Someone commented on an active thread that Gen-X ers are not preparing.

I thought it might be interesting to take an informal poll & see which generations are preparing. Are you pre-baby boom, baby boomer, gen-x, or gen-next?

I will stand up as a preparing Gen-Xer.

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999

Answers

Baby - boomer

-- Amy (leoneamy@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Baby boomer (43)

-- Jon Williamson (jwilliamson003@sprintmail.com), July 20, 1999.

Baby Boomer

-- Marcy Sawyer (marcia@madnet.net), July 20, 1999.

I'm 42 & preparing.

Also I'd like to share an interesting (maybe) statistic I heard yesterday: the world's population has doubled in the last 30 years. That means that if tomorrow, half the people in the world suddenly died, there would STILL be more people alive than there were when I was born.

Maybe that doesn't mess with your mind but it messes with MINE, I can tell you. The Infomagic scenario features billions of dead bodies... maybe 3 billion? That still wouldn't bring the population back to where it was when JFK Senior bit the big one (that was in 1963, for the historically impaired).

Not making a point really. Just something to meditate on.

-- scared (but@also.fascinated), July 20, 1999.

Gen-X'er? (32)

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), July 20, 1999.

An actively preparing ( for the last 1-1/2 yrs) pre-baby boomer (40)

-- Bill (BookWormNM@uswest.net), July 20, 1999.

We are baby boomers.

-- Wilferd (WilferdW@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

That (40) on my last post means 1940. I'm an oooold preparer.

-- Bill (BookWormNM@uswest.net), July 20, 1999.

Age 43 (already?!?) and I've been preparing for my family of 4, extended family and the neighborhood at large since May 1998. Stock market got hit bad today, maybe it's starting!

-- Gail (fialkow@erols.com), July 20, 1999.

UMMMmmm...Bill, at 40 you are a near boomer/POST boomer. I on the other hand am a smack in the middle Boomer, and Mrs Driver is just near the later edge, luckily, we are BOTH too young to remember the Silent Summers (1950 and 1951).

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), July 20, 1999.

OOOPS! Guess I need to refresh before posting.

Sorry Bill

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), July 20, 1999.

I'm 38.

Not a baby boomer - not a gen Xer. More like a gen-dissillusioned. Watched the peace and love movement in the 60's dissolve into the invention of Disco and condominiums. Watched ALL the Watergate hearings when I was 12 when I got home from school each day. Bunch of fat white guys lying badly. Never trusted govt. spin again.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Baby-boomer (34) Wife gen-X

-- Smokey (Smokey1057@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Thanks for reminding me Smokey, Hubby (Kato) is a GI Baby Boomer....

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomer (41).

-- Don (whytocay@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

Lisa, I'm with you..... Gen X'er??? ------ 33 years young! (yeah right - tell it to my aching back!)

-- Kristi (securx@succeed.net), July 20, 1999.

Seems like there should be some category between baby boomer and gen- x. Maybe some definitions of catgegories (where does b-boomer end and gen-x begin???). And when does 'gen-next' start?

Must have dozed off in class that day... Sorry.

-- winter wondering (winterwondering@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

Ashton is 44 and Leska is 39. Where do we fit in? Are we doomer boomers? ;^) We've always related best to elderly folks. No pegs for us yet? Anyway we're prepping, and prodding our patients and their families to prep, having luck with the elders' "children" in their 60s & 70s but nobody else. Agewise we feel exhausted!

We're shifting our sacrificial xxxxxxx's away from the ravenous cybergnomes and instead offering, as best as HTML-impaired typists can poke, a sacred symbol to Spirit.

3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3~0 3

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 20, 1999.

36 yrs old and preparing...

BTW, what is the cutoff line between Gen X/boomers? Either way, sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel like a kid...depends on the meetings/projects I tend to for the day.

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomer.......

-- Bob (bob@bob.bob), July 20, 1999.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, bit I believe pre 1965 is indicitive of the Baby Boomer generation, however I'm not sure where Gen Next starts.

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

I'm 36 and my wife is 34. Not sure where that puts us... Gen-Xers? dunno. We're concerned and preparing.

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomer Doomer, age 42

-- ace (x@y.z), July 20, 1999.

