GEN Z Kid Reacts To How Gen X Got Things Done In silence Without The Noise! (SHOCKING!)
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Gen X kids were treated like little adults.
Yes we were as children should be. I am a genxer. I raised my children the way I was raised and now my children are successful adults, living and thriving on their own. As parents, we have only one job when it comes to our children and that is to get them ready to be adults. To get them ready to navigate life on their own.
@@RobChurch-s6s First year Millennial here, raised at taught by a first year Gen Xer mother. She helped me learn to be a strong person. Good work ethic, and had chores as a kid, like, I can't with all the whining over things. I was a latchkey kid. I watched my siblings, since both parents worked. 1 graveyard shift worker *dad*, dayshift *mom.* It was a pain in the ass to teach my younger siblings the mantra don't get caught, you won't get an ass whooping from mom and dad, and no snitching as long as you aren't hurting each other and animals I didn't give a shit. (Half raised my siblings, I have to say. My parents tried babysitters, but they didn't last for reasons.) Though I will say, mom helped me with that, if someone started something and mom heard it, and didn't know who it was, we all got an ass whooping... so they learned 🤣
@clairedeluna3585 nice, i bet that no matter how life knocked you down, you get right back up and keep it moving. That is what I was taught and that's what I taught my children. I was abandoned by my parents at age 14 and was making six figures by the age of 28 without even having a high school diploma. I am 57 now and still making six figures but in my 40s, I did get my GED and a degree in computer science. Paid for it all out of my own pocket. In 2010, I went through a divorce, lost everything and was left homeless, having to pay my ex 4k a month. By 2016, had everything back and was done paying all the supports to my ex.
@@RobChurch-s6s Damn, yeah no matter how life tried to kick my 🍑. I just got back up, and kept going. Life is too short, to stay down. Thing being first year Millennial is, I knew college was a joke by the time I graduated highschool, and I'm glad I waited - because of my decision to wait, so I could pay it is I don't have that college debt people still have 20+ years later .... and got myself a career that covers myself in case I ever split from my spouse. I ain't the type to put someone through the wringer like that. Sorry about that, glad you didn't stay down. But damn man, from your short story about yourself, I can see you did go to school, just the hard knocks one but you sure as hell got yourself up and did what you had to do. Respect. All these why young folks whining over the stupidest crap, I don't even know anymore. 💩🤣
We really were!!
We're going to be honest with you, that love of DIY was instilled in us by our grandparents and great-grandparents. We have no claim to their crown. THEY were the masters, having lived through WWI, a Great Depression, and WWII. They made MacGyver (who's another big part of it) look like a Cub Scout in comparison. We are but apprentices to this day.
The silent generation. I think it's called.
Oh the things MacGyver could do with a paperclip and a stick of gum. My mother had a crush on that man. I just admired the creativity.
MaGyvers popolar tv in 80's like
@@mouse122809The "Silent Generation" refers to people born between roughly 1928 and 1945, while the "Greatest Generation" refers to those born between 1901 and 1927. The Greatest Gen are typically Gen X's grandparents. They were young adults dealing with the great WW's, great depression and post WWII created the Great Baby Boom/'Boomers' who are the parents of Gen X.
You're to blame for ww3 mf
The fact that you have to blur what we did as kids shows you just how damn tough we were and still are.
I was absolutely gonna say this and there is your post. 100% agree.
The you tuber explained he had to blur some photos or RUclips will give him another strike.
Can you even imagine what the world will look like when the septuagenarians are all dead and gone, and the world looks to GenX for answers?
We'll have Morgan Freeman as President. (yes I know you're way too old to be GenX but you are our spiritual animal and we love you) With Robert Downey Jr. As Vice. Samuel L. Jackson as the Secretary of Defense. (Lets see them fuck with him 😎) Terry Cruse as Attourney General, RFK in charge of health, and Elon removing all their roadblocks from The D.O.G.E. space station. 👩🚀
Edit: We're going to bring Motley Crue back and Make America Great Forever, because we have a secret weapon even the Russians never could have anticipated.
We have Bill and Ted. God Bless America and Rock and Roll.
@@dmarie388 and which generation do you think is doing the complaining ? the one's that were IN the pictures and brought you MMA or.......?
😂 true story
Our broken bones and injuries were our battle wounds. We were proud of them and showed them to everyone. We kept moving.
There was ALWAYS someone with a cast in your classroom!
Gen X is the last generation to experience a truly unplugged childhood, unshackled by the constant connectivity of social media and the Internet. We were free to grow up with our thoughts unfiltered, our mistakes unrecorded, and our relationships unmediated by algorithms. There was a rawness to that freedom… a chance to truly get lost in the world, whether through hours of unsupervised exploration, handwritten notes passed in class, or friendships built without the distraction of notifications. It’s a shame that future generations will never know that liberation, as their formative years are now entangled in a web of digital surveillance, curated personas, and endless comparison.
I am so thankful I grew up in a time when life felt simpler, connections were personal, and moments were fully lived. 🙌
Beautifully written explanation of Gen X childhood
"our mistakes unrecorded".....a freedom and license to make mistakes which in turn allowed course correction and learning. Nicely done.
So soooo well put ❤❤❤ I don't like being in my 50s but I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything. We are so veryucky to have grown up with one foot in both "worlds." I prefer the 80s and 90s now. The last 15 8 years have been crappy.😊😊
Not to mention. Our Grandfather's and father's, were combat veterans of WW2, Vietnam, and Korea. They were tough men married to our mothers, an did not put up with our bullshit. We were taught, you wanted something, earn it.
I’m was born in 77, raised in my grandmothers house in a older neighborhood where 50, 60, aesthetics/vehicles were still very relevant, I had my first job when I was 12 yo, my parents were divorced but still very much around every other day, but I still got to embrace modern 80’s culture through school and friends while learning work ethic and values directly from the silent and boomer generation. I had the very best childhood and I wouldn’t trade it or change it for anything!.. bless our veterans! 🇺🇸
Hell yes, my grandfather was a captain in Korea. Raised with a steel hand to be disciplined, self sufficient, and to think through problems and solve them.
Yeah i'm from generation x and the generation before us was a much more tougher not even close.
We used to wake up early, pack some food and "hop" the paper mill trains and go travel south to bigger cities for the day, hang out and have fun and eat lunch by the ocean, then just jump on the returning trains at night. We were literally little hobos. I come from another world.
Divorce laws are different now
I'm Gen X. We were self sufficient, resilient, had a strong work ethic and basically raised ourselves with little to no parental help. We are the greatest generation since The Greatest generation.
As A fellow genx I have to say that it was our parents that instilled that in us by their seemingly lack of being involved. We knew how to fix our own bikes, and our own after school snacks. My parents were an R.N. and a business man. There were 6(4 girls and 2 boys) of us we had a duty roster for chores that rotated, it didn't matter if you were girl or boy, I could be mowing one day and my brother having kitchen duty. My dad was ahead of his time and raised us all to be independent from our parents. He said his mom taught him all things he needed to know how to do for himself without a woman and he taught us girls how to get by without a man. I could change a tire, check my oil and put water in my radiator at 15. We grew up appreciating not only gender roles but the genders themselves.
Gen X likes to give themselves credit but fail to see how they failed in parenting.
@@LarryBonson ya ok. Maybe your parents did. Don't lump the rest of us in that category.
@@sarahwade9509 4 boys and 2 girls for me. Ran home from school in ten minutes to watch Speed Racer start and end, then played whatever sport was in season. We were all mutli-sport athletes, and that run home was exactly 1.33 miles in ten minutes as little kids. Not flat terrain either. Eventually got me some half mile "Ribbons" for first place in track. Not as good with the mile run... Still doesn't make sense to me. :)
@@LarryBonson Did your parents fail you, or your Gen X kids? Whichever of the two, I see that a lot. But circumstances are different. I'm a Gen X and my kids, my sibling's kids, make my Boomer mom and dad very proud. But my family is probably not the norm and I see plenty of examples daily to make that very clear. Sorry to hear about your situation that's different from my own.
Gen X dad with a gen Z daughter. Raising her like a Gen X kid, and she's killin it!
Mine millennial was raised like gen x, he is no CPO in the US Navy
That’s the way to go! I have 3 boys and 1 girl. Raised them Gen X style and in turn the three oldest married and had kids 12 all together so 8 granddaughters and 4 grandsons and my Gen X by proxy kids now have their own Gen x And I still have the 4th kid He and his wife are getting ready to try and start their family too!! The only thing they don’t do is lock the kids outside lol. ❤❤
HELL YES, GENX Dad to a 9yr old boy... My kid is off the chain. School calls freaking out... your child is walking on the monkey bar rails... They are scared I am like FUCK YEAH!!!
