Spent the better part of the last two years helping my mom as her health failed. Took a shit ton of energy, while still working full-time. I’m free from that now and am tired, and yes did spend a day last week sitting under the shade of a big tree, no phone, no company and it was good.
Best for everybody if Gen X is quiet, because we're frustrated. Upset and open about being upset Gen X is bad. Bad, because we raised ourselves like packs of animals, and down inside our middle aged bodies we are still fairly primal and a bit savage.
1979 and I agree with this completely. I watched my mom transition to Valhalla when I was 32. Fortunately, I have no kids. I was a teacher full- time taking care of my mom and grandmother... we don't post our daily fucking activities for the whole damn world to see. We get shit done
@@lennybrewster4673my friend and I laughed SO HARD watching the Woodstock 99 documentary. Older folks: "We don't understand why they keep saying "F you we won't do what ya tell us!!!" 💯 too funny
See… the thing is, we (genX) don’t put ourselves, our lives, and our daily doings out on display for all to see. That’s why this young lady doesn’t understand what we’re doing. It’s not broadcasted. 😊
Don't forget being labelled everything under the sun when we espouse an opinion that doesn't match an insane ideology. We now have to share the homes we provide with 25 year old children. Leave us be. You've not got a fucking clue how fucked you'd be without us.
A lot of GenX is taking care of their grandkids as well as their parents right now! We don’t have time to be doing all the things our kids are doing. It’s called RESPONSIBILITY……
Responsibility 💯 THIS! We are at a point in life where our responsibilities take over. Which means we don’t have time to wreak havoc on the Internet and TikTok. Instead, we are quietly in survival mode trying to get through mid life while everyone else wastes their life staring at a small screen. We are the CEO’s of our lives and we know it. We don’t have time to cause trouble. We keep our heads down and get things done. I wish everyone the best of luck.
My mother beat me and my sister mercilessly, but now we’re all she has. My worst fear used to be that she would get Alzheimer’s and start beating us again😂. But it’s cool, she’s a Christian now. 😂
A lot of us Millennials are also helping to take care of our aging parents who had us in their 30’s. Both my parents retired while I was in elementary to middle school.
Watch the portrayals of Gen X in media, especially in the 90s. The sarcastic, apathetic, badass that wants to be left alone. Fairly accurate for the most part.
@@TulipIris7244 Still not seen that film to this day. Just odd clips here and there. It just never interested me. And Yes, I'm an older GenX, with lots of film viewing experience.
Gen X had it by far the easiest of any generation. You were raised by a generation that had seen the draft and wanted a better life for their kids... Thing is they gave y'all too good of a life. Your big struggles were "our parents made us do chores, we didn't have the Internet, and we had to drink from a hose sometimes". Meanwhile y'all could pay for college working a summer job and own a house off managing a grocery store. You took a nation at the height of its power and prosperity, made it all about yourselves, and then said hey millennials fuck you here's that housing crisis we cooked up for you.
Just thought I’d throw something out to you to look up… There’s a small subset of us that are late 70s called Xennials. There are some Gen X things that I don’t understand because I’m not older. There are some millennial things that I do understand a little because I’m so close to that dividing line. Maybe your brother feels the same? Btw, I love the DadBod videos because he’s closer to my age than the older Gen Xers. 👍🏻
@@ambermac77 I can appreciate the sub genre, it makes me feel dirty and not in a good way to call myself that lol. I prefer to admit to being a millennial and let other people go “you are NOT a millennial”. My brother is a five foot eleven, 130 pound walking meat sack of anger and repressed emotions that wrapped his legs and arms around the rail at the front of the pit at Pantera in the 90’s and literally growled like an animal to make the big dudes behind him trying to push up to rail to F off. He’s Gen X, why you trying to get my butt whooped by that man for asking if he feels like a Xennial? Kidding, 20 yrs ago he’d’ve gone off for that kind of talk, we’re too old now 😂 he prolly would tell me I’d lost my mind tho.
Gen x never had it easy. We raised ourselves outside playing our friends. I have been an adult since 5 and I have worked immensely hard and long. We never needed or wanted or expected a trophy. We do what needs to be done. I am grateful for not being a Boomer or a Millennium.
I am a 73 year old "boomer" just repaired our microwave, fixed the broken front door, replacing a radiator in a Nissan Armada, and replaced a wifi router. I have had real jobs since I was 13 and MANY chores before that. We taught Gen xers how to work. Thank you very much. PS I went scuba diving in February this year in Belize.
Fellow veteran and born in 1977. Thank you my brother, this was well said! They just don’t understand that our generation went through the most change as kids, teens, and young adults. We have a certain level of respect among us, and we hold each other accountable for how we conduct ourselves--which is why we frown upon the foolishness.
Thanks for your service from one vet to another but I regret to inform you that you are NOT in anyway shape or form in the club. If you have zero recollection of the seventies and were not out of high school by 1989 you are not Gen-X. Sorry bud! Salut! 🍷💪🏼🏴☠️
@@GenXMafia Not in the club?? Can u not read or do math? 1965-1980. Otherwise they wouldn’t be categorized as “generations”, but decades. It’s regarding a collective experience. It’s not about YOU.
@@ThatsaTechnicalFoul Before there was GenX they referred to the beginning of my generation as the "Baby Bust" 65-66. It was only decades later that "GenX" was even a thing and I wound up retconned into it. There is a big gulf between the 60s and the 70s part of that cohort. For perspective I spent a long time being too young to do any of the cool stuff Boomers took for granted as a rite of passage. First legal beer at 18? Nope raised the drinking age to 19 that year. When I turned 19? Nope national drinking age was raised to 21. Too old for video games. But hey I did get to be the first group that had to register for selective service after it had been abolished for what were the worst of the Boomer generation. Their older brothers got sent to Vietnam. The younger ones became the Yuppies that gutted our industrial base and Marxist/ Maoist college professors that now have tenure and have been twisting up Millenials and Zoomers. Gen X could almost be divided into two generations. The same could be said about Boomers. I still sort of bristle at being called GenX but have resigned myself to it. I had sort of embraced and gotten used to being considered the financially and demographically worthless for marketing and political representation purposes "Baby Bust".
