• CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I’m technically GenZ (born in late 90’s) and graduated university in 2021. I landed my first job in January 2022 and managed a grand total of 1 paycheck before the massive inflation happened when Europe decided to commit economic suicide. Felt REALLY good to finally join the workforce after being a struggling student and then immediaely getting it taken away from me, since inflation more or less eroded all the purchasing power I had gained by going from student to worker.

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        9 months ago

        Every other definition of Gen Z seems to be 1992-2015ish. But I will also add that every time one of the fossils in our department begins talking about Gen Z, I argue that since no one can come to any consistent definition of generations, just say “young people” if thats what you’re using it to mean. In return, my boss seems to have expanded the definition to “anyone below 40”.

        • no one can come to any consistent definition of generations

          That’s stupid, first, I thought a generation consisted of a 20 years, now it’s 15 years (Gen X seems to have started and ended on 1965-1980)… then 17 years?

          Gosh, this is stupid…

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            9 months ago

            It’s not a fixed amount of time, I’m pretty sure it has to do with how society progresses/changes and big events that influence how people develop. If it was just a fixed period it would be basically useless, because of not being sensitive to what can bring differences to generations