I waited until I was 43 to think about kids, my son was born when I was 44, he has a GEN-X attitude, DGAF... could care less if he hurts your feelings... and talks like a sailor on leave.
Being GEN Alpha he embraces technology but is not afraid to say when something is crap... like his mom's iPhone... he told her, Dad's Android is way better... He's saucy sarcastic and adventurous, a good portion of GEN Alpha will be GEN-X 2.0
I tried. But her mom thinks like a gen Z'er and you can guess where that went.
Did the same for my kid.
American Gen X here and we were and are still tough. We didn’t play video games all day our parents told us to go out and play and when the street lights came on that was our sign to go home. We drank from water hoses, not water bottles. We raised ourselves and the proof was the 10pm commercial that came on. It asked our parents “do you know where your kids are?” We had toys like lawn darts that are now off the market because they were dangerous and killed 3 people. There will never be another generation like ours.
Which is a good thing that other generation aren't like gen X idk why they need to be ?
@ it’s sad that Gen X was the last tough generation. All the ones that came after are a bunch of snowflakes that have no idea what gender they are and seem to cry when they are misgendered.
@@Supervisor567
Because the way we grew up built mental and physical strength and independence.
My doctor has told me a couple of times that I have an "unhealthily high" pain tolerance. I just tend not to notice injuries; even walked around with a torn labrum for 15 years without realizing it. 😂
80s music is STILL listened to & loved by my now grown children.
Movies too
Slackers? Many of my friends and I were not only latch key kids, we were our younger siblings nannies daily. I remember being 11 and responsible for feeding yoinger sibs AND cleaning. The older sibs were either at work or away for sports. There was no complaining, no slacking. You did your part. Internally, yeah it sucked at times. But all these decades later? I'm grateful for the experiences. Being self reliant and resilient are gifts.
if you are not bragging and pointing out everything you have done, people think you are slacking.
😂 my Big brother was supposed to be in charge while our mom was at work and or taking care of our grandmother, he cooked, I cleaned, we both took care of pets, fixed stuff, did the yard work, I generally did the laundry because I liked hanging it on the line and I did the dishes in the middle of the night because it was quite, our mom never had to ask us, we just did it. Also, she was scary AF when she got mad so that was probably a factor in that 😂
I used to think I was the e only one who did that. Now I know it was more a generation of us doing it. Cooked my first meal at 6
We did it all without supervision. If we wanted to learn something, we went to the library. Slackers we are not.
Right on the oldest out of 9 kids both mom an dad worked we were military brats so we were known lmao 🤣 70s an 80s kids lmao
As Gen Xer, this video is spot on. We also had sayings like, "rub some dirt on it" when you got hurt, or "stop whining, you'll be fine". We were taught to be bold and if you fail, dust yourself off and hop back in. Kids nowadays are taught to be fearful of everything, that is a big reason why there are so many kids with mental health issues, they never learned to cope with the trials of life.
Just remember that Gen Xer's were taught to be bold by their Boomer parents... GenZ kids are being taught by their GenX parents. So who is the problem here?
gen x is also the gen that was suppose to fix up after the boomers and secure our (future gen) future but you squandered it all instead. Also gen x is the least adoptable gen for technology that is still in the working class..
@@cowlevelcrypto2346 I'm X and can agree a lot with that statement. Not fully, but yeah, it's the females in our generation
@@cowlevelcrypto2346I am genx and I taught my children just like my parents taught me. The problem is, when my children went to school, all their friends and their teachers tried to tell my children that I was abusive and mean. That I didn't have the right to treat them that way. There was a ton of pushback and my oldest daughter even called CPS on me because I made her stand in the corner too long. I can see why many parents would just give up. But, I didn't. My children are now grown, every one of them are living on their own and they are successful.
Just look at your response. Even now, you are trying to blame parents. If a genz person is now an adult. Blame time is over. It's time to suck it up buttercup and be that adult.😊
@@1BuFo till recently boomers were still leading and in charge. Its actually a big problem. Our next president is a boomer.
In School, we had Wood Shop, Metal Shop, Home Economics, we Learned HOW to make a Screwdriver, how to Heat n bend metal to make candle stick holders, soldier things, to cook from scratch and sew, by hand and machine. We learned how to mold clay, and use spinning wheels to make useable pottery, Dangerous things these days 😂😂😂
We wandered around town, by ourselves. Be home for dinner then be home by the time the street lights came on. And yes.. suck it up.. Don't come running to me if you break your leg. 😂😂 If you're not bleeding, then you're not hurt. Want money? Take out the old ladys trash for a nickel, rake leaves, mow lawns, study, get good grades, Nobody helicopter parented us. Those were good times. They need to Bring back practical studies in school. Kids these days have No Idea How things are Made, or how to make them. 😮
Ash trays in Art class! Band saws without guards in Wood Shop!And wood burning kits!
When my son went to high school, I asked about auto tech... "oh, no! we don't offer any kinds of classes like that, they're too dangerous!" 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤬 I then asked, "well, what can I expect him to learn for the practical world if you don't offer auto/metal/wood shop?" "oh, well, he'll get a good foundation for colleges etc" 🤦🤬 Thankfully, stuff happened and my son wound up expelled, where he was then able to take a job with a roofer and actually LEARN SOMETHING!!!
They literally had to put a commercial on TV to remind our parents that we existed. "Its 10 o'clock do you know where your children are?"
@@hgoodin1013 Ah yes. A very US thing. For everyone else it was make sure you get home before they come looking for you. If they've come looking it was very late. In my Summers in the Highlands of Scotland, it was still daylight (not full but still bright enough to read a book by, in a mostly clear sky), so we didn't pay attention to the darkness but to whomever had a working watch on, to get home before trouble.
@@Thurgosh_OGi always wanted to visit the Highlands. Looks like such a beautiful place.
The clear example of how Gen X is… RUclips won’t allow you to show a kid ramping a bike over his friends but will allow pretty much anything else. I’m Gen X. We learned a lot. And it was awesome. We didn’t need helmets. We didn’t have bubble wrap around us. We just lived life. I started working at 16. Paying taxes at 16 which made you learn about politics and what you had to pay. I’m proud to have been born in 1970. I enjoy your content and your curiosity about culture.
Gen X here. One thing about our grandparents is that many of them lived through the Great Depression and they managed to instill some of their priorities to us.
They learned to live with little and rely on hard work and we respected them enough to try to follow their example.
I was lucky enough to be influenced by three of my grandparents who had lived through all that.
GenX rocks. We got to see how our technology grew from 8 tracks, vinyls, cassettes, cds,mp3s, Apple computer w/ Dos(green screen), dial up internet.
@@sarikaclark3676 The first video games, .first rap song , .first cable box , drive thru fast food . So many things it's crazy when you think back .
Yeah, gonna disagree with that one.. You didn't invent music, the instruments used in the music or even the way it was recorded... GenX is proud to buy the same shit 20 times just to say 'hot new tech!'. CD's were promised to last FOREVER.. Where are they? GenX are the original sheep that buy the same shit 20x and have no problem with it.
When I explain Dos to youngns they’re just like 😮. 😂😂
@@KrazyIndeedfirst of all, OP never said anything about inventing music or inventing the things that music is made with. Reread the post. It said we grew up and watched the technology change. I was there and it was fascinating to see. I was there when home computers didn't exist and cell phones were only for the extreme rich. They also didn't work half the time once we did get them. When I bought my first home computer, there was no internet. The thing was practically worthless. When the internet finally came out, it took as long as ten minutes just to make a connection and sign on. Then it cost around 2 dollars a minute to be on it. It was terrible but kinda fun. AOL had these free minute disc's and we would trade them like they had cash value. It would give you anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes of internet time. But, you had to also buy an internet search engine like netscape. Now they are built into phones and computers. Such as Google and internet Explorer. They weren't back then. Of course nobody knew this so we would sign on and then couldn't do anything. I remember a few years later when my buddies and me figured out how we could carry our voices over an instant messenger. Back then, nobody had cell phones and if I called my buddies house from my house, it was long distance. We only lived about 15 miles apart. So if I called him too much, my phone bill would be 250.00. I didn't even have my first cell phone until I was 32 years old. It was just a weird time.
