Most of the Millenials I know have even already the scary 50 approaching from behind.
But that's some kind of observation bias, as I am GenX and interestingly know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.
But I know a bunch of GenZ again who currently look like deer with big, wide open eyes at the approaching headlights of the "30" truck, which imho is much worse than the 40...
I only stated that the Millennials I know are of the pre-1990 type, and these totally exist.
(Hello, my beloved Millennial-wife, if you happen to read this! :-) )
As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.
I totally agree.
When turning 40, I had much to much going on (family stuff really taking up speed, buying own flat,...) that I didn't give a shit.
30 on the other hand, with me still without a long-term partnership and just continuing living my old student bachelor's life, felt like a huge thing, triggering profound eleventh-hour-panic.
I think that the dates have shifted as typical family foundation has moved from the late teens or early twenties to around 30.
This also means that 50 might be the new 40 (A fact that I can confirm by now), marking a new phase in life as 40 maybe did in former times.
I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that's average. And as soon as you're any flavor of queer or there's conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.
Yes, especially wars also tend to seriously disturb family planning.
My grandparents all were around 30 on my fathers side and even older on my mothers side when they became parents.
Reason for that: WWII happened...
Before and after the wars, numbers were significantly different.
My mother was nineteen when I was born in the mid 70s. But that also was around the time when that started to change in our country, triggered by the more widespread availability of contraceptives and an increase of women's education level.
That's just the bloating in your stomach.
When you turn 30, you develop this incredibly urge to start eating lots of beans, commonly marking the transition to being an old man with the obligatory old man habits.
As someone living in a country with an increasing overaging problem (current birthrate per woman: 1,35 children...), I see this happening in realtime, and I can tell you it is really not a good thing.
Found a strange, single, long hair growing off my chin the other day. I’m a woman in my mid-30s with no tendencies toward facial hair whatsoever.
It reminded me of when I was working in a nursing home, and such hairs would just appear, already over an inch long, on patients’ faces. It was as if they sprouted overnight.
It was a disturbing moment to find one on myself. But hey, it was still my natural color and the length made it easy to pluck. So, can’t complain. Yet.
I've noticed there's a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn't, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don't and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.
That's my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it's hard to see.
Well now at least you can say you know of me, I have 4 years left before 40.
Those of us in the second half of millennial aren’t that different than the first half, the biggest difference is things like YouTube and Facebook were high school things for us instead of college things.
I am now working at a place in our company that is prime starting point for a lot of university graduates. Most of them were born around 2000 and are now in their mid- to end twenties.
So correct, I also know a couple of people born slightly before 2000, did some slight rounding there.
My wife and I joke that once you hit 40, a random 40s ailment just just assigned to you. Well, just one if you're lucky. I got assigned some nerve pain myself.
And the need for "progressives" for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.
For the Z'ers, "books" are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.
They coined the term in 1987, around the time children born in 1982 were entering kindergarten, and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the impending new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000.[29]
Missed out on that one by a couple years unfortunately, though I feel more of a connection to those who had a pre-digital childhood like myself than I do to the iPad babies of today.
Sure whatever millennials are consider starting in 1981. So oldest is 45. But whatever they are all made up and mean nothing. Cause now they are starting micro generations.
There are now several studies showing that generations rarely end precisely at one point and begin anew at another. In the case of Xennials, they do not identify with either the later Millennials or Generation X.
No really a made up thing isn't precise. There is no Xennials or that is the micro generations some are pushing. And come on the wealth of your family, where you are raised how you are raised are going to be bigger factors in how you grow up then your generation.
Gen x'er here, weren't y'all like starting things in 1981....wouldn't that make you comingup on a different decade? (I'll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)
My parents started referring to me as "middle-aged" when I was like 35 specifically because they knew it would drive me nuts. And with the current trajectory of American life expectancy, the math might actually bear them out.
That's a good idea too. I threw my back out once with the first one from rocking because I didn't realize I was sort of compressing my spine to give my arms a break. It's one of those things that doesn't matter if you do it once, but over and over again, it sneaks up on you.
