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I'm with you Gen Jones, though I like to call it Gen Lost. Everyone thinks I'm a Boomer but I didn't get shart as far as the opportunities boomers did. I saw what I was thinking I was gonna get but the carpet just kept getting pulled away, or the goal posts kept getting moved farther. One of a million example, Boomers never had to piss in a cup coming out of high school to get a job. That was never a thing for them.

By the time I was graduating HS I was supposed to have an associates degree already, okay that's two but, boomers weren't required to have an associates degree out of HS.

By the way I read all this stuff in some academic papers, it ain't a joke. Besides I played guitar for a living for a while so I did have my fun. But I also got a BSEE along the way. Anyway I had to make my way, it wasn't even close to being handed to me like a lot of people still think. It is a popular misconception. I know many others had too work for everything too I am just pointing that media and history like to make it seem we somehow inherited everything, it simply isn't true.

I'm XTRXTR I can go on and on and on...
 
Was gonna say. No one handed us anything. Neither had a daddy warbucks to inherit anything from. What we have….. we built. We both did college as married adults while raising two kids. I eventually got an AA in 96 simply because I wanted to have something in hand before my eldest graduated HS in 97. My wife did part time college until it was necessary to go full time for her Jr and Sr level courses. Graduating in 92 with a degree in Special Education. And we lived paycheck to paycheck for about the first 3/4 of our life together. It’s been that last 15 years where we finally dug ourselves out and had some disposable income to do fun stuff. We don’t complain. We’ve had a great life together. Raised two great kids. Have 4 awesome grandkids. At the end of the day…. Life is good.
 
I too started with nothing. I grew up a poor white child raised by my father only. He was a self employed house painter that sometimes had work and sometimes did not. From the time I was 3 until I was 17, I lived in a bacherlor apartment the size of a 2 car garage. I started working at the age of 15 1/2 at McDonalds for $1.35 per hour. At 16 I got my girlfriend pregnant and my daughter was born when I was 17. I dropped out of high-school to get a full time job working on a furniture delivery truck.

I had always had an interest in electronics and automobiles and worked in both industries starting in electronics for Bell & Howell. I assembled aviation electronics for the commercial aircraft customers. A couple years later I went to work at a car dealership that put me through factory certified training for Maserati, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. After 20 years of wrenching, I found an interest in computers. I taught myself HTML and soon went to work at an internet startup called Earthink in the ealy days of dialup. After several years there, I left with the title of webmaster. In 2000 I applied at a medical manufacturing company for an IT position that was government sponsored and did require a HS diploma or GED. They hired me under the stiplulation that I aquire a GED within 6 months. I bought the required books, took the test and had my GED within 1 month. 3 months after being hired the company was purchased by Medtronic and our department was given a 3 month notice that the position were moving to Minnesota and we would all be given a severance package if we stayed for the entire 3 month transition.

Later that day my boss came over to me and offered to keep me on to transition the database I had designed and built on a Red Hat server over to SAP. The project would last over the 3 month time but no guarantee on how long. If I stayed, I would not be eligible for the severance package eveyone else received. I rolled the dice and stayed there for 6 more years when the project ended and I was shown the door.

As you can see, nothing was ever handed to me, no silver spoon, all hard work. From there I went to work at a fine jewelry manufacturing company specializing in gold and diamond jewelry. There I designed their online presence complete with 3 different online shopping brands. I did all of the photography, vidiography, animations and comercial production for use on cruise ships as well as magazine ads.

Seven years ago I came to my current employer which shall remain nameless but is the predominant corporporation for many years in this industry. My duties include providing technical support in digital security.

As mentioned in a different post, I got the name WavMixer for my use of digital Wav files I used to replace analog audio tapes in use for theatrical productions which was a hobby of mine some 30+ years ago.
 
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