AND WE HAD NO CELL PHONES OR AUTOTUNE!! I hate them both lol.
An example of the way Gen X mind works:
When asked a question, we think through everything we know, reason out loud why we came up with the answer, then check to verify online after.
Keeps mental acuity strong
Or as our bumper stickers used to say "Question authority!" unlike now, where they seem to bow to "Obey!"
This. I literally start running through options and scenarios, combinations of things, recalling facts and similar information. I'll start getting a list of possible solutions and I'll start dropping those that don't match the requirements, or timeframe, or whatever. Whittling the list down to 1 or 2 options. And I'll be doing it talking to myself, like both parts of a conversation. People give me really odd looks lol. But it is extremely effective. We have a really good ability to make connections between disparate bits of information rapidly. Seems to be a very common Gen X trait.
@@mycroft16 that is nothing to do with the generation. There are plenty of people who do that then and now as well as before then and it is a personal choice to do so. It depends on the person.
@richardcarte oh, you misunderstood. Ofncourse every generation has people who do that. No one is suggesting otherwise. What IS being stated is that a significant majority of Gen X do that, which IS outside the norm for generations.
Yeah pretty much same here, except I've never reasoned anything aloud. It's just all in my head.
The fact that parts of the video are blurred out is what separates GenX from millennials and GenZ
Nailed it!!!!
Didn't know being allowed to drink from a garden hose would one day be viewed as a dangerous activity.
I'm a proud gen x, we watched "faces of death" with a "rasputin" trailer in a classroom...imagine the scandal that would be today...
Em hm And GEESH That Wasn't the Toughest Part Of Growing Up Gen X even 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
@@theadvocate4698Omgosh Right??? Faces Of Death. FFS
As if zombies and Amityville and 😭 Lizzy 40 wacks and Carrie and 🤢😭🤮soilent green... FT13 halloween... Weren't bad enough 🥺⁉️⁉️⁉️ 😱❔ Dang we watched a lot of horror...
My parents lived through WW II as children in the Philippines. My mom, whose parents were relatively wealthy, had to give up their home to Japanese officers. She was never willing to share details. My father, whose family were poor farmers, ran into the mountains to save their lives. He saw men bayoneted and discarded alive in mass graves. Hearing these horrific stories made me grateful for my life and freedom. It made me strive to make their life experiences and sacrifices mean something. I hope my Gen Z daughter continues to respect and remember my parents and grandparents.
That’s right. We’re awesome. Couldn’t agree more.
I remember in 1977 in 7th grade....got my first skateboard.
BABYBOOMER MOTHER bought the most suped up one, and very off handedly said...."don't ride it down the hill".
Of course, that's exactly where we headed when my friends and I got home. An hour later, and me catching SPEED WOBBLES on the third try, WIPED OUT and now covered in bleeding cherries all over my body........
Walk into the house expecting "oh my poor baby"..to....
Hysterical laughter and....I TOLD YOU...😂😂😂😂
Yah, sounds like my Mom XD
This is the parenting that kids need, again. Society has become far too weak and sensitive. We need to toughen up future generations.
My mom usually added, "don't you dare get blood on anything, I just cleaned." We did our own first aid. If you weren't dying, you knew where the bandaids and Mercurochrome were. I've got plenty of scars to prove it. And as soon as we were done, we got kicked right back out of the house.
I did the same thing but on a push bike without brakes and smashed my face up knocking teeth out and scraping my face up ( I was 8 years old)
If you were in 7th grade in 1977, you’re a late boomer. Your parents are probably Silent Gen (like my in laws).
"Dad, my arm hurts when I bend it", "Don't bend it then"
hahaha so true
Exactly
My boomer parents were great at first aid, we were never taken to a doctor if we got hurt; unless it required stitches or a cast.
Several of my siblings walked around with broken bones for a week or 2 until they complained enough my parents finally took them.😂
Omg YES! 😂
Firstly, I like that you're taking the time to understand our generation, not many do. There's a couple of things I'd like to clarify. We understood the dangers (ahead of time: broken bones, gashes, falling, crashing, etc), we chose fun, over those fears. Plus we became skilled at avoiding those outcomes. Other than things like running through clouds of poison, we understood our peril, and chose it anyway. Your generation wouldn't be suffering as much mentally and emotionally. If your generation had listened and learnt from us. Seen our comments, as advice, rather than criticism. Sucked it up (like we had to!), rather than got moody, I think your generation wouldn't be so vulnerable to mental health issues, if you'd given us the respect of having some valuable information to share.
Some of these GenZ kids have listened though. I know many that have.
Spot on 👏👏👏
Most of Gen Y (Millennials) and Gen Z's parents are Gen X. You think they collectively in a general sense, decided to ignore their Gen X parents wisdoms? Why would they do such a thing if we assume Gen X kids did not do so to their parents? Is that a failing of GenY/X or a Failing of Gen X parenting? In reality I think it's not so black and white, just factors of both those and the changing world. I just find your opinion to be too sweeping in generalization.
@hallyudoinfam5524 Firstly - as my name says, it's Just1Opinion. Secondly - name me an opinion that isn't generalised (that's applied to, and agreed upon by all). Thirdly - I'm sorry, if you don't think this applies to you personally, but as a gen x, the majority of those I've grown up around, complain about similar behaviours in younger generations (so there's a truth to it!). The DIFFERENCE between how we behaved around and treated our parents. Compared to how parents (in general) are treated now, is VERY obvious to us (we experienced both!). I agree, the over protective, P.C. world (that SOME foolish, well meaning people in our generation are responsible for), with it's cotton-wool mums and participation awards etc... Add in social media, self obsession and many other factors. Certainly did your generation no favours. Wait until you're older, and all the knowledge you've accumulated over a lifetime, gets dismissed in a second, by those you've provided for and invited into your home. Gen X is possibly the first generation in history, not to be treated like elders (JUST OLD!).
@@Just1Opinion-l5e I appreciate the discussion. I don't entirely disagree with your general premise, just that it is too broad of a premise. As a child of Gen X'ers there is a lot of things I should have listened to, however I wasn't particularly rebellious nor ego driven to be "unshackled by parental control". On the other hand, my parents were neither helicopter parents or absent. Sometimes there were things to listen to or from observation to consider, but there were times there wasn't any of that.
Btw on the note of Elders. While I do think no one deserves true personal respect without earning it, I do think society has lost respect it has for others in general and with their Elders. My grandpa is a piece of crap as a person, so I cannot personally respect him, however I can and have respected his wisdoms. Now everyone "old" is just Boomers to ignore.
Everyone I know had broken at least one bone while we were children, when we got hurt, we learned how not to do something and not, not to do something.
No Fear was another slogan we lived by. I owned a few No Fear shirts and wore them when i went to the creek to go cliff jumping. Different breed. Back then try finding a single person who couldnt bunny hop a bike onto a curb man or woman...
As a gen x, this is spot on. I feel sorry for the kids growing up today knowing all they’re missing.
The DIY part hit home. When I was 16 my dad helped me buy my first truck. It was an old, beater farm truck. On the day I got it he handed me a Chiltons manual on that truck and said “the rest is up to you”. If it broke, I had to buy the parts and fix it. I had to pay for the insurance and gas as well. No insurance, no driving. I did have a head start because he was a racer, and I had been working on race cars since I was walking. But he never helped when it came to working on anything I had from bicycles, motorcycles (which I had to buy), to my truck. But it served me well. I can rebuild an engine in a weekend if I need to.
You had a great Dad
And my son thinks I'm such a boomer for expecting that of him 😅
I still have a few old Chilton books and binders around in boxes somewhere.
Right on, my friend ! If you wanted something, you had to work for it. Learning how to be independent.
@@backcountryme im an Xer female and those chiltons are worth more than gold! I had one for an old beater van that was 15 yrs old.
After that one went off to the crusher, the next two were bought simply because they were covered in the same chilton as the predecessor!
Never made a move without it! Lol
We pretty much raised ourselves. Parental supervision wasn't much common.We grew up fast but always had remained kids at heart, and still are!
When we got hurt, if it wasn’t hanging on by skin or guts hanging out all we heard is rub some dirt in it and walk it off. We’re the last of the old school generations.
