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Kathy Jennings-Johnson's avatar

I'm a late boomer myself (1961) and formerly leftwing. This is also a class thing. The working classes, and the cube classes too, simply refuse to see that the other side is not and will not play fair. It's a couple or three decades past time to use the other side's rules on them.

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Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)'s avatar

This all seems quite accurate. It really is a shame that some of the Boomers/Silents refuse to voluntarily retire or provide a succession plan, and instead it doesn't happen til they have a stroke and at that point it's rather chaotic. Though after the initial chaos, it turns out that succession was so much easier and quicker than imagined and that actually no one needed them there, lording it over everyone and "transitioning" and overseeing nearly as much as they assumed.

Gen X really just never had the numbers. Right now there is a fairly disastrous situation in virtually all of the professions where people actually do want someone more experienced -- lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc. -- where there was a huge cohort of Boomers and there's a huge cohort of millennials, but only a few stray Gen Xers aged 45 - 60, and all of the sudden the Boomers are just dropping dead or suddenly retiring bc of health reasons, and there simply are not enough Xers and older millennials to fill the slots. There are plenty of younger millennials but they don't have enough experience. There is a huge shortage of senior/experienced people to fill those roles and an excess of junior associates and no one can find an experienced CPA once their Boomer CPA retires after his stroke.

For all the other many professions where grey hair and beards aren't valued, this should be a huge opportunity.

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