Abandon Comfort
- Thread starter Simon Sexton
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I hate to be picky, MisterR6, but several sources indicate that the earliest Millenials were born in the mid 70's and the latest as late as 2000. That would be an age group from about 42 to older than 18. I think the generation is intended to capture those kids whose formative years coincided with the turn of the century. In my opinion, a generation must cover 20 years and those born after 1996 were certainly not being intellectually influenced by sources outside their immediate family (i.e. social contacts and media) until after the millennia. I would put the generation from 1976 to 1996 at earliest or 1979 to 1999 at the latest. I don't see how anybody born after the millennia can be considered a millennial, so there must be a new generation that hasn't quite been stereotyped yet. Perhaps they are similar to millennials, but they must be distinct!
I always considered Gen X'ers to be mid 60's to 70's born, but that is a relatively narrow band and maybe not quite a full generation!Therefore, Simon, you are really on the outer fringe of that generation, if at all. I think that only kids whom were born in the 80's (the Reagan babies) can place themselves solidly in that generation, You'd probably be better served finding a later generation with which to identify. I don't know that there is a distinct identity for your generation, yet.
Interesting discussion - perhaps thread drift. Wiki defines Millenials as follows:
Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials are sometimes referred to as "echo boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. The 20th-century trend toward smaller families in developed countries continued, however, so the relative impact of the "baby boom echo" was generally less pronounced than the post–World War II baby boom.
I know I'm a baby boomer.
Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials are sometimes referred to as "echo boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. The 20th-century trend toward smaller families in developed countries continued, however, so the relative impact of the "baby boom echo" was generally less pronounced than the post–World War II baby boom.
I know I'm a baby boomer.
"This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius"
Each age takes a couple of millennia To complete. We are leaving the Age of Pisces and entering the Age of Aquarius. However, the exact transition date is debatable and also nebulous. These ages are characterised by stages of development analogous to human stages of development and the characteristics of the previous age has influence on the new age for a hundred years or more and the characteristics of the coming age can be felt nearly 100 years in advance. The transition periods, more than 200 years, are supposedly periods of conflict followed by the relatively more stable period of the age. Aquarius is suppose to be like the age of young adulthood, where the need for constant instruction is over and independence is finally achieved.
Anyhow, the point here is that the previous conditions can still be felt for quite a while as the new conditions begin to take over. There are overlaps and it is often difficult to define the point of transition. I am suppose to be the last of the Babyboomers but much of my formative years were Gen X years. The Babyboomers were definitely a generation that lasted for more than 20 years while Generation X jumped right into Generation Y and on to the Millennials. So, I'm conflicted as both a Babyboomer and a Gen Xer.
- Will (Dragonfly)
Each age takes a couple of millennia To complete. We are leaving the Age of Pisces and entering the Age of Aquarius. However, the exact transition date is debatable and also nebulous. These ages are characterised by stages of development analogous to human stages of development and the characteristics of the previous age has influence on the new age for a hundred years or more and the characteristics of the coming age can be felt nearly 100 years in advance. The transition periods, more than 200 years, are supposedly periods of conflict followed by the relatively more stable period of the age. Aquarius is suppose to be like the age of young adulthood, where the need for constant instruction is over and independence is finally achieved.
Anyhow, the point here is that the previous conditions can still be felt for quite a while as the new conditions begin to take over. There are overlaps and it is often difficult to define the point of transition. I am suppose to be the last of the Babyboomers but much of my formative years were Gen X years. The Babyboomers were definitely a generation that lasted for more than 20 years while Generation X jumped right into Generation Y and on to the Millennials. So, I'm conflicted as both a Babyboomer and a Gen Xer.
- Will (Dragonfly)
I just finished Abandon Comfort's latest episode on their teak deck replacement and I can not get over their hard work to 2am day after day. The workmanship is excellent! They really show you don't need a five hundred thousand dollar "Blue Water" boat to go cruising.
I like watching the kids on AC, but their current vlog had me laughing s bit...
Tore all the teak off their HR, yanked out a whole lot of screws in the deck, sealed them (hopefully) with epoxy, and started laying down some synthetic teak.
Rain storm comes through, and the deck is leaking like a sieve, filling buckets (and I think he said setting off the high water alarm...on the hard).
Then somehow they set off a fire extinguisher and made a big mess (no real explanation on how that happened).
But they have a mission, and they are living their dream....have to give them credit for that.
Greg
Tore all the teak off their HR, yanked out a whole lot of screws in the deck, sealed them (hopefully) with epoxy, and started laying down some synthetic teak.
Rain storm comes through, and the deck is leaking like a sieve, filling buckets (and I think he said setting off the high water alarm...on the hard).
Then somehow they set off a fire extinguisher and made a big mess (no real explanation on how that happened).
But they have a mission, and they are living their dream....have to give them credit for that.
Greg