As someone born in '88, we're mid-millennial. Almost on the dot.
Why the Hybrid Workforce of the Future Depends on the ‘Geriatric Millennial’
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As someone born in '88, we're mid-millennial. Almost on the dot.
It's something I thought about the other day. I grew up without internet or social media, but also learned basics from the get go. Had a C64, later an Atari St1024 before at the age of 14 got my first Pentium PC.
Most people who are just 5-10 years older have such a hard time with some modern tech that I don't while simultaneously knowing the world before PCs and Internet took hold that the younger generation can't comprehend. Also was in my prime when social media etc took off.
Of course that's not counting everyone, but at least in my circle there is something to it.
Most people who are just 5-10 years older have such a hard time with some modern tech that I don't while simultaneously knowing the world before PCs and Internet took hold that the younger generation can't comprehend. Also was in my prime when social media etc took off.
Of course that's not counting everyone, but at least in my circle there is something to it.
We're gonna save the earth one day when the secret codes are on a floppy and the young people don't know what that is. I've been preparing for it my whole life.
This may be true but these days the kids have somehow learned to sing in cursive.
I'm so damn tired of hearing about boomers, millennials, and zoomers. It all just feels like clickbait bullshit to get people shitting on each other en masse. It's like the one type of stereotyping and prejudice everyone is allowed to do, so they go hog wild on it.
This is a stupid name for a category, but I was born in 1982 and I definitely feel as though I straddle two very distinct periods of recent history. I feel connected enough to the current batch of graduates and young professionals that I think I understand what they want. But at the same time I was 17 when the first phone you could stretch to characterise as "smart" came out, so my life doesn't feel completely shaped by contemporary technology - even if I do have a grounding in how that technology actually works that a lot of younger people don't seem to have.
Professionally, I've regularly found myself being called on as being sort of a bridge between people in their 50s and 60s, and people in their 20s - not just from a tech point of view, but to try and help unify corporate strategy and culture with current public sentiment.
Professionally, I've regularly found myself being called on as being sort of a bridge between people in their 50s and 60s, and people in their 20s - not just from a tech point of view, but to try and help unify corporate strategy and culture with current public sentiment.
1986 so I'm not geriatric but I definitely identify with the generation. It's personally been very helpful to me professionally because I'm just as comfortable talking to a 60 year old boss and playing office politics as I am having a zoom call with a younger colleague. Full time office, hybrid, whatever the fuck society settles on is fine with me because I handle both worlds just fine and don't really care which one we end up in.
I was born in the late 70's so I dread to think what that makes me if those from the 80's are geriatric!
What does this even mean lol. I'm born 91 and neither of those seem like a massive challenge to me?
Too young to poop their pants,
Too old to zoom on the Tiktoks.
Such is the burden of the mid-millenial.
80 through 85 is Xennial and you can't tell me any different. It best describes the experience of people in that range without being insulting as fuck. These younger generations are always chomping at the bit to come up with new ways to denigrate the experience of anyone older than them. I'd finish this up with telling you to get off my lawn, but I don't have one thankfully. I hate yardwork.
Interesting premise since technology adoption wasn't uniform across the US.
I was born in 1981 and between like 2000 and 2002, only my "techy" friends in the South used AOL AIM or MSN Messenger. This wasn't a poor area by any means but it just wasn't a thing culturally.
Then I went to college in Massachusetts in 2002 and it was practically a primary form of communication for those people since high school.
But a lot of things weren't uniform for us as kids / teens. I absolutely had friends with parents that were basically proto-helicopter moms and "participation trophies" were becoming more commonplace. Not every kid was spanked and not every kid got to play in the street or with random neighborhood kids. So there was a very wide spectrum for how kids were being raised in those days.
I guess my point is that I'll agree that we were a transitional generation. However, it's because of that that we're really hard to "generalize" into a specific generation since experiences weren't uniform. You can still find people born in the early 80s where technology is a dark and mysterious wizardry because they lived their lives fully analog until their mid to late 20s.
I was born in 1981 and between like 2000 and 2002, only my "techy" friends in the South used AOL AIM or MSN Messenger. This wasn't a poor area by any means but it just wasn't a thing culturally.
Then I went to college in Massachusetts in 2002 and it was practically a primary form of communication for those people since high school.