I'm a Boomer Doomer. (44 next week!)

-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), July 20, 1999.

I think the census uses a cutoff of 1962, but I like to let it bleed to 1964. Being born in 1965, I have considered myself to be a DEARTHER, as in, a member of the Birth-dearth which occured at this time and for almost a decade. We're not gen-X'ers really, and we sure as hell aren't boomers, but we're also too small of a group for anyone to give a damn (age 33). Preping in earnest since March.

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

"doomer boomers"

roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay A & L... we gotta do a T-shirt!!!!

Cut off is pre '65? I guess my wife and I are "doomer boomers" too~!.

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

For those who arewondering, and for what it's worth, many demographers use January 1, 1965 as the cutoff between Boomers and X- ers.

-- Prometheus (fire@for.man), July 20, 1999.

Boomer 47

-- Linda A. (adahi@muhlon.com), July 20, 1999.

Both the wife and I are baby boomers with parents that lived through the great deptession. I'm sure that this colors my outlook on y2k. But preparedness is easy to achieve. The stakes are too high not to.

-- incredulous (cantbelievit@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

doomer boomer.......40 Prepping for a year +

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

War baby!! ('43) War Baby boomer (??)

-- Sandmann (Sandmann@alasbab.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomer. Born 1958.

-- Libby Alexander (libbyalex@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

We're boomers, 46 and 40.

Neil & Sue

-- (neilw@infoserve.net), July 20, 1999.

Gen-X (37)

Gen-X supposedly started in 1960............

gettin' a drink...

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), July 20, 1999.

OLD DOOMERS...early 60s

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

45+ Prepared to the hilt.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), July 20, 1999.

Michael, we would wear those! :D
And how many would catch on that it refers to Y2K ?? ;^)

The reaction to those T-shirts would become a barometer ...

-- doomer boomers (label@finally.fits), July 20, 1999.

A&L--love the little oms.

Body's 53.

-- Faith Weaver (suzsolutions@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

Born 1948...boomer and preparing.

-- Ninh Hoa (tech@univ.now), July 20, 1999.

33 planning on living to 65 minimum

Willing to do what it takes to get there.

And I can assure you that old acquaintances will be forgot.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

44 and 45.

-- bob (janebob99@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomer(51) and boomer hubby(54) grew up on depression stories.

-- MUTTI (windance @train.missouri.), July 20, 1999.

Wow, 45, and been preped for years, just didn't know it.

-- CT (ct@no.yr), July 20, 1999.

Another 36 year old not quite Boomer, not quite Gen-X. ("Officially," the Boom was from '46 to '62.) The folks, who were born shortly before WWII (pre-Boomers? They hung around with hippies, but were slightly over 30, so I guess they weren't trusted) are doing preps.

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), July 20, 1999.

Born 1960...Boomer??? X'er???

Parents both prepared, in their 70's

Southside Ed

-- Southside Ed (living@home.fornow), July 20, 1999.

Hate to admit it, only 49. Much too young for a self-confessed curmudgeon!

-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), July 20, 1999.

Baby boomer & really "GETS IT" - 44

-- truman (jude@aginet.com), July 20, 1999.

Another War Baby! 1943 - GI preparing for 6 months with an eye on a year.

-- tee (teefleur@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomer..age 45

I thought 1959 was last yr for boomers....

-- Moore Dinty moore (not@thistime.com), July 20, 1999.

Boomers---------------48 and 50

-- Nancy (HAYSandCO@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Doomer Boomers too. (47,49)

-- Carol Ann (JCclass69@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Deborah- Hope you tabulate this after entries are in.Age range checking in is interesting.Old enought to be fairly tech sophisticated and suspicious of The System,not many under 30.

DOB 1952 Age 47

-- mchnst (Gunmkr52@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Early Baby Boomer, who _feels_ like she went through the depression and W.W.II, because she had so many older relatives around and/or living with her when she was growing up.

My hairdresser (another Boomer) is also preparing. She has a Depression-era mother, too. When her mother is persuaded to come in to get a permanent, she brings her own cotton to use - that she has saved from medecine bottles. I don't think any of us can truly understand the lifelong impact a severe downturn in our economy can engender, unless we are forced to go through it ourselves.

