I was born in the 70s and grew up in the late 80s, early 90s. My friends and I consider ourselves 'GenX' though I'm not sure what we are. I find this article

I was born in the 70s and grew up in the late 80s, early 90s. My friends and I consider ourselves 'GenX' though I'm not sure what we are. I find this article interesting because my friends and I often discuss how lucky we are to have been born when we were. We got off a crazy train right before it was about to take a perverse, fiery decent into economic hell. In the 90s, college was cheap, and it was easy to get in to. In the 90s, it was cool to be a 'slacker' - and you could accomplish quite a lot, as one. There was hardly any competition and tons of opportunities. With a little bit of brain and a little bit of motivation, you could get into a top school, and it didn't matter much what your grades were. But, it wasn't just schooling that was easier to achieve - everything seemed a lot easier, and simpler. I was recently talking to an older acquaintance, a person who recently retired as a top executive for one of the largest technology companies in the world. He's about 20 years older than me. And, he basically said the same thing: he was a B-C student in high school and college. He was pretty much a slacker, as I was. We both joked about how neither of us would be able to accomplish much, if we had been born in the 80s, or later.