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Baby Boomer, Generation X, Millenial or Digital go-getter?

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Steven Toast, Apr 13, 2017.

  1. balkan tiger

    balkan tiger Well-Known Member

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    Similar to my story, we were at the end of the time when there were more jobs than workers, if you could do it you got the job with less (no) focus on qualifications and more on life skills. As the population grew and jobs became less the solution was found in higher education, kept you in school longer and promised better jobs when you came out. It worked for a while but now everyone has a diploma and debt and there are less jobs and even more people. In a strange twist of fate in the old days you could get a job you weren't qualified to do and now the jobs available require no skills but everyone has a degree.
    The unemployment figures will show this is wrong but it's how I see it, oh and now they say that up to 30% of all jobs could be done by a robot or computer in the near future.

    The qualification of the day was CSE which became the GCSE.
     
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  2. Dills double deckers

    Dills double deckers Well-Known Member

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    Go to Music nights the odd Fridays..mostly Late 70,early 80,s post punk stuff. Good music period to be a teen/ 20,s. Was talking to an ex work mate who is 27. She felt she had missed out and was born in the wrong era as we still bonded to each other through our music years later and felt her generation wouldn't.Think my era was amazing musically but then lots of us do .
     
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  3. Chilton's Hundreds

    Chilton's Hundreds Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like a Mickey Mouse job to me.
     
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    HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) Well-Known Member

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    I've got to disagree, I'm from her generation and I've grown up with some incredible music. I agree that the mainstream back then is much better than the mainstream these days but thats such a small proportion of all the music that's actually out there. With the growth of the internet and development of music technology I think there's never been a more interesting and creative time to be listening to music, you just have to go find it.
     
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  5. Howden Tigress

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    Qualifications at the time were O Levels and CSE, also most girls were pushed down the short-hand typing route, I did Pitman Short-hand Typing, and boys woodwork/metal work, a sign of the times I guess! In Schools now they are trying to get more girls into science.
     
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  6. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    After the foundations were planted in the 90's, the 00's were a massive let down, in no small part due to morons, social media and surveillance.

    It should have been the era of humankind.

    Life will never be the same. Post 2000 everything is ****ed.
     
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  7. Dills double deckers

    Dills double deckers Well-Known Member

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    yeah I'm sure every era enjoys its own. Comes down to our own memories..
     
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  8. FILEYseadog

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    Loved the early 70s so much I am still living in that era.
     
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  9. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

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    Spread your horizons Filey mate. Check out The Clash maybe. They offer a welcome twist to reggae.
     
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  10. PattyNchips2

    PattyNchips2 Well-Known Member

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    arent Millenials born after 74?
    Im a millenial then
     
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  11. tigerscanada

    tigerscanada Well-Known Member

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    If you don't get your predictions in soon Patty, it'll look like you're a millenial from the 18th century :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    PattyNchips2 Well-Known Member

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    ah I play that game when I can be arsed
     
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