JIGSAW GENS
JonesGens — The Space Shuttle Microgeneration
As the youngest Baby Boomers and the oldest GenXers, this American cusp blended civil rights with peak capitalism
To which generation do you belong? For many Americans, the answer is pretty clear-cut. In the eyes of others, it’s more of a nebulous question. There’s never been any universal consensus as to the exact birthyears in which a generation begins and ends. The endpoints for these ranges of calendar years tend to fluctuate, depending on with whom you’re speaking.
Additionally, pop culture within the United States has grown abnormally obsessed with the idea of “generations” in recent years. This dynamic obviously differs from many other countries across the world. Those generational labels often become steeped in bigoted stereotypes rather than thoughtful context.
One thing I’ve discovered through studying various “generations” across American history — none of them are inherently good or inherently bad. All of them have had corrupt or heartless leaders. Likewise, they’ve all had members whose accomplishments resulted in groundbreaking strides toward social justice, helpful technology, and quality-of-life.
When people become cynical or hopeless about the direction in which “today’s generations” are headed…it’s important to remember how such attitudes have always occurred in cycles and patterns, ever since folks first began arriving in what is now known as the United States.
This is why I view “Jigsaw Gens” as such a necessary endeavor — it’s a historical overview critiquing the way we view “generations” in American culture. No matter what point in history you’re looking at, none of its generational cohorts were monolithic. They have repeatedly struggled with social identity, warfare, wealth (or lack thereof), and making sense of new innovations.
Broadly speaking, I’ve categorized 27 basic “generations” into which Americans can be classified…going back all the way to the Sixteenth Century:
Parliamentarians | Concentrics | Inflectors
Kingdomites | Cavaliers | Magnas
Glory Warriors | Lumineers | Enlightening Rods
Septennials | Liberty Lords | Goodpublicans
Madisonians | Unimpressionists | Transcendentals
Redeemers | Golden Renegades | Stowegressives
Missionaries | Hemingrebels | GI-Gens
Traditionalists | Baby Boomers | GenXers
Millennials | Zoomers | Alphas
Given how none of these categories are scientific, we must allow for mixed identities. Is it so hard to believe that someone can land in a birthyear where they feel blended kinship with the two cohorts to which their “big sibs” or “little sibs” may be associated?
That’s why “microgenerations” are a useful concept.
If someone falls “on the cusp,” it means their birthyear is probably in a grey area when compared to other people who fall smack in the middle of a distinct generation. In the same way someone can be multiracial or genderfluid, the idea of hard-and-fast “rules” for defining somebody’s generation could fly out the window, as far as looking for easy answers.
“Cuspers” are those of us who find our life experiences gelling with two adjacent generations. Peers who are several years older than us might dismiss us as “naïve” or “immature.” Peers who are several years younger than us could write us off as “old-fashioned” or “stodgy.”
In that spirit, I’ve devoted an entire leg of my anthology to cuspers. Those of us who don’t so neatly align with one generation or another; instead, we form blurry relationships with the youngest members of one generation alongside the oldest members of the next generation.
You may have heard of “Generation Jones.” This is a microgeneration whose identity has been the subject of much debate. As people born in and around the early- to mid-1960s, JonesGens have played an important role in America’s modern history.
Who They Are
JonesGens were born approximately between 1961 to 1965 — give or take a couple of years on either end. Author & cultural critic Jonathan Pontell originally conceived “Generation Jones” as its own generation spanning from 1954 to 1965, distinct from the Baby Boomer generation (which he classifies as running from 1942 to 1953). Others, such as eldercare author Bart Astor, have argued that “Generation Jones” should be considered a subset of Baby Boomers, encompassing its cohort’s latter half.
I side more with the positions of Australian demographer Mark McCrindle and The Baltimore Sun’s Wayne Carter — JonesGens are a microgeneration serving as the connective tissue between the youngest Baby Boomers and the oldest GenXers.
With all due respect to Pontell…eleven years is a bit too limiting as parameters for a self-contained generation. He labels some people born in the early- to mid-1940s as “Baby Boomers” — yet, there’s plenty of compelling evidence that many people who have those same birthyears identify more closely with Traditionalists (“The Silent Generation”). Meanwhile, Washington Post columnist Philip Bump has cited the U.S. Census having defined Baby Boomers as being born between 1946 to 1964, based solely on the rising birthrates during that finite time period. Honestly, I find the U.S. Census Bureau’s parameters to be too constricting, as well.
