Gen Xer

Spoken like a truly jaded Gen Xer.

Ludwina is particularly passionate about destablising what she sees as the myth of the slacker 'Gen Xer."

As a Gen Xer the worst thing I can possibly imagine is spoon-feeding banana yogurt to a mass of geriatric baby boomers.

Such findings don't surprise Rich Yudhishthu, a 37-year-old Gen Xer who's a business development consultant from Minneapolis.

See there, son, a grizzled Gen Xer will say over a barrel of oil, that ancient gunk nearly enslaved us to 12th-century theocrats in the Mideast.

"It's so annoying," says Lisa Chamberlain, another Gen Xer who wrote the book "Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction."

Yet, according to the new American Express Platinum Luxury Survey, the average Gen Xer now spends 18 percent more on luxury goods than the average baby boomer.

Life was sweet for Gen Xer Marc Matsumoto when he graduated from University of California, Davis, in 2000 and was inundated with job offers from tech firms.

Keeping interests peaked is the guiding principle of Eric Casaburi, an entrepreneurial Gen Xer who has parlayed his love of all things 80s into the Retrofitness chain of health clubs.

Of those who said they sent a text message by phone in the past 24 hours, "the typical Millennial sent or received 20 texts in that period, compared with a dozen for a Gen Xer and five for a Baby Boomer."

At the risk of sounding like yet another wizened Gen Xer wagging a precipitately middle-aged finger at millennial youth, I’d like to share a lesson I learned only years later: the overtly accomplished child is often the less educated one.

"If the hiring manager is a Gen Xer, be prepared to answer 'How will it feel to work for someone who has less experience than you?' " suggests Marc Miller, author of "Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for Baby Boomers."