Consider that by time the reins of the world are finaly pried from the cold, dead hands of the Boomers, GenX may be pushing 50 to mid-50s. And if you think that is silly than you simply aren’t aware of the voracity (not to be confused with veracity, as I almost did just now)of Boomer powermongering or need to “be in charge” blah blah blah.

Combine that with the our youth-obsessed culuture and there is a good chance that many GenXers will simply be passed over by younger, cuter, go-getting, more “tech savvy” Millennils/GenYers.

Not that I personally am all the conerned since my “career path” does not lie (or is it lay) in the corporate world, as seems to be the focus here. Less than 4 years in cubeland made it quite clear that corporate America and I were not and never would be good match. I’ve never really give a crap about climbing the corporate or any other ladder for that matter. I also don’t care about building my person brand, whatever the hell that means. But that’s my damage, right.

Still, I agree that some GenXers will, and currently are, getting their due, a chance to prove what they can do, and that is all to the good. And since Generation X is much smaller than the Millennial generation I don’t see why the co-existence of these two cohorts in the workplace can not be a better more productive and less fraught one than was the case with the Boomers and GenXers.

But I’m not going to hold my breath for it. I’m not going to hope for it either. Like my old man, a member of the Silent Generation, I’m pretty sure, hope in one, shit in the other, see which one fills up first. But then he grew up quite poor in a coal mine town in West Virgina during The Depression. So, you know.