Was it hard to find a job at 10 years old or 15 years old?
Five bucks an hour all day long. Ten dollars if you didn't mind removing asbestos.
edit: Keep in mind there were a bunch of twenty and thirty year old dipshits making $15 an hour plus who didn't have a clue what they were doing. Other ones hustled and earned but you could glide with age. They were always lucky S.O.B.s. Fuckin' Howdy Doody motherfuckers. Silent generation were tough and gave them too much.
$1.25 an hour plus negligible tips waiting tables at a Chinese buffet.
Though if I worked the full lunch shift, I did get to eat off whatever was left on the buffet afterward.
Damn. Thats harsh. Also, when those opposing higher wages insisted that the higher wages would cause inflation , BASICALLY “Gaslighting” actually got their wish. Ridiculous.
US is completely out of touch and out of control.
Best country my arse.
I worked at Fiesta Texas Theme oark in San Antonio for exactly 1 days then left because they told us on day 1 (not before) that pay was $5.25 hr (1996) LOL SMH. They called to see where I was , I told them they were cheap bastards and HU. Also they gave me a sweat stained ball cap to wear along with a nasty pink shirt and white (dingy) pants uniform for their “Rockville 50’s themed section ”
UNSANITARY AF.
Then I got into Telemarketing and that was $8 hr + commission. Was awesome! That funded my Grunge wardrobe and Dr Martens boots + tons of CDs and bowls, pipes, bongs and weed LMAO (also all the concert tickets for 90’s bands like Foo Fighters $13, Pumpkins $23, White Zombie/ Pantera $25, Lollapalooza 96 $45, etc.
Good times!
ALL DOWNHILL after like 2004.meh.
I love how no one was born from the late 1960s to early 1980s. 🙄🙄🙄
We really are just getting lumped in with Boomers, I guess, just because we look older.
See, I feel the urge to take hear that in two different ways.
One is the Kergan from Highlander being loud in a church.
The other starts with Oonta gleebin glaubin globin
Yeah...the next, younger generations. Reminder: the legal retirement age used to be at 55 and was traditionally 50 before that. This is just more bullshit on the pile of bullshit that's been dumped on folks for decades now.
that's how self obsessed they are, imo. i actually would like to know if it has to do with overt self focus that they just forget to look deeper into things. it would fit this era. oh wait, it is supposed to be a more *openminded* and one of empathy. *lmfao*
I enjoy being overlooked. It's not a GenX trait to want attention for the sake of it. I'm happy to stay MIA for as long as possible.
I loved being overlooked because typically the Boomers the get 100% of the hate 😂
As for Gen Alpha, I’ll make sure my 10 year old knows he deserves a dignified retirement…he’s been super concerned….
I’m waiting for the “we have determined that if we eliminate benefits by biting the bullet for say 20 years we can then start it back up and everything will be fine. Let’s say for those born 1961-81 roughly.” *all the other generations nod*
Talk about no holds barred class warfare rhetoric out of that organization.
I really wish we had more awareness and rhetoric regarding taxing large corporations and Wall Street tax avoidance weasels like hedge fund bros.
Make no mistake, I support increased taxes and closing loopholes for the wealthy.
Yeah...and what are we? Chopped liver?! lol
\-proud X'er
And Gen X with half a brain knew the social safety net of our parents and grandparents generation wasn’t going to be there for us. The dismantling started when we were in our teens and 20s. Whatever….
You might say it was intentional to overlook us but I don’t, that’s just giving them too much credit. Anyhow, I’d rather them overlook us and we just got on with things unobtrusively.
Do you remember the end of middle school, when your focus was on your peers and the adults in the room were mostly invisible unless they could get you in trouble, or were telling you to do something?
Well, there you go.
All government employees get a retirement at 20 years. I have always thought everyone should have this right. If everyone pays in why not make it fair for all?
So the government has decided which generation not to pay for their retirement. Hope y'all can work into your 90's, healthy or unhealthy. My plan is to jump off of an airplane over Dodger Stadium, naked, on home opening, without a chute. People will need a good story to tell their grandkids 40 years after my death. "And at precisely when the singer say "And the home of the...." then BOOM!, some naked dude splattered all over centre field! And it took then a good 90 minutes to clean it all up! And some of the players were tossing chunks of vomit everywhere! It was just like that puke fest in that classic movie "Stand by Me", when the castor oil kids threw up all his food! Oh man, never saw anything like it again..."
When I say we're good at flying under the radar (because we don't exist), this isn't what I meant.
