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Stand Up, Gen X – your time has come!

By Sarah Newton OK, I can hold my containment no longer and I have to shout from the rooftops. I am so excited about the coalition agreement made in UK politics between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, mostly because I am so excited to have Nick Clegg in a senior position. While I did [...]

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By Tatiana Kielberman Sometimes we assume that everybody knows the basic terminology which classifies generations, and we forget that there are many people who have trouble understanding the classifications and characteristics of each one. In a chat with my older brother, I realized that I know more about this theme than he does. He’s a [...]

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By Manuela Mesquita I’ve always thought of my mother as a baby boomer, but a baby boomer who doesn’t fit the stereotype. My mother introduced me to e-mail, even though I’m part of generation Y. My mother got on MSN chat before I did. She knows way more about computers than I do. I always [...]

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By Ines Schinaz I spoke with Penelope Trunk, the founder and CEO of Brazen Careerist.com Ines: You talk about how your own career never had a straight path. How did you get the idea for your blog? Was there a particular experience that made you decide to create it? Penelope: I was a columnist at [...]

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I want to talk about Self Esteem and how it changes, between generations, according to our life experiences. My generation (the Baby Boomers) didn’t grow up thinking we were “hot stuff.” During our childhood, Brazil was going through a tough dictatorship. This did not help our Self Esteem. Brazil was not a BRIC at that [...]

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Lately, I’ve come across a lot of articles that attempt to teach Generation Y how to behave. There are tips about almost everything. From interviews, to jobs, to cyber space etiquette, there are all sorts of “do’s” and “Don’ts.” This is especially true regarding online social networks, where a whole bundle of rules apply. On [...]

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True to the “baby boomer” frame of mind, I catch myself thinking that Generations “Y” and “T” don’t have the faintest idea of the effort we “Boomers,” make to understand a world which is completely different from the one we created for them. After all, Boomers created the microwave.  The invention which saved or perhaps [...]

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