-- Bonnie Camp (bonniec@mail.odyssey.net), July 20, 1999.

I'm born 1952, hence 47 and boomer, wife later but still boomer. Prepping for 3 months of problems.

I'm quite surprised at the relatively mature age group we Yourdonites appear to represent. I wonder what it means, Age=Wisdom or Age=Senility!

RonD

-- Ron Davis (rdavis@ozemail.com.au), July 20, 1999.

A boomer at 44, a week or two ago I posted my guess that most of us posters are older, now I'm glad to see that I was wrong, the gen-X'ers are well represented too.

-- Roger (pecosrog@earthlink.net), July 20, 1999.

Count in my mother, aged 76. When I told her and provided printouts from this forum and other information, she understood immediately. Still printing out stuff for her, for she doesn't want to have anything to do with computers or anything resembling a keyboard ("NO WAY...SPENT NEARLY 40 YEARS TYPING...I'M RETIRED.")

She lived in Montana through the Depression, and her stories and skills are a valuable asset. She knows a lot of the "old ways", and has one heckuva garden!

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), July 20, 1999.

24 yrs. - Gen-X? What's this gen-next group I've heard so little about?

-- d (dgi2@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

Looooonnnnngg time lurker and first time posting. Boomers too (43,40). Prepping for a year+

-- Craig (cbass@usaor.net), July 20, 1999.

Boomer Doomer at (99-52)--ahhh 47. Dh older Boomer. I was at a tf2000 symposium (tf2000 is the 'comittee' set up by the state of Florida to got to all areas to reasure folks about how well Fl is prepared for y2k. Over a hundred people in attendance. You could pretty much tell busness people from 'concerned citizens' It's funny, most of the concerned citizens had grey hair.

-- DuffyO (duffyo@mailcity.com), July 20, 1999.

1934...must make me 65....became a believer in potential y2k problems 2/98. I am still a believer in potential y2k problems and I will be for 164 more days and then some.

-- rb (rb@yahoo.com), July 20, 1999.

1944--have all my teeth, although many of them capped.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

War Baby, barely (1945) Been prepping since 1975.

-- jumpoffjoe (jumpoff@echoweb.net), July 20, 1999.

So far, I top the list at plus 75. My husband is 77. Yes,we were depression kids and still remember it. Did that tip the scales? I think that rather it was the realization of the criss-crossed webs of connectedness. Our boomer children are semiGI--enough GI to prepare a little, not GI enough to give up much. Lurkee

-- Lurkee (holdingon@best.com), July 20, 1999.

Pre-Boomer. Born September 1941. Raised on a small farm. Learned two very important lessons from my parents---Use it up, wear it out, make it do. And every tub should stand on it's own bottom.

-- Ruthi (Nomokat@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Doomer Gloomer....born In 35...father born in 78...1878 that is..am the last of sixteen.been there - done that - and then some.. prep for 1yr+

Wish u all well and that I am not correct...

-- Charon (Thatplace@downbelow.com), July 20, 1999.

Doomer Gloomer....born In 35...father born in 78...1878 that is..am the last of sixteen.been there - done that - and then some.. prep for 1yr+

Wish you all well and that I am not correct...

-- Charon (Thatplace@downbelow.com), July 20, 1999.

1939 and 1947 I remember.

-- && (&&@&&.&), July 20, 1999.

age 40 and preparing with all avalilable resources. Right now we're canning a bumper crop of veggies from the fields and making new friends selling the surplus. BTW I have learned that some of my reclusive nieghbors do indeed GI and are to my surprise prepping like us. Lie to us about their y2k status? Our bureaucrats and virtuous president? Noooooooo!

-- doktorbob (downsouth@dixie.com), July 20, 1999.

I am a preparing Gen-Xer (33 today, but turning 34 in about 45 minutes CST). My wife is a baby boomer (44).

-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), July 21, 1999.

Sooner Boomer but not a Doomer.

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), July 21, 1999.

Gen X

26--- i've always been told i have an old spirit and way about me though. i prefer older people to younger ones, and I skipped that silly get drunk and act stupid phase, and jumped right into responsibilty. 26 years

-- SuperLurker (slfsl@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

pre-boomers.....1933 and 37....depression babies, and retired, prepared (almost....think of new things daily)for a year.