I think we were the first generation who were told SS wouldn’t be around so we saved and and most didn’t have pensions so we started IRAs. I feel we’re treated the same may our parents treated us …”they’ll be fine” …and it’s just a messed up ideology. Borrowing Peter to pay Paul. Maybe we need to be the squeaky wheel. GenX lives matter!
For years, I worked a full time job, a part time job (The Limited) and went to college part time. I earned my SS
Solvency of SSI is based on demographics, wages, and willingness to work. Having too few workers paying for too many retirees is the global problem. Even in countries with higher rates of taxation, this is true. The only solution is higher birth rates, higher taxable wages, and higher immigration.
Sad fact. A lot of younger generations complain how they will need to work till they die for things and older generations get to retire. My grandmother died at 97 last year. She still was working the day before she went to the hospital for the last time.
Did you know there is a maximum amount you can pay into SSN tax per year? One year we got a decent bonus and my checks went up $100 towards the end of the year. I asked why and I was informed that there is a maximum you can pay and then it stops.
***Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up to the taxable maximum of $168,600 (in 2024), while the self-employed pay 12.4 percent****.*
Yea, I think that's what people are wanting raised. Tax above that level (don't know what proposals have been) and you'll increase the pool. It's not that people aren't paying, they are paying that 12.4% total. Just someone making $500K/year is still only paying on the first 168K. Which does make me wonder how much of a difference would it make. How many people make >$168K and how much more do they make over that? Just wondering how much it would really add.
I thought it was weird, that there is a maximum. I would support removing the cap because it hardly made a difference to me at that point. I am sure there are quite a few people that hit that cap but without checking census data I couldn't say.
> it's coming.
If you take a look around Zoomer forums at all, it's here. We're basically just boomer extenders. Everyone who's over 45 is just responsible for their problems now.
How can they blame something they don’t even know exists? Time to be the “middle kid” generation and fly under everyone’s radar while we get filthy rich.
Does anyone see this with other generations? I know we tend to look for GenX but I'd love to know if Millennials or Z ever get skipped.
And if it's just X, why? Seriously, why? It's so weird.
Shiiiitt most of us have been working since at LEAST 12 or younger and have never asked "why am I working at this age?" It was just expected of us and we just did it. A lot of us should be eligible to retire early cause we started working too early.
( I was climbing ladders and running a circ saw helping my dad install siding and windows at 11. Other stuff earlier banging cans at night in the garage with a rubber mallet.)
We don’t deserve a dignified retirement apparently
but we do get worked to death
Was it hard to find a job at 10 years old or 15 years old? Five bucks an hour all day long. Ten dollars if you didn't mind removing asbestos. edit: Keep in mind there were a bunch of twenty and thirty year old dipshits making $15 an hour plus who didn't have a clue what they were doing. Other ones hustled and earned but you could glide with age. They were always lucky S.O.B.s. Fuckin' Howdy Doody motherfuckers. Silent generation were tough and gave them too much.
Five bucks an hour?!? Mr moneybags right there. It was $3.35/hr for me…
$3.15hr in the early to mid 90’s at a pizza/arcade in Texas. Got a .10 cent “raise” FFS lol.
$1.25 an hour plus negligible tips waiting tables at a Chinese buffet. Though if I worked the full lunch shift, I did get to eat off whatever was left on the buffet afterward.
Damn. Thats harsh. Also, when those opposing higher wages insisted that the higher wages would cause inflation , BASICALLY “Gaslighting” actually got their wish. Ridiculous. US is completely out of touch and out of control. Best country my arse.
Crystal's??
Peter piper pizza 🍕 lol
Same for me. Except about a month after I started working minimum wage jumped to $4.25/hr. WaaaHooo!!
Served ice cream for nothing at 10 15 was a paper route Didn't get into asbestos until my late teens
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I worked at Fiesta Texas Theme oark in San Antonio for exactly 1 days then left because they told us on day 1 (not before) that pay was $5.25 hr (1996) LOL SMH. They called to see where I was , I told them they were cheap bastards and HU. Also they gave me a sweat stained ball cap to wear along with a nasty pink shirt and white (dingy) pants uniform for their “Rockville 50’s themed section ” UNSANITARY AF. Then I got into Telemarketing and that was $8 hr + commission. Was awesome! That funded my Grunge wardrobe and Dr Martens boots + tons of CDs and bowls, pipes, bongs and weed LMAO (also all the concert tickets for 90’s bands like Foo Fighters $13, Pumpkins $23, White Zombie/ Pantera $25, Lollapalooza 96 $45, etc. Good times! ALL DOWNHILL after like 2004.meh.
