I thought I was a Baby Boomer?

outlander

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When I first heard of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965) I dismissed it as a bunch of bull crap.

Lately I have watched some videos and read some articles, realizing there is quite a bit of merit to the idea.

I guess from now on I am officially Generation Jones, since I can more easily identify with that social category compared to the classic Boomers.

It doesn't change who I am though, still the same hard headed, opinionated and stubborn guy trying my best to navigate our changing and challenging world ;)
 
From what I can tell, it's all about target marketing/advertising.

Consider yourself in the crosshairs.

I don't know why ordinary citizens would even concern themselves with all this generation categorization stuff.

If the government changes policy based on age groups, they'll let you know by dates not group names. Group names are for journalists.
 
outlander said:
When I first heard of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965) I dismissed it as a bunch of bull crap.

Lately I have watched some videos and read some articles, realizing there is quite a bit of merit to the idea.

I guess from now on I am officially Generation Jones, since I can more easily identify with that social category compared to the classic Boomers.

It doesn't change who I am though, still the same hard headed, opinionated and stubborn guy trying my best to navigate our changing and challenging world ;)
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It's 1946 to 1964....
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Those of Generation Jones [from the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses"] envisioned a bright and materialistic future of plenty. It never materialized, as they discovered when reaching the economic stagnation of the 1970s.
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A fun fact I learned just the other day from a documentary video about Edith Wharton, author.

Her maiden name was Jones and she was from a very wealthy family. And it was from that the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" was coined.
 
I'm part of the Silent Generation 1928- 1945. I think there are traces of that in me, but I identify more with boomers, who came into being after our soldiers returned home from WWII. I always just considered myself a war baby. My father was 4F and was excluded from service, and there weren't many babies being born during the war. In my elementary school in Chicago, My class was one class of 20 students. The year following me had two classrooms of 30+ students each. Those kid's fathers didn't waste any time starting families when they came back to the states. And that started the Boomers.
 
I was born in 1957, which used to be the peak year for babyboomers, but I guess we're now part of the Generation Jones. We came of age during the Watergate scandal and high inflation due to the oil crisis. In music, that time was also the end of what we now refer to as "classic rock" and the beginning of punk rock, disco, and new wave music.
 
Been a while since I researched it. There was a burst of babies being born after WW2, as men returned home, etc. However, there was a 2nd explosion, largely attributed to draft eligibility, marriage, married with children, etc. circa 1951.

It was during that period the age of marriage dropped significantly from pre war patterns. 1890- 26M/22F; 1940- 24.3M/21.5F; 1956- 22.5M/21F; 1989- 26.2M/23.8F; 2018- 29.8M/27.8F
The marriage deferment ended in 1963, if memory serves... as well as availability of the pill Became more widely accepted.
 
outlander said:
When I first heard of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965) I dismissed it as a bunch of bull crap.

Lately I have watched some videos and read some articles, realizing there is quite a bit of merit to the idea.

I guess from now on I am officially Generation Jones, since I can more easily identify with that social category compared to the classic Boomers.

It doesn't change who I am though, still the same hard headed, opinionated and stubborn guy trying my best to navigate our changing and challenging world ;)
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Generations remind me a bit of horoscopes and Chinese zodiacs ... With all due respect, because I know opinions vary....
Take it all with a grain of salt. There are some things I can relate to - and others seem way off in left field.

I fall into the semi-official (if there is such a thing with this stuff) Boomer generation, born 1963. I too relate more with Gen Jones than I do with those born in 1946. I basically grew up in the mid to late 70's and 80's.

I'm a Cancer and was born in the Year of the Rabbit 😁
 
@CaliS

I'm a Scorpio born in the Year of the Metal Ox. The personality traits listed in the Metal Ox hit uncomfortably close to home. Kinda spooky seeing how I don't generally take Astrology and all that stuff seriously, though it is kinda fun.
 
outlander said:
@CaliS

I'm a Scorpio born in the Year of the Metal Ox. The personality traits listed in the Metal Ox hit uncomfortably close to home. Kinda spooky seeing how I don't generally take Astrology and all that stuff seriously, though it is kinda fun.
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I think the personality traits can absolutely hit home, as you say --- while the daily horoscope stuff seems silly (to me) again - to each their own.

Both of mine indicate how much I love water - and that is very much true. I am at peace near water.

It makes sense that the sun and moon would have something to do with how we turn out. :ROFLMAO:
 
CaliS said:
Generations remind me a bit of horoscopes and Chinese zodiacs ... With all due respect, because I know opinions vary....
Take it all with a grain of salt. There are some things I can relate to - and others seem way off in left field.

I fall into the semi-official (if there is such a thing with this stuff) Boomer generation, born 1963. I too relate more with Gen Jones than I do with those born in 1946. I basically grew up in the mid to late 70's and 80's.

I'm a Cancer and was born in the Year of the Rabbit 😁
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Thank you for writing this. My birthday is fairly close to yours. I relate more to generation jones than the classic baby boomers also.
 
I have never understood why baby boomers years went into the 1960s by then I was leaving school. I thought Baby Boomers were those born immediately after the war conceived when the men came home from overseas after five years away.

At school we were also known as the "bulge years" as we went through the school system because there were far more pupils born in 1946 and 1947 than in the school years before or after.
 
Wombat said:
I have never understood why baby boomers years went into the 1960s by then I was leaving school. I thought Baby Boomers were those born immediately after the war conceived when the men came home from overseas after five years away.

At school we were also known as the "bulge years" as we went through the school system because there were far more pupils born in 1946 and 1947 than in the school years before or after.
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It always confused me that boomers went into the 1960s.

It seemed as if they didn't have a place for people now being called Joneses.
 
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