Pontell also uses the split amongst 1953-borns and 1954-borns as a dividing line between Baby Boomers and JonesGens, as the latter group was never forced to serve in the Vietnam War…while the former group still had memories of being raised in households without television. But I’d argue that JFK’s assassination is a watershed midpoint for the JonesGen cusp, since people born in the early- to mid-1960s have either zero (because they weren’t born quite yet) or very blurry (because they were still infants or toddlers) memories of where they were when the news broke.
Hence, I’m sticking with 1961–1965 as a general range for this JonesGens cohort — although, like with any cohort, other birthyears can also brush against the cusp’s edges. For example, someone born in 1959 or 1960 or 1966 or 1967 might see aspects of both the Baby Boomers and the GenXers blended into their childhood experiences.
I call them “the Space Shuttle Microgeneration” because so many of the JonesGens were captivated by aerospace culture and the dazzling image of astronauts throughout their childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. They finessed their professional lives across the 1980s, the 1990s, and into the new millennium. By the late-aughts and the 2010s, they’d been elevated to key leadership positions.
Pontell cites a couple of different explanations for the term “Generation Jones.” This group of young adults popularized the term “jonesing” as a slang verb to indicate craving or yearning. Alternately, they took cartoonist Arthur “Pop” Momand’s idiom of “Keeping up with the Joneses” to speak to how this cusp was pressured to maintain an inferiority complex based on their neighbors’ accumulations of material goods.
Their Early Lives
As children born during the early-1960s, JonesGens were brought into a world where nuclear proliferation was an established reality — and activism on behalf of fighting social injustices had gone mainstream. They went from being infants to toddlers to little kids amidst the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Berlin Wall’s construction, rising U.S. tensions with Cuba, and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy & Malcolm X. Widespread rioting, the Vietnam War, hippies, Black Panthers, feminists, and Beatlemania were simply facts of life.
As they got older, these children comprising “Generation Jones” surveyed a changing world around them. Color television, conscientious objectors, the “Summer of Love,” and the Tet Offensive rippled across the American landscape. The Super Bowl enjoyed popularity even as modern-day national heroes such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. were assassinated. The Stonewall Riots and the “Chicano Blowouts” enabled LGBT+ and/or Latine people to join activist movements.
Still, because JonesGens were merely children, they often saw only what their GI-Gen, Golden-Builder, and Traditionalist parents would allow them to glimpse. How many grade-school kids were able to fully process the unruly 1968 Democratic National Convention, the Kent State Shootings, or Ted Kennedy’s criminal actions at Chappaquiddick? Alternately, their awareness could be focused on more “digestible” cultural developments — the Apollo 11 moonwalk, the premiere of Sesame Street, establishment of Earth Day, and Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown.
With TV having been a staple for two decades, JonesGen kids enjoyed an array of offerings: The Flintstones, Gumby, The Amazing Spider-Man, Scooby-Doo, Flipper, Super Friends, ABC’s Afterschool & Weekend Specials, H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, New Zoo Revue, Vegetable Soup, Land of the Lost, and Schoolhouse Rock! were some of the more popular ones. They looked up to children’s hosts such as Bob Keeshan, Shari Lewis, Bill Cosby, Fred Rogers, Soupy Sales, Will Lee, Rita Moreno, George Fischbeck, Morgan Freeman, Sonia Manzano, and Don Herbert (“Mr. Wizard”) almost as parental figures.
Other cultural heroes throughout the Vietnam War and Watergate eras included: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison (with these first three fatally overdosing on drugs), Bob Dylan, Elton John, Bianca Jagger, David Bowie, Jane Fonda, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Beverly Johnson, Jane Birkin, Diane von Fürstenberg, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These were the public figures from the Great Golden, Traditionalist, and Baby Boomer generations influencing the adults who raised and educated JonesGen youth.
With 1971’s ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, the national voting age was lowered to 18. This made “Generation Jones” the first American microgenerational cusp with some members eligible to vote while in high school — the first of whom participated in the 1980 Reagan/Carter race (although eighteen-year-old Baby Boomers were able to vote as early as the 1972 Nixon/McGovern showdown).
