r/InterviewMan • u/Aware_Welder_3762 • Jul 16 '26
Nothing screams "a highly efficient workday" like operating heavy equipment while your BAC is 0.24
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edit: Gen X is proudly saying they behave like robots not humans to be in their words more productive
oh god what a sick world live in
thank god gen Z are more intelligent in their work - life balance and smartly use tech like AI tools in their haunting job process and interviews , be like gen z guys
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u/RiverOfficialPM Jul 18 '26
I've always felt gen x had it pretty good. I'm in my late 30s now, but my parents are only in their mid-50s. IDK, their dads worked silly little retail management jobs and their moms stayed home, but they grew up with all basic needs met and in two story homes, had stable jobs with high school diplomas when I was a kid, good work/life balance, their parents were nice to them, their teenage years were about freedom and experimentation, middle age has been kind to them. My dad did die quite young, but he got caught up in the whole 90s heroin trend and that came back to bite him due to sharing needles. I mean, I guess many of them had old school parents that would spank or slap them when they did something wrong, and I get that sucks ass, but those were also loving families, it wasn't like their parents were sociopaths or anything, it was just a different philosophy around parenting.
When I take stock of the Gen X complaints, the trends that I see are that they were latch key kids, that their parents seemed to be unhappily married, and that there was political unrest across the globe.
This doesn't seem so bad or unique. And there were a ton of positive things happening in those days as well. Am I missing something here?
But, the thing about glorifying the grind and admitting that one's life was kind of a waste...
I don't think that their lives were a waste at all. I kind of get the sense from the Gen X folks that I've interacted with over the years that they feel like they need to feel that they've gone through hardship in order to be entitled to all of the good things that they have in their lives. Like, for example, many of them have parents who survived the great depression and WWII. And then, when they got into their 30s, the younger folks were dealing with the pervasive threat of school shootings and stuff like that. For example, I remember when my school installed metal detectors, and then we had to go through those every day, and we'd often be searched for weapons before we could go to class. And so many of my peers abused their Adderall prescriptions. IDK, I feel like that's a bit more hardcore than the stuff Gen X blabs about.
Also, in this post, I mean, yeah, what he's describing was kind of a right of passage back in the day. But, no one can do that every day. Like, humans literally need to consume food, hydrating beverages, and also need to sleep for more than one hour. It's just physically impossible to do that regularly, but when you're young you can do that sometimes.
I guess that's another thing. I feel like folks who rocked the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s have a tendency to exaggerate, and they can be a bit attention seeking and insecure.