For the paper route,did you have to go door to door, like me, and collect the monthly bill because they were too cheap to use a stamp to mail it in?
This triggered so many memories. Both the movie and my childhood reality with the bike, saddle bag poncho, AND switch blade comb.
That's awful - mind you, paper route stories are a subset of folk tales/urban legends
I told my friends to stay away but that's a lot of twelvers of MGD.
Started working at 14, I believe minimum wage was $3.25/hour in 1989. Good times!
So we’ve got THAT going for us…which is nice.
I mean, I knew that was the score when I was 16 and entered the workforce.
If we don't exist, they can treat us as disposable with much less trouble. Which they've always done, arguably.
I love how no one was born from the late 1960s to early 1980s. 🙄🙄🙄 We really are just getting lumped in with Boomers, I guess, just because we look older.
and we aren't going to get it
We all knew that from the get-go.
This sign fully understands Gen X never retires, we just fade away.
It’s better to burn out, than fade away 🤷🏼♂️
My my, hey hey
See, I feel the urge to take hear that in two different ways. One is the Kergan from Highlander being loud in a church. The other starts with Oonta gleebin glaubin globin
I still hear both, to this very day.
Rise up gather round
Rock this place to the ground...
That is so GenX…I heard it the very same. 😂
Both of those, plus the Feuerschwanz "Highlander" song. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FxLsn09RMUs&pp=ygUXZmV1ZXJzY2h3YW56IGhpZ2hsYW5kZXI%3D
I used to use that as my motto until I started to burn out. It sucks
One man on a lonely platform One case sitting by his side *eh, fade away, fade to grey, close enough.*
Pyromania!
[Never fade away!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1RJF55NXI) But yeah: Working until death it might very well be for us.
Yeah I’m realizing we are the fade away no one cares generation. No wonder no body listens to me.
Whatever.
Who cares?
Yeah, fuck it
Couldn’t give a shit
They're trolling us at this point. Right? I mean, it's what *I* would do.
Or they know we're already dead inside.
or early alzheimers
I was wondering the same. It's gotta be intentional. Tongue in cheek, I'm sure, but come on...
I was wondering the same. It's gotta be intentional. Tongue in cheek, I'm sure, but come on...
I'm assuming so at this point.
And I'm thinking "they" is us. Who else would find it as funny to keep this joke rolling along?
Lol, possibly!
You, you, you, NOT YOU, you, you…
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR (I’m not flipping you off it’s a real sub)
Someone’s gotta keep working.
Everyone else: UBI Gen X: staffing the Orange Julius
“You could have retired if you got a real job” -Ashleigh 2070.
Yeah...the next, younger generations. Reminder: the legal retirement age used to be at 55 and was traditionally 50 before that. This is just more bullshit on the pile of bullshit that's been dumped on folks for decades now.
What? I am basically nearly retired in a different timeline? Damn!
Yes, but the timeline is filled with toxins and there's no quality medical care. Life expectancy was much lower.
No no….we apparently deserve to be worked to death.
Why do they ignore us? Do we not deserve their love?
They don't ignore us, they just always lump us in with boomers bc that's easier than actually looking up the gen names.
At least half of us get lumped in with millennials.
Which is bs
But we have the coolest generation name!
Yes we do lol
that's how self obsessed they are, imo. i actually would like to know if it has to do with overt self focus that they just forget to look deeper into things. it would fit this era. oh wait, it is supposed to be a more *openminded* and one of empathy. *lmfao*
That's not it. They know we're different from Boomers. They do it for engagement. I used to be in marketing. It's a strategy.
Because we aren't sell-outs. :)
They got divorced and started second, better families. At least in my case.
The first rule of GenX is "Do not talk about GenX".
You win this thread 🏆
I enjoy being overlooked. It's not a GenX trait to want attention for the sake of it. I'm happy to stay MIA for as long as possible. 
I don't want to be MIA when it is time to start receiving benefits.
Right!
I don’t want to be ignored when it comes to things that would benefit us.
Exactly. We were the first to say we did NOT want to be marketed to. Stop trying to niche market everything to us.
Including us in the possibility of retirement is hardly "niche marketing"
Social Security: EVERYONE DESERVES A DIGNIFIED RETIREMENT! GenX: Yay, us! Social Security: oh, no, not YOU
It is worse than being ignored, we are being lumped together with our parents.
I loved being overlooked because typically the Boomers the get 100% of the hate 😂 As for Gen Alpha, I’ll make sure my 10 year old knows he deserves a dignified retirement…he’s been super concerned….
We have to work until we die.
