r/Older_Millennials

It's funny because on the show they have older millennial, Mandy Moore, playing a Boomer mother to her elder millennial kids.

I have some younger Gen Z coworkers, and in them listening to me and older coworkers ( a mix of older millennials and some Gen X) bantering around with one another, they've mentioned that we (meaning us, generationally, not just at work but in general, including their parents) curse a lot more than they do?

I've never thought of us as being particularly foul-mouthed? And I really only curse jokingly and with love.

Thoughts?

For me it’s Daria and Jane (Daria), Claire Fisher (Six Feet Under) Rory and Lane (Gilmore Girls) for my high school and college years, post college from 2007-12 it’s tougher to think of characters in their early-mid 20s that I could relate to - maybe April Ludgate from Parks and Rec? Annie from Community? Bits and pieces from all the characters on Girls resonated although I definitely hate watched that show. I want to say the same about the characters on HIMYM but I think they may have been technically young Gen Xers.

In my late 20s/early 30s, I related a bit to characters on New Girl. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is another one. A little bit with Broad City too. Gretchen from You’re the Worst too. Alexis and Dan from Schitt’s Creek fit that bill too.

From mid-30s - now, I’m struggling to think of many other characters in our age bracket I’ve found relatable. I think the characters on Workin Moms were a little older? Maybe the characters from Fleishman Is in Trouble?

What about you?

This questionnaire is for my HSC Personal Interest Project for the subject Society and Culture. This questionnaire focuses on consumer behaviour and how it varies based on generation. I am desperate for more Millennials to do this questionnaire for an even data spread. This google forms quiz will not collect emails, names or any personal details.

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So I’m one of the lucky few millennials who wound up doing pretty okay financially. Luck, hard work, nepotism. Lots of each. I have more than I deserve. Anyway, I’m in a HCOL area, have no real debt (~100k left on mortgage in primary residence that doesn’t make sense to pay off with interest rate so low -- we have a rental that is paid off), two young children and a wife who works full time in an unrelated field but also does similarly well.

I’m at a point in my life and career now though where I’m living comfortably and below my means. I want to scale back and where I’m at now is soooo close to quitting a low level exec job at a giant company you’ve heard of to make drastically less money bootstrapping something on my own for a bit, and if that doesn’t work taking a lower position somewhere else (eventually, tough out there right now) and just coasting.

My question is ? I honestly don’t know if this is me having a midlife crisis or if I’ve finally just “seen the light” and realized that no amount of work or money is going to make me hate corporate life less and I’ve got enough… be happy and enjoy life and family.

Are there any other depressed 40 year olds out there who actually have successfully scaled back? Walking away from 300k/year or whatever is scary and to be clear, I don’t have enough to retire forever (maybe without the kids haha) but I do have enough to do less for a good while my kids are young. Wife likes her job well enough and we've always made sure we could live on one income. She's supportive regardless (fuckin' superwoman)

Am I on to something or am I fucking up my eventual retirement? Anybody else been here?

Recently laid the SO down on the bed and jumped up and mounted them.

Hip locked up and took a cramp down the back of one leg, leading to absolute agony and killed the moment ??

We are getting old, elder millennials. What made you realize it?

Under the banner of “independence” the middle class was encouraged to split up from generational family housing and now we all run our own poorly funded fiefdoms. Who is still living in the same house? The royal family in England… rich families a la Succession all work for the same family. Rich people open trusts and build wealth while the rest of us go through probate court to get our measly “inheritance.”

Or did you others or flirt within that scene?

It was huge in my area. A girl died from dehydration after dropping some E. It was quite big news.

Yeah, I know, as a group they've made some awful and bewildering political choices.

But has anybody else grown tired of the Boomer Blame Game? These were our parents, our teachers, the respected adult elite when we were kids. I really don't think most of them "had it out for us." As their kids, they did have some good intentions and thought they were doing the right thing. They ended up being wrong, mostly. But their intentions weren't evil.

Baby boomers also moved the sociocultural needle on a lot of things that we take for granted. Gay rights and visibility increased because of their efforts. They were the first generation to largely embrace Women in Power as bosses. They gave us some of our first interracial, popular families.

And hey, we're in our forties now. The time has come for us to move the needle now, too. Not blame anybody else or act like we have no agency of our own.

I have a close older Generation Jones friend who has been a teacher for over 35 years. Every once in awhile I like to pick her brain about how students have evolved over the years.

She says it is true that attention spans are much shorter these days thanks to phones and short form Tik Tok videos. And that student's parents are way more involved.

But on the other hand, she claims students have been much less belligerent and less likely to get into fights on campus and that this has been true for over two decades. That most of the fighting peaked in the late 90s and early 2000s. Wasn't that when we were in high school lol? I guess I remember a lot of fights in high school but were we a particularly combative generation?

I was a teenager in the 90s. I remember watching Fight Club and The Matrix.

I remember long summers and visiting my grandpa (RiP).

I remember my aunty's laugh and how she was so clued into the internet and youth culture (RiP).

I remember nobody having phones and being present in conversations and situations.

I also remember lots of scraps with other teenage boys and just generally roaming free, trying weed and alcohol for the first time, and getting online on an old Comadore PC and being astounded.

Is it just nostalgia for carefree youth, or was the 90s truly special? In the immortal words of Forest Gump, "I think maybe it's both. Maybe both are happening at the same time."

What are your favorite memories?

Like a subconscious nugget that breeches the surface for air periodically, I find myself dropping this catchphrase from time to time without even thinking about it.

I don't know how it's stuck with me for so long, but it's wedged into my brain permanently.

After my wife tried and failed (again) to get me to wear more trendy clothes, I realized that I haven’t changed/updated my style in over to 20 years.

Suits for work (because I have to) Gym clothes at home. A black/navy polo and jeans for going out.

I’ve never really deviated from this. Just curious if I’m normal or if the rest of my peers are keeping it classy.

I really liked that game. Back when you didn’t have to subscribe to games. Still annoyed they never produced SimMars.