tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8917006732840712469.post7777176663787249037..comments2024-03-26T20:18:45.133-05:00Comments on The Generation Above Me: Chasing the Older BoomersKaren D. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00681456166093275598noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8917006732840712469.post-66205293192567958862012-07-14T07:30:42.926-05:002012-07-14T07:30:42.926-05:00PS: @CreatingResults is the boomer marketing twitt...PS: @CreatingResults is the boomer marketing twitter account that led me to the concept of Gens Jones-ers. <br /><br />Their bio: "Full-service marketing agency. Specialists in motivating 50+ consumers. How can we help you create results with Baby Boomers & beyond? CreatingResults.com Washington DC · http://www.CreatingResults.com"Karen D. Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681456166093275598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8917006732840712469.post-4830481093476151462012-07-14T07:26:46.648-05:002012-07-14T07:26:46.648-05:00Laura and Russell: I didn't even know about Ge...Laura and Russell: I didn't even know about Gens Joneser until a twitter follower commented on my bio: (Karen D. Austin--blogger, Nursing home/Medicare volunteer & Aging Studies grad student. A young Boomer, working to catch up again w/older boomers' trends). He pointed out that I had a Gens-Joneser viewpoint there. He works in marketing to Boomers, so he studies cohort trends. Yes, people often defy stereotypes, but advertisers focus on how people act as a group. Russell, hang in there. I know what it's like to be between generations, but it looks as though you get pulled towards the Gen X-ers, but because I'm 5 years older than you, I get pulled towards the Boomers--but we don't squarely fit in our cohort in part because we're on the edges (and also because we are individuals).Karen D. Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681456166093275598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8917006732840712469.post-75812111668972952402012-07-13T19:07:39.881-05:002012-07-13T19:07:39.881-05:00I love this perspective, Karen. Of course, any att...I love this perspective, Karen. Of course, any attempt to classify people--or oneself--solely by birth cohort is bound to be kind of silly, but it's still sometimes revealing, and I do it to myself all the time. For example, I'm a Generation X guy, and that's pretty obvious from the pop and political events I orient my understanding of my growing up around--MTV, Reagan, the end of the Cold War. Yet it often seems that the majority of those who went though those formative experiences with me skew younger than I; they were babies in the 70s, rather than children. So find myself often looking back rather than forward, thinking about how my generation has constructed goals and a worldview which misses out on my contribution. (I once thought about this as those whose parents were the older brothers and sisters of the baby boomers, born during World War II rather than after it.) So I guess while you've found a way to get ahead of those you've been following all your life, I want to hold onto that which, between the boomers and the Xers, might be forgotten about.Russell Arben Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03366800726360134194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8917006732840712469.post-23796704909757008392012-07-13T17:18:12.718-05:002012-07-13T17:18:12.718-05:00Hi Karen,
Interesting perspective. Most of the wo...Hi Karen, <br />Interesting perspective. Most of the world is trying to run in the other direction away from the realities of aging and not wanting to catch up with it in any form. I got a real kick out of this post and am with you on trying to figure out how we can better manage our own aging process while assisting those who are in the throes of it. I too am a "Joneser."<br />Thanks for a great post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com