I actually respect Millenials and Gen Z quite a bit. I am a Gen X, and I would offer just a little humble advice to the newer generations. It would benefit you all greatly to learn how to do things if technology was turned off. It isn't a dig at all. Very recently there were two hurricanes that hit Florida. The only way to get help to some places was to use horses and mules when roads were destroyed and it also meant having to navigate easily, safely, and efficiently with electricity and communications down. I know everyone just always expects "the internet" and technology to work. A couple of things to consider..... First, regardless of how robust technology becomes, we can't (yet) deal with a massive problem if the sun has a problem. There was a situation in the 1850s when a massive magnetic problem destroyed the current telegraph and burdgening electrical grid at that time. I'd hate to see what a similar event would do now. Second, you must at least consider that the people in government and corporations that essentially control the internet (or at least access of information you have) may not always have your best intentions at heart. What happens if they limit the access to information by making it so expensive people can't easily access it, or by the flow of information to where you don't know if what information you are getting is correct? It will be better for everyone coming up after my generation to consider those possibilities and at least learn some skills that don't require constant digital access. You may and hopefully will never have to use them, but if you do, it could save your life.
Would like to add in, collecting old books are helpful in having access to information when there's no Internet. 😊
Yes, for my entire life I have always tried to learn valuable skills. I think this is important. I don't think we will always have THIS life. As a kid we were building literal primitive houses in the woods. By the time I got to college my professors were impressed with my "engineering" and design skills(that we simply figured out and learned as kids), and encouraged me to become an engineer. But its not just that. I have taught myself things like knitting, crochet, masonry, carpentry, and can also cook a pretty decent meal, I make cheese, alcohol, and know how to do things like mill flour and even grow many things including peanuts, and do pretty well with farm life. One thing I cannot do is sew but am trying to teach myself how to do this now. I don't know if other genX are like this, but for myself its a lot of fun. Some of this was just part of life for us.
...1701 ain't no gen x that's dinosaur!!😂
@@user-rd6vl8sv1w yes indeed. I can garden, can, work cattle(yes got a concussion and broken brest no e when a cow got made a steer took her stall and put me in a post(had to watch TV out 1 eye for almost 2 weeks cause I got double vision at times, just glad she didn't kill me), raised a bull I could sit on he was so tame, have had to pull calves, ride a horse, have a open air buggy and sleigh, milk cows or goats, make cheese, see, crochet, can, cook, smoke, make sausage, kielbasa, filet fish and shoot, gut, hang, skin, and process a deer. I am teaching my grands American history as I learned it and collecting every old historical book, even some old cookbooks that have info to water glass eggs so they stay fresh over winter months when chickens stop laying. I'm also teaching them how to process and cook the deer for survival and because I want them to see exactly the damage a gun could do to someone so they never ever pick one up in anger. Defense yes, anger never.
@@kayleighllyn8253 Well, might be the registration of starship Enterprise....
I’m 5 mins in and you should know more than half of those clips are boomers. Even a vid *about* Gen X forgets us!! 🤣
My thoughts exactly. those pics are from my parent's generation 🤷🏽♀️
Well, that's because they don't question. And in those pictures those people didn't have kids until the eighties. Making them about 23 years old when they did.
So GenX starts in the late 70's early 80's.
I was there and i'm 67. I Never had kids.
I was a soldier. I didn't boon anything.I got a piece of dirt 75 feet wide by 125 ft. No water no power out in the woods. I didn't boom that. I lived with, and off the land.
All I know is, I was born into this world, and I had to come to grips with what was in front of me If I wanted to survive.
You're incorrect, those images I've seen, I'm 56.
Gen X, from 1965 to 1980.
This latter generation do not really watch older programs or come across historical content and articles. Many of you confusingly conflate different eras of the human experiences and living.
@@CarlAyers-x8hGen x starts in the mid sixties
Truth
We were called Generation X by the elders in 90s, because they didn't know how else to define us. We confused those who came before us. But, it wasnt very long before we became the forgotten middle child...again. Millennials took the spotlight very quickly.
Gen"X was the "unknown" generation. No one was sure what kind of generation we were going to be. Millennials were first known as Gen-Y, as in Generation "WHY?"(aka useless mistakes) it wasn't until the late 90's that they became known as "Millennials" It also seems that "Centennials" have now been reduced to "Gen-Z," and the following them, is "Gen-alpha." Not even dominant leader "Alpha," but weak poser "alpha" (that is more beta than anything).
Because the millennials were the generation after you.
@@jreyman The people who make these videos as well as yourself are only saying the same thing about the generations after them that has been said about generations since the beginning of civilization. Being that generations after there’s represent change and people are terrified of change. And psychologically speaking there are usually two primary reasons to this. Change means that their ways and ideals will no longer be the dominant ways and ideas within society. Also, with newer better technology comes newer discoveries in medical science as well as psychology and if any of these newer tools in medical science and psychology, say that any of their ways of doing things are their ideals are negative to any extent, especially when it comes to the way they parented then they wouldn’t be able to deal with the guilt that would come with accepting that what they were doing turned out to be a mistake.
Millennials took the spotlight but not for the right reasons.
Actually, we were named by one of us, the author Douglas Coupland. He wrote a pretty good novel about a bunch of "slackers" that was published in 1991.
I’m proud to have been the last year of Gen X seeing how people act today.
I 100% agree with the previous post. By the time I was 12 I would be left alone babysitting 5 other kids ranging in age from 1-9.
I'm a Gen X and was a "latchkey kid" along with my lil sister. But we spent weekends and summers at our grandparents. "Stop crying or all give you something to cry about", "Rub dirt on it or walk it off" were common saysing from adults. Winter ,we would hold on to the city bus and sled behind it..other people's parents would discipline you and then tell your parents and you'd get disciplined again. I babysat for neighbors to make money until I was 13 then I got a "real" job. I was told many times "life isn't fair so get use to it".
You better tell your parents that you got disciplined from a neighbor or a caring stranger, because if you didnt tell and your parents were told you'd get easentially tripled disciplined....neighbor, parent dor infraction, parent for not telling of infraction.....
Yup, we sat in rows of desks and did classwork in total silence (although we did pass notes to each other but atoeast it didnt disrupt the class.) We took notes most of the class. If anyone was disruptive in class they got sent to the principals office and then got in trouble with their parents. Parents didnt try to rescue their kids from teachers just doing their jobs.
You forgot that alot of the time you might get the paddle in the principal's office.
@@nekoti.8-2 Corporal punishment was largely over by the 1980s, but I do recall the year it was banned in my county in Virginia, because I was in 5th grade and it was 1979.
The people who make these videos as well as yourself are only saying the same thing about the generations after them that has been said about generations since the beginning of civilization. Being that generations after there’s represent change and people are terrified of change. And psychologically speaking there are usually two primary reasons to this. Change means that their ways and ideals will no longer be the dominant ways and ideas within society. Also, with newer better technology comes newer discoveries in medical science as well as psychology and if any of these newer tools in medical science and psychology, say that any of their ways of doing things are their ideals are negative to any extent, especially when it comes to the way they parented then they wouldn’t be able to deal with the guilt that would come with accepting that what they were doing turned out to be a mistake.
@@HistoricMetals Think a bit bigger than just the little ole USA, mate. In the UK for example some schools didn't have to ban the Belt, till as late as 2000. In Scotland the bans began at local levels, as early as 1979. My school banned it in 1985, where I am the last pupil on record to be given the belt there.
@@Thurgosh_OG I actually don't live in the USA, and was married for 14 years to a Brit, and have a dual citizen half British daughter. lol, that said, I did grow up in the USA and took this video in context, as its about US people all the way through. Besides, we all know regardless of birth year, everyone in the UK is Gen Victorian :P
Gen X grew up with integrity were your word and a handshake meant something.
@@lisabarnum2374 pshaw,yall didn't invent that. It came over on the first boat. Well maybe not the first boat. Don't know a lot about the Viking sense of honor. And they didn't stay anyway. Couldn't make a go of it. If 80s gen had a strong sense of honor I don't recall. Weren't they the ME generation? Correct me if I'm wrong ...to lazy these days to look it up. I'm thinking that handshake thing you remember was from "wagontrain" reruns on tv. But I'm glad you can recall a good childhood.
@@CjJohnson-kf1oz a lot more honor than now. In fact I think gen Z may have more honor than Millenials. We will have to wait and find out but the Millenials were just awful. All my friends are Millenials, most (not all) are complainers, gossip a lot, and have a 'woe, is me' attitude. Very Marks ist thinkers, just complaining about everything instead of making things better through their actions.
loyalty was not bought
And scraps were 1:1.
