Comments on: Gen X to bail out the boomers? Scary… http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/archives/477 Career Planning for Midcareer Professionals Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CathyG http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/archives/477/comment-page-1#comment-3861 CathyG Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:18:21 +0000 http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/?p=477#comment-3861 Thanks for the comment. I'll keep an eye out for interesting stories about Gen Jones! Most midliife career changers like to call themselves Boomers. It seems that Gen Jones is applied to these folks by others, not by themselves. But I'll look into it and welcome comments by others. Thanks for the comment. I’ll keep an eye out for interesting stories about Gen Jones! Most midliife career changers like to call themselves Boomers. It seems that Gen Jones is applied to these folks by others, not by themselves. But I’ll look into it and welcome comments by others.

]]> By: grtp50 http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/archives/477/comment-page-1#comment-3860 grtp50 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:45:58 +0000 http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/?p=477#comment-3860 And this really is an interesting blog, but given its name and theme, I'm very surprised to see no discussion of Generation Jones anywhere. Given the ability of the net and blogs to stay on top of new trends, and given that the Associated Press' annual Trend Report chose The Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009, perhaps you'd consider exposing your readers to Generation Jones? And this really is an interesting blog, but given its name and theme, I’m very surprised to see no discussion of Generation Jones anywhere. Given the ability of the net and blogs to stay on top of new trends, and given that the Associated Press’ annual Trend Report chose The Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009, perhaps you’d consider exposing your readers to Generation Jones?

]]> By: grtp50 http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/archives/477/comment-page-1#comment-3859 grtp50 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:41:12 +0000 http://midlifecareerstrategy.com/blog/?p=477#comment-3859 Interesting article. No worries...you don't need to be scared because Obama is certainly not a Gen Xer. Virtually no prominent voices anywhere have said he is an Xer (Penelope Trunk is neither a generations expert nor prominent). By contrast, many influential voices have repeatedly said that Obama--born 1961--is part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you'll see it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) specifically use this term to describe Obama. Here is a recent op-ed about Obama as the first GenJones President in USA TODAY: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm And here is a recent interview with the guy who coined the term "Generation Jones": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBk1GZ747F8 Interesting article. No worries…you don’t need to be scared because Obama is certainly not a Gen Xer. Virtually no prominent voices anywhere have said he is an Xer (Penelope Trunk is neither a generations expert nor prominent). By contrast, many influential voices have repeatedly said that Obama–born 1961–is part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) specifically use this term to describe Obama.

Here is a recent op-ed about Obama as the first GenJones President in USA TODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm

And here is a recent interview with the guy who coined the term “Generation Jones”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBk1GZ747F8

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