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My mother, a baby boomer ('48), worked as a waitress part time to pay her way through college in her 20's. My dad worked for ma'bell, and earned somewhere arou
by falcolas 4y ago
My mother, a baby boomer ('48), worked as a waitress part time to pay her way through college in her 20's.
My dad worked for ma'bell, and earned somewhere around $150k in today's dollars as an high-school-educated lineman when he retired (and was then hired back on to train). And that's with a fully funded pension plan.
So, even if they were in the workforce earlier (they weren't, I (as a genX) was working part time in college at 18, my wife full time), the workforce was very different.
The times, they've changed.
- elzbardico 4y agoSorry for nitpicking, but 48 is not a boomer. She is a Gen X. Boomers are the folks born after WWII and before the oil crisis.
- falcolas 4y ago1948 is actually roughly within the OG "baby boomer" group, since it represents babies born to WWII veterans when they returned home to their wives. WWII ended in September 1945. And while there are variations on the years per generation, here's the breakdown per Wikipedia. The baby boomer generation runs from 1946 to 1964, X from 1965 to 1980, Millenials 1981 to 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation As an aside, the "First Oil Crisis" was in '73, so even by your definition she's a boomer?
- elzbardico 4y agoI misunderstood. I thought you were saying she was 48 years old, but she was born in 48.
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