How are Gen X planning to spend their time in retirement?

If you post your question on Mumsnet you might be more likely to get an answer from Gen X themselves.

Do people really think that our year of birth is something that determines our interests, outlook and behaviour? I am a ‘boomer’ but there is a huge difference in experience between me (born 1959) and someone born just after the war in 1945. I am likely to have far more in common with someone born in 1965 than in 1945.

Also, these groupings take no account of sex, geographical differences, social class, education or basic personality traits.

It would be helpful if the OP could say a bit more about what she is looking for in our responses, and why she is using marketing classifications to differentiate between people.

argymargy

petra

leapyearnanYour not a baby boomer .
Those born between 1946-1964 are classed as such.
I would hope that the majority of generation x are tech savvy already.

leapyearman has not said when s/he was born - so how do you know s/he's not a baby boomer?

leapyearnan says that she is a baby boomer in the first line of her OP 🤷‍♀️

argymargy

petra

leapyearnanYour not a baby boomer .
Those born between 1946-1964 are classed as such.
I would hope that the majority of generation x are tech savvy already.

leapyearman has not said when s/he was born - so how do you know s/he's not a baby boomer?

Apologies to Leapyearnan💐

petra

*leapyearnan*Your not a baby boomer .
Those born between 1946-1964 are classed as such.
I would hope that the majority of generation x are tech savvy already.

leapyearman has not said when s/he was born - so how do you know s/he's not a baby boomer?

leapyearnanYour not a baby boomer .
Those born between 1946-1964 are classed as such.
I would hope that the majority of generation x are tech savvy already.

From my experience Gen X are much less 'clubbable' than those older than them. In other words, much less interested in social groups than in action groups (with a small 'a')

Am example: For the last 45 years I have been an acive member of my county archaeological society. I have filled most roles on the committee.

When I joinedthe society, we essentially ran a monthly lecture series, arranged visits to archaeological sites in the summer, and had other activties based on us being visiters, watchers, listeners.

Over the years as members died, our numbers dropped and we were not recruiting from Gen X, then someone, boomer generation, joined, who was interested in doing archaeology, as a result we now have a very active archaeological fieldwork group and the society is thriving again. Most committee members are now the younger generation.

So if you stay just a social group, you will be come passe, and fade, start doing things and you may start recruiting.

I’m a Boomer & won’t get my state pension until in 67.
So no retirement for me yet

Imarocker

DD is Gen X and doesn’t think she will be able to retire before she is 70.

Yes the pension age is forever being pushed forwards. We were really lucky to be of a generation who could retire in their mid sixties. Pretty soon people will have to work whilst suffering age related problems in order to pay the bills, or die before they can claim their pension.
In this respect boomers now in their late sixties to mid seventies really are better off.

Presumably they will want the same.e as us?

I'm not sure what you think will be different and why you want to ponder this.

What is your volunteer role?

DD is Gen X and doesn’t think she will be able to retire before she is 70.

My children are in this group. Very tech savvy, very sociable and some of them like sport as well. Most of their social life is going to each other’s houses, eating and drinking and going on camping trips with their friends . Same as us, really but they travel a bit further and are a bit more adventurous. They work pretty hard but they have mostly paid off their houses or are well on the way unlike the next generation who, poor so and sos, can’t afford houses.

Why do you think you need to be ‘tech savvy’, and what does that means to you?

So people between the ages of 40 and 59.

• what is you social group about?
• what is your current age demographic?
• is it a mixed group or predominantly female or male?

I’m curious to know why you ask how Gen X plans to spend its retirement. With the younger end they could be looking at another 30 years of work.

Assuming you want to attract younger people to the group now, isn’t the question how do they spend their leisure time now?

Are you saying that your social group current has no website or social media presence? How do people learn of your existence?