I'm a millennial (generation Y).

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(I guess I'd already voted in this poll earlier but didn't comment.)

I'm a boomer.  Pretty much right in the middle of the boomer generation: 1954.  I was too young to go to Woodstock, but I remember reading about it in Life magazine.  Wish I'd been enough of a rebel to defy my parents and go to Festival Express in 1970 when it came to Calgary.  A lot of big names were there: the Dead, The Band, Joplin (in one of her last performances).  I was 15 and envious of the kids in my class who went.

I'm still a hippie at heart.  Wish I could have been a hippie chick, though.

I'm with you Kathy 2 years older 1952 Also a hippy wannabe too young to go to Woodstock

Gen-Xer for life!! Whoo!!! Wait... It'd pretty much have to be for life, huh? 
I've been able to experience video games from Pong to PS4. I saw Star Wars, Ghostbusters, ET, and Indiana Jones IN THEATERS. I watched Gen 1 Transformers AS IT AIRED. I witnessed the inception of My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Care Bears, Cabbage Patch Kids, Jem & the Holograms, He-Man & She-Ra, MASK, MadBalls, and Garbage Pail Kids. I grew up on hair metal.

..... I'm a deeply damaged individual. And proud of it!   

I am a Baby Boomer
JudithLynn

I'm right at the cutoff between being a Boomer and an X'er.  I have traits of both groups but choose X because that more closely aligns with my current life and feelings.

Hard to select from the options. 

Those of us born in the window from 62 to 65 or so do not fit either side of the generations. 
They were low birth rate years as we were the kids of the small number of babies born during
WWII.  Lumping us in with boomers or X is misleading to both.   

Quote from: KathyLauren on February 24, 2018, 05:31:04 PM
(I guess I'd already voted in this poll earlier but didn't comment.)

I'm a boomer.  Pretty much right in the middle of the boomer generation: 1954.  I was too young to go to Woodstock, but I remember reading about it in Life magazine.  Wish I'd been enough of a rebel to defy my parents and go to Festival Express in 1970 when it came to Calgary.  A lot of big names were there: the Dead, The Band, Joplin (in one of her last performances).  I was 15 and envious of the kids in my class who went.

I'm still a hippie at heart.  Wish I could have been a hippie chick, though.

I'm a baby boomer but fortunately I was born in 1953.  Had I been born a year earlier things might have not turned out too well for me as I was a premie and it wasn't too soon before I was born that they began using incubators to help premies survive.  Also, I went to the California Jam but left early because people were shooting bottle rockets at the Goodyear Blimp and my mind was showing me pictures of the Hindenburg on fire and crashing

I'm a millennial !

(I didn't vote in the poll because it would have sorted me into the wrong generation.)

Generation X, or as the Prodigy called it, the Jilted Generation. 

Quote from: Chloe on July 21, 2013, 04:44:16 PM
I am from the fast passing 'old guard" of "Boomers" with parents straight out of the early "Silent Generation"; having skipped *two gens* completely both of my kids are clearly more toward the end of "Generation Z". Does that actually make me more "hip" (lol a sixties term for sure) than most found here?

After Voting and reading link am curious of your thoughts on this rating assessment in general? [ if on a cusp like LordKAT then say so! ]
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My parents were baby boomers, born at the end of ww2. ( inthe 40s). I am generation X born in the 60s. As generation x we were raised on blue jeans and rock and roll. For many of us Xs industrial rock and roll is a thing ie Status Quo, AC/DC, Deep Purple ect. Part of a working class scene that is now defunct.Many of us qualified in industry and trades that are now farmed out overseas and we had to re- qualify into newer industries.

As a generation we use computers to do everything but find the older paper based systems easier and more reliable. The new generation dont know anything but computers.

We straddled an era between doing it all with slide rules and rules of thumb to an era of totally electronic.

We can build and repair in wood & metal  and repair & maintain cars we can prepare meals from bare ingredients & cook & sew & make clothes. Our offspring know computers and social media but we are a bit indifferent. Life without mobile phones was actually better.

We were trained one way but had to live another.

Now I am in my fifties my friends like rock & roll & metal. The younger generation hates it and wants gangster rap & hip hop.The older genreration wants Elvis & dance hall music. We did disco & nightclub & New Order & the New Romantic era & heavy rock & heavy metal.

Generation X is fewer in number than boomers but big on life experience and straddling the eras. We have broad tastes.

We were the last generation to question the establishment. That doesnt happen so much anymore.

Best wishes from all Xers, Kirsten.

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Quote from: KathyLauren on February 24, 2018, 05:31:04 PM
I'm still a hippie at heart.  Wish I could have been a hippie chick, though.

Me too, vintage 1958 here, I am a late boomer. The hippie thing influenced me, but they were the older kids. Loved the culture of my youth, the music, social activism was everywhere, big changes I saw...I won't get too nostalgic. 

Now we have raised "millennials", in our family, they have new challenges, climate change seems front and center. My soul mate and I work so they can have a better life (no student debt !).