When They Came-of-Age
By the time “Generation Jones” was born, average American life expectancies had crept up into one’s early-seventies (if not longer than that). They ventured into adolescence in the aftermath of the Roe v. Wade ruling and President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
This microgeneration dealt with acne and raging hormones as America underwent crisis after crisis throughout the Carter & Reagan years: the fall of Saigon, the Fromme/Moore assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford (and the Hinckley attempt on Reagan), Elvis Presley’s death, the assassinations of Harvey Milk and John Lennon, Three-Mile Island, the Iran Hostage Crisis, Flight 191’s crash, the Moscow Olympics boycott, Mount St. Helens, the U.S. Invasion of Grenada, Bernie Goetz’s subway massacre, the Iran-Contra Affair, and 1986’s Challenger explosion.
For better or for worse, President Ronald Reagan’s policies would define America’s political climate across decades beyond the 1980s. These included partisan clashes over tax cuts, tax rates, balanced budgets, and gun control. As President George H.W. Bush picked up the conservative torch, JonesGens would reflect upon their awareness of AIDS, crack, cocaine, pedophilia, and arrogant televangelists in the hopes of trying to reshape the world into a safer place for upcoming generations of GenXers, Millennials, and Zoomers.
The 1990s inched closer, and events such as “Black Monday,” the Max Headroom hijackings, and the Yellowstone fires would foreshadow how crazy life was about to get for unborn children.
Putting the anxiety aside, “Generation Jones” saw many reasons to be hopeful. American/Soviet relations were making tentative strides forward via the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft and the INF Treaty. The Camp David Accords showed there could be progress with Hebrew/Arabic relations, while the Refugee Act of 1980 positioned America as a safe harbor in the world. Following the nation’s bicentennial celebration — employment rose, Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, musicians collaborated for Farm Aid, and the Marshall Islands became a sovereign state.
JonesGens drove a revolution of genre-specific TV shows during their teen years and into their young adulthood. More than ever before, they found relatable sitcoms that resonated with their life experiences: All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Welcome Back Kotter, Three’s Company, Family Ties, Alice, Too Close for Comfort, Diff’rent Strokes, Kate & Allie, Cheers, Night Court, Good Times, The Cosby Show, A Different World, Gimme a Break!, Mama’s Family, Soap, The Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Growing Pains, Amen, and 227.
Sex appeal and action got blended into primetime offerings such as Charlie’s Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard, CHiPs, Magnum P.I., Cagney & Lacey, Simon & Simon, The A-Team, Moonlighting, The Fall Guy, and L.A. Law. Nighttime soaps also reigned across the airwaves — with Dallas, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing, Dynasty, and Hotel getting boffo ratings.
But another significant thing was happening on network television throughout the 1970s and 1980s: multigenre shows were being increasingly accepted. Whether they utilized a time warp when set in the past…or blended comedy with drama…or infused elements of science-fiction & fantasy — TV was giving JonesGens new stuff to chew on. Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, ALF, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Highway to Heaven, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Wonder Years, and Eight is Enough proved that American audiences were hungry for such cross-pollination of genres.
This cusp’s “teen idols” included — Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Donny Osmond, Molly Ringwald, Bobby Sherman, John Travolta, Corey Haim, David & Shaun Cassidy, Andy Gibb, Tiffany Darwish, Olivia Newton-John, Susan Dey, Kirk Cameron, Rick Springfield, Debby Gibson, Jack Wild, Scott Baio, Kevin Bacon, Robby Benson, Davy Jones, Karen Carpenter, Anthony Michael Hall, Gary Coleman, Jennifer Grey, and Patrick Swayze. Many of these pop culture mavens were Silent Nesters (or younger Traditionalists) along with Baby Boomers or the eldest one-third of Generation X.
And, some “teen idols” were even directly from “Generation Jones,” themselves — Matthew Broderick, Heather Locklear, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Elisabeth Shue, Andrew McCarthy, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Cruise, Ian Ziering, Phoebe Cates, and Leif Garrett.
By the time JonesGens had graduated from college, Saturday Night Live and Star Wars had become ingrained as American cultural emblems. Personal computers, video games, VCRs, professional wrestling, minivans, hip hop music, and awareness of drunk driving were experiences from daily life which teens and young adults would grow up to pass along to their own offspring.
Space travel was now symbolic of American exceptionalism reaching new heights — literally! The Voyager 1 & 2 missions, Columbia’s STS-1 launch, and Discovery’s STS-26 flight gave these young people such monumental imagery on their TV screens.