80's baby here. Those were really the best times, not just saying that. You had to be there, magic was in the air, especially me a kid growing up in NYC. It was beyond special, miss it always 🥲
The SKEPTICS AT HEART mentality is a very true thing… we take everything with a grain of salt 😂.. its probably why they call us “Conspiracy theorists “ 🤣
"The ability to thrive under risk."
Yes!
There are people like that in every generation.
old use sayed f*** flowerheads anuts
@@richardcarte Yes but a majority of us are this way.
I'm 50 and I'll be bringing sexy back when spring comes and I get my first electric skateboard 🛹 🤪 move over mcfly I got my groove still in 2024. Never let the adventure end people these kids got all kinds of toys to take advantage of.
I grew up helping my dad repair cars since I was 5. I replaced a water pump on a car all by myself by the age of 9. No guidance or repair manual.
I used to wear t-shirts with the words No Fear on them. It was an actual clothing line. From the time I was in 4th grade until I graduated High School, we went from simple calculators to graphing calculators. I’m very innovative, troubleshoot on the fly, change directions in mid project without missing a beat. I’m very resourceful and make friends easily. We went from landing on the moon to the Challenger disaster. From Vietnam to Desert Storm. No generation has been more impacted and impactful. We are the bridge of macro technology to microtechnology. We have gone from dot matrix printers to laser printers to 3D printers. From having 3 tv channels and manually changing channels to thousands of channels and voice activated remote controls. We have seen a massive change in technology in our lifetime. No other generation will have this experience.
Hell my dad had a voice activated remote in the early 70's. It was hey kid change the channel or turn up the volume. Willing to bet your old man had one of those as well.
@ Oh my gosh, I had the same experience! I thought my dad was a genius! Lol
💙 great video. I'm an American, born in 1978. Grew up a few hours south of Chicago, in rural Illinois. By 1988, at the ripe old age of 10, got my first summer job walking beans. Basically consisted of walking up and down rows of soy beans and picking what ever weeds you see. Did that because I wanted a Tony Hawk pro skateboard, and I knew my dad wouldn't spend $150 on the parts to build one. A few years later, I started detasseling corn. It involves walking up and down the rows, pulling the tassels off of the tops of the corn stalks to prevent self pollination. Did that over a couple summer breaks, when I was 14 and 15, to pay for school clothes. It's not that my dad wasn't a great provider. I just felt that if I wanted to control what I wore, I should be the one working for it. Kind of sums up how my generation was raised to approach most situations. If you want it, work for it.
There are people like that in every generation.
My older siblings (who are technically young Boomers) got their first jobs at the age of 14 because our parents wouldn't buy the fancy, expensive clothes they wanted. So if they wanted the good stuff, they had to work for it.
@@richardcarte not as many as you think gen x was the last gen that actually lived the diy and you want it work for it mentality
@@richardcarte yes but our gen was full of those people. Now its almost extinct
My best friend and I are Gen X and raise our kids to be like our generation and it’s made a huge difference when you compare the kids they goto school with today.
Gen X here..I remember fishing a bass out of the neighborhood ditch with only a strong Branch and a string with a hook on it , we dug the worms out of the ground and all the kids were wrestling with the bass to catch it but it Slipped Away... Fun times😢
Man, I sure enjoyed my childhood! I was born in 1970, and what I remember of my childhood, it was mostly playing outside after school until the street lights came on or until I heard mom or dad yelling my name.
I'm Gen X. This video skipped the fact that we, as elementary aged kids (age 7-14) would spend all day away from parents running around outside playing with our friends. Our only rule was to be home for dinner. It's why we drank from garden hoses because we were discouraged from staying inside the house. We had the absolute minimal parental oversight. If we ran into trouble we didn't go to our parents, we figured it out ourselves.
For me it was 5-17 when i moved out.. my mom let be free range. She worked long days, even when married she was still essentially a single mother. Her time with us was limited, but she made the time she was memorable and happy.
Id leave at 10am on a saturday after cartoons, and be back shortly after the street lights came on. I'd usually check in, have dinner and meet my friends again until curfew.
I was drinking out of random sprinklers to survive.
When I turned 16 my dad said I was a man now, I got a job and paid for all my own stuff.
Yes! I have no idea what my mom did all day. I never saw her. I took care of my younger siblings. Then by the time I was 15, I got a job and I paid for everything myself. My parents did not help me with anything.
Yep as soon as we got up outside we went to meet our friends
1978 here. My GRANDPARENTS both lived through the great depression they were the BEST TEACHERS.
I loved my Greatest Generation Grandparents. I got along much better with them than my Silent Generation parents. I related more with them too in so many ways.
@timvandenbrink4461 same.
This is 100% accurate. I am part of Gen X, "i'll give you something to cry about" is why a lot of us are so fuqd up.
These were constantly said in my house…”stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”…”don’t speak unless spoken to”…”children are to be seen and not heard”…”when we go in there, do not embarrass me!!”
Haha. It worked.
Gen X here. We learned to do things for ourselves because our parents were not home. Both parents worked. We had no cell phones, so our parents didn't always know where we were and often didn't care as long as we were home when the street lights came on.. Looking back, I am amazed that we all are not dead from things we did. Many of our parents were so self-involved (boomers are called the "Me Generation" for a reason), that we were only to be seen and not heard. We solved our own problems, because no one else would do it for us. We had to earn everything, nothing was handed to us.
Yep, amazed we survived, but we traveled in packs of feral children all over the neighborhood, to keep the creepy predators away. Plus there were always the random Moms at home to keep us in line. Walked to and from school together, played together in the streets and yards like wild animals and any adult could yell at us to keep us within some kind of limits and we respected that. But the gas station would sell us cigarettes for our grandma because she sent a note saying it was ok. Greatest time ever to be a kid.
It was a hell of a good time though 🙂
That "me" shit is brand new . Entitlement mentality that the entire world has commented on . The boomers were social , and responsible . That is the way it was . Thelat "me" shit has come about with the spread of liberalism
@@hawkuser604 so True, our feral pack was 10 of us. We did everything together. I really did not have family during this time so it was wonderful to be around by buds who were my family.
Remember the "it's 10pm do you know where your kids are?" commercials lol
1971 NYC here. We had to grow up in (and adapt to), a world that was designed for adults….with A LOT less supervision. Our secret weapon was having the “Greatest Generation” for grandparents.
I walked to and from preschool by myself, which today is probably illegal
@TrueFork 😆 And ill-advised even then, like everything else about life. Sometimes, I think our parents may have been both lazy AND stupid. 🤦♀️
A phrase I remember was " but did you die though?".
Facts
11 years old I had a paper out 14 years old I had a full job work at a diner washing dishes for 75 cents an hour
I'm Gen X born in 1968. We were truly a feral generation. We were latchkey kids, locked outside on saturdays, and only came home when the street lights came on. Our parents did not know where we were, nor did they care. We lived by the MacGyver code.
Definitely saw the shift in technology, all in high school💙 My Freshman year we took typing classes on manual typewriters, but by Senior year we were taking a computer programming class.
Same. It’s kind of amazing the things we watched occur in our lives.
Same here. Long live Dot-Matrix printers!!!!
I feel sorry for kids growing up these days. Growing up in the 80's was so much better than it is now.
Gen X here, born in 70. We are the FAFO generation. We do however have our slacker groups as well, just like other generations past and present, that didn't follow same paths as most of us took (and yes, I grew up around a lot of those We called rejects of society, they were your hippie deadheads that followed the propaganda of "peace, love and microdots"). Aside from learned from our grandparents, aunts and uncles, we became self sufficient. As kids, our moms would kick us out the house and told to be home minutes before the street lamps came on or it would be a butt lashing. We grew up with the phrase "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me". We insulted each other for fun, but when it came time to throw down, we threw down. No bs talk, just fists flying and but kicking. At the end we made new friends and greater respect. We had winners and losers, no participation trophies. If you lost, you either work/train harder or just quit. Gen X in the 80's redefined music. We took Rock into a different era. We took Metal and formed Thrash Metal. We took conventional rap and made gangster hard-core. We also fought against a corrupt government infringing on our 1st amendment of free speech by trying to take away our music. VP Al Gore and his cronie wife Tipper Gore created an organization called PMRC to ban Rock/Metal/Rap music due to being ( in their opinion) too offensive, aggressive and explicit, that it promoted sex, drugs, violence and satanism. In the 90's we eventually beat them and the rest is history. There's many YT vids of that, I suggest you check it out and discover why Gen X was the most rebellious generation the government deemed as 😎👍🇺🇸
The Pmrc and there stupid stickers saying. This album may contain. Was probably the best thing to come out of that huge mess. Did the opposite of what they wanted. It drew the kids to the BAD ALBUMS. Albums you might have overlooked or never thought of buying. Might I say mabey a blessing.
