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Jeannette Marshall
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If you're around my age [ 50 on a good day or 56 on a bad one ] and you have a daughter or niece or granddaughter around the millennial set (is this the Y? Generation? ] fact check [ ) --> i first called it the Y Generation on one of my first INbeTWEENers blog [ via #WordPress ] aka now as YUPPYdom > target audience & readers born 1960 or later, but before the Millennial (otherwise known separately as The Baby Boomers :: those born of the Elvis and 50s era and vibe, became adults of GENX which is sandwiched [aka squeezed] between the Baby Boomers, inBETWEENers (1960-1969) & what I like to I call the war babies (those babies born after either World War I ] fact check [date when WWI ended?].
Phew, what a mouthful, eh? Sometimes I get multiple thoughts that run like a freight train, full speed ahead. It drives a lot of people crazy [the Hunkster Hubster in particular] ::.... sometimes I am telling him something and 2/3 of the way through, I go "um ah" multiple times until he barks at me: "Um uh! You didn't finish!
Luckily for me, and the loyal few, I sometimes take the time to capture some cool moments. Or, not so cool moments.
The PINK SLIP?
It is when you mess up with your Millennial daughter and she goes ape shit all over you. If that isn't suffice, she goes into IGNORE mode, and often BLOCK mode. Thus is the PINK SLIP.
It doesn't seem fair that father's rarely, if ever, get the PINK SLIP. It seems a
blessing in disguise when the ticked off goes into overdrive. It is a process.
It is quite inevitable, particularly if you're the "Mother". Sometimes it can actually be funny, payback for when 2 PINK GIRLS change the Alpha Pink Girl's status under family that "she is adopted".
That is the distinction between the battle hardy inBETWEENers: we've been pushing water up hill all our lives [ saying credit to Wade Sparks, former boss and President of a SMB: Small Medium Business; selling to very BIG companies and running a branch ].
What obstacles don't 1960 to 1965 in particular share with Millennials? A-LOT! Remember we were the original hipsters, aka Yuppies, adulting in the 80s [ exact same age as they are in my case - 27(Kyle) etc. My girls are wise beyond their years and really have some great attributes that I envy if I could only have known back at the same age, how magnificent everything would be.
YUPPIES: Eternal optimists
What would this world really be like, if Yuppies weren't born [ other than cult culture of the 1980s skippy high bangs and big hoops and slouch socks with tights, ankle runners, big oversized sweaters, perms galore, fresh eyed trusters after being abolished and quietened by our very loud Baby Boomer siblings [ brother or sister ]. Being the object of teasing at the edge of tormenting their younger, devoted sibling who iconized their every move [ except thinking he is Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin with his electric guitar and amp turned up to the max, "WAHW.... wahwm .... WAHW" be still my pounding ears: no wonder I don't like waking up and jumping out of beg: clear bad memory of when having to do so ].
Yuppies had to prop each other up and really boost each other's morale. We were either in college or at our first REAL job(s) in the 1980s. Amidst recessions, world war threats between the US and Russia, joblessness skyrocketed with the increasing temperature of world affairs. Just graduating from high school, we were surrounded about hostages, capture, and hijacks and we only had the radio or television where we were likely to get our news. [ Others would say newspapers, but some of us gal Yuppies didn't like how the ink came off on our fingers so we weren't a fan of newspapers but we were the dawn of capitalism in the 1980s, with greed on most corporate executive's manifesto. Today, layoffs, downsizing, let go, fired, laid off, work force reduction, reorganization, restructuring are more the norm.
Loyalty has left the atmosphere. Neither company nor employee get what they want out of the deal and their is a parting of ways. The Pink Slip was probably coined in the 1980s ] FACT CHECK [. Another tie in to the nifty headline I was particularly impressed with ( pat on back to Jeannette ).
Another characteristic of those arriving at adulthood, parenthood in that decade is that Yuppies really like recognition. More sore than any other generation, simply because being sounded out by our louder siblings, who took credit for a clean car [ trick: ask younger sibling to help wash car and he would drive them around town for "a while"; so you help them and they take you for a drive to main street and back [ in my life, never really that far:: walkable ].
So having a Millennial child is about setting and understanding boundaries. A familiar song we sang as parents coming back full circle upon our ears. From that really smart child who snaps it up and snaps it out, except louder. Probably because we likely seethed but didn't shout in anger, or clenched our teeth akin to biting our tongue. We were born of the parents who believed that how you dressed {stylish and polished} and how you behaved [ impeccable manners ] were a direct mirror into their inner soul.
Ask a War Baby what it means to go without (ahem, attention Yuppies and Millennials, take note here)? You better sit down and grab that cup of coffee anyhow because their answer is going to take a while. What is amazing is when you actually recognize the sacrifice that War Babies had both as children, growing up and as adults, parents: having to make do with very little. Appreciating value over squandering money, which Yuppies and Millennials are apt to do.
Wanting to climb the ladder?
There's a big leap between The Baby Boomers who are retiring to the tipping point beginning of the Millennial leaders, pioneers. Yuppies and GEN-X likely skipped over. Why not? More educated, Millennials can bring fresh ideas, latest technological improvements [ which is a HOAX by GenXers letting others think that Yuppies aren't technologically inclined ].
Ask yourself, when was the birth of the computer? Technically, it began a long long time ago, before Yuppies were even born. What I mean is the birth of the personal computer? Some of us went to school in 1979 to have hands on computer in our post secondary, either by instinct or natural survival mode. If you want to have someone project manage something to perfection, you would be wise to consider a Yuppy: they've been coming up with solutions and fixing problems by the time The Beatles broke up (a long long time ago).
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| Since I'm already in trouble and she doesn't read my blog * giggles * |
So I apologized to my daughter. Fingers crossed the PINK slip won't last long. I will try to continue to be optimistic that she'll reconsider her reaction (ah-hem scale 1-10 ticked off: 9.5 degrees out of 10.)
Maybe the next Millennial will read this, think about their mom mostly, or their dad if it happens, tone down the reaction and embrace the differences between you, with the added value of life experience that COULD spare them a lot of grief. Knowing that rarely is advice heeded. Swash-buckling their way to their future in their own brave style.
You have to remember, that your Yuppy mom or Yuppy dad, are prone to recognize how well you are doing. Driving you crazy for posting about an accomplishment or re-sharing a picture, simply because you thought it was beautiful, unconsciously unaware that so many would agree. They see the inner beauty paired with the outer strikingness as a formidable force, into the stratosphere when it is blended with intelligence and street smarts, common sense. With a twist of humor, knowing that laughing at one's self is the biggest show of humility.
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| Even more if they are a Millennial |
