I often have to remind myself that my mom’s generation was the generation that came in after World War Two. My mother is a baby boomer and for her, her generation had very specific lanes for success. I often joke with some of my friends that when I was coming up, the lanes of success were fairly limited to three things: Community College or technical school, college, or the military. My mom’s generation probably could not wrap their brain around someone making a living playing video games, or riding a skateboard, or riding a snowboard. Those career paths for pathways to earn revenue just were not present during their generation. Which is why talking to future generations is tough if you’re a member of generation X because our parents came from that generation and they had a different pathway to success than the millennials have today. Which is why focusing on giving guidance to the next generation has to be a serious endeavour when children today are faced with so many mor...
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