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Are you a GYPSY?

  • 17-09-2013 7:28pm
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    cantdecide
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    A Generation Y Protagonist and Special Yuppie, that is...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
    I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group -- I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.

    So Lucy's enjoying her GYPSY life, and she's very pleased to be Lucy. Only issue is this one thing:

    Lucy's kind of unhappy.

    To be clear, GYPSYs want economic prosperity just like their parents did -- they just also want to be fulfilled by their career in a way their parents didn't think about as much.

    But something else is happening too. While the career goals of Gen Y as a whole have become much more particular and ambitious, Lucy has been given a second message throughout her childhood as well:

    You're special

    Lucy, on the other hand, finds herself constantly taunted by a modern phenomenon: Facebook Image Crafting.

    Social media creates a world for Lucy where A) what everyone else is doing is very out in the open, B) most people present an inflated version of their own existence, and C) the people who chime in the most about their careers are usually those whose careers (or relationships) are going the best, while struggling people tend not to broadcast their situation. This leaves Lucy feeling, incorrectly, like everyone else is doing really well, only adding to her misery:

    I've always been bemused by the stasis and kind of agoraphobia that my generation seems to possess. I think this goes some of the way to explaining the phenomenon. The huge adjustment in our expectations is quite a sobering too to us GYPSY's.

    I like the bit about the unicorn. My unicorn's name is Stabby... funny story...


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