Forty was fine. I didn't feel old at all and was in a decent place mentally. I'm now 49, and I have a feeling 50 is going to be somewhat jarring. It just feels undeniably mature.
My heart aches not working towards a future where Bezos will have to settle for just a yacht within a yacht, and not a utopia where he has a yacht in his yacht that can be docked in another yacht
I remember when I felt invincible, like the world is my oyster. It felt like yesterday. Even though I didn't achieve everything that I hoped, I'm glad I was raised to just enjoy the journey.
Like it or not, 1981 was 45 years ago. Modern Times (1936) is nearer in time to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) than The Empire Strikes back is to 2026.
Leading up to my recent 40th, I went on a little tour of contacting people to tie up loose ends/seek closure where it was lacking. It was really helpful, even though at least one person worried I was planning to kill myself.
in my 50s now. mentally, I feel like I'm in my late 30s.
in my 30s I felt like my mid 20s.
in my 20s I felt like mid teens.
all of this is wrong because your perspective changes as you age. just because that how you feel you felt then doesn't mean that's exactly how you felt.
better way to put it, you can't feel emotions until you have them and once you've had them you can never feel how you felt then.
you are 33. I am 52. we are the age we are and nothing else matters.
Had to get it with my girlfriend a bit before I was comfortable co-owning with her and it's in a small town but it's worked out so far a bit under a year in. A little worried about what would happen if I lost my job but who doesn't worry about that kinda thing. I'm very fortunate, not many of my peers are so stable right now.
I'd say if you remember 9/11 and its impact then you make the cut-off. So maybe about 28-ish, give or take? I think some people claim the other end starts as early as born '79 so there may be a few 47 y.o.s who identifiy as one too.
It does do that. I just had a door to door salesman stop by and ask for my parents. I'm thirty, and have always looked old for my age. Sadly, he still read me as a guy, but I'm still only a few months in.
I'm not sure when the Wikipedia page for "generations" was implemented, but I have a feeling the current generational definitions have been defined a lot longer than the past 5 years. Unless your parents are post-end ww2 baby boomers, I see no way for you to have ever been technically considered gen-y.
That being said, I feel like culturally, it wasn't really until the massive uptick in school shootings (I'm also making a big assumption that you're American, here) that gen-z was really defined. From memory, I think the high profile Columbine shooting happened in 1999-2001, but school shootings weren't really considered commonplace until at the earliest the late 2000s, or even early 2010s.
Assuming they weren't held back in school, the youngest millennial would still have been in highschool until 2014, maybe 2015. Compare that to the oldest millennial, who would have potentially graduated highschool in 1999, maybe 1998.
And since you aren't even 30 yet (let's assume 29), that would have the earliest you'd have been slated to graduate highschool at 2014, making you solidly in the shooter generation, gen-z. Again, though, this is assuming you're American, and the only real culture and history I'm remotely familiar with.
Counterpoint b, though, a lot of people considered people "growing up around the turn of the millennium" to be a millennial. Sooo, yeah. Culturally, sure, close enough, I guess. But technically, nah.
Honestly, it just boils down to how the words "millennial" and "genZ" had their meanings negotiated and decided. The way we were defining Millennials in 2015 was different from how we define them in 2026.
Generations are less about describing an easily definable age cohort, as people are being born every day. Rather, like you pointed out, they're more about defining cultural experience.
Realistically, very little actually happens "fast" in my life. For me, things are more like the concept of punctuated equilibrium. Stretch of sameness, sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy. Get used to the change. Stretch of sameness for another while. Sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy again. Reduce. Reuse. Rinse. Recycle. Repeat.
Looking back, those stretches of sameness when life was relatively peaceful, calm, safe, etc tend to melt into each other, mentally compressed, then archived. Those sudden changes grow and balloon, warping my memories of the past, taking over seeming like they just kept coming. To the point where, it's like just yesterday I was starting college.