How They’ve Shaped The World
The 1990s were a key time when JonesGens struggled with raising their GenXer, Millennial, and/or Zoomer children & teens. As the Berlin Wall fell and the Gulf War was fought and won, these parents confronted a new danger affecting their offspring: the World Wide Web.
During the late-Bush & early-Clinton years — rioting in Los Angeles, the Branch Davidian standoff, and 1993’s World Trade Center Explosion preceded a time when the Internet would turbocharge tabloid-esque headlines. Lorena Bobbit, Tonya Harding, O.J. Simpson, Timothy McVeigh, and Monica Lewinsky were some of the earliest pariahs who made JonesGen parents blush with frustration having to explain to their children why these overnight headliners were being raked over the coals.
1999’s Columbine Shootings jaded this cohort toward the culture into which their children and future grandchildren would be raised. Y2K panic ended up being a big nothing-burger. Yet, George W. Bush’s Electoral College victory in the aftermath of the 2000 Florida Recounts further divided a country already tainted by partisan rancor. No Child Left Behind and EGTRRA widened this schism.
1990’s Hubble Space Telescope boosted astronomy to affirm the aerospace mania in which “Generation Jones” had basked when they themselves were youngsters. President Bill Clinton kept the policy debates going by splitting the country over Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and NAFTA. All the while, reality television had sprouted…and would be poised to triumph throughout the aughts.
As fortysomethings, they guided their kids through 9/11 and the resulting fallout — the PATRIOT Act and U.S. wars with Afghanistan & Iraq. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was created during this time — which is why Zoomers (Gen Z) are also known as “Homelanders.”
The youngest-living former U.S. President — Barack Obama — is a JonesGen…as is one U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Brett Kavanaugh). However, following the lead of Silent Nesters and Baby Boomers, we’ve seen politicians from “Generation Jones” elbow their way in front of the cameras and microphones to mold public discourse. This wave began in the aughts and the 2010s…but it has persisted into the current decade.
These ideological divisions have become more sharply split between the Left and the Right.
Conservative voices from “Generation Jones” have included: Kevin McCarthy, John Thune, Brian Kemp, Steve Scalise, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Jim Jordan, Scott DesJarlais, Michael McCaul, Tim Scott, Greg Gianforte, Scott Perry, Tom Emmer, Ryan Zinke, John Rose, Sam Graves, Dan Sullivan, Kevin Hern, David Schweikert, Barry Loudermilk, Dan Meuser, Pete Ricketts, Tim Burchett, Harriet Hageman, and Andrew Clyde.
Those platforms have been countered by liberal JonesGens such as: Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Suzan DelBene, Jamie Raskin, Katherine Clark, J.B. Pritzker, Pramila Jayapal, Terri Sewell, Jared Huffman, Yvette Clarke, Michael Bennet, Tammy Baldwin, Adam Smith, Chris Coons, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Cleo Fields, Salud Carbajal, Herb Conaway, Mark Pocan, Norma Torres, Glenn Ivey, Bob Ferguson, Deborah Ross, Troy Carter, and Catherine Cortez Masto.
In such a diametrically-oppositional political climate, JonesGen lawmakers have found it increasingly difficult to carve out identities embracing centrism…although a handful of them are making valiant attempts: Mark Kelly, Chris Christie, Don Bacon, Tom Suozzi, Ann Wagner, Rick Larsen, Brian Sandoval, April McClain-Delaney, Joe Lombardo, Brad Schneider, María Elvira Salazar, Ami Bera, Mario Diaz-Balart, Dave McCormick, Juan Vargas, Mike Dunleavy, Young Kim, and Jefferson Shreve have tried to find at least some common ground with “the other side” — either by necessity or due to personal volition.
JonesGens have given us a prolific array of entertainers in the realms of comedy and/or drama (sometimes both, simultaneously) — Jodie Foster, Eddie Murphy, Demi Moore, Jim Carrey, Brooke Shields, Ralph Macchio, Viola Davis, Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Michael J. Fox, Rosie O’Donnell, Chris Rock, Mariska Hargitay, Keanu Reeves, Meg Ryan, George Clooney, Rosie Perez, Helen Hunt, Molly Shannon, and Johnny Depp.
