Spent all day interviewing college students

[Trotskilicious]

it's demonstrably false so, no.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Catherine Wheel

They were born and raised under different circumstances though so their outlook is different. A lot of Gen Xers were born into single parent households or their parents got divorced when they were young. Gen Yers had a different more stable upbringing.

Yeah all of our parents hated each other and just stayed together for the kids. Now they're getting divorced after being together for 20-30+ years.

Maybe that's just my parents though.

n=1 is the best sample size

[Catherine Wheel]

http://divorceministry4kids.com/2011...re-generation/

How Divorce Affected an Entire Generation

Generation X was raised in an environment where divorce was more rampant that at any other time in our nation’s history. That fact alone has shaped and molded an entire generation of children raised in “broken homes” and “step families.”

Indeed, divorce rates peaked in this country as we were coming of age. Divorce became socially acceptable and a common part of our everyday lives.

[Catherine Wheel]

http://www.sobabyboomer.com/2011/07/...eneration.html

In fact, the often-cited statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce was true only in the 1970s—in other words, their parents' marriages. -

[Eulogy]

http://joao.machado-family.com/wp-co...itedstates.gif

[Trotskilicious]

FATALITY

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

http://joao.machado-family.com/wp-co...itedstates.gif

please elaborate. according to your chart its hovered around 50% for 3 decades. not just in the 70s

[Eulogy]

yes that is my point. catherine wheel was the one saying otherwise.

[mxzombie]

objection

[MyOneAndOnly]

overruled

[reprise85]

30% to 50% in seven years - wtf

[Trotskilicious]

i'd like to point out the decade in which it started to rise

[MyOneAndOnly]

the fact that it leveled out at 50% in the late 70s doesn't support an argument that Gen Xers are somehow uniquely damaged from it. If anything, all it shows is that all kids raised after the 70s were just as likely to be exposed to divorce. Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, etc.

it also doesn't take into account the impact on kids of previous generations who's parents were trapped in bad marriages.

[reprise85]

no shit

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

the fact that it leveled out at 50% in the late 70s doesn't support an argument that Gen Xers are somehow uniquely damaged from it. If anything, all it shows is that all kids raised after the 70s were just as likely to be exposed to divorce. Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, etc.

it also doesn't take into account the impact on kids of previous generations who's parents were trapped in bad marriages.

ok did you for some reason think i was trying to bolster catherine wheel's argument or something

[killtrocity]

one of my coworkers is from a town in India with a population around 50k, and the divorce rate there is about 0.002%. Which probably isn't a good thing in many cases, but it's an interesting disparity

[MyOneAndOnly]

prolly cause divorce there ends with a face full of acid or being burns alive in the street

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

ok did you for some reason think i was trying to bolster catherine wheel's argument or something

no. he's only trolling

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

no

when gen x emerged from college into the job market it was the 90s and the land of fruit and plenty, especially if you were inclined towards software and computers...however that's still fairly true still

when the economy collapsed in 08 they were old enough to have the experience to make them keepers and not old enough to can to save on pensions and retirement benefits or wages

gen x is born in the right time, the right place, and they're generally the last american generation to have it better than their parents.

i think scot understands most of this, or at least agrees with some of it so he's not that bad. nimrod thinks he's fuckin john galt.

I think trots has it partly correct. however, the notion that people my age were born into some kind of land of plenty is obsurd. yeah, ive been with the same company for 24 years. but I don't have a single friend my age who hasn't changed jobs every couple of years.

while the current recession has been horrible for just about everybody, there were recessions in the past too. and depending on when you entered the job market shit could have been bad for a lot of Gen Xers too. its not like everyone born between Kennedy and Carter all lived the same lives.

what trots is way off base about is the idea that someone my age had it easy. that's complete bullshit. in my own career for instance I had to spend ten years working retail before i was considered "qualified" for an entry level job in my office. today that job goes to a college grad who is almost a decade younger than I was back then.

I think that as time goes on though gen x looks an aweful lot like gen y. there is no job security today. and being 40 or 30 has no bearing anymore on wherlther you're likely to get a job or to hang on to one. .

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

what trots is way off base about is the idea that someone my age had it easy. that's complete bullshit. in my own career for instance I had to spend ten years working retail before i was considered "qualified" for an entry level job in my office. .

and now people can't get those retail jobs

[MyOneAndOnly]

If I graduated college this year I wouldn't be competing for a retail job. I'd go directly to an entry level corporate job.

[MyOneAndOnly]

For trot's this is what Gen X spends their days worrying about

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

If I graduated college this year I wouldn't be competing for a retail job. I'd go directly to an entry level corporate job.

dependent on many, many other factors

[Eulogy]

like are you seriously saying that everyone who gets a BA goes right to a corporate job? are you insane?

[Eulogy]

college is more expensive, more competitive, and the economy is shittier.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

like are you seriously saying that everyone who gets a BA goes right to a corporate job? are you insane?

No that's not what I'm saying.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

college is more expensive, more competitive, and the economy is shittier.

I agree. What's your point?