@timrankin8737 yeah definitely. Us teenagers at that time had others old enough to buy that 💩 for us. That was the best FU government Gen X could ever achieve with 2 of these 🖕🖕🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎👍🇺🇸
THANK YOU! You explained us perfectly. And we still have that mentality and in our 50s that's going to be necessary from here on out. We got this!!! Hold our beers!
Gen X is anything but slackers. You have the a lot of the things you enjoy because of Gen X! Slackers came after us!
Slacker was a term coined by older boomers who thought unemployed Xers (because there were hardly any jobs ) were "slackers". The boomers sucked up the good jobs. And, the first year Gen Xers graduated into the height of the recession. Highest unemployment since the great depression.
@@nekoti.8-2 sounds a lot like what they’re saying with millennials and Gen Z.
The people who make these videos as well as yourself are only saying the same thing about the generations after them that has been said about generations since the beginning of civilization. Being that generations after there’s represent change and people are terrified of change. And psychologically speaking there are usually two primary reasons to this. Change means that their ways and ideals will no longer be the dominant ways and ideas within society. Also, with newer better technology comes newer discoveries in medical science as well as psychology and if any of these newer tools in medical science and psychology, say that any of their ways of doing things are their ideals are negative to any extent, especially when it comes to the way they parented then they wouldn’t be able to deal with the guilt that would come with accepting that what they were doing turned out to be a mistake.
@@richardcarte There's a tendency to over generalize each generation. I was glad to be born no later than I was. The thing that Gen X had was our numbers were very low versus the mostly older boomers I was working for at the time (since I am first year Gen X). Since we didn't have numbers, we didn't have power. We were treated very poorly in the workplace and I didn't understand how much of this was generational until much much later. But, on some level I knew it intuitively. I was anything but a slacker. I was working 10 to even near 14 hours days at times. When I wasn't, I was leaving to do 4 hours of school after work nearly every night, then study to sometimes 12 when I got home. My weekends were spent either going into work on a Sunday or to labs or library at the college. Sometimes both.
I've seen a lot of hardworking millennials but I think they took maybe a little longer to grow out of their partying years. There are things I noticed about them. They are very group oriented and seem to thrive most when in a group. Whereas, Gen X are ok to go it alone. You might see us out in social settings by ourselves. Versus more rarely will you see a millennial by themselves. I think this goes to childhood where Gen X was left alone in childhood alot. Versus millennials that had organized play dates. We really couldn't have imagined someone organizing a play date for us when younger.
Boomers were a kind of different breed. It's difficult to understand unless you lived it. I genuinely liked the silent Gen (my parents). They were a lot like Xers. They just did and never heard one complaint ever from them. Hence, the silent part of silent Gen.
All generations complain about other generations that's true. But, there are some truths in the stereotypes as well. Boomers aren't horrible people. Many created beautiful things. But they were very hard in the workplace to younger staff.
real talk
This was very accurate. I am an older American Gen X'er, born in '68. We were self sufficient by 5 years old, responsible for siblings by 9, exceptional problem solvers, and always knew there were going to be consequences if we did something wrong, well if we got caught! 😂 As you can tell, we were left unsupervised A LOT of the time!
They did leave out our most famous motto though.... F*ck around and find out! Gen X'ers will never back down from a fight once the alarm is raised! 😊❤😊 No matter how old we get.....and yes our command of the English language is astonishing because we know how to use a dictionary AND a thesaurus! 😂❤
My “Natural Skepticism” came from constantly playing outdoors for hours on end, to being a part time latchkey kid. I learned how to read people and my environmental and situational awareness became very strong.
Our grandfathers were stronger than our fathers our fathers were stronger than us and we are stronger than our offspring
It depends what you mean by strong exactly.
Lol kids today you look at one with a side glance and they running looking for a safe room or safe space 🤣😂🤣
I think Boomers were always weak AF. Never respected their weak characters, esp compared to my grandparents (Depression and wwii gen)
That being said, are GenX men weaker than Boomer men? I don't really think so, in general. Same with Elder Millenials. Seemed to me like the mass weakening began with younger Millenials and their coming of age during the social media boom, among other things like the insane # of childhood vaxxes they got vs us. Srsly - We had ZERO kids with autism or peanut allergies in my area in the 70s and 80s.
I am not sure about that but, I do remember grampa had a heart pacer that with the technology being new, it was bulky and we all got to experience grampa faceplanting dead at our dinner table a couple times till they could emergency get it going (dont even know what grandma and dad did to do that) or get an ambulance.. Grampa never complained about it, always cracked "bah humbug type old man jokes about it or anything" his hobby was stone jewelry making and he and my dad made their own equipment (grinder and saw to cut the stone and polish) he lived till 99 and died slipping off a freaking ladder he was climbing up to fix the garage door. Dad was military and he and my mom and his military buddies, built our first house and a two stall barn w/feed n tack section, and all the fencing on the property. None of them went to school for any of that stuff but, they figured it out and of course Dad did go through proper inspections and all for the electrical and plumbing . lol
@@vi-r22 my great GPA was plowing with mules running a farm all alone at 89
We were daredevils. We played hard and played risky. We got bruised, broken body parts, needed stitches, and all from just having a great time and enjoying life. We used our imaginations and found ways to do things we wanted to do without whining about hiw others were in our way. We found away around those who were in our way. We still do! We still work hard and still are diligent and we do respect authority, but not blindly.
Most of the modern world was built by us as we went through our 20s and 30s. Everyone told us you can't do that. We said, "screw you, watch us" and we did it. We're the exact right amount of insane and crazy to believe completely in ourselves no matter what anyone else tells us. We jumped our bikes across rivers, built rope swings over the edges of steep cliffs. We jumped and fished off train bridges. We had roman candle jousting tournaments on bikes and actual rock fights. We got in fist fights and then shook hands as friends.
Every generation has people like that.
@@mycroft16 every generation has people like that.
@@richardcartebut not every generation had almost the entire generation like that. We looked down on the safe set, so there were very, very few of them
@@richardcarte Yeah but we were full of those people
The people making the videos like to poke fun because they know Millenials and Gen Z are so sensitive. The reaction is funny.
That must be the reason 99.9% of Karen's are X, just to see reactions.
@eonisone Karens are Gen X mutations. They were the minority group of Gen X with super controlling parents.
Especially trying to convince themselves And everyone else that they're still beautiful regardless if they weigh 300 lb😂..
I was just explaining the facts. Maybe one or two fat kids an entire high School existed. Now you have 10 fat kids in every classroom and the parents are trying to say it's normal
@@eonisone Nah - 99.9% of Karen's are Boomers, aka the ME generation. Nice try though.
@@kayciel3268 This is correct. Gen X would mock them, egg their cars and put a burning bag of shit on the Karen's doorstep, then knock and rock.
I’m Gen X and I talk about it and do it!
We were constantly told how good we had and how hard our parents had. They had to walk to school in the snow, the rain, uphill both ways in no boots. How poor they were etc…..
I’m still fearless I got my skydiving license at 55 still jumping regularly at 57.
Ah, it's lastest 2 years anyway. Good luck. 😆😂
1967 from Michigan. If we weren’t bleeding, we weren’t having fun yet!
Real talk
Dead on... born in 79... end of the X. We solve problems, not whine about them... and got scars to prove it
The best parts of Gen X attitude came from our grandparents. Both my grandfathers were WW2 vets and my grandmothers raised 11 children in total. They had infinite wisdom when it came to parenting which our parents ignored at every turn. Dont forget ...our parents were boomers. They were self-centered guilt ridden addicts, burnouts, or yuppies. It played heavily into the cynicism of my generation. All that said, still glad I got to see it all. I dont think my generation is anything special. Just a product of our times.
Truly the best time to have been born. You cannot overstate the analog to digital world we walked through. Such a blessing. Along with the FREEDOM!