-- de (delewis@Xinetone.net), July 21, 1999.

Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner.... oops, wrong category! :-D (Whatever happened to my friend BHayes, anyway?)

I'm 42, husband is 43. (Hey, Faith, that's funny!)

Happy Birthday, Jim M!

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), July 21, 1999.

'49er

-- marsh (armstrng@sisqtel.net), July 21, 1999.

Born 1952-01-24 <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

Thanks, Gayla! :-)

-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), July 21, 1999.

I don't know why, but the terms "baby boomer" and "generation-X" make me cringe.

25yo - 1973, year of the humanoid.

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999.

46, but who's counting? We do seem to have a rather "mature" group here for an internet cybertribe. Interesting, indeed. I hope someone is busy figuring out how to compile this. We are prime demographics!

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), July 21, 1999.

Born in '43 and husband'42. Preparing since March '98. Daughter age 26 and son-in-law 38 doing same. long time lurker, first time poster feel like I know all of you. I am intensely grateful for your courage and wisdom.

-- carole ponte (carbo@acornworld.net), July 21, 1999.

I will let this run for another day or two & then I will categorize the results.

Happy Birthday Jim!

Thanks for all the contributions so far, y'all make me feel so young tee hee heee (born in '68). LOL

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

numbersix-Boy, do you make me feel old-I gradutated from high school in '73!

That makes me 43.

-- newbiebutnodummy (Linda@home.com), July 21, 1999.

Hmnnn STFrancis... old saintly dead guy....

okay, okay... 30 gen-x'er....

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), July 21, 1999.

45yrs old,hubby 43 years young, l8 year old punk rocker with yellow purple and green hair who GI's Boomer Doomer Punkers

-- LG (mimesis@webtv.net), July 21, 1999.

Me = Gen-X (b. 1971), preparing as well as I can on extremely meager income. No, I am not the self-absorbed, whiney, moping, incompetant, amoral, stupid, and media-savy cretin as per the stereotype.

I know of few gen-x-ers preparing, as we tend to be a pretty cynical bunch with regard to Giant Money-Making Scams--of which Y2K is often perceived as a prime example. Being the products of so many homes that broke apart due to money, it's not surprising many see it as both the Root of All Evil and the Root of All Survival, simultaneously. It's not surprising that so many Xers are infected with the (often misleading) meme that "Y2K is for suckers." Most of us know what it's like to be a "sucker" and viscerally dislike being tied to that label in any conceivable way. We don't mind being laughed at for lack of knowledge or experience very much. But to be laughed at for being a "sucker" or "push-over?" Very unpleasant thought.

Not ever being born into extremely hard times (though not exactly Leave it to Beaver, either), it's difficult for many of us to imagine something like a major war with conscripts or a long Great Depression. Plus, many of us buy into the casual notion that the '60s turmoil broke all the rules about how things were supposed to work--that the economy has to cycle, that nuclear war was worth planning for, that people actually grew up in these places known as Home Towns where they knew their neighbors, that history had relevance and predictive value.

THEREFORE, if you want to convince people my age to prepare, simply remind them that there ARE such as thing as HARD TIMES (eg., being drafted or living in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl) and that FEW PEOPLE EVER ANTICIPATE HARD TIMES. Tell gen-xers that Y2K is ALL ABOUT MONEY and that by following the money a little more closely, an alarming prospect can be realized. Tell them that the REAL SUCKERS are the people being lulled into complacency that Nothing Changes and that preparing for change is stupid.

Another trait I've heard about GenX is that they are supposedly adapable, mobile, and easily able--or even overly eager--to seek out a new niche. This will be an asset in helping Xers and all of us survive y2k. I am convinced that the winners after y2k will be the flexible and dynamic, not the static. (That's why I think a good bug-out bag and shortwave radio is far more important than a good "bunker".) If you want to convince a genXer to prepare, tell him that preparedness is sometimes better when done in advance, that flexibility is not necessarily sacrificed with a little long-term planning and thinking ahead.

Just my $0.02.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), July 21, 1999.

44. Already : ) sort of puts me in the mean, I think; from what Ive scanned on the responses. Will be interesting to see the results....

