Life Generation Y - Page 10

BIG_DADDY · 04-22-2014, 02:10 PM

SO I am having a conversation in a bar the night before a career fair with a person I took to the college to help me recruit. The guy I brought is Generation Y. After a few beers the conversation turned to the strange things some people have said in the interview process. The person with me said something that really hit home, he said "you have to understand my generation, it is very important that people look at us as being intelligent and right whether we are or not and are doing anything with our lives has nothing to do with it." The guy at the next table says "that's true" People at his table say what? HE repeats what was said and they readily agree laughing about it. I found it refreshing for a group to acknowledge something about their own generation like that. With that in mind I am at the very end of the baby boomer generation and can relate much more easily to Gen x and the one thing I would say in that same vein is it is really important that you know it really is all about us because it is.

**ptlyon** · 04-23-2014, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

It's all about attitude. Some people call it Generation Y. I call it Generation Y Not?

I call it Generation Y For myself...

**loochy** · 04-23-2014, 02:52 PM

Generation WHY...as in why am I looking at this thread?

Fish · 04-23-2014, 02:52 PM

Generation YOLO

Garcia Bronco · 04-23-2014, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GordonGekko

From my estimation it's actually alot of the GenXers that caused the mortgage crisis bubble/meltdown.

George Bush is a Boomer
Franklin Raines is a boomer
Phil Graham
Barney Frank
Bill Clinton

are all Boomers. They aren't only ones that set the stage for that shit...but it's the Boomers.

mr. tegu · 04-23-2014, 03:24 PM

Very interesting read. Some generalizations but much of it rings true.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-ge...e-unhappy.html

BWillie · 04-23-2014, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Because the cost of buying and running a house is rediculously overpriced. Add to that the mortgage crisis and the new loan rules where new applicants need to be able to put down 20% up front, and this is why most in my generation conitnue to live in apartments or parent's house.

The price of housing is ****ing rediculous, and in some areas a complete joke.

I think at one time in this country an auto mechanic with a stay at home wife and 2 kids could afford a home. Now? No F'n way. One parent has to be a software engineer and the other a master's degree school teacher as a baseline to live in any type of decent house in many areas of the country.

San Antonio housing prices are that high? Didn't seem Texas housing prices were really that outrageous to even us poor folks in Kansas City and the midwest. Just gets out of hand on the coasts or where liberals like to live.

mr. tegu · 04-23-2014, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Because the cost of buying and running a house is rediculously overpriced. Add to that the mortgage crisis and the new loan rules where new applicants need to be able to put down 20% up front, and this is why most in my generation conitnue to live in apartments or parent's house.

The price of housing is ****ing rediculous, and in some areas a complete joke.

I think at one time in this country an auto mechanic with a stay at home wife and 2 kids could afford a home. Now? No F'n way. One parent has to be a software engineer and the other a master's degree school teacher as a baseline to live in any type of decent house in many areas of the country.

The bolded isn't true. And on top of that, for those living at home and if they did want a house it should lead to having that kind of cash anyways with any type of fiscal responsibility. But many people that age aren't really interested in that type of commitment yet, which I can understand.

Just Passin' By · 04-23-2014, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Cephalic Trauma

We ditch the archaic system and quit grouping people based on silly generalizations.

Because there's no such thing as a group dynamic, dominant subgroup or general population?

GordonGekko · 04-23-2014, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by BWillie

San Antonio housing prices are that high? Didn't seem Texas housing prices were really that outrageous to even us poor folks in Kansas City and the midwest. Just gets out of hand on the coasts or where liberals like to live.

San Antonio is definitely on the low end of the Texas big 4 (D, Houston, Austin, SA) but the prices are rising. They build much more affordable housing here because half this city is involved in the military and the military pay scale will only go so high. But in D and Austin and many areas in Houston, price of housing is skyrocketing because retirees with deep pockets from the north are coming down and just raising the prices everywhere. Hell, half the country is trying to get into Houston because it is one of the few areas left in the US with any kind of significant job growth. Prices are going up here in short.

BigCatDaddy · 04-23-2014, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by milkman

What happens when we run out of letters?

Double it up. Generation AA

BigCatDaddy · 04-23-2014, 08:56 PM

The important thing is what are their stances on 3somes.

04-22-2014, 02:10 PM
BIG_DADDY THE RED MENACE Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Texas Casino cash: $4928410	Generation Y SO I am having a conversation in a bar the night before a career fair with a person I took to the college to help me recruit. The guy I brought is Generation Y. After a few beers the conversation turned to the strange things some people have said in the interview process. The person with me said something that really hit home, he said "you have to understand my generation, it is very important that people look at us as being intelligent and right whether we are or not and are doing anything with our lives has nothing to do with it." The guy at the next table says "that's true" People at his table say what? HE repeats what was said and they readily agree laughing about it. I found it refreshing for a group to acknowledge something about their own generation like that. With that in mind I am at the very end of the baby boomer generation and can relate much more easily to Gen x and the one thing I would say in that same vein is it is really important that you know it really is all about us because it is.
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mr. tegu Forever Royal Join Date: Mar 2012 Casino cash: $1591300	Very interesting read. Some generalizations but much of it rings true. http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-ge...e-unhappy.html
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