As a Gen X-er, retired at age 48, I don't think of myself as a failure. On the contrary, I beat the fucking system, against all odds, despite growing up in a l

As a Gen X-er, retired at age 48, I don't think of myself as a failure. On the contrary, I beat the fucking system, against all odds, despite growing up in a log cabin with no electricity and no running water in rural Arkansas, so yeah, go me. (To be fair, the only reason I was in a log cabin in Arkansas was because my hippie boomer parents decided to build a log cabin in Arkansas to evade certain nuclear annihilation in the "back to the land[1]" movement in the 70's, and, when they ran out of money, they went back to civilization with their college degrees, got jobs, and paid for my college education, so... eh, thanks to my excellent boomer parents, I thrived. Funny how that worked out, isn't it. Edit: also, the public school system in Marshall, Arkansas at the time (early 1980s) was surprisingly excellent. Not kidding about that. I remember having great science and algebra teachers, and even the art teacher was pretty awesome.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement