generation-gap

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently than at any time in recent memory, because that turns out to be a good coping strategy in hard times. Our nation faces huge challenges, no doubt. So do the rest of the world's aging economic powers. If you had to pick a nation with the right stuff to ride out the coming demographic storm, you'd be crazy not to choose America, warts and all.

repeat after me:1. our immigrant families are not just __omophobic_ they are also __olonized._2. our parents have histories, genders, and sexualities, too.3. they are just as broken as we are (but we have the words _ i mean the english _ to say it)4. the diaspora responds to racism with heteronormativity5. trauma seeps through generations

We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.