Yeah we just lost our mum last year. We're busy taking care of kids parents and working our jobs. Can't wait till it's our time to retire and have our kids take care of themselves .
This message has been brought to you by all GenX-ers (1967). Dadbod could not have said it any better or more concise than he did and he speaks for all of us. We are taking care of our parents, still highly involved in speaking into the lives of our adult children, and enjoying the beauty of our grandchildren...and we're a little bit tired to say the least. I have come to realize that being a GenX-er is much like being a middle child. Basically, we want peace for everyone and we will do our best to bring that about and we don't want/need a trophy when doing so. This is just simply who we are and what we do. 'Nuf said...
Generation X is just not 65 Age 43 to 58 Gen X is is from 1965 - 1975 Gen Z 1997 - 2012 Millennials 1981 - 1996 Gen X 1965 - 1980 Boomers II 1955 - 1964 Baby Boomers 1920 - 1954
No this is wrong. You missed the silent generation and Xennials. The rest is mixed up there. There are no boomers and then baby boomers. Boomers are baby boomers. Baby boomers parents are the silent generation. Baby boomers kids are people like me Gen X and xennials. But it can get tangly when people have kids later or earlier
All the Gen X I know are doing everything she says we are not. And then some. We are quiet because like always we are busy being responsible,accountable, providing and protecting.
that generation thinks that if you haven't filmed yourself doing something and then posted it on youtube or tiktok then you didn't actually do it. Its like did you even attend a rock concert if there aren't endless photographs to prove it?
Absolutely the truth! We raised ourselves and then raised the next generation we are tired it’s not our job to fix everybody else’s problems! Leave us alone to have some actual downtime and enjoy our lives we deserve it!!
As an X, I can say I out work, out think, and out perform the younger person in every way. And when I call them soft, they go to HR and whine like 7 year old girls.
This is why I refuse to hire anyone under the age of 30. If they show up at all they spend more time on their phones than working or are utter fuckups.
Sitting on the porch in a favourite chair, beer in hand and snacks by my side....... Watching the world heat up ...... Like a cake full of crazy, rising and ready to pop.
I just wanna say as a 37 year old man. Millennial. I take care of my family, hold my own. Don’t complain and just keep trucking. Learned from my elders how survive and take care of my own. There’s still younger generations grinding and not expecting others to take care of us !
As a 71 model I just got my son graduated and taking care of my 74 year old father with early dementia. I have been doing all of this as a single father for last 5 years
IMO that is exactly what we have been doing...letting the next generation get a head start. We are coming behind a generation that still won't let go of the world and look where we are now.
This is so much the reality, it's gotten ridiculous. All these really old people still trying to run our lives and countries, when they should have gone for a relaxing seat in the sunshine decades ago. But the Boomers are still there, sadly, still feckin things up.
i see things like this and chuckle, me in my mid 40's still working my factory and warehouse jobs pushing myself to the breaking point and the young ones complaining saying it's too much, had a young one start the other day, quit after 6 hours, a 12 hour factory shift is too much i guess, and while i don't begrudge him, hey find your happiness young one, understand us older ones will and can do anything, we can eat poop if we have to and still smile after it all, we can take on anything, it's not that we want to it's that we'll get done what needs to get donenot so sure about the youngings but hopefully they get there in time ((as for the 12 hour shift, it sounds harsh but it's not, we work 3 12 hour shifts, show up on time they pay you for 40 and get 4 days off like i thought it was all about getting time to be you))
As someone who has worked in fast food for nearly thirty years I can relate lol The teens find it hilarious I can and do run circles around them, I find it hilariously sad
I'm 54 and I work the similar 12 hour schedule with one week being 3 days and the next being 4 days with the same amount of days off in a row every other week. After I finished my tour in the Persian Gulf war and afterwards wasted two years of my life in college before I realized it wasn't for me. I've busted my ass from 25 years old until 52 years old averaging about 60+ hours a week sometimes even as early as two years ago putting in 85 hours in a week. Not anymore as I've paid my dues over the many decades as now I just do my 12 hour work schedule and being with my current employer 22 years has afforded me 7 weeks of vacation year coupled with my normal weekly days off I'm finally slowing down and enjoying life a little more, but the kids of today they want what I have and more immediately. I've worked hard over the decades and you know I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world as that was my purpose and I enjoyed my work and the people I work with. I've raised my kids and now it's their turn as I sent them off into the military to turn them into productive adults.
Hard Times Create Good Men, Good Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men...Be Strong Gen Xers, Because we're the only ones holding this sh1t show together!!
I got tired of turning millionaires into billionaires after I left the Army. I retired to the Philippines with the prettiest little lady that ever came out of Asia when I turned 54. Good luck to all of you still struggling in America. Save a little of that social security for me.
I simply don't have enough energy to restrain all of the hate in my heart for the dumb-ass generations ours was surrounded by. I conserve it by staying away from them.
Love this. I have always said that if I had and believed in a spirit animal, it would be a bear. I like to eat, I like a long nap sometimes, I'm big, I'm an elder GenX'er who learned survival skills because they were needed to get me here, and I'm usually cuddly and friendly. But, I also have three young daughters that I love more than life. So please, younglings...listen to the wise video sage's advice. Don't poke the bear. You don't realize how dangerous that can be.
Love your posts.❤ When I was a young Boomer, I feared Gen X would amount to naught. I lamented my fellow Boomers raising latchkey kids. Where were their Moms? At work. 😢 Where were their Dads? Many only showed up on weekends/holidays.Yet here I am, hearing that thousands of you turned out just like your Grandparents, and like thousands of we Boomers. Hard working, tax paying, responsible citizens. Thousands of us Boomers took care of our Greatest Generation parents (even when many of them weren't 😢) The kids are alright. 🇺🇲🍺
I love the whole thing!! Just an additional point, the gentlelady seems to have some genuine curiosity about X, which i consider a good thing in a me-me-me world. In general I love it when anybody stops and thinks, "you know, what DO you do all the time?"