I'm a Gen Xer ... practice always over college... I'm 57, I work as Software Architect at a Banking software company, and I don't have any regulated title, never went to university... I learned coding at home, without internet by buying computer magazines and looking at product manuals... found a job as junior developer and started climbing... always learning on the go... most of the traits portrayed in the video are totally true, at least in my case... (I'm also Spanish, but I learned english also by myself .. no language schools, no language training apps :P)
Same same.. I'm about to retire (early) from my 6th career, starting in database programming and ending in what would be data science if I had the actual credentials for it. I make 6 figures and not a single degree. Multiple certifications and directed learning paths. But none of that fluff they try to pad their tuition fees with. Still write my journals in cursive so no one can read them now.
I became a network engineer the same way. I dropped out in 8th grade and did construction and learned networks while doing so. I received my GED, and at first i was a building engineer, but i started doing network engineering when the engineers weren’t around in tight situations, then they posted a job for a network engineer and i swapped. Never looked back. I did get my degree from University of MD after id been doing the job for 15 years. I was around 48. Im 55 now and retired
OMG, sledding behind a car. I'd forgotten that one. Oh hell yes. I already know my wife is gonna be pissed off, but my daughter is gonna love this.
Hokey Bobin😂
You were lucky; you had a sled! We hung onto the bumpers and slid on our boots.
@@latrishabledsoe7766 All these years I never heard that term. We called it "skitchin' "
It's called skitchin' 😂😂😂
@coache1nine we called it hookeybobbin
RUclips is blurring my entire childhood. Lmao. 1972 here WTF ?
Me too!!!😂😊
They want us lame and stupid.
Then the new gen’s are easier to control…
Imagine what the younger kids will have to blur out when they get older!
'67 here. Almost everything about my whole childhood is now illegal and will get child protective services called out if not the police.
@@derekcooley5832 Yup, just read that a mom was arrested for allowing her 10yrld walk to the corner store alone in some state.. I just cant... with some of what's going on today.. my gosh. I remember once out sliding on a frozen lil pond (at about 10) and colliding with a barbed wire fence.. what did I do.. ran to the house to get my dads big chunky polaroid camera.. and a glass of water to wet the cuts on my hand and knee to make them look way more gory that it really was and took some cool pictures of it to show off to siblings and friends. lol it stung like crazy but, meh.. just another random oops and cut.. nothing to cry over.
I’m a gen xer and I remember writing an essay in English class in highschool… it was titled”suck it up”. It was all about not whining and blasting through adversity… how to become a champion. I was 16 years old with this winning attitude
Oh the days before cell/internet addiction... miss them
Back when there were like 6 tv stations lol
Another aspect that the video literaly just glossed through was diversity, (especially in the United States). With segregation ending in the late 50s and the Civil Rights Act in the mid 60s, Gen X was the first generation that all races/colors went to school together. Where all races/colors were friends with each other.Its not that we didnt see or know about racism, its that we just didnt care. That wasnt who we were. We knew who are friends were and it didnt matter what color they were. This is why many Gen X ers get upset when these young kids start talking about racism or calling them racist. We were the first generation to really embrace diversity and now we have younger generations who never experience true racism attempting to bring it all back. Leave racism in the past where it belongs. Sure, there will be the odd racists but the best thing you can do with them is ignore them (unless they get violent) its mostly for show and attention anyway.
100% Being a Gen Xer, it pisses me off how the younger generations latch onto all the BS being spooned fed to them via the internet and mainstream news. No wonder they are so desperate for people to be genuine and authentic. Ask a Gen Xer how you know the racist in the room. They are the ones talking about race all the time. If younger generations spend more time hanging out with each other than glued to their electronic devices looking for an authentic connection, they would be much happier. I would love to see what would happen if the internet and cell phones went MIA for a month. Gen Xers would be cool. We get a break from all the nagging text messages and emails from work and the dam robot callers calling our cell phones 24/7. Millennials, Gen Z, and Alpha would have a complete psychological meltdown. Probably call it the next apocalypse moment for humanity.
Amen to that❤
We grew up with movies like Blazing Saddles which did more to end racism than all government at any levels combined efforts. Not to mention comedians like George Carlin and Richard pryor so we had not only a understanding of twisted humor, we had Carlin who was a philosopher that had a sense of humor who taught us a realistic way to look at the world
@@RobwLPOC you are correct. We were desensitized to the stupidity of racial division.
Don’t be fooled. Boomers were the toughest. My daddy was a welder for an oil company in Louisiana. He used to bog through the swamps to do welding on drilling rigs. While he welded, someone else held up a piece of tin to contain the sparks so that they couldn’t spark off an explosion. He used to leave for a job and mama said he always told her if he died to sue the company for everything she could get. Thank goodness it didn’t come to that. Lol
I don't think anybody is doubting that.
Very true. Gen X here. I was born late 1967 and graduated HS in 1986. If I wanted something I had to earn it. My first job was being a paperboy at age 12 and I had to get up at 4:30 am to put together the papers and get them delivered before 7am. Plus I had to collect payment weekly from the subscribers. Did that until 15 then I worked at Taco Bell till 17 and bought my first car (67 VW Bug) at 16. Then I worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant until I graduated.
I’m November ‘67 birth, we lived parallel lives! I was babysitting at 12 then at Arby’s at 14. My best friend had the neighborhood paper route and I would go help with putting everything together and folding each one (that satisfying tri-fold!) I graduated in ‘85 (my parents put me in school at 4 so was 17 when I graduated) I had attended our Vo-Tech for cosmetology during 11th and 12th grade and had my license before I turned 18. And my first car was a mustard yellow, 1967 VW Beetle that I often had to jump out of at stop lights to prime carburetor if it died!
Take care my friend!!!! ❤
I was born in 85!
@@sagespice85 1985 was a great year - and I bet your folks agree! 😇
Take care. 😊😊
i started roofing at 14 years old and that used to be pretty common . I had friends that were framing at 16 and I personally trained 6 kids from 13 up to roof while i was still under 18. bought my first car at 15 had a company at 19...which failed and learned the lesson never go in partners with anyone. life will take the shape that your efforts allow. if you dont want to put in effort you have no right to complain
Never go in with partnerships 👍, totally agree. But I learned a little backwards. I had my own LLC that was operating great, was talked into another company with 2 other partners. Hated it, dissolved it and walked away with my original company but I didn't learn from that. I also went into business with FOUR other partners. That was a nightmare too. I sold my shares, closed my other company, sold the house, vehicles and all of it. Moved to the Keys, bought sailboat and never looked back.
I’m impressed by your ability to question! Question everything
Gen X Aussie lady here. Agree with ALL of this! Love my Generation. Appreciate you having an open mind about it. Some of your Generation like to talk $h!t about us (You don't. You're respectful, which I like 😊) but good thing about that is.... We're Gen X and we don't care! 🤣🤣
The toughest self reliant generation with the best music and toys America has ever seen & never will again 😊 1966
69 dude!
1962 here 😊
Tonka ftw
You must be talking about FREE LOVE & birth control!!! Woodstock.
All of us from the 1960’s on have been getting weaker & weaker!!
I watch myself & the younger gen’s…. Most of us & ALL THE CITIES would STARVE without the Gov’t.
People make fun of the country folks, WV, mountain kin folks.
Well I for one understand the song : COUNTRY FOLKS WILL SURVIVE!!!
@tarverr.mcknightjr4439 I now live in Princeton West Virginia
1968 here- I’ve watched a a few of your videos now, yes, I have subscribed. I like what you do here, and I think it’s awesome that you are researching the way you are. I will say, the videos, at least this one that you are reacting to, a lot of what they are showing, is older than Gen X- I wish they had used more true Gen X pictures. It’s a little distracting when they’re showing black-and-white, more stuffy old men when I feel like we had more diversity when we were working and had entered the boardrooms. It’s very true what they said- things like DIY or die trying- that sums up the majority of us. And I can tell you honestly, I made plenty of decisions, still do, without asking. I figure my employer should trust me to make the best decisions for the practice, or business I am working on, so if I spend a little extra money upfront, making a decision that I know will save or even earn us more money in the long run, I have every confidence that I’ve done the right thing. Get in trouble later- Or hopefully recognition for doing the right thing. Great stuff you’re doing here, There are many people I know who should be following you. I’ll be sharing your videos. One last thing - we used to get in trouble for jumping off a one-story building into our grandparents swimming pool. That was a hell of a lot of fun!
My husband and his friends jumped off the roof into pools whenever possible. And I know a Gen X RUclipsr who talks about standing on the roof of his house when he would get home from grade school and falling head first into the overgrown juniper bushes with his friends. If you fell out of the bush, you lost. If the bush caught you and you got stuck, you won. 😂😂😂 A more Gen X thing I have never heard.
