Keep slackin'. Don't ever stop

I felt skeptical to link to this article since there's a quote by the Gen Y suck-up, Neil Howe, but I enjoyed it anyhow.

"Generation X, we were hip for like five minutes in the 1990s," she says. "Our moment in the sun came and went pretty quickly and it wasn't very sunny while it did last."

The image of surly slackers living their lives to a grunge soundtrack isn't the true spirit of her cohort, she says. Rather, she believes the grown-up version of generation X is about leaping off the corporate ladder to define your own version of success.

"You look at somebody like Tony Hawk, who took what was essentially a hobby and turned it into a way to make a living, and he makes a very nice living as a skateboarder and he's 41 years old," she says. "This will probably never change for generation X and I don't think it should."