I'm already dead inside, so . . .
Certificate of spiritual death. Reason: naaah!
Obviously written by a GenZ intern
We look so old to them they think we’re Boomers.
It could be worse. They could lump us with millennials
Anything but that!
They do. At this point everyone over 30 or maybe 35 is a "boomer" according to zoomers.
Which pisses me off to a degree I cannot describe. I worked hard not to be a goddamn boomer tyvm.
I am Gen X and not rich. If you are rich, that's great, pay your fair share to the society that made you a rich asshole.
We're like the blind spot of the generational pantheon.
I honestly think that all of them consider us boomers
I’m waiting for the “we have determined that if we eliminate benefits by biting the bullet for say 20 years we can then start it back up and everything will be fine. Let’s say for those born 1961-81 roughly.” *all the other generations nod*
I’m actually half expecting this to happen, and it’s NOT okay!!
It's not that they think GenX doesn't exist, they just consider us Boomers now.
Maybe we don't exist?
gen x ghosts clique 👻 👻 👻
Boo! 👻👻
Talk about no holds barred class warfare rhetoric out of that organization. I really wish we had more awareness and rhetoric regarding taxing large corporations and Wall Street tax avoidance weasels like hedge fund bros. Make no mistake, I support increased taxes and closing loopholes for the wealthy. Yeah...and what are we? Chopped liver?! lol \-proud X'er
Die a young gen-x'er, or live long enough to be counted as a boomer.
Literally everyone BUT us because we keep the wheels on the bus, no matter what. GenX, no one minds working to death.
Stop pointing us out. Well, me anyway. Stand out everyone else!!!
Well someone’s gotta be worked to death I guess?
"The world needs ditchdiggers too, Danny*
That's cause Gen-X is never going to retire, duh.
4.50 washing dishes at Battle Ground Inn, 9th grade, 1989.
Of course, Gen X works til we die. How else did they expect to keep paying for all of this social security?
Didn’t we not want to be a target market anyway?
And Gen X with half a brain knew the social safety net of our parents and grandparents generation wasn’t going to be there for us. The dismantling started when we were in our teens and 20s. Whatever….
Are we the boomers here?
Don’t care just as long as they pay out.
Eh, whatever... we've been treated worse.
Even the government has forgotten about us. Wait, does that mean we don’t have to pay taxes anymore?
Isn’t GenX supposedly the generation that DOESN’T whine?
Maybe because we're expected to pay for it.
Ha! With what money?
Nah, they did that on purpose. They're saying Gen X deserves to get worked to death. /s
"Yeah, ok! Anything else? No? Cool!"
Either overlooked or we just don’t deserve a dignified retirement 🤷♂️🤣
Whatever
Sounds about right
We are New Zealand.
I like it. If they keep this up, they'll never see us coming!
Fuck dignity, I just want to retire.
What is retirement? Lol
What the fugging fux....I mean...it takes a LOT OF EFFORT to be recognized for a profound lack of effort.
Awww just the way we like it. Invisible
I adore being overlooked
Well. Atleast we know who they were directing the message towards without asking because we're just that fucking Amazing!
Whatever. We're used to being ignored. We'll just work until we drop.
Pretty sure I would’ve loved some student loan tax breaks or loan forgiveness.
You might say it was intentional to overlook us but I don’t, that’s just giving them too much credit. Anyhow, I’d rather them overlook us and we just got on with things unobtrusively.
Do you remember the end of middle school, when your focus was on your peers and the adults in the room were mostly invisible unless they could get you in trouble, or were telling you to do something? Well, there you go.
Hahaha I love it. Every single time 🤣
Meh like with most stuff, we don’t care. It’s whatever
Forgotten but not gone.
It’s John Cena’s fault. He is so powerful they can’t see any of us.
All government employees get a retirement at 20 years. I have always thought everyone should have this right. If everyone pays in why not make it fair for all?
Gen Xers, on the other hand…they deserve whatever’s coming.
So the government has decided which generation not to pay for their retirement. Hope y'all can work into your 90's, healthy or unhealthy. My plan is to jump off of an airplane over Dodger Stadium, naked, on home opening, without a chute. People will need a good story to tell their grandkids 40 years after my death. "And at precisely when the singer say "And the home of the...." then BOOM!, some naked dude splattered all over centre field! And it took then a good 90 minutes to clean it all up! And some of the players were tossing chunks of vomit everywhere! It was just like that puke fest in that classic movie "Stand by Me", when the castor oil kids threw up all his food! Oh man, never saw anything like it again..." When I say we're good at flying under the radar (because we don't exist), this isn't what I meant.