1968 here too. Loved it!
@@user-DanswifeClass of ‘86 Rules!
Born in 1970 and agree 💯 with the Gen X video.
I'm a gen X and our parents were way tougher than us. The way they were brought up was much more extreme. My dad was one of 9 kids, they grew a lot of their own food, had to go to a well to get water, his dad worked in a coal mine. The entire western world is very soft now and a lot of younger people reflect that easiness of existence
We've gone from *DIY* to *DEI.*
Internet anonymity also changed person to person communication. Any pipsqueak with a big mouth can talk shit all day every day, zero consequence. Back in our time, talking shit had to be done in person, and even the toughest of us risked a black eye or missing teeth. Because "Come say that to my face" initiated the conversation in which the shit-talking lasted maybe two minutes then someone got punched in the face. That was the end of the shit talking. Conversation closed.
We should return to those days.
Yes, we were not allowed to be slackers. Farm kids had a lot more chores than I did, but I had to clean every thing in our house weekly just to earn a measly $5 per week from my parents. I had to babysit constantly for my much younger sisters, starting at the age of 11. And I didn’t get paid for it. By the age of 12, I was doing household laundry and cooking for our household of 7. And I would babysit for pay at several other houses as well, all throughout my middle school and high school years. That’s how I was able to afford new clothing for myself, without having to get secondhand clothing. I also learned to sew so I could make my own clothes. My first job was at a fabric store doing book work, retail sales, and alterations. As soon as I graduated high school I got factory work every summer to support me through college. I had on -campus jobs while in school for my miserly expenses. When I graduated college I couldn’t find work in m area of expertise, so I got more factory work to pay off my college loans. I saved my own money for my wedding expenses and kept working. After kids I worked at home to raise them
Myself and worked from home to support us. I didn’t expect someone else to raise my kids. I did it all. Even homeschooling them. We raised our own food in the garden and stored it up in freezers and jars. We raised livestock to have meat in our freezers for the whole year. Now that the kids are grown and moved out, both my husband I work full time with as many overtime hours as we can get, and there is no retirement in sight . We will probably work until we die. That’s okay. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Hard life, but a good one :) I was the eldest of five myself, cooking and cleaning since about age 5, baby on the hip at age 7, then raised my sister when she came just before I turned 13 because mom was tired of being a mom after baby #4 :) Parents bought a business when I was ten, had to help with the books, baked bread to sell, grew gardens, fished for food, split wood... Spent most of my adult life in the city, but that grew tired, then my mental health told me that's not where I'm meant to be. I'm now back in the woods, out of the rat race, and building a homestead in order to provide a secure, healthy future for my grandchildren :)
So you enjoy your feudalistic slavery ? Because that’s exactly what the 9-to-5 job system is. It is unconstitutional. Our founding fathers would’ve thought we’ve lost our fucking minds.
@@AgnesMariaL it’s sad that you enjoy your feudalistic slavery. Because that’s exactly what the 9-to-5 job system is. It is unconstitutional in our founding fathers would’ve thought we’ve lost our fucking minds for participating in it willingly.
You got an allowance? 😳
@@MsAubrey I never did, as my parents were on welfare until they sold our suburban house and bought an extremely rural business, but all my peers back in suburbia during the early 80's got an allowance.
It was a token sum of money, often given weekly, as appreciation for them looking after younger siblings, taking care of household chores, things like that. Most kids spent it on candy, skateboards, the latest Atari game, things like that... But the SMART kids saved it up, bought lawnmowers etc and had their own businesses by the time they were 15! :)
To this day I clash with a lot of people at work because I am Gen X. Everyone I work with are much younger than me and I am just so tired of others thinking that they can walk all over me.
I can read a map, the sun, and moon! I don’t get lost
As a Gen X woman and mother to two grown sons, I can tell you that as teenagers we NEVER heard about anxiety, depression, and all of the other mental health diagnosis that have plagued your generation! These alleged diagnosis become Gen Z's excuse as barriers and obstacles preventing success therefore reaffirming Gen Z's victimhood and if that wasn't enough , for a generation of ppl that are lazy and don't want to work , they undeservingly have a sense of entitlement!
whoa there, as a Gen x woman and mother of several children I can tell you that yeah, as a teenager I didn't know jack about mental illness, nor did my mother (a doctor) believe that it could affect children and teens, but that doesn't means it's not real or a problem for any generation
@@kristingallaty8301 I understand that, but Gen Z seem to live in a victim mentality state !I think the labels are used by them as excuses for their behavior more often than actual diagnosis!
@@leahreitmeier1506yeah I think it’s more a reaction against Gen x emotional repression though, every Gen swings against the previous. Gen x we’re latchkey and often didn’t have the security of parental guidance. Though it did help them become self sufficient. But at emotional cost. Gen X adulthood also coincided with the rapid rise of anti depressants and anti anxiety medication, and Gen X consistently has the highest suicide rate. Yes those might be outliers that is , a small part of Gen X, but emotional health is lower in Gen X in general . I think that’s why their kids ran with the whole victim thing because Gen X repressed a lot of shit.
@kristingallaty8301 i agree....but there is a huge amount of the younger gens self diagnosing and using it as a crutch for everything. I'm not putting the younger ones down or downplaying mental health at all...I have 2 grown sons, a millennial and a gen Z, myself. I'm just saying it seems like there's a lot of these younger gens turning mental illness into a trend.
Deff strong work ethic, learning early in things like selling cookies in girl scouts, than 10+ babysitting and recycling cans for cash (since small or no allowance), got job at 15-1/2 as soon as I could qualify for workers permit, driver license at 16, it's just what a lot of us were doing :) have a great day (
GenX: Our "mobile phones" were two Dixie cups and a piece of string! 😂
And yes, we DID learn DIY tasks from the grandparents -- because most of us had Boomer parents who pretty much neglected us.
I learned to drive a standard stick-shift when I was 11. Drank from the hose. Rode my bike everywhere without helmets & such. In the late 70's when skateboarding became a "thing", a few of my friends got ticketed by cops for exceeding the 55 MPH speed limit on their skateboards going down the mountain highway.
We had walkie talkies too
As a Gen X kid my 2 favorite childhood activities were trying to make parachutes out of common household items like garbage bags and bed sheets to jump the roof of my parent's house and playing a game of lawn darts, not the plastic tips, the steel tipped ones. Only got into video games between healing from injuries from attempts at being an 8-year-old commando. If you didn't come home bleeding or with broken bones, you just weren't living your best life. And bullies were only a thing until you broke their nose. You Tube is only so sensitive because it's ran by millennials and Gen Z.
Me and my brother would leave early in the morning and not show up til the evening...things have changed so much with this new Era of children
One thing that's missing, is Gen X were probably the main generation that created the internet. While the groundwork was there, we kind of ran with it. That's why Gen X is in the unique before/after with technology. Now, we did get old and not follow it as much, but we get it lol.
As a Gen X myself I appreciate the praise.
But it is only given with HALF A CENTURY to look back upon.
This IS glossing over how "we" were talked about in the 90s... not quite so kindly at the time.
We were considered coddled bc we grew up with TV, VCR and cable tv which were unimaginable luxuries by our parents and grandparents. Walkmans and boombox radios and portable tv were also amazing as well as the desktop computers and cellphones that were available to the general public and not just the ultra elite
We were scoffed at for our "wealth" of luxuries and our evident ingratitude for it.
I often forget this until I hear something like this that make Gen X seem amazing.
We were amazing bc we were kinda pushed off a cliff with a spool of rope, told to hang on tight and good luck.
Those who survived the fall get to nit pick at their kids bc they didn't fall off a cliff too.
Thats ok. The kids can do something like (*culturally) survive a tsunami or 10 pt earthquake
The survivors tell the story anyways
As a generation x’er I’ll never understand why young people are so shocked that we drank from water hoses! It’s not a big deal
And we always tried to remember which houses had the vinyl or plastic type garden hoses so you didn't get that horrible rubber taste 😂
You just had to let the hot water run out first LOL
@@Robert-pl1gd absolutely
A huge advantage Gen X had too was growing up, and at least in our early school years, reciting the Pledge Of Allegiance daily. That changed in our schools for me around grade 5-6 IIRC. And we said UNDER GOD.
I had a beeper! Then a flip phone! Then a blackberry…