We Gen-X made so much noise back in the day in our struggle with “the man” that it is now our time to sit back and enjoy our fruits and see what this new generation can do. Seedless weed for one thing is a major plus.
Yup still paying off my millennial’s college tuition. Arranged it so my gen z daughter has free college (moving states, changing jobs at a great loss to ourselves) and she doesn’t want to go to college now. She doesn’t know what she wants to be or to do. Guess what she has to get a stupid job doing anything she can now. Just like her parents did. So much for wanting better for our kids at least the millennials a college graduate and working full time now. Too bad I co-signed her college. Retiring sounds lovely after working for 40 years already. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I’m a younger Gen X. I was late to the parenting game. I have one kid who is in middle school. He’s already saying he doesn’t want to do college. I’m trying to not pressure him like I got pressured as a kid, because I tried college for several semesters over many years. I never got my degree, and I still have lots of student loans to pay off. 🤦🏼♀️ I’m hoping he comes around, though, because he’s a much better student than I was in school. My husband has a Masters in business administration. Even with ADHD, he was able to do it. Our son and I both have ADHD as well. He’s hyperactive type and I’m inattentive type. Anyway, I hope your daughter chooses what works for her. It’s a tough decision.
College isn't necessarily better anymore. Have you seen how kids are coming out of those institutions now? Damn near brain dead, being taught by people with zero experience in what they're majoring in. How many college professors teaching MBA programs ever even owned a business? Probably less than 1%. Today, college is mostly a scam. You just saved yourself a ton of crippling debt.
Circa 1968. Busted my hump since I was 5. Worked so hard, my body’s falling apart now. That said, you do not want to mess with us. Even bent & w/ some of our parts missing, you don’t want to rile us. “Homey don’t play that.”
I literally just sat down after "doing something" all day hoping to be entertained for a few minutes before starting dinner for the family, just to be told we're not doing anything. I guess break time's over. WTF
1967, held a job since age 14, we don't complain, we're tough and resilient, we know how to take care of things and figure out any problem. I speak for us all. Don't bother me. Signed, Gen X
As a gen x, let us be, don’t poke a giant bear with a hot stick! 😂 We are just doing “life” things and taking care of business so for your well being young lady don’t worry about it!❤
Im busy raising and homeschooling a drug-addicted millenial couple's child, now ours, while in long-term recovery from a stroke AND helping my wife in her long-term recovery from breast cancer all while dealing with the last years of my mother's life, having buried my father and a brother. Kinda busy.
I agree we are forgotten... We accept it. When we are needed, please do not hope we care how the shite gets done, just leave the critism out when it's fixed!
"rip your arms off and beat you with it" An perfect phrase for the generation that grew up with the og Star wars. As a fellow genX, i appreciate you, sir.
As a Gen X’er, I stand behind this message. Don’t start none. Won’t be none. It’s a simple philosophy. I don’t want grandkids and I don’t need them. Handling your business is on you.
GenX. My Millenial kids are living with me, along with one's spouse, my grandkid, and a mom and her kids because my grieving process after I lost my husband was to take care of people. For a majority of the lot, was supposed to be a temporary situation. I'm so very tired. I get the challenges of today's economy, but I'm done. They have been notified of Das Boot that's coming so I don't feel as much guilt administering Das Boot.
As I crest into the fifth decade on this journey I note children in University, parents in Care and Bills coming from both. Gen X is too busy carrying everything for everyone else to do much of anything else. Leave us be, leave us be…
What am I doing. Lets see. Working to provide. Providing support for the kids who moved out already. Trying to teach the youngest one stuff you need to know to be able to cope with the world. Minding my own f'ing business. As should you.
They keep calling out Gen X like it's supposed to hurt our feelings, not realizing how thick our skin is because of being Gen X. I'm just flattered they spend so much time thinking about us because I don't think about them at all.
I spent A LOT of my childhood in my bedroom. I just preferred it that way. 😂 I was used to being ignored by my boomer parents and my much younger millennial siblings. I only came out for school, rare “family time”, food, to use the bathroom, go on a bike ride, or go to a friend’s house over the weekend. I just wanted my family to leave me the hell alone.
My three children were very upset when i said i was moving to México. They even asked who was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. 😂😂 They asked what about your grandkids. Been 5 years living in México. I like the sound of the birds not kids . 😂 Enjoy your content!
This video couldn't have come to my screen at a more perfect time. In the process of doing exactly as you said and transitioning into a grandfather that comes to visit instead of pays the bills. Sure I worry about and love my kids and grandkids, but I am tired and it is time I pursue my own dreams instead of working to fund theirs.
Born in January of 1965...first year of GenX...very good summarization of in my thinking. Thank you for what you do...your talks are better than anything I could expect out of my company's EAP.
The Gospel of GenX continues…and yet people still …do… not… listen… We of the Latchkey, the Outside, the OG Struggle Meals and the Real Fisticuffs …we earned our grays and wisdom from relying on self and expect others to follow suit.
This new generation has no clue what ww went through (1970)!! Generations before us worked harder they were our examples. We also have respect for our elders as well even if we didn't agree with them !!! We were latch key kids most of raising ourselves & looking after younger siblings. It boils my blood to hear them complain. Ive been working since 10 years of age. Started helping with chores younger. So no wonder why all us gen xers are tired!!!!! We need a break & dont want no damn drama (peace)!!!!
Thank you Sir! As a Gen-Xer who's been working since I was 12, put myself through school, grateful to have a roof over my head and food on the table but parents only in sight to tell me what to do when i was doing bad, now taking care of them as they are dying, doing the best I can while working full time because there is nobody to take care of me but me and God. Sorry to this young woman FILMING HERSELF while laying in bed under the covers with no shirt on in her bonnet, asking why I'm not throwing barbecues. I'm still healthy and strong as all get out at 56, but I'm freakin exhausted. Get the f out of bed, put some clothes on, have some self-respect and throw your own damn barbecue!