-- LauraA (Laadedah@aol.com), July 21, 1999.

I hear that if you are old enough to remember J.Kennedy's assasination and some of the other weird stuff that began to emerge in the '60s as a child/teen, you are Boomer (b. before 1963).

If you cannot remember a time when Reagan WASN'T President, you are whatever comes after genX. In your age group it is/was acceptable to wear those Ravish fashions (that dyed-blond hair and the clothes with that funny Euro-stripe) and urban-style baggy trousers (b. after, say, 1980).

If you are in between I guess you are genX. If you buy into Howe and Strauss's arguments, generations have meaning, being both driven by and driving the cycles of history. Right now we are supposedly in a "season" where the culture is disintegrating, a time of slowly-brewing conflict and chaotic turmoil that will gradually boil in to a "crisis" era. Before this was an "Awakening"-style era (1964-1984), a rebuilding era (1945-1964), and the era of the last major global crisis (late 1920's to 1945). If you were born in a time of disintegration you are of the "hero" archetype--you fought world war II, spilled your guts, and returned home to rebuild the crumbling old institutions and create new ones.

If you were born in the crisis you are generally raised under overprotective parents and were too young to save the world from the crisis, but you offered an sensitive, obedient, helping hand to your older heroes, fitting the "Artist" archetype.

If you were Boomer "Prophet," you questioned the stasis and drab conservativism of the world you inherited from the heroes who returned from WWII. You, never knowing terrible hardship or societal turmoil, wanted to stir things up a bit and strayed away from the old values (either that or you zelously fought for them, spawning "culture wars"). You were convinced that _you alone_ had the right answer to what seemed to be going wrong with the world rebuilt by our Hero generation (b. 1900s to 1920s). You and others like you around the world, by resisting and testing the reactionary "Heroes," have been unknowingly setting the up the stage for the next major global upheaval. Will y2k be the thing that triggers the next upheaval? It seems to be a likely candidate.

Why? Y2k is the legacy of the Hero's major downfall, his hubris. COBOL and many of the conventions which made y2k likely were a result of overly-fossilized, first-generation programmers who just wanted to keep the status quo and not rock the boat..."If it ain't broke (yet), don't fix it." What will be the actual, solidifying nature of the conflict? I'm not sure yet. Perhaps, as before, it will amount to a reshifting of current equilibrium individual and collective rights.

What's the supposed downfall of the Boomer Prophet? His belief in his absolute moral correctness. When you have two people in an argument who are absolutely convinced that their own God-given mandate is infallible, a really really bad fight is bound to happen. This is why the Civil War was so long and bloody, why Nazi Germany hung on so long to their pseudo-religious, racist dreams of "Aryan destiny." This is why the people on this forum debate with such bludgeoning force and often without tact.

The downfall of the genX "Nomad?" His amorality. Coming of age in a time when all the old rules and conventions were broken, he has to pick up the pieces and make his own code of ethics. He thinks that what's good for himself is good enough for anyone--that because every social contract broken anyway, there's no reason not to make and brake his own contracts according to his own whim. He doesn't have time to waste with polite social conventions or deal with silly bureaucracy, tending to see rules as obstacles rather than things to revere. Beware of the Xer.

The downfall of the "Silent Geneation" Artists (b. 1920s-1940s)? Their passivity. They want to make sure everybody's moderately content and don't want to raise a big stink, quietly minding their own business. They don't want to rock the boat and ponder that things can get really uncomfortable again.

Of course, these are all just overgeneralizations of those authors, but they are interesting to ponder.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), July 21, 1999.

I'm 44, my soulmate is 35. It seems I've been preparing for something most of my life, Y2K *might* be it. I've know since the summer of '94 (SL9 and the White Buf) we were in the 'time of Changes' that the Hopi and many others have talked about. Here's the url for my Changes page if you're interested: http://members.tripod.com/~thepcguru/changes.html

thanks one & all, Dan

-- Dan G (earth_changes@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999.

54 and 56 years young. Most of our kids (7) are preparing (ages 22-32).

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), July 21, 1999.

Boomer -- 1952 -- 48

Diane, preparing for a "5" or more... including earthquakes, etc.