But a lot of things weren't uniform for us as kids / teens. I absolutely had friends with parents that were basically proto-helicopter moms and "participation trophies" were becoming more commonplace. Not every kid was spanked and not every kid got to play in the street or with random neighborhood kids. So there was a very wide spectrum for how kids were being raised in those days.
I guess my point is that I'll agree that we were a transitional generation. However, it's because of that that we're really hard to "generalize" into a specific generation since experiences weren't uniform. You can still find people born in the early 80s where technology is a dark and mysterious wizardry because they lived their lives fully analog until their mid to late 20s.
Kinda a weird name.
I'm a fan of Xennial or Oregon Trail Generation. Definitely don't identify much with those just a few years older or younger to me, though I probably identify more with X than most millennials, maybe because most of the Xers I know are pretty nice people who love craft beer without being pretentious about it.
I'm a fan of Xennial or Oregon Trail Generation. Definitely don't identify much with those just a few years older or younger to me, though I probably identify more with X than most millennials, maybe because most of the Xers I know are pretty nice people who love craft beer without being pretentious about it.
Yea I'm one of this group. I do get it. Millenials born in the late 80s and early 90s are a bit apart from us and yes many of us experienced the internet for the first time in our teens after a more analog childhood.
We're also the segment of the generation that has a memory of the cold War before it ended and the latent fear of nuclear war instilled into us when we were toddlers and primary school aged.
We're also the segment of the generation that has a memory of the cold War before it ended and the latent fear of nuclear war instilled into us when we were toddlers and primary school aged.
While this article doesn't do the best job expressing it, I do think it's getting at something with a truth to it.
Seriously, my little cohort from 80 to 85 have been called everything under the sun. Maybe by the time I die we'll have been properly categorized.
This has nothing to do with your age and everything to do with your ability to adapt and try new things.
Seriously, my little cohort from 80 to 85 have been called everything under the sun. Maybe by the time I die we'll have been properly categorized.
This has nothing to do with your age and everything to do with your ability to adapt and try new things.
I was born in the early 80s. This makes sense to me. I'm comfortable and actually prefer hybrid work conditions (I was doing them prior to the pandemic). I see pros and cons of both models and so mixed gets the best of everything.
Call me whatever geriatric millennial if that makes you feel better I guess?
Call me whatever geriatric millennial if that makes you feel better I guess?
You know this is still taught right? My 8yr knows how to write cursive.
I'm kind of curious about this mythical world where later millenials and gen z don't have experience with face to face interactions. Like, some of us (myself included) are bad with body language, but that's not necessarily because we never met with people face to face. Like, the past year excluded to an extent for obvious reasons, young people still go to school and hang out with friends in person. You still have to work in groups in school and have in person meetings. And most people still hang out with their friends in person just as much as they would have had they been born earlier. The people who aren't regularly doing that are likely people like myself who would have just been complete social outcasts even in a world without the internet for one reason or another
Geriatric = old , it's a pretty straightforward terminology
I know what it means. It's just bad name. All these "we need to find a way to label these groups" names are bad but this is particularly cringey.
yeah, it's not like we weren't all in the office/school before this? like people who can't read body language is a thing from all generations, not just millenials/gen z
Born in 79;
Now that we are over 40 and have a chance at writing the narrative, we are declaring to the world that we are the best employees you can get.
Makes sens to me :)
Now that we are over 40 and have a chance at writing the narrative, we are declaring to the world that we are the best employees you can get.
Makes sens to me :)
It definitely has something to do with the interests of our age group. I know *how* to use Twitch, I just don't get it. Why watch someone else play video games instead of playing yourself? And hot tub streamers (which I learned about today)? Just watch some porn, people. We watched Skinimax with Shannon Tweed back in the day because none of us could rent porn VHS: that's what these silly booby streamers look like to me, just Skinimax with less plot.
Minus watching noobs try to play Dark Souls blind a few times (Kay Plays on YT, miss her) and some occasional speedrun stuff I have zero interest in watching anything video-gameplay except quick videos showing me how to find a treasure in Dark Souls or Dragon Quest that I can't find.
A lot of my coworkers and my friends are all ~40-45ish and it is pretty universal in our *meh* for Twitch, Tiktok, Snapchat, and the like. Most of us have soured on social media, too. If it wasn't for Wario64 and cyber security researcher tweets useful for my work I'd barely use Twitter either.
Snapchat is dumb too because it just *pretends* to be epheramal communication, but it still isn't safe. Don't get it. Tiktok is just Vine again, or short YT videos, so, it's fine I guess?