I saw a teenager loose his mind trying to play hasbro's operation. We aren't the same and you don't want to test those differences. We laughed when we made our friends cry.
You're the epitome of our generation Sir! Keep up the outstanding work the stellar representation of the fine citizens known as genX! 🇺🇸🗽 this is the vid that finally made me sub!
GenX here. We are unseen. We act in silence, we live as unseen. You do not see us because we do not WANT you to see us. We are comfortable this way. If you see us, that means we have failed in some manner... or that we WANTED you to see us. Which almost never happens. Trust me, you are better off not seeing us... and safer, too. Let us go. Worry about Millenials and GenZ. They need your concern much more than we do.
Gen x has a fire that can't be put out and grows fast when stoked. Stay strong for i fear we will be the last to fight and need to give the spark to our children! My spark has definitely passed.
Born in '71. Took care of my boomer dad for 5 years after his stroke. At the same time I took in and am raising my grandson. Not one regret on either decision. I dont post my life on FB, IG, or X. Keeping our business to ourselves ensures that we are a mystery to others. I'll continue to watch from the sideline bench while others drown themselves in bottomless drama. Dont bother wondering where we're at. We know where you're at, thats why we're not there.
You sir are a breath of fresh air. I was born in 1979. I transitioned my mother to Valhalla 11 years ago. I have no kids so i can be left in peace. Everything about this resonates in my soul
1968'er here. Our biggest folly may have been the creation of the Millennials This is one that we have to own, folks. We will need to live into our 80's or 90's to make up for that. I do, however, have some Gen Z's coming up that have promise, then there is what I can do to influence the grandkids following them..... Crap, I may need to hang around till 100 or so. Well, if anyone can do it, GenX can. We may be the final hope for a different future, before we enter Valhalla.
the clash between generations is just sad. We're products of our environment and the time period in which we grew up, so differences will be there no matter what even within the same gen.
When something is done well, it seems effortless. There is a reason you don’t notice us.
"People only notice you when you fuck-up!"
"Nobody ever notices Gen-X!"
This should tell these dumb-asses something. Should.
Well said!
No doubt… 🤘🏽
I cannot express how much I love this statement.
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As a Gen X’r , I can’t speak for all , but I’m sure most will agree. Leave us be .
The Gospel of GenX is being spread far and wide and yet remains ignored. Please leave us be. (1970)
Some of us aren’t as polite with the leave us alone, my go to is fuck off 🤣
polite doesn't work anymore, so fuck off does get the point across.
It's like that video of the guy hitting a wall and different generations and their reaction. Well Gen X was not fazed!
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Finally, after 50+ years, a voice for Gen X. Thank you kind sir.
Spent the better part of the last two years helping my mom as her health failed. Took a shit ton of energy, while still working full-time. I’m free from that now and am tired, and yes did spend a day last week sitting under the shade of a big tree, no phone, no company and it was good.
As you should! Enjoy your glory days ahead!
@@thedadbodveteran Thank you man, will do. Keep preaching truth!
Kudos to you my fellow GenX. Enjoy the relief.
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@@EllyQueue I think you, it’s a new life really. Looking forward to it.
Best for everybody if Gen X is quiet, because we're frustrated. Upset and open about being upset Gen X is bad. Bad, because we raised ourselves like packs of animals, and down inside our middle aged bodies we are still fairly primal and a bit savage.
And we turned out JUST FINE. Why does everyone see something wrong with us but us🤭🤔
Truth.
Yeah the comment about don't poke is. We're like a wild tiger gonna rip your arm off is wholly accurate.
And what we lack in brawn, we are abundant with firepower.
I prefer the phrase "Beat a MF'er with a MF'er" in this circumstance.
As a fellow GenXer (1968), I approve this message.
"I approve this message"! 😂😍 That's the X approach as i know it: "that guy said it right!" That's this X's approach anyhow
@Miss Understanding "Miss Understanding" now that's a fun name! You must be some kind of kindred spirit for sure😁
As a 1985er I approve!!
May I also add; if they look in the mirror they should probably see it was built by a gen x “er”
1969 here,yup, right there with ya on this.
1979 and I agree with this completely. I watched my mom transition to Valhalla when I was 32. Fortunately, I have no kids. I was a teacher full- time taking care of my mom and grandmother... we don't post our daily fucking activities for the whole damn world to see. We get shit done
lol not sure why everyone thinks we have disappeared. We were never in the limelight. The forgotten generation and we like it that way.
Nobody could figure us out. It was hilarious
we grew up knowing it was better to not be noticed, you could do a lot more that way.
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Can I get an amen?
@@lennybrewster4673my friend and I laughed SO HARD watching the Woodstock 99 documentary. Older folks: "We don't understand why they keep saying "F you we won't do what ya tell us!!!" 💯 too funny
See… the thing is, we (genX) don’t put ourselves, our lives, and our daily doings out on display for all to see. That’s why this young lady doesn’t understand what we’re doing. It’s not broadcasted. 😊
Yes!
Big A$$ Facts!!! ❤
Fuckin A right
Faaaaaaaactssssss
Amen
I'm 43. I'm tired, my joints hurt, and I've rendered insane by years of having to deal with morons.
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Right!?!?! I've went full hermit for their sakes, these kids should be glad they don't see my cranky feral ass 😂
Don't forget being labelled everything under the sun when we espouse an opinion that doesn't match an insane ideology. We now have to share the homes we provide with 25 year old children.
Leave us be. You've not got a fucking clue how fucked you'd be without us.
Yes, morons are everywhere these days
A lot of GenX is taking care of their grandkids as well as their parents right now! We don’t have time to be doing all the things our kids are doing. It’s called RESPONSIBILITY……
Responsibility 💯 THIS! We are at a point in life where our responsibilities take over. Which means we don’t have time to wreak havoc on the Internet and TikTok. Instead, we are quietly in survival mode trying to get through mid life while everyone else wastes their life staring at a small screen. We are the CEO’s of our lives and we know it. We don’t have time to cause trouble. We keep our heads down and get things done. I wish everyone the best of luck.