But then on top of that, life just gets more and more complicated without even necessarily trying. Harder and harder and harder. Best of plans, greatest of hopes. Smashed to pieces. Most of it, I didn't make complicated or intentionally bring upon myself. Much of it, in fact, was unavoidable even if it was predictable. And it keeps coming.
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avg@lemmy.zip · 139 pts · 137d
Old meme, already 40.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 38 pts · 137d
I be 44 this year! Just after my third lower back surgery
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
Damn, I'm scared to consider one.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 137d
Brag much? Look you Mr. Maturity. I just exited my mid 30s, anow had to transition into calling myself late 30s.
avg@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 137d
Don't worry time flies from that point on and then you die.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
3.months left
homes@piefed.world · 0 pts · 137d
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 40 pts · 137d
Most of the Millenials I know have even already the scary 50 approaching from behind.
But that's some kind of observation bias, as I am GenX and interestingly know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.
But I know a bunch of GenZ again who currently look like deer with big, wide open eyes at the approaching headlights of the "30" truck, which imho is much worse than the 40...
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 20 pts · 137d
Hell no. 30 was just the "oh I'm a real adult now" realisation. 40 is middle age.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 137d
Yeah 30s were like "oh I've got people that depend on me now so I can't just fuck off and do whatever I want all day."
40s are like "Oh shit, why does this hurt? It's permanent?!"
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 12 pts · 137d
Most people you know are not "millennials", 1976 is not even close to a millennial birthdate lmfao
At some point, every person born in the 20th century while be classified as a millennial.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 137d
Where did I say that?
I only stated that the Millennials I know are of the pre-1990 type, and these totally exist.
(Hello, my beloved Millennial-wife, if you happen to read this! :-) )
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 137d
As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 137d
I totally agree.
When turning 40, I had much to much going on (family stuff really taking up speed, buying own flat,...) that I didn't give a shit.
30 on the other hand, with me still without a long-term partnership and just continuing living my old student bachelor's life, felt like a huge thing, triggering profound eleventh-hour-panic.
I think that the dates have shifted as typical family foundation has moved from the late teens or early twenties to around 30.
This also means that 50 might be the new 40 (A fact that I can confirm by now), marking a new phase in life as 40 maybe did in former times.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 137d
I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that's average. And as soon as you're any flavor of queer or there's conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 137d
Yes, especially wars also tend to seriously disturb family planning.
My grandparents all were around 30 on my fathers side and even older on my mothers side when they became parents.
Reason for that: WWII happened...
Before and after the wars, numbers were significantly different. My mother was nineteen when I was born in the mid 70s. But that also was around the time when that started to change in our country, triggered by the more widespread availability of contraceptives and an increase of women's education level.
DamnianWayne@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 136d
I have nothing going on in my late 30s. Feels like my life is stagnant. Can’t afford shit except to slave away to live paycheck to pay check.
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
The problem is the extra air growing in weird places.
obvs@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
Extra AIR?!
Sounds horrifying!
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 137d
That's just the bloating in your stomach.
When you turn 30, you develop this incredibly urge to start eating lots of beans, commonly marking the transition to being an old man with the obligatory old man habits.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 137d
Imagining the entire populace becoming old men
Shudders...
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 137d
As someone living in a country with an increasing overaging problem (current birthrate per woman: 1,35 children...), I see this happening in realtime, and I can tell you it is really not a good thing.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
Found a strange, single, long hair growing off my chin the other day. I’m a woman in my mid-30s with no tendencies toward facial hair whatsoever.
It reminded me of when I was working in a nursing home, and such hairs would just appear, already over an inch long, on patients’ faces. It was as if they sprouted overnight.
It was a disturbing moment to find one on myself. But hey, it was still my natural color and the length made it easy to pluck. So, can’t complain. Yet.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 137d
I've noticed there's a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn't, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don't and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.
That's my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it's hard to see.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 136d
pretty much how bashir in ds9 sums it up, its half-way through middle age already as he claimed when had his 30th birthday
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 137d
Well now at least you can say you know of me, I have 4 years left before 40.
