I’m a Xennial, just got a comment recently from a millennial that my paltry attempts at infographics screams try hard boomer generation. How I got reclassified from Gen X to Boomer is beside the point. Anyhoo… really resonated with this post as I am mid-career transitioning and just had coffee with a 20-something sharing a vibe-code built app that fluidly projected financial planning. It schooled me on my obvious deficit in financial literacy yet reaffirmed hope.
If an ‘uncle’ like me can be patiently re-thought on financial planning and the freedom it might enable. There are Gen-Z that have the heart to lift up X’ers and Millennials and make it their mission to do so.
All it cost me was a piece of bread. It was a a pretty darn good focaccia though.
Even if millennials ‘step aside’ for the sake of the younger generation, they themselves will adopt the boomer mentality because there is no reason for them to leave. We’ll only be giving them more reason to stay even if they’re not as good. Unless we get this part changed we will never change the system that incentivises seniority over every thing else. Did anyone observe how many cabinet ministers left when LHL left? The only way for any change is when the cost of staying is more than leaving. That’s my opinion.
For millennials to frown at boomers for job-hugging is not the same as gen-z and younger generations frowning at millenials for the same. Boomers and Gen X had something to work with. They had a functional economy in their time. Millennials are the most educated and most underemployed generation yet. We had nothing to begin with, which leaves us with practically no choice but to cling to what we've got.
"The point isn’t that millennials discovered it, but that it’s our turn in the cycle. Every generation thinks they’ll escape the same traps until the system catches up."
Mankind repeats itself. However, some believe that some particular characteristic can bring moral superiority.
At 40s I already feel that its important to step aside someday and learn new things including Financial Literacy wished I started earlier, this will hopefully help prevent Job Hugging and hopefully more employers will be open to re hire at 40s and Beyond.
I’m a Xennial, just got a comment recently from a millennial that my paltry attempts at infographics screams try hard boomer generation. How I got reclassified from Gen X to Boomer is beside the point. Anyhoo… really resonated with this post as I am mid-career transitioning and just had coffee with a 20-something sharing a vibe-code built app that fluidly projected financial planning. It schooled me on my obvious deficit in financial literacy yet reaffirmed hope.
If an ‘uncle’ like me can be patiently re-thought on financial planning and the freedom it might enable. There are Gen-Z that have the heart to lift up X’ers and Millennials and make it their mission to do so.
All it cost me was a piece of bread. It was a a pretty darn good focaccia though.
Even if millennials ‘step aside’ for the sake of the younger generation, they themselves will adopt the boomer mentality because there is no reason for them to leave. We’ll only be giving them more reason to stay even if they’re not as good. Unless we get this part changed we will never change the system that incentivises seniority over every thing else. Did anyone observe how many cabinet ministers left when LHL left? The only way for any change is when the cost of staying is more than leaving. That’s my opinion.
For millennials to frown at boomers for job-hugging is not the same as gen-z and younger generations frowning at millenials for the same. Boomers and Gen X had something to work with. They had a functional economy in their time. Millennials are the most educated and most underemployed generation yet. We had nothing to begin with, which leaves us with practically no choice but to cling to what we've got.
"The point isn’t that millennials discovered it, but that it’s our turn in the cycle. Every generation thinks they’ll escape the same traps until the system catches up."
Mankind repeats itself. However, some believe that some particular characteristic can bring moral superiority.
At 40s I already feel that its important to step aside someday and learn new things including Financial Literacy wished I started earlier, this will hopefully help prevent Job Hugging and hopefully more employers will be open to re hire at 40s and Beyond.