My mother beat me and my sister mercilessly, but now we’re all she has. My worst fear used to be that she would get Alzheimer’s and start beating us again😂. But it’s cool, she’s a Christian now. 😂
Literally THAT ☝🏼😑
@@ProbablyStonedCommentsSame here and guess who's taking care of her mia the oldest!!
A lot of us Millennials are also helping to take care of our aging parents who had us in their 30’s. Both my parents retired while I was in elementary to middle school.
Watch the portrayals of Gen X in media, especially in the 90s. The sarcastic, apathetic, badass that wants to be left alone. Fairly accurate for the most part.
“Bueller… Bueller …. Bueller”
@@TulipIris7244 Still not seen that film to this day. Just odd clips here and there. It just never interested me. And Yes, I'm an older GenX, with lots of film viewing experience.
Gen X had it by far the easiest of any generation. You were raised by a generation that had seen the draft and wanted a better life for their kids... Thing is they gave y'all too good of a life. Your big struggles were "our parents made us do chores, we didn't have the Internet, and we had to drink from a hose sometimes". Meanwhile y'all could pay for college working a summer job and own a house off managing a grocery store. You took a nation at the height of its power and prosperity, made it all about yourselves, and then said hey millennials fuck you here's that housing crisis we cooked up for you.
As a millennial (1985) with a gen x brother (1979) these videos are like poetic essays that speak to my soul. Thank you sir.
Just thought I’d throw something out to you to look up… There’s a small subset of us that are late 70s called Xennials. There are some Gen X things that I don’t understand because I’m not older. There are some millennial things that I do understand a little because I’m so close to that dividing line. Maybe your brother feels the same?
Btw, I love the DadBod videos because he’s closer to my age than the older Gen Xers. 👍🏻
You are gen x because Gen x doesn't end till 1984 and since you have a bro born as Gen x you are grandfathered in
@@mikejohnson7825 Gen X ends in 1980.
@ambermac77 in what world I have been called Gen x since I was 7. I was.born in 81
@@ambermac77 I can appreciate the sub genre, it makes me feel dirty and not in a good way to call myself that lol. I prefer to admit to being a millennial and let other people go “you are NOT a millennial”. My brother is a five foot eleven, 130 pound walking meat sack of anger and repressed emotions that wrapped his legs and arms around the rail at the front of the pit at Pantera in the 90’s and literally growled like an animal to make the big dudes behind him trying to push up to rail to F off.
He’s Gen X, why you trying to get my butt whooped by that man for asking if he feels like a Xennial? Kidding, 20 yrs ago he’d’ve gone off for that kind of talk, we’re too old now 😂 he prolly would tell me I’d lost my mind tho.
Gen x never had it easy. We raised ourselves outside playing our friends. I have been an adult since 5 and I have worked immensely hard and long. We never needed or wanted or expected a trophy. We do what needs to be done. I am grateful for not being a Boomer or a Millennium.
Millennial?
Bullshit
Yes.
I like Millennials, it's gen Z that scares me lol
I am a 73 year old "boomer" just repaired our microwave, fixed the broken front door, replacing a radiator in a Nissan Armada, and replaced a wifi router. I have had real jobs since I was 13 and MANY chores before that. We taught Gen xers how to work. Thank you very much.
PS I went scuba diving in February this year in Belize.
Fellow veteran and born in 1977. Thank you my brother, this was well said! They just don’t understand that our generation went through the most change as kids, teens, and young adults. We have a certain level of respect among us, and we hold each other accountable for how we conduct ourselves--which is why we frown upon the foolishness.
Thanks for your service from one vet to another but I regret to inform you that you are NOT in anyway shape or form in the club. If you have zero recollection of the seventies and were not out of high school by 1989 you are not Gen-X. Sorry bud! Salut! 🍷💪🏼🏴☠️
@@GenXMafia Not in the club?? Can u not read or do math? 1965-1980. Otherwise they wouldn’t be categorized as “generations”, but decades. It’s regarding a collective experience. It’s not about YOU.
@@ThatsaTechnicalFoul Before there was GenX they referred to the beginning of my generation as the "Baby Bust" 65-66. It was only decades later that "GenX" was even a thing and I wound up retconned into it. There is a big gulf between the 60s and the 70s part of that cohort. For perspective I spent a long time being too young to do any of the cool stuff Boomers took for granted as a rite of passage. First legal beer at 18? Nope raised the drinking age to 19 that year. When I turned 19? Nope national drinking age was raised to 21. Too old for video games. But hey I did get to be the first group that had to register for selective service after it had been abolished for what were the worst of the Boomer generation. Their older brothers got sent to Vietnam. The younger ones became the Yuppies that gutted our industrial base and Marxist/ Maoist college professors that now have tenure and have been twisting up Millenials and Zoomers.
Gen X could almost be divided into two generations. The same could be said about Boomers. I still sort of bristle at being called GenX but have resigned myself to it. I had sort of embraced and gotten used to being considered the financially and demographically worthless for marketing and political representation purposes "Baby Bust".
Also .. it's not our job to do it! THIS! I've been repeating this line a few hundred times!
@@GenXMafiaborn in 73 graduated in 91 and yes I am gen x
I do not like these people trying to call us out! Taking care of aging parents is the hardest thing I've ever done. Do not start with me!
Same
Ditto
Right here with you 🌻
Yeah we just lost our mum last year. We're busy taking care of kids parents and working our jobs. Can't wait till it's our time to retire and have our kids take care of themselves .
I hear this. You’re not alone, friend. It’s rough.
