Fitting into conceptual boxes
They say you know you're a boomer if you're always in the elevator when you hear your favourite song. I suppose it's as good a test as any. Problem is, I can never decide if my favourite song is the Beach Boys? Wouldn?t It Be Nice? or the love theme from Gladiator.
So starts Susan Maushart in The Australian. I too was born on the border of the Boomers and the Gen-Xers. As someone into tech and gadgets I've felt more Gen-X than Boomer, but I was born six months early according to some, though this varies and is often disputed.
As the youngest of three I had the influence of my brothers, both late boomers, but when I was studying at varsity it was with the knowledge that initial jobs would be hard to find, a Gen-X situation and quite the contrast with the options earlier boomers had.
Embracing technology isn't what makes me Gen-X, there are enough boomer geeks that I can compare with. Musically I favour Gen-X, though I don't know if that isdue to my brother playing Rod Stewart's Sailing too much.
