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...