Holy shit, this so perfectly explains GenX

I don't know whether I want to laugh or cry watching this video.

I was born at the leading edge of the GenX window (May, 1965 literally the day that LBJ pressed the gas on the Vietnam war) and it was a weird time. The Vietnam war was escalating, the hippie movement was getting in full swing, the Rolling Stones was shifting from covering delta blues to their brand of rock, the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, Haight-Asbury was the epicenter of the summer of love, some really bizarre cinema was released (I have been adding some of this to my Plex collection), the Drive In was the hot place to be, and the liberlization of divorce laws, the Civil Rights Act, and in a few years, the Roe v. Wade ruling set the tone for the entire generation.

If you are a Millennial or GenZ, you may not understand what a "Latch-key Kid" means, but it represents that a whole generation came home from school to an empty house, and had to make do until parents came home.

We learned to be competent, to do the work, that no job was too low to take. I pumped gas at the age of 10 for $5 a day (8 hours, off the books, no taxes), then I delivered newspapers on my bicycle, waking up before 4:00AM every day to deliver the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. I worked at Chuck E. Cheese making pizzas and counting the tokens in the arcade machines. I became first a prep cook and then a line cook at a Marie Callender's restaurant (to this day, I loathe pumpkin pie).

I graduated college just as Reagan's second term ended into an horrendous recession, continuing to cook to make a living.

Yada yada yada.

You can say that I have trust issues, and a healthy dose of self-reliance.

This video is me to a 'T' and if you are younger, and wonder about those older dudes and dudettes that you work with, this will explain.

I will say that there is one thing that is a huge benefit. We grew up without social media, and the permanence of the internet.

I currently work in the world of IT training (adult education) and I know that my way of learning is very different from the up and coming generations, and this explains why.

It explains so much, it is eerie.