Proposed: was the “slacker” early end of the 90s about Gen X charting a new life course where your 20s were kind of a wash before the real stuff started?
(And might millennial me have some hope things kick off for us in our 40s?)
This being a difference from Boomers who had roles to slot into right out of their teens?
This could add some texture to the “oh boo hoo, 90s movies are about how much it sucks to have a reliable white collar job” criticism \u2013 Office Space (1999) understood as a complaint about a white collar sector whose entry levels no longer offered any agency \u2013 no influence on actual business operations (“what would you say you do here?”) but preparing TPS reports as basically Spreadsheet Operators, clerks serving up inputs to an unappreciative executive cohort that doesn’t have anything more to offer but another decade of age
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