Generation lost…
It seems there is no one who accurately defines the generations we are always hearing about in the news. Especially firm start and end dates. When one is making such broad generalizations about a millions of people, it must be hard to know if a new generation started exactly at 11:23 am on a particular morning in a particular year.
Yet there is no consensus of even a year, let alone a day or time, for the end of the baby boom generation and the beginning of generation X. As someone who falls into both generations depending on who is defining it, I find this troublesome. I’m either a really young baby boomer or the eldest cohort of generation X. Not that I spend a lot of time stewing about this. It’s just interesting that demographic categories so many people treat so seriously are actually so fuzzy.