Those of us in the second half of millennial aren’t that different than the first half, the biggest difference is things like YouTube and Facebook were high school things for us instead of college things.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 137d
Plenty of time, you are mid 30s still. No reason to panic. ;-)
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 137d
How are both of these true
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 137d
I am now working at a place in our company that is prime starting point for a lot of university graduates. Most of them were born around 2000 and are now in their mid- to end twenties.
So correct, I also know a couple of people born slightly before 2000, did some slight rounding there.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 136d
genz stare
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 137d
40? The oldest millenials are turning 45 this year.
Sawblade02@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 137d
Already there, would not recommend. The only prize is unending joint pain.
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Lucky! I got chronic nerve pain at 40. Good excuse to smoke pot, tho
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 137d
My wife and I joke that once you hit 40, a random 40s ailment just just assigned to you. Well, just one if you're lucky. I got assigned some nerve pain myself.
Tower@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 137d
I got diabetes...
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 137d
Don't forget the sudden need for "readers".
wjrii@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
And the need for "progressives" for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.
For the Z'ers, "books" are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
I was gonna say. We're all in the back seat of a car because you're not running from that thing with knees that old.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 136d
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 136d
btw you posted it 2 times
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 136d
The other time should be deleted before I posted this one, because I forgot the "40s"
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 136d
i see
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 137d
Everyone saying this is too late. We are Xennials not Millenials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
avg@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 137d
By the same article you posted, this is 3 years late. That fucker is already on the car and climbing towards the rest of us
shuvit@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 136d
The graduating class of 2000 were the original millennials before it was used as a general term for an entire generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
Furbag@pawb.social · 2 pts · 137d
The Oregon Trail generation!
Missed out on that one by a couple years unfortunately, though I feel more of a connection to those who had a pre-digital childhood like myself than I do to the iPad babies of today.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 137d
Yeah, that sweet spot in timeline between analog and digital.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 137d
Was looking for this comment, thanks!
Auli@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 136d
Sure whatever millennials are consider starting in 1981. So oldest is 45. But whatever they are all made up and mean nothing. Cause now they are starting micro generations.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 136d
There are now several studies showing that generations rarely end precisely at one point and begin anew at another. In the case of Xennials, they do not identify with either the later Millennials or Generation X.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 136d
No really a made up thing isn't precise. There is no Xennials or that is the micro generations some are pushing. And come on the wealth of your family, where you are raised how you are raised are going to be bigger factors in how you grow up then your generation.
shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 137d
I just turned 41, fuck you for accuracy....
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 136d
My bank account and accomplishments say I'm 25. Check & mate.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 136d
40 is the new bankrupt
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 137d
Gen x'er here, weren't y'all like starting things in 1981....wouldn't that make you comingup on a different decade? (I'll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)
Dasus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 136d
That can't be right, that would mean I'm actually getting older
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 136d
Getting older isn't a real thing. Your outsides just get really crinkly from sleeping on them so much.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 136d
One too many baths
FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org · 15 pts · 137d
40 has already caught me, but its OK because I still kick ass.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 137d
My father referred to me as 'almost 40' the other day, which I deemed rude so I called him 'almost 60', which he also deemed rude.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
My parents started referring to me as "middle-aged" when I was like 35 specifically because they knew it would drive me nuts. And with the current trajectory of American life expectancy, the math might actually bear them out.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 137d
Nah, man, engage your spite, live to 100, curse them as you die. I believe in you.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 136d
My family lives for freaking ever i won't "middle aged" until my 48th
voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 137d
As a millienal rapidly approaching 40 and with my first kid on the way..this image speaks to me.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 137d
Congrats on the first kid! I have young kids and recommend getting some cardio in now for more energy. It's been helping me.
voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 137d
Thanks! Haha I've been working on that as well and some arm/core strength for rocking it haha.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
That's a good idea too. I threw my back out once with the first one from rocking because I didn't realize I was sort of compressing my spine to give my arms a break. It's one of those things that doesn't matter if you do it once, but over and over again, it sneaks up on you.