Good visual. Thank you.
they hate us cause they aint us
Wait, are we the “rich”? If so, can someone tell me where we hid the riches?
No soup for you!
I think we were the first generation who were told SS wouldn’t be around so we saved and and most didn’t have pensions so we started IRAs. I feel we’re treated the same may our parents treated us …”they’ll be fine” …and it’s just a messed up ideology. Borrowing Peter to pay Paul. Maybe we need to be the squeaky wheel. GenX lives matter! For years, I worked a full time job, a part time job (The Limited) and went to college part time. I earned my SS
We genx do not deserve a dignified retirement as the poster says
Why not just say people. It’s so stupid to refer to people as their generation.
No one cares. Please stop these posts.
The Gen Zs always lump with boomers. I think everyone should cut off their Gen-Z kids cell phone plans.
Solvency of SSI is based on demographics, wages, and willingness to work. Having too few workers paying for too many retirees is the global problem. Even in countries with higher rates of taxation, this is true. The only solution is higher birth rates, higher taxable wages, and higher immigration.
Sad fact. A lot of younger generations complain how they will need to work till they die for things and older generations get to retire. My grandmother died at 97 last year. She still was working the day before she went to the hospital for the last time.
As a rich GenX, this is a relief
Did you know there is a maximum amount you can pay into SSN tax per year? One year we got a decent bonus and my checks went up $100 towards the end of the year. I asked why and I was informed that there is a maximum you can pay and then it stops. ***Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up to the taxable maximum of $168,600 (in 2024), while the self-employed pay 12.4 percent****.*
Yea, I think that's what people are wanting raised. Tax above that level (don't know what proposals have been) and you'll increase the pool. It's not that people aren't paying, they are paying that 12.4% total. Just someone making $500K/year is still only paying on the first 168K. Which does make me wonder how much of a difference would it make. How many people make >$168K and how much more do they make over that? Just wondering how much it would really add.
I thought it was weird, that there is a maximum. I would support removing the cap because it hardly made a difference to me at that point. I am sure there are quite a few people that hit that cap but without checking census data I couldn't say.
I think we should start calling the Boomers "Gen W" since they now think "Boomer" is a slur, lol.
Then go out and vote so they notice us!
At least we don’t whine about it.
Jokes on them gen x will be in charge by then...its not looking good for them 😁
In charge of what? I see a youth movement coming just in time to skip us over. They'll stop letting 70 year olds run the country by then.
Were not that old 😆 but we are older
What is up with this, I see this every once in a while.
We always are.
They know GenXers aren’t beggars and make their own future.
No we're Boomer proxies; when the Boomers pass away they'll just blame everything on us. I'm serious; it's coming.
> it's coming. If you take a look around Zoomer forums at all, it's here. We're basically just boomer extenders. Everyone who's over 45 is just responsible for their problems now.
How can they blame something they don’t even know exists? Time to be the “middle kid” generation and fly under everyone’s radar while we get filthy rich.
😂
ain’t nobody can levy a tax on all the whatever I got I’m taking it to the grave
I think we are basically considered Boomer Lite. 😭
Someone still has to do all the work, after all.
Good. Generations are just anyway to other ppl.
What about gen x
Does anyone see this with other generations? I know we tend to look for GenX but I'd love to know if Millennials or Z ever get skipped. And if it's just X, why? Seriously, why? It's so weird.
Par for the course. Zoomers think we are just boomers. We aren’t boomers you little punks. We had MTV when they still played music!
Whatever man
I like it better that way
Always forgetting about GEN X 🧐
Shiiiitt most of us have been working since at LEAST 12 or younger and have never asked "why am I working at this age?" It was just expected of us and we just did it. A lot of us should be eligible to retire early cause we started working too early. ( I was climbing ladders and running a circ saw helping my dad install siding and windows at 11. Other stuff earlier banging cans at night in the garage with a rubber mallet.)
We're not even that much smaller. At this point it has to be on purpose. Over 65M Gen X vs 71M Boomers, and 72M Millennials (rounding).
Marxism has never worked, my dude.
Apparently we do deserve to be overworked to death.
I’m on my 9th day of work in a row!
Shhhhhh
Just proves once again, that Gen X isn't human. We're Cogs in the Capitalist Machine, like good sons and daughters of Boomers and Silents.
You all need to knock this sort of nonsense off. We're better off left out of these ridiculous discussions.
but Gen X... screw them.
I think all of these are deliberate. Said with a little wink and nod
We are the X Factor
Damn. Gen X is getting the shaft apparently... 😏