Birth of the Slacker | Generation X

most Gen Xers are in school during the
crash so at first they think like so
what I never quite understood the stock
exchange game enough to be interested I
would like to meet this Dow Jones I
thought he was a guy in all the Disney
movies I vividly remember that day
because all these classmates of mine in
college were huddled around the TV and I
was like what’s going on like full-on
Keanu Reeves like I what’s up
stock market’s crashing well that’s fine
I’m a creative who cares I’m gonna be a
writer it turned out that had an impact
on the job market it turned out there
weren’t as many jobs recession is
already huge General Motors and Ford are
laying off almost 25,000 workers coming
out of college with a degree doesn’t
matter no one can find work I applied
for every single opening in my field but
there’s just there’s nothing abs are
hard are you just going to swallow your
pride for Gen Xers the new reality she’s
the birth of McJob x’ and the death of
traditional careers white-collar workers
are hit the hardest this time the
stereotype of the slacker is born
the whole idea of us being pegged as
slackers I think came out of the fact
that we couldn’t get jobs people started
looking at different ways that they
could do things precisely because those
traditional paths weren’t there anymore
that’s kind of what Gen X was bunch of
us kind of gone like well maybe there’s
like a backdoor into this bitch all
sorts of independent film independent
music alternative ways of working that
doesn’t make you a slacker it actually
makes you the opposite