Hey Pandas, What’s Something You Want To Ask Pandas In Another Generation? (Closed)

Good music! BabyBoomer

I would love to know this too. I have heard that older fridges use more power.

I'm a Gen X raised by the Golden Gen, my sibs are mostly Boomers with just me and my brother being born Gen X. What do I miss? Not much. Lol, all my toys were essentially hand-me-downs - - tin rollerskates, the Schwinn bicycle, the Silverstone hi-fi stereo that had been rewired twice by my sibs by the time I inherited it when I was 14 and it was already 30 years old, wearing my friends hand-me-down clothes until I was taller than them. Christmas was the one time a year any of us received new clothes or toys, so I think my most coveted toy was my Easy Bake oven. I never had a Barbie doll or even the cheap knockoffs but my friends did. The first time I went to a McDonald's was when I was 11, with a friend's family and I was just amazed by it. My parents were just managing to feed us by putting food on the table from our garden, which all of us kids helped. I was canning vege for winter since I was 8 years old. Born Gen X but I lived like it was 1929.

Xiennial Here: I miss non-corporate life. Not just small business, but where my life wasn't Integrated with single corporations. I am a product to Google, as I use my Pixel, on Chrome, logged into this website via Google. Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Target, Google, my grocery store, etc. I remember distinctly being creeped out by casino loyalty programs because they track everything on a casino floor, but now that's 24/7 everywhere we go. It's wild.

Gen X: We spent time outside and played board/card games. We had to use an actual telephone in the house or a pay phone down the street. We listened to the radio and made mixed tapes. If we needed to know something that required looking it up we went to the library.

I only got internet in my teens to twenties and it wasn't bad before...I used to really like going to the library to look up encyclopedias etc...however, I must say it is much easier to search for a scientific paper now that to look through journals lol

Well, you had to learn how to research things from books, but I don't think that was any more difficult, as you often have to fact/source check on the internet. You did have to physically go into a library though, so was definitely more time consuming.

Lmao. What do you consider to be "mid-life age"? Aren't you like 35-40? Are you that short-sighted about your lifespan? With that attitude, don't expect much more than your miserable self marking the calendar until you die in 40 or 50 years. Grow up already!!! Life begins at 50. The previous decades was just you getting ready for the best years to come!

Xiennial: It's easy to think about the paths not taken, but rather than daydream, I tend to think pragmatically. I turned down a prestigious job offer right after school that would have paid me 3x more than my most successful year to date. But rather than thinking about that money, I remember the compromises of ethics and morals I would have been forced to make. If being surrounded by trust fund classmates sucked, would I have been able to withstand being deep within that community for my professional life too? I made a wise choice, even though it felt foolhardy at the time. My trajectory has been much harder financially, but I haven't needed to change my entire sense of self. That path would have absolutely sucked and my 24 year old self knew it to the core.

Yes 👍

If your talking about Gen Z, no, we've just been exposed to the world a lot earlier than everyone else, and therefore our mindsets are different

No idea

Pease use proper spelling when you write. Thank you. Gen X