This message has been brought to you by all GenX-ers (1967). Dadbod could not have said it any better or more concise than he did and he speaks for all of us. We are taking care of our parents, still highly involved in speaking into the lives of our adult children, and enjoying the beauty of our grandchildren...and we're a little bit tired to say the least. I have come to realize that being a GenX-er is much like being a middle child. Basically, we want peace for everyone and we will do our best to bring that about and we don't want/need a trophy when doing so. This is just simply who we are and what we do. 'Nuf said...
I've done my duty. My parents are in Valhalla, we have no kids.
We want to be LEFT ALONE!
Generation X is just not 65
Age 43 to 58
Gen X is is from 1965 - 1975
Gen Z 1997 - 2012
Millennials 1981 - 1996
Gen X 1965 - 1980
Boomers II 1955 - 1964
Baby Boomers 1920 - 1954
No this is wrong. You missed the silent generation and Xennials. The rest is mixed up there. There are no boomers and then baby boomers. Boomers are baby boomers. Baby boomers parents are the silent generation. Baby boomers kids are people like me Gen X and xennials. But it can get tangly when people have kids later or earlier
@@alricaneshama Same. No kids, parents gone. Stay away from me.
@@jetta.silence6356 My parents were Silent Generation. I was born in 1973.
All the Gen X I know are doing everything she says we are not. And then some. We are quiet because like always we are busy being responsible,accountable, providing and protecting.
You mean gen x yes?
@@paulamcdonald6568
I sure did! Thanks. See I’m currently watching my grandchildren and taking care of my mother with dementia!
I’ve made that mistake before, too… saying Gen Z when I meant Gen X. Lol
@@ambermac77
😂 I’m glad I’m not alone!
We do all the things she mentioned. We just do it quietly and without a fuss.
And without the need or desire to post it online.
that generation thinks that if you haven't filmed yourself doing something and then posted it on youtube or tiktok then you didn't actually do it.
Its like did you even attend a rock concert if there aren't endless photographs to prove it?
Absolutely the truth! We raised ourselves and then raised the next generation we are tired it’s not our job to fix everybody else’s problems! Leave us alone to have some actual downtime and enjoy our lives we deserve it!!
Amen! Trying to explain that to my grown adult children. Nah.. I'm retiring from being responsible for your life.
Sometimes, I think you're too easy on the younger generations. You nailed this one, though.
As an X, I can say I out work, out think, and out perform the younger person in every way. And when I call them soft, they go to HR and whine like 7 year old girls.
7 year old boys whine worse than girls these days.
No they don't whine like a 7yr old. That is a GenXsquared person. They are nearly as feral as we
This is why I refuse to hire anyone under the age of 30. If they show up at all they spend more time on their phones than working or are utter fuckups.
@@autophreaktrishield Hey look I found the edgelord!
Sitting on the porch in a favourite chair, beer in hand and snacks by my side....... Watching the world heat up ...... Like a cake full of crazy, rising and ready to pop.
You better check yourself before you wreck yourself 😂❤Mommy’s old and tired.
Do Millennials and Gen Zers even know what that phrase means?? 😂 I haven’t heard it I think since high school. I feel so old. 🤣
I just wanna say as a 37 year old man. Millennial. I take care of my family, hold my own. Don’t complain and just keep trucking. Learned from my elders how survive and take care of my own. There’s still younger generations grinding and not expecting others to take care of us !
Once again perfection! We are doing all of that and more we just aren't as concerned with posting it to social media to prove it to anyone.
As a 71 model I just got my son graduated and taking care of my 74 year old father with early dementia. I have been doing all of this as a single father for last 5 years
We are the keepers of the Torch 🔥
I'm tired.
Someone else can have my goddamn torch.
I just want everyone to GO AWAY!
We are also a dying breed.
As a member of this generation I thank you for educating the younger generation
IMO that is exactly what we have been doing...letting the next generation get a head start. We are coming behind a generation that still won't let go of the world and look where we are now.
3 generations will have to pry the torch from the boomers stiff dead fingers
This is so much the reality, it's gotten ridiculous. All these really old people still trying to run our lives and countries, when they should have gone for a relaxing seat in the sunshine decades ago. But the Boomers are still there, sadly, still feckin things up.
From one Gen X to another. Well said my good man!
😎 …. Truth 💯
i see things like this and chuckle, me in my mid 40's still working my factory and warehouse jobs pushing myself to the breaking point and the young ones complaining saying it's too much, had a young one start the other day, quit after 6 hours, a 12 hour factory shift is too much i guess, and while i don't begrudge him, hey find your happiness young one, understand us older ones will and can do anything, we can eat poop if we have to and still smile after it all, we can take on anything, it's not that we want to it's that we'll get done what needs to get donenot so sure about the youngings but hopefully they get there in time ((as for the 12 hour shift, it sounds harsh but it's not, we work 3 12 hour shifts, show up on time they pay you for 40 and get 4 days off like i thought it was all about getting time to be you))
I left manufacturing after 25 years. Don't miss it. I work in the food industry now. Best of luck to you!
As someone who has worked in fast food for nearly thirty years I can relate lol The teens find it hilarious I can and do run circles around them, I find it hilariously sad
I'm 54 and I work the similar 12 hour schedule with one week being 3 days and the next being 4 days with the same amount of days off in a row every other week. After I finished my tour in the Persian Gulf war and afterwards wasted two years of my life in college before I realized it wasn't for me. I've busted my ass from 25 years old until 52 years old averaging about 60+ hours a week sometimes even as early as two years ago putting in 85 hours in a week. Not anymore as I've paid my dues over the many decades as now I just do my 12 hour work schedule and being with my current employer 22 years has afforded me 7 weeks of vacation year coupled with my normal weekly days off I'm finally slowing down and enjoying life a little more, but the kids of today they want what I have and more immediately. I've worked hard over the decades and you know I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world as that was my purpose and I enjoyed my work and the people I work with. I've raised my kids and now it's their turn as I sent them off into the military to turn them into productive adults.
Hard Times Create Good Men, Good Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men...Be Strong Gen Xers, Because we're the only ones holding this sh1t show together!!
😂So true! Everyone else is too self involved...as always it's up to us! Hugs❤.
