It's okay if you want to call me a Boomer. I've paid my dues.

[GenThePerservering]

76. Born in 1953

and paid into SS for over 50 years (I started working in a truck stop when I was 15). Sadly, when I'm around most other Boomers I feel like they're my parents and I can't really relate to them very well - it's like they've aged out and I haven't, even some of my friends. Fortunately, the DH and my closest friends haven't, and they tell me they have the same experience of feeling like delinquent kids around disapproving parents. One of the youngest people I knew was my grandma who helped raise me, and lived to 103 years old - her motto was "Stay interested" (and walk every day) - my mentor.

Needless to say, we *all* vote blue.

The individual upthread with the English degree - I have one, too, and worked for years in technical documentation and quality assurance. During the dot-com bust when programmers and developers were getting laid off like crazy around here and going broke, I was still working, and for a good income. I wonder how they felt at the "want fries with that?" that jokes I had had to put up with.