Tag: Gen X

  • Gen X Has A Surprisingly Simple Retirement Plan

    Gen X Has A Surprisingly Simple Retirement Plan

    For decades, retirement has been sold as a destination. Work hard, save enough, reach the finish line, then finally have time for the hobbies you always imagined. But financial planner Benjamin Brandt keeps seeing something different with his Gen X clients. Instead of dreaming up an entirely new life for retirement, they are reaching backward…

  • Gen X Psychiatrist Says We Don’t Miss the ’80s. We Miss These 6 Parts of Everyday Life

    Gen X Psychiatrist Says We Don’t Miss the ’80s. We Miss These 6 Parts of Everyday Life

    Nostalgia has a way of smoothing over the rough edges of the past. The longer the years pass, the easier it becomes to remember iconic movie nights, packed shopping malls, cassette mixtapes, and afternoons spent outside while forgetting the inconveniences, social problems, and limitations that came with the era. That is why conversations about the…

  • Why Gen X Handles Pressure Better Than Most People Realize

    Why Gen X Handles Pressure Better Than Most People Realize

    Some generations are remembered for changing music, politics, or technology. Generation X often gets treated like the forgotten middle child of modern culture. Yet recent reports and workplace studies suggest they may be carrying more pressure than anyone else. Many Gen X adults are balancing careers, aging parents, rising living costs, and adult children who…

  • How the Latchkey Generation Became America’s Most Stressed and Most Resilient Adults

    How the Latchkey Generation Became America’s Most Stressed and Most Resilient Adults

    A generation raised on benign neglect, punk rock mixtapes, and the unwritten rule that feelings are best kept to yourself has quietly arrived at the most demanding chapter of adult life. Born between 1965 and 1979, Generation X never asked for sympathy and certainly never expected it. Sandwiched between the much larger Baby Boomer and…

  • Turns Out, Boomers Had a Point And Younger Generations Are Finally Admitting It

    Turns Out, Boomers Had a Point And Younger Generations Are Finally Admitting It

    Picture a group of twenty-somethings hunched over their phones, scrolling through a thread that makes them nod in agreement at every post except the thread sounds like their grandparents wrote it. Nobody planned for it to go this way. A single question on Reddit drew 123 million views and accidentally proved something nobody in Gen…