C -

Gen X here.  I've learned how to do tons of skills that are now obsolete or ignored.  But,  I can do the new stuff as well as anyone else.  I get to pick and choose. 
In terms of appearance, I look like one of the younger Gen Xers.

I'm a Y person, but I think my outlook isn't wholly of that generation. The main thing that separates Ys from the others is that they are the first digital natives and widespread internet use didn't really come to me and mine until I was in my early twenties. I think the notions of the generation gaps are skewed towards US data.

Quote from: Kirsteneklund7 on March 18, 2019, 07:07:19 AM
My parents were baby boomers, born at the end of ww2. ( inthe 40s). I am generation X born in the 60s. As generation x we were raised on blue jeans and rock and roll. For many of us Xs industrial rock and roll is a thing ie Status Quo, AC/DC, Deep Purple ect. Part of a working class scene that is now defunct.Many of us qualified in industry and trades that are now farmed out overseas and we had to re- qualify into newer industries.

As a generation we use computers to do everything but find the older paper based systems easier and more reliable. The new generation dont know anything but computers.

We straddled an era between doing it all with slide rules and rules of thumb to an era of totally electronic.

We can build and repair in wood & metal  and repair & maintain cars we can prepare meals from bare ingredients & cook & sew & make clothes. Our offspring know computers and social media but we are a bit indifferent. Life without mobile phones was actually better.

We were trained one way but had to live another.

Now I am in my fifties my friends like rock & roll & metal. The younger generation hates it and wants gangster rap & hip hop.The older genreration wants Elvis & dance hall music. We did disco & nightclub & New Order & the New Romantic era & heavy rock & heavy metal.

Generation X is fewer in number than boomers but big on life experience and straddling the eras. We have broad tastes.

We were the last generation to question the establishment. That doesnt happen so much anymore.

Best wishes from all Xers, Kirsten.

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I too am a Gen Xer born in the '60s as well, but perhaps because I am African American, some of my experiences were different.  My parents are Silent Generationsers, born in the '30s, so they had many of the traits, but again, being African American, many things were different for them. 

I remember occasionally seeing distrust and some fear in my Mom's eyes when I was a really young child and she had to talk to a white person.  When I started dating my (now ex-)husband at age 20, I remember her calling me into her bedroom where she was grading papers to talk to me.  She asked me "are you sure you want to be with this (white) man?"  I didn't think anything of it until years later when I realized that she was worried for me and any children we might have.  Worried about the problems of being an African American "woman" married to a white man in the 1980s.     

I grew up with Motown playing in the background, at least until my Mom became a born again.  I loved disco and remember dancing in the living room to the music of Solid Gold and the Solid Gold dancers at age 14.  Rock and roll, and later New Wave, Alternative music  and what ended up becoming "classic" Gothic music became my mainstays back then.  I still love disco and dance music, although now I listen to mostly Japanese dance music. 

I remember watching Emergency and cheering for Squad 51's Paramedics Gage and DeSoto whenever they saved a patient.  That TV show is what made me decide to become a career Paramedic.  Even now that I disabled due to a work-related injury, I am still a licensed Paramedic, something which I can't see myself ever giving up.

I had a TRS80 color computer and have basically had computers my entire life since, yet I have never learned how to program.  Sure paper is "more reliable," I remember thinking "we'll save trees because we'll need less paper."  That doesn't seem to have happened, butt I still tend to go paperless whenever possible, since I trust both computers and paper.

Sure I can cook, and repair and sew, but I'd rather have someone that actually enjoys doing that stuff to doing it myself.  It takes away from my computer time, Netflixing or gaming time if I do it myself. 

I would rather die than have my cell phone taken away.  My entire life is on mine, especially since I just got a new one. 

I still question the establishment, and even now I fight against what I see is wrong.  I'm active in the local transgender community as a volunteer, not only as a support group facilitator, but by helping to change some of the laws as to how LGBT+ kids and adults are treated here in my adopted state. 

And I rejoice in the knowledge that there are teenagers that are also active in these fights.  It seems that there are members of Gen Z that are also wiling to take up the fight for what is right. 

After all, it's their future that we are all fighting for.

Ryuichi

I'm the same Boomer child as @KathyLauren and @Laurie, with parents straight out of the War generation. My father was a WWII vet with a supermodel mom. She could have even been one of those WWII aircraft nose art models.

I was born in '53, so solidly a boomer.  A little too young for the hippie movement but I caught the tail end of that to some extent in college.  Really weird to think about the 60s and early 70s -- the generational divide, the assassinations, Vietnam, Nixon, the blooming of feminism and the beginnings of LGBT activism. I remember black and white television and how cool it was when it turned into color (even if there were only 3 channels), a time when afternoon newspapers thrived and the fairness doctrine ruled, a time when audiophile equipment was a common dream, and straight mostly meant you didn't get high.  Record stores selling vinyl ruled.  Earth shoes came and went. The Cuyahoga River burned. I remember John Glenn circling the earth and  Apollo 11 reaching the moon. Where does the time go?