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 136d
Forty was fine. I didn't feel old at all and was in a decent place mentally. I'm now 49, and I have a feeling 50 is going to be somewhat jarring. It just feels undeniably mature.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 136d
I'm mid forties now and I'm preparing for battle
treesquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
How are you knees holding up?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 135d
I have to workout so much just to feel normal
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 136d
It really depends on your physical fitness level going into your 40s. That's the main reason I work out, so getting old sucks less.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 137d
Meanwhile, retirement age is speeding away into the distance...
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 137d
There was never any hope to retire
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 137d
Who needs retirement when you can just die working
Murse@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 137d
We've had one warehouse fire, yes, but what about second warehouse fire??
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
My heart aches not working towards a future where Bezos will have to settle for just a yacht within a yacht, and not a utopia where he has a yacht in his yacht that can be docked in another yacht
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 137d
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 136d
3 more months!! I’m excited! Aging is a privilege!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 137d
40 Millennials chasing you down the street would be pretty scary.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 137d
Nah, we're angry but we're pretty lazy
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 137d
That's why it would be scary. We don't move for nothin'. Especislly those of us over 40.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 136d
Looks at me brother. I am already in my mid-40s.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
I remember when I felt invincible, like the world is my oyster. It felt like yesterday. Even though I didn't achieve everything that I hoped, I'm glad I was raised to just enjoy the journey.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
Where is the button in Lemmy for flagging posts as "false and misleading"?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 137d
Like it or not, 1981 was 45 years ago. Modern Times (1936) is nearer in time to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) than The Empire Strikes back is to 2026.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 136d
Which makes thus false. Since millennials can already be in their 40s.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
1981 may have been 45 years ago, but 1988 - the year I was born in - was only 30 years ago. I don't make the rules[^1].
[^1]: That was a lie. I did make that rule.
tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 136d
Reminder that your generation contains all the best and worst of humanity, like other generations, and is not a like collective.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
Leading up to my recent 40th, I went on a little tour of contacting people to tie up loose ends/seek closure where it was lacking. It was really helpful, even though at least one person worried I was planning to kill myself.
katzimir@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
the person worrying about you sounds like a great person
CaptainMan251@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
Why do I feel not 33 even though I am 33
MBech@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 137d
Mentally I still feel like I'm 18. Not sure that's ever really going to change though.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
in my 50s now. mentally, I feel like I'm in my late 30s.
in my 30s I felt like my mid 20s.
in my 20s I felt like mid teens.
all of this is wrong because your perspective changes as you age. just because that how you feel you felt then doesn't mean that's exactly how you felt.
better way to put it, you can't feel emotions until you have them and once you've had them you can never feel how you felt then.
you are 33. I am 52. we are the age we are and nothing else matters.
CaptainMan251@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
Holy crap
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
I feel like I have been 33 for at least 10 years
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 136d
I'm like one of the youngest millenials... Still a long way to go thank you very much!
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 136d
30 in a couple months, not ready but at least I got a house so I can feel mildly like I have my shit together.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 136d
Lmao house at 30 yeah you're doing fine my friend
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 134d
Had to get it with my girlfriend a bit before I was comfortable co-owning with her and it's in a small town but it's worked out so far a bit under a year in. A little worried about what would happen if I lost my job but who doesn't worry about that kinda thing. I'm very fortunate, not many of my peers are so stable right now.
Sprinks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 136d
Right? Im part of the youngest millennials and i turn 30 in a few months. Its been a fucking wild experience being stuck between two generations.
Edit: i guess someone disagrees with my self-declared millennial status, lol.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
I won't be able to handle the embarrassment of being where I am while being 40.
