#gi generation

[byunsignal]

tiffany instagram update 🌷

[unnecessaryfangirl1]

So many middle-aged and elderly people have become so removed from what it was like to be a teen going to school, or trying to get through college on a minimum wage job, or working ridiculous hours cause it was the only shift you can get.

Suddenly they think they can get any service instantly and perfectly because they forgot what it was like to be the ones providing that service.

The still-gracious few who remember are blessings.

[wouldratherbereading1]

People who try to say my thoughts and opinions on social injustices and various world issues are invalid because I’m part of Generation Z and ‘I was born with an iPad in my hand’. I find myself using my life experiences as a defence, such as,

‘iPads weren’t invented until I was 7 and there was not one in my household until I was 9’

‘After my mother and father were divorced(I was 8 months), my manipulative father took everything. When I was at my fathers, I had plenty of quite nice things but at my mothers I lived in situational poverty until I was 12. Now my father can’t get a permanent teaching position and has a spending problem and is beginning to sink into situational poverty.’

‘My first phone was a flip phone’

‘I was born in 2002.’

I shouldn’t have to justify myself because I’m being lumped in with a Generation who ‘has it easy’ just because OUR problems aren’t the same as YOUR problems.

[firstoccupier]

April 3, 1968: The Last Warning America Ignored

By Cliff PottsEditor-in-Chief, WPS News A Speech That Was Not Meant to Comfort On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a packed crowd at Mason Temple in Memphis and delivered what history would later soften into the Mountaintop Speech. The title misleads. This was not a sermon meant to soothe. It was a warning delivered by a man who understood exactly what challenging entrenched…

April 3, 1968: The Last Warning America Ignored

[workingclassriotgrrrl]

I found this so thoroughly chilling. I keep forgetting that there is a generation being born as I type this and they will grow up with our ideas and values. 

I myself am part of Generation Z and I am truly excited for what the future holds for us and future generations.

 Let’s hope Generation Alpha doesn’t repeat our mistakes.

[i-can-just-be-me]

Gen Names

If you are wondering their are 6 living generations in the U.S.

GI Generation: Born 1901-1926 Mature/Silent: Born 1927-1945 Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 Generation X: Born 1965-1980 Generation Y/ Millennials: Born 1981-2000 Generation Z/ Boomlets: Born 2001-present

This highlights every Gen and how we affect the one right after us.

[deadspacemoms]

You're so entitled! When I was a kid I made 50¢ an hour!

my miserly grandmother, as she walks out of her posh house in a suburban retirement community, which she bought with my late grandfather’s pension, and drives to her country club in her new suv

[rabbihousewife]

The Story of the Bracelet

Me: “Your bracelet is pretty.”

Grandmother: “Well, in 1932, I was the only one in my family working. I was earning nine dollars a week, trying to feed my mother and younger siblings. My older brother was kind of wild; he could never keep a job for long; and he heard about a man who had this old car and wanted it driven out to California.

“Well, my mother jumped at the chance. I came home to a sign on the door saying ‘Furniture for Sale.’ I said, ‘What furniture?’ and Mama said, ‘Ours – we’re going to California.’

“We drove out there, and we had so much trouble with that car. We stayed there for four months, but Mama got so homesick she stayed in bed all day. So finally we started driving back. I thought she would die in California, I really did.

“We came back, and I got my old job back, but after a while they told me, ‘We don’t have any work for you anymore.’ But one of my friends said, ‘I’m quitting; give my job to her.’ So I worked there until I got a job at the phone company. And I worked at the phone company for five years, and got promotions, until I got married and my baby was born, because ladies didn’t have careers back then.

“. . . My first job was at a five-and-ten-cent store. The girls there took up a collection to buy me this bracelet.“