Reply #13: Sounds about right [View All]

[sandnsea]

I was born in 1957 and never did relate to any of the 'boomer' trends or thinking. I've heard some others complain about following boomers being like following an elephant herd. Well it's true for us 'shadow' boomers too. By the time we're ready to make any given financial decision, the first wave has flooded whatever market and made it insane for us. It started from the times we first went into the work force, they had flooded the job market leaving us with 10% unemployment. And on it went. I think our parents are even different, theirs being WWII and ours being Korean War. Those sets of folks looked at the country differently too, one group came up in the roaring 20's, the other in the Depression. Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one who never thought we were one demographic block.