I used to be a public information officer (PIO) for a large ambulance service. Much of my job involved responding to media queries about "bad calls" that reporters would hear on police scanners. Every day I received dozens of calls about potentially horrible...
Infographic Shows Generation X Most Engaged in the Workforce
An executive survey released by the Futurestep division of Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY), the preeminent global people and organizational advisory firm, reveals the heads down, get-the-job-done attitudes and priorities of Generation X employees. When asked which generation is...
Moving From Blogger to WordPress
I am now in the process of making the switch to WordPress. My domain has been transferred and within 96 hours it should be pointing to a new host. During this switch, jenx67.com may experience some downtime. So, I'm thinking now is a great time to do one of the...
Generation Flux
Remember the flux capacitor? It was the core component of Doctor Emmett Brown's time traveling DeLorean in the Generation X hit Back to the Future? It's what made time travel possible for Marty. I thought about it yesterday when I read an article about a new...
Study finds Gen Xers Are Angry After All These Years
According to a new study by three Canadian Universities, Generation X, which made moody and tragic Kurt Cobain an icon, is still in a bad mood. Yes, friends, Gen Xers are angry and grumpy; however, last week, a much longer, 25-year study by a Michigan professor found...
Study on Generation X Finds They Lead Happy, Balanced Lives
Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be... From Mary Chapin Carpenter and Grow Old Alone With Me Jon Miller, a political scientist from the University of Michigan, has released findings from a major, 25-year study on Generation X. Turns out that despite the...
72 percent of Gen-Xers Are Seriously Looking for Another Job
Why did my lover have to pick last night To get down Doesn't it matter That I have to feed the both of us Employment's down... It's just another manic Monday --From The Bangles, 1986 For at least two years I've been hearing about the coming resume tsunami. I blogged...
Choicester Generation: Why are Gen X, Y women so miserable?
Forbes blogger Jenna Goudreau has written a post about miserable Generation X and Y women, Are Today’s Women Drowning In Generational Anxiety? It seems despite having more choices than any of the generations of women who have gone before them, Generation X and Y...
Now What?
What are life's most difficult questions? Read on to discover one of mine. Esther Cepeda, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, wrote an article recently about Gen Xers coming into their own.< Here is an excerpt: “Because they live in the shadow of both...
Generation X Is Stressed Out
The Daily Beast reports today that Generation X is the most stressed-out generation. The findings come from a 2010 study from the American Psychological Association, Stress Findings in America, which details that women are 8 percent more stressed than men and married...
Where have all the Gen X professors gone?
I thought I'd read everything there was to read about the career trajectory of Generation X, but this post took me by surprise. It's about aging professors and a thin pipeline of Gen Xers readied to replace them in colleges across the nation. Essentially, as the...
Generation X in the workplace: What’s our whistle?
The Washington Post has published an article by Joe Frontiera and Dan Leidl, Generation X in the workplace: Stuck in the Middle. (Frontiera and Leidl of Meno Consulting write the regular column, Leadership Playlist.) If you're a Gen Xer and you have a career, you...