We’re still here, but unlike some later gens we don’t feel the need to announce our presence to the world 24/7. We’re not a ‘look-at-me’ generation.
I got tired of turning millionaires into billionaires after I left the Army. I retired to the Philippines with the prettiest little lady that ever came out of Asia when I turned 54. Good luck to all of you still struggling in America. Save a little of that social security for me.
Gen X is too damn busy working our Arses off being that things are to expensive! A lot of us will not have retirement!
This is fucking brilliant. Needs to play on a loop.
Got my subscription. We will proudly let you speak on behalf of the last generation that isn't drunk on our own narcissism
I simply don't have enough energy to restrain all of the hate in my heart for the dumb-ass generations ours was surrounded by. I conserve it by staying away from them.
Love this. I have always said that if I had and believed in a spirit animal, it would be a bear. I like to eat, I like a long nap sometimes, I'm big, I'm an elder GenX'er who learned survival skills because they were needed to get me here, and I'm usually cuddly and friendly. But, I also have three young daughters that I love more than life. So please, younglings...listen to the wise video sage's advice. Don't poke the bear. You don't realize how dangerous that can be.
Love your posts.❤ When I was a young Boomer, I feared Gen X would amount to naught. I lamented my fellow Boomers raising latchkey kids. Where were their Moms? At work. 😢 Where were their Dads? Many only showed up on weekends/holidays.Yet here I am, hearing that thousands of you turned out just like your Grandparents, and like thousands of we Boomers. Hard working, tax paying, responsible citizens. Thousands of us Boomers took care of our Greatest Generation parents (even when many of them weren't 😢)
The kids are alright. 🇺🇲🍺
I love the whole thing!! Just an additional point, the gentlelady seems to have some genuine curiosity about X, which i consider a good thing in a me-me-me world. In general I love it when anybody stops and thinks, "you know, what DO you do all the time?"
She lost by asking for BBQs, babysitting and ya know ... Trying to say we aren't responsible for her children.
We Gen-X made so much noise back in the day in our struggle with “the man” that it is now our time to sit back and enjoy our fruits and see what this new generation can do. Seedless weed for one thing is a major plus.
Amen brother preach on!!!!
Yup still paying off my millennial’s college tuition. Arranged it so my gen z daughter has free college (moving states, changing jobs at a great loss to ourselves) and she doesn’t want to go to college now. She doesn’t know what she wants to be or to do. Guess what she has to get a stupid job doing anything she can now. Just like her parents did. So much for wanting better for our kids at least the millennials a college graduate and working full time now. Too bad I co-signed her college. Retiring sounds lovely after working for 40 years already. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I’m a younger Gen X. I was late to the parenting game. I have one kid who is in middle school. He’s already saying he doesn’t want to do college. I’m trying to not pressure him like I got pressured as a kid, because I tried college for several semesters over many years. I never got my degree, and I still have lots of student loans to pay off. 🤦🏼♀️ I’m hoping he comes around, though, because he’s a much better student than I was in school. My husband has a Masters in business administration. Even with ADHD, he was able to do it. Our son and I both have ADHD as well. He’s hyperactive type and I’m inattentive type.
Anyway, I hope your daughter chooses what works for her. It’s a tough decision.
@ambermac77 Trade schools are better. They won't turn your kids into communists or activists, either.
College isn't necessarily better anymore. Have you seen how kids are coming out of those institutions now? Damn near brain dead, being taught by people with zero experience in what they're majoring in. How many college professors teaching MBA programs ever even owned a business? Probably less than 1%. Today, college is mostly a scam. You just saved yourself a ton of crippling debt.
Circa 1968. Busted my hump since I was 5. Worked so hard, my body’s falling apart now. That said, you do not want to mess with us. Even bent & w/ some of our parts missing, you don’t want to rile us.
“Homey don’t play that.”
Pay attention young people.. You're on your own now
I literally just sat down after "doing something" all day hoping to be entertained for a few minutes before starting dinner for the family, just to be told we're not doing anything. I guess break time's over. WTF
1967, held a job since age 14, we don't complain, we're tough and resilient, we know how to take care of things and figure out any problem. I speak for us all. Don't bother me. Signed, Gen X
As a gen x, let us be, don’t poke a giant bear with a hot stick! 😂 We are just doing “life” things and taking care of business so for your well being young lady don’t worry about it!❤
Yep spoken well.. most dangerous people are the ones who just want to be left alone! Model 1973 X
Im busy raising and homeschooling a drug-addicted millenial couple's child, now ours, while in long-term recovery from a stroke AND helping my wife in her long-term recovery from breast cancer all while dealing with the last years of my mother's life, having buried my father and a brother. Kinda busy.
We somewhere minding our business enjoying peace lol. As he said, don't poke the bear😮
I agree we are forgotten... We accept it. When we are needed, please do not hope we care how the shite gets done, just leave the critism out when it's fixed!
"rip your arms off and beat you with it"
An perfect phrase for the generation that grew up with the og Star wars.
As a fellow genX, i appreciate you, sir.
As a Gen X’er, I stand behind this message. Don’t start none. Won’t be none. It’s a simple philosophy. I don’t want grandkids and I don’t need them. Handling your business is on you.
Bro, got chills when he said this world is no longer OUR RESPONSIBILITY, It’s Yours. Yes, will be quitting time for us all soon. 🎉
GenX. My Millenial kids are living with me, along with one's spouse, my grandkid, and a mom and her kids because my grieving process after I lost my husband was to take care of people. For a majority of the lot, was supposed to be a temporary situation. I'm so very tired. I get the challenges of today's economy, but I'm done. They have been notified of Das Boot that's coming so I don't feel as much guilt administering Das Boot.
This man is both a gentleman AND a scholar. Thank you, sir. We are tired indeed.
"While you sleep, I destroy your world.." The main thing is whatever we are doing we are probably not documenting all of it on social media.
Don’t worry, we didn’t go anywhere and we are always watching, everything!! We are that thing that goes bump in the night.