Some of the individual JonesGens came to be closely associated with specific landmark television breakouts, over the decades — Little House on the Prairie (Melissa Gilbert), The Facts of Life (Lisa Whelchel), Friends (Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow), Sex and the City (Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis), and Survivor (Jeff Probst).
This microgeneration has transformed American music in ways that were inconceivable to previous generations of musicians — Whitney Houston, Jon Bon Jovi, Courtney Love, M.C. Hammer, Tori Amos, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Etheridge, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Axl Rose, Sheryl Crow, Anthony Kiedis, Tracy Chapman, Billy Ray Cyrus, Shania Twain, Dr. Dre, Wynonna Judd, Toby Keith, Boy George, and Paula Abdul rocked the charts while winning Americans’ hearts.
For many JonesGens, the 2003 Columbia disintegration brought back echoes the 1986 Challenger explosion. They watched Hurricane Katrina unfold and Nancy Pelosi be elected as America’s first female Speaker of the House. They got pulled into the frenzy of using Facebook and iPhones. And then…
The Great Recession hit. Their own children had the shock of economic ground being yanked out from underneath them — a concentrated version of what the JonesGens had felt during the 1970s stagflation or the early-1990s recession. Obama’s historic election proved to be only a temporary Band-Aid in the face of the Tea Party’s rise and the B.P. Oil Spill. The 2009 deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett served as a pall of melancholy, as they’d been amongst the hottest celebrities during JonesGens’ adolescence and young adulthood.
Moving into their fifties — which, to put into context, was as recent as the 2010s — “Generation Jones” struggled as they watched their kids and grandkids live in a reality where mass shootings were now commonplace: Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Parkland, Poway, Virginia Beach, El Paso, Dayton, Milwaukee — these communities suffered heartache and loss while making national headlines in the face of senseless gun violence.
People on this cusp loved seeing their peers blossom into social phenoms. “Generation Jones” produced athletic superstars in everything ranging from basketball (Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley) to baseball (Dan Marino, Bo Jackson) to football (Jerry Rice) to swimming (Matt Biondi) to track & field (Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee).
Consumers of visual arts were captivated by the film directing of Quentin Tarantino, the fashion empire of Tom Ford, and Stephen Hillenburg’s renderings of SpongeBob SquarePants. Literary talents amongst the JonesGens produced gripping novels, edgy short stories, and action-packed screenplays — Suzanne Collins, David Foster Wallace, Audrey Niffenegger, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Dan Gerhard Brown.
JonesGen astronauts boasted the likes of Sunita Williams, Laurel Clark, Kalapana Chawla, and William McCool. Those elevating the business world have included Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Robert Herjavec, Kate Spade, Robert Frederick Smith, and Mary Barra. Political & civic activism was driven by Leonard Leo, Michelle Obama, Peter Staley, Ann Coulter, and RowVaughn Wells.
Even as Osama bin Laden was hunted down and killed, tragedies and famous litigants continued to be soup du jour on the menu. Casey Anthony’s acquittal. Hurricane Sandy. Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing. The Boston Marathon Bombing. A botched rollout of Obamacare.
Having been little kids at the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, JonesGens spent their days as fiftysomethings living through a reinvigorated cycle of emphasis on racial justice. The Black Lives Matter movement demanded to be heard as the murders of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor — among countless others — led to a global outcry over the May 25, 2020 manslaughter of George Floyd.
The second half of the 2010s were consumed by the unconventional & polarizing template of President Donald Trump. Surrounding Trump’s clangorous Electoral College victory (and his first impeachment) were more headline-gripping developments…
A flood of Cosby sexual-assault lawsuits.
Nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
2017’s “Unite the Right” rally.
The #MeToo Movement going mainstream.
Kobe & Gianna Bryant dying in an helicopter crash over Calabasas.
JonesGens were only a heartbeat away from senior-citizen status when COVID-19 rapidly spread across the globe — followed, domestically, by a national lockdown and the 2020 election of President Joe Biden.
Obviously, this microgenerational cohort is very much alive and with us. But they still have a lot more living to do, in the decades ahead.
And they’re not done yet…
Their Golden Years
Currently, JonesGens tend to be in their early- to mid-sixties. By the 2030s, they will have all passed the traditional retirement age range of 65–70 (of course, the goalpost for retiring may very well shift dramatically between now and then). If current lifespan trends hold, they will be projected to die out during the 