Not Gen X or a Millennial? Hello, 'Generation Catalano'

'Ignored' demographic keeps 'everything from sucking,' book argues

(NEWSER) - Between the stuck-in-the-'60s boomers and their blog-happy offspring is a mighty yet forgotten generation, Jeff Gordinier writes in his new book, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking. From less Dylan to more Cobain, the author wants the "dark-horse generation" born between 1965 and 1980 to get the credit it's due. More»

Generation X had it tough too: Mat Honan

(NEWSER) - Mat Honan has a message seemingly directed at the current generation occupying Wall Street and feeling sorry for itself: “Generation X is sick of your bullshit.” A recent New York article claimed this might be the first generation to end up worse off than its parents: “Please. Been there,” retorts Honan on Gizmodo . “Generation X was told that so many times that it can't even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder's voice in its heads.” More»

Class of 2010 has dim prospects and unrealistic expectations

(NEWSER) - A meeting with a childhood friend of his twentysomething son—an Ivy League grad making $250 a week as an intern with a street fair—got Joe Queenan thinking. His inescapable conclusion: the millennials are screwed. "With the obvious exception of youngsters born during the Great Depression," Queenan writes for the Wall Street Journal , "no generation in American history faces more daunting obstacles." More»

But at 47 he's too old for Gen X; seen as more of a bridge

(NEWSER) - Baby boomers will lose Washington next week to a new, more pragmatic generation. But which one that is seems up for debate, reports the AP. At 47, Barack Obama is a tad too young for boomers—whose partisan politics are informed by civil-rights marches and sexual liberation—but too old to be cynical Generation X. “He’s more like a generational bridge,” says an analyst More»

10 reasons you won't find Xers in an executive suite

(NEWSER) - Generation Xers don't seem to be clambering to the top of the corporate ladder in the numbers they should be—and many are turned off by corporate life altogether. BusinessWeek has 10 reasons why this might be so:

1. Xers started their careers just as the economy went into its early '90s tailspin
2. Remembered big corporate layoffs has given Xers a strong distrust of large institutions
3. Xers like keeping their options open and don't want to be funneled into narrow career paths
4. The economy is slowing again, just as Xers are reaching upper management
5. Xers are struggling to manage the "pesky" Generation Y strivers coming up