Preach brother. Thank you.
While watching this, a single tear rolled down my cheek. That tear then turned into a bald eagle and flew away.
As I crest into the fifth decade on this journey I note children in University, parents in Care and Bills coming from both. Gen X is too busy carrying everything for everyone else to do much of anything else. Leave us be, leave us be…
The most dangerous of us are the ones who will apologize while they are still beating you up.
😂😂😂
What am I doing. Lets see. Working to provide. Providing support for the kids who moved out already. Trying to teach the youngest one stuff you need to know to be able to cope with the world.
Minding my own f'ing business. As should you.
❤ this man's voice, accent and vocabulary.
We like being in the background. Leave us alone.
They keep calling out Gen X like it's supposed to hurt our feelings, not realizing how thick our skin is because of being Gen X. I'm just flattered they spend so much time thinking about us because I don't think about them at all.
I sent myself to my room when I was ready.
I spent A LOT of my childhood in my bedroom. I just preferred it that way. 😂 I was used to being ignored by my boomer parents and my much younger millennial siblings. I only came out for school, rare “family time”, food, to use the bathroom, go on a bike ride, or go to a friend’s house over the weekend. I just wanted my family to leave me the hell alone.
Yes my room was my sanctuary!
Ill say it again, we are the generation that should be left alone. Have a great day.
My three children were very upset when i said i was moving to México.
They even asked who was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. 😂😂
They asked what about your grandkids.
Been 5 years living in México.
I like the sound of the birds not kids . 😂
Enjoy your content!
This video couldn't have come to my screen at a more perfect time. In the process of doing exactly as you said and transitioning into a grandfather that comes to visit instead of pays the bills. Sure I worry about and love my kids and grandkids, but I am tired and it is time I pursue my own dreams instead of working to fund theirs.
Don't start nothing..won't be nothing! Sincerely GenX
Born in January of 1965...first year of GenX...very good summarization of in my thinking. Thank you for what you do...your talks are better than anything I could expect out of my company's EAP.
The Gospel of GenX continues…and yet people still …do… not… listen… We of the Latchkey, the Outside, the OG Struggle Meals and the Real Fisticuffs …we earned our grays and wisdom from relying on self and expect others to follow suit.
Finally someone from my generation telling it like it is .
This new generation has no clue what ww went through (1970)!! Generations before us worked harder they were our examples. We also have respect for our elders as well even if we didn't agree with them !!! We were latch key kids most of raising ourselves & looking after younger siblings. It boils my blood to hear them complain. Ive been working since 10 years of age. Started helping with chores younger. So no wonder why all us gen xers are tired!!!!! We need a break & dont want no damn drama (peace)!!!!
Kids today need to understand the difference between Analog and Digital, we grew up in one and had to change to the other. We know both.
Thank you Sir! As a Gen-Xer who's been working since I was 12, put myself through school, grateful to have a roof over my head and food on the table but parents only in sight to tell me what to do when i was doing bad, now taking care of them as they are dying, doing the best I can while working full time because there is nobody to take care of me but me and God. Sorry to this young woman FILMING HERSELF while laying in bed under the covers with no shirt on in her bonnet, asking why I'm not throwing barbecues. I'm still healthy and strong as all get out at 56, but I'm freakin exhausted. Get the f out of bed, put some clothes on, have some self-respect and throw your own damn barbecue!
Standing O, Quantum!
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I'm behind you, my dear. Careful, now.
We are traumatized. That's where we are.
I wouldn't say "Tramatized"
We have Trama sure, lots of it even. But as Master Yoda said; there is no "tized", only do.
I saw a teenager loose his mind trying to play hasbro's operation. We aren't the same and you don't want to test those differences. We laughed when we made our friends cry.
You're the epitome of our generation Sir! Keep up the outstanding work the stellar representation of the fine citizens known as genX! 🇺🇸🗽 this is the vid that finally made me sub!
The delivery, the message it was all perfect
You don't hear much because we still know how to write and send letters...
...in cursive.
Amen
and
AMEN
We are Tired & Living OUR lives!
GenX here. We are unseen. We act in silence, we live as unseen. You do not see us because we do not WANT you to see us. We are comfortable this way. If you see us, that means we have failed in some manner... or that we WANTED you to see us. Which almost never happens. Trust me, you are better off not seeing us... and safer, too. Let us go. Worry about Millenials and GenZ. They need your concern much more than we do.
Gen x has a fire that can't be put out and grows fast when stoked. Stay strong for i fear we will be the last to fight and need to give the spark to our children! My spark has definitely passed.
LOVE THIS GUY!!!!
IKR 😅
Born in '71. Took care of my boomer dad for 5 years after his stroke. At the same time I took in and am raising my grandson. Not one regret on either decision. I dont post my life on FB, IG, or X. Keeping our business to ourselves ensures that we are a mystery to others. I'll continue to watch from the sideline bench while others drown themselves in bottomless drama. Dont bother wondering where we're at. We know where you're at, thats why we're not there.
👍They should BE GLAD we're not there - It's for their own good, really
In algebra, X represents the unknown. So, let us just become what our designation implies: the unknown generation.
Preach brother!!
Wow.... Outstanding!
Well said !!
You sir are a breath of fresh air. I was born in 1979. I transitioned my mother to Valhalla 11 years ago. I have no kids so i can be left in peace. Everything about this resonates in my soul
Feeling this one pretty hard. I'm just ... Tired.
1968'er here. Our biggest folly may have been the creation of the Millennials This is one that we have to own, folks. We will need to live into our 80's or 90's to make up for that. I do, however, have some Gen Z's coming up that have promise, then there is what I can do to influence the grandkids following them..... Crap, I may need to hang around till 100 or so. Well, if anyone can do it, GenX can. We may be the final hope for a different future, before we enter Valhalla.
Oh you said this so beautifully well
the clash between generations is just sad. We're products of our environment and the time period in which we grew up, so differences will be there no matter what even within the same gen.
Oh gawd, I sooo feel this 😂