's where our friends want to go. I'm not surprised young people want to look older. The comments here prove that lots of people automatically have negative stereotypes of young people. Each of us are individuals; age alone doesn't determine character.
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Or maybe you're talking about the men in their 50's and up who didn't think they needed to learn how to touch type (not being women who might end up in the "secretarial pool"?).
) or filling in an Excel file that is already loaded and ready to go. They were blown away that I was finding pictures of things to look at (sometimes you're not quite sure what you're looking at so you look for images to support your theory, so to speak) and they were blown away that I was doing that. I was literally just typing something like, "ATYPICAL LYMPHOCYTE" into Google and looking at images. I wish I was exaggerating, but they were like, "Man, I wish I knew computers like you." 
) Some movie stars, like Marilyn Monroe, seems like Carol Lombard (before my time) were very blonde; (did they call it platinum blonde?) Styles go around and come back again. At least, I am "with it," now. Ha!! 
