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...
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...
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...
An Irish journalist named Ed Power who writes for London's The Guardian has penned a personal column about the state of Generation X in Ireland where unemployment has reached 14 percent. (It appears on the newspaper's online version, guardian.co.uk.) Excerpt: For...
A University of Melbourne study about Generation X women losing hope and dropping out of the workforce is getting ink in Australian newspapers. The Daily Telegraph's headline actually characterized the situation as "shattered hope". Perthnow (powered by Australia's...
Going Concern, a popular Web site for accountants and CFOs, published a post on Friday, A Wake Up Call for Gen X Accountants. In the post, Daniel Braddock warns Generation X that if they don't step up and start volunteering they're basically going to get...
A couple years ago, Deanne DeMarco, an HR expert, wrote an article, 7 Strategies to Retain Gen X Women. Everything she wrote then is still relevant today. In fact, this article continues to get a lot of traffic across the Internet. Essentially, DeMarco says if...
There is so much I wish I could write about right now, but I am silenced by so many things. At times, it is unbearable to not unbridle the writer in me, creating an expose I might later regret. Suffice to say, that at 40 years of age, I am going through my own midlife...
Some mornings feel unbearable. I drag out of bed after a restless night of bottle feedings and soggy diapers. (The Baby B turns nine months old today and still WILL NOT sleep through the night.) Occasionally, S has a bad dream and yells out in the middle of the night...