It will be interesting to see which group weighs in the heaviest.

Older Boomer here.

Likewise. will retire soon, but am paid too much for doing too little, and am losing the will to retire.

Middle boomer here.

I've never considered myself to be a Boomer. I thought I was born too late to be one. But I just looked it up and I guess I am, although they put us in a sub-category called Generation Jones.

I'm Generation Y, I think.

I am not sure which generation I fit into. If I go by time only, then Generation X. But I took a "test" to see what generation I fit into and it said Y. But I am just out of the Y time tables, but wiki had this to say about generation Y.

"There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends."


So yeah, not a boomer :)



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I'm stuck in the crack between Generation X and Y too. 1982. I identify with both and neither.



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Generations are waves. Think of ocean waves coming onto the beach. There is overlap of the water as one wave comes in and the other leaves. If you are in the transition area of a generation many family, peer specific within a cohort, and religious influences can influence if you relate more to the generation wave coming in or the generation wave leaving.

Most Mormons tend to be very conservative, late adapters and hierarchal in their affect, so youth respects elders, obeys.

A household full of Boomer siblings can make a GenX "baby" comply and be more Boomerlike or rebel and become more GenX. Not because Boomere comply and GenX rebels, but because of the nature of relationships and their influence on what we filter in and what we filter out.

That's part of my generation identity problem. Two of my siblings are clearly Gen-X, and two are clearly Gen-Y. I'm the middle child, with a 15-year spread between the oldest and youngest.

I love being in the "crack" by the way.



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But I identify more with Gen X.

Boomer

Y

Last years of the Boomers but I never really have identified with them. I guess that makes me a Joneser.



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I weigh about 115. I'm 5' 2".

I see what you did there....clever.

X

Actually XXX if we got down to brass tacks.

Born in 1960, so that makes me a tail-end boomer, I think

Tom in Paris

I'm an X-er which is hilarious because I am 40, I still think of us as young rebels, which we aren't anymore.

That is looking at generation as an age, not a wave going through time. Perhaps there is more rebellion to come from GenX.

Will we pay down our parents debt while subsidizing their unfunded retirement?

Will we fund wars still?

Business as usual or hold businesses criminal for crimes, not just fines and the cost of doing business.

Will we fund university educations again like our parents had or will we require our children to go into massive debt like we did for an advanced education?

How will we interact with the world, America best and first. Or global citizens--others can drive too. We don't mind riding shotgun, or do we?



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Older boomer.

Tail end of the baby boom. My parents were WWII generation.

GenX

I believe I qualify as a millennial (and my wife certainly does)/Gen Y-er, though I generally don't identify with many of the labels attached to this group.

The generation of homemade crystal radios, Edmund Scientific telescopes, only the upper middle class and wealthy had color televisions, 707s were new airliners, nobody had been to the moon and Lamanites were shipped to the Brigham City reeducation camp.

Boomer (Jones Generation)

Generation X

Boom!

GenX

early 60's - does that make me a younger boomer?

X

Born early 80s. What generation does that make me?

Tale end of Gen-X and beginning of Millennials.

Then... I am that!

Tail end boomer

Borderline Gen-X/Millennial

Generation X

Tail end boomer.

General X

Gen X

(Link is fixed an irritating quirk in the system stopped the hyperlink at the hyphen between Strauss and Howe so you got sent to the Strauss family history.)


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theory

Leaders in generational theories and relationship Strauss and Howe have written extensively on the subject and how generations cycle in waves and relate accordingly through crisis and change.

Within the link their generational ranges are given, slightly more sociological than demographic as done by the census bureau.

Here are their generation ranges, transitions times can go either way and are situational, things like Mormonism would definitely influence with which generation you prefer to relate, as well as your nature, compliant/obedient or questioning and challenging.

Lost Generation (1883–1900) (N)
G.I. Generation (1901–1924) (H)
Silent Generation (1925–1942) (A)
Baby Boom Generation (1943–1960) (P)
Generation X (1961–1981) (N)
Millennial Generation (1982–2004) (H)
Homeland Generation (2005–present) (A)



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Late boomer here.

Tail boomer here

Boomer! 1953!

1953 boomer

GenX (6' 185 lbs...good one dogzilla!)

X

WWII...... War baby. I'm an "ol dawg" --- still trying to figure it all out! Come from a very different era, it seems. Some days I think I'm been transported to another planet!
And no, I am not "weighing" in! :-) Besides those #$%# scales lie like a rug!



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X

1954 Mid Boom

1974, and if you think my life is done "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"

Oh and 5'8" 165 lbs

Whatever the generation after Boomers (1971).

Generation X - just barely.

Generation Jones Greyfort?

1962.

Late boomer.

Boomer

1948.....Old and weary!

Slightly PRE-Boomer here.

Last year of the boom (1964.)

This was an ugly year for me.

I was born in 1948....official geezer....

Ron Burr

Boomer. It is okay to trust someone over 30 now, BTW.

X

X

Baby Boomer!

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old fart

Boomer

Ka-boom.

Early Boomer...née 1950

Right smack dab in the middle of the Baby Boom Generation.

Tail end of the boomers

Gen oldklunker

Boomerangs self to gen x with attitude

Yeah on Wikipedia they called me a generation Jones. Keeping up with the Jonses sort of thing.

Late mellennial here. 16, born in 1998.

Gen X

Solid pre-Jones Boomer (1954)



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I carry the X-gene.

I'm also 35.

X

Im right at the end of Y. Born in 92.

I mostly think the Y traits are accurate for me though. But I dont know much about the others.

Late boomer. Born in 1963.

X Marks the Spot

This is the longest thread I've seen on here.

Generation X

I'm in the Silent Generation!? Who knew?

Gen X

Millenial

X

X'er

I think that make me the tail end of the Baby Boom, some say the first wave of Gen X. I consider myself the last of the baby boomers.

Xer.

Boomer. I was born in 1950.

That's a lot of money the Morg isn't going to get. And with you younger ones, that's even MORE money over the decades.

Late 1967

I may belong to the Silent Generation, but still have plenty to say!

Born in 1972. Will be 42 this October!

Tail end boomer here.

Gen X!