Siethron@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
I got another half a decade thank you very much
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
OpenStars@piefed.social · 5 pts · 137d
scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 137d
I'm gen Z and I'm less than two years from thirty. The years do keep coming, and they do not stop.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
Fist time I got an AARP flyer in the mail I wanted to punch the mailman.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
But your doctor warned you about overexerting yourself like that, right?
abaddon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
Turned 40 last week, just got mine. Definite WTF moment for me
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 137d
I just wanted to say I love when Homer goes blank-eyed in this scene. He makes a great robot
tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 137d
I was like, why the hell am I chasing millenials
Asafum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
This year for me... And we're already almost halfway through it.
It's coming
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 137d
(but, oh boy, was it fun!)
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 136d
Best thing about being genx, we're psychologically incapable of giving a shit
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 136d
whatever
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 137d
When you realize that 2088 is only 62 years away
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d
'Reality hits you hard, bro'
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 136d
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 137d
me_irl
BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 137d
I feel seen in a bad way
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 137d
All the millennials I know have just barely turned 30.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 137d
As of 2026, millennials span 45-30 years old, give or take a year in each direction because of birth month/day.
So you must know only the absolute youngest millennials.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
I'd say if you remember 9/11 and its impact then you make the cut-off. So maybe about 28-ish, give or take? I think some people claim the other end starts as early as born '79 so there may be a few 47 y.o.s who identifiy as one too.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
don't blink.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 137d
I spent my teenage years being called a Millennial, and I'm not even 30 yet. Only in the last ~5ish years have I started to be considered GenZ.
It's like I'm aging forward, and getting younger, at the same time (admittedly, the Estrogen helps a bit with that ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
homura1650@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
It does do that. I just had a door to door salesman stop by and ask for my parents. I'm thirty, and have always looked old for my age. Sadly, he still read me as a guy, but I'm still only a few months in.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 137d
I'm not sure when the Wikipedia page for "generations" was implemented, but I have a feeling the current generational definitions have been defined a lot longer than the past 5 years. Unless your parents are post-end ww2 baby boomers, I see no way for you to have ever been technically considered gen-y.
That being said, I feel like culturally, it wasn't really until the massive uptick in school shootings (I'm also making a big assumption that you're American, here) that gen-z was really defined. From memory, I think the high profile Columbine shooting happened in 1999-2001, but school shootings weren't really considered commonplace until at the earliest the late 2000s, or even early 2010s.
Assuming they weren't held back in school, the youngest millennial would still have been in highschool until 2014, maybe 2015. Compare that to the oldest millennial, who would have potentially graduated highschool in 1999, maybe 1998.
And since you aren't even 30 yet (let's assume 29), that would have the earliest you'd have been slated to graduate highschool at 2014, making you solidly in the shooter generation, gen-z. Again, though, this is assuming you're American, and the only real culture and history I'm remotely familiar with.
Counterpoint b, though, a lot of people considered people "growing up around the turn of the millennium" to be a millennial. Sooo, yeah. Culturally, sure, close enough, I guess. But technically, nah.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 137d
Honestly, it just boils down to how the words "millennial" and "genZ" had their meanings negotiated and decided. The way we were defining Millennials in 2015 was different from how we define them in 2026.
Generations are less about describing an easily definable age cohort, as people are being born every day. Rather, like you pointed out, they're more about defining cultural experience.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 137d
Realistically, very little actually happens "fast" in my life. For me, things are more like the concept of punctuated equilibrium. Stretch of sameness, sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy. Get used to the change. Stretch of sameness for another while. Sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy again. Reduce. Reuse. Rinse. Recycle. Repeat.
Looking back, those stretches of sameness when life was relatively peaceful, calm, safe, etc tend to melt into each other, mentally compressed, then archived. Those sudden changes grow and balloon, warping my memories of the past, taking over seeming like they just kept coming. To the point where, it's like just yesterday I was starting college.
But then on top of that, life just gets more and more complicated without even necessarily trying. Harder and harder and harder. Best of plans, greatest of hopes. Smashed to pieces. Most of it, I didn't make complicated or intentionally bring upon myself. Much of it, in fact, was unavoidable even if it was predictable. And it keeps coming.