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A Kind Request to the “Powers That Be” on Behalf of Gen X
We’re gonna talk as soon as I’m done rewinding this with a pencil.
I have a firm proposal that I would like to have entertained, and need to know with whom I need to speak to make this happen. I care not if it is a manager and the name you might call me for asking to speak with one. My request is important.
I would like to kindly request from the generation gods that Gen X get a do-over of at least three major life decisions. Hear me out on this.
Three, by the way, is an arbitrary number I can associate only with the vast amount of time I spent as a child preparing for what I thought would be the inevitable presence of a grant-wishing genie. It seems fair.
My justification for this request, for which I would be happy to create an accompanying slide deck for this essay for presentation purposes, is that Gen X has been screwed over for decades and I would like that ride to come to a complete stop.
I understand that every single generation has complaints, and most are valid, walking to school uphill in the snow notwithstanding. But Gen X is not a…