[Also count in a WWII pilot mother who also went through the Great Depression as a kid. (The experience changed her life, and by default, her daughters, and meant she passed on self-sufficiency ideals and camping skills). She "gets it" and is Y2K active among her senior center groups].

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

Late Boomer - 1960, 38

Two brothers and parents are prepping.

I've reeeeally prepared.

Moved to rural area, set up two wind generators with solar, one years plus of food, backup water, 17 cords of wood, fence around property, several guns, library of survival books. The works. My alternative energy consultant has many Y2K clients. Some have already quit jobs. Good luck and solid preps to all!

A former programmer

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), July 21, 1999.

Age: 35

Occupation: Corporate President, engineer, programmer, entrepreneur.

Preparations: Nothing special - preparing for usual winter weather.

Planning to:

• buy technology stocks in early Fall, when they are devalued by misled panic, and perhaps retire off the profits from a sale of them in Q2/00.
• procure alternating-current generator in Q2/00 when the prices drop.
• publish a Y2K book written from a different perspective.

Regards,
Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999.

i'm 44-----hubby about to turn 39------ prepped for about a year

we went to a Y2K expo in the closest "big city" (little rock, ar) last weekend.........we commented when we got home about the ages of those in attendance ......mostly our age and older.... no young couples......there seemed to be around 100 people there for the couple of hours we wondered around..........many less than we'd hoped we'd see......... we went on the saturday of a three day show (friday to sunday).........NOT a good indication that many are preparing in arkansas : (

-- andrea (mebsmebs@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999.

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-- Dieter (questions@toask.com), July 21, 1999.

40 in 3 weeks. Hubby is a might younger and a bit more stubborn about gettin' it.

-- Glober (globe-ular@biosys.net), July 21, 1999.

I'm 30, my wife is 31. Guess we're Gen-X'ers, though I've never admitted it before. We're prepped for a 4.

-- philpier (philpier@aol.com), July 22, 1999.

Gen-X (29), prepped for an 7 and working towards 10.

-- Jay (havocuz@mindspring.com), July 22, 1999.

I'm 42 and my husband is 36.

-- Army Girl (aGirl@ag.com), July 22, 1999.

Boomer (44)

-- Dave (aaa@aaa.com), July 22, 1999.

I am 21. I am a gen-xer (barely). So I guess you must all now tremble in fear of my lack of morals. After all I am a methodologist. I believe that how you treat people in the attainment of your ideals are more important than your ideals. But what do I know? I'll just be one of the many in *my* generation that will be picking up the pieces of this whole mess.

The reason? Somehow I doubt the highest death rates are going to be the in the 20-35 (year) catagory. So to us, being well educated and still young and spry, probably will fall the rebuilding.

Beware! (evil scary music) We never particularly liked this society (thus our oft critizied apathy towards it) and (I speak only for myself) I'll be damned if the tiny part I influence will be built back up in it's image.

As for the apathy itself... I've always considered it more, "I don't believe that amassing huge amounts of consumer garbage or having a job enabling me to amass huge amounts of consumer garbage is really that important. I'd rather read Hegel, Plato, Descartes, Tsai Chin Chung, etc. and ponder the meaning of Kraft Dinner. After all, I really don't need to do anything to improve the world. The Baby-boomers (who never tire of telling us so) already made it a paradise on Earth. And expirenced all the really important events. Thought all the really important thoughts. Made the really important discoveries... etc., etc."

Hmmm... I guess I'm a little bitter. I just think about the natural beauty the baby boomers had, realize they squandered it on bigger, better *things* that mean nothing to me, committing in the process possibly the greatest crime against humanity and then listen to them preach about my generation's amorality. After all, they had to deal with the same rates of divorce, drug abuse, school shootings, deteriorating inner cities, newer and ever more crass and dehumanizing levels of commercialization, deminishing natural enviroments, and spiritual wastelands yet they still managed to be wonderfully well adjusted beautiful people that saw love (via the use of drugs) in every puddle of vomit.

BTW, the cutoffs are as follows (to my knowledge) 1950-1965 (boomer) 1965-19

-- Typhon Blue (typhonblue@hotmail.com), July 23, 1999.

34 year old Gen-X'er.

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), July 23, 1999.