I know. The problem is that I was born in 1980. 10-15 years ago I wasn’t considered Gen X (which used to bug me because I was so close). For a while I was lumped in with millennials (in fact I’m featured in an article on millennials giving up X for Y). Then Xennials. Now I guess I’m Gen X. It’s really arbitrary especially because…
… this ^^^
The more I started to look at what millennials were doing and how (and why) they were doing it, the more I realized I followed that path without even meaning to. I studied one of those fields that didn’t have a lot of prospects at the time I graduated (unless you were willing to work for free or basically free) and eventually figured out if I was going to succeed, I needed to build my own thing to make it happen.
My wife, on the other hand, doesn’t associate with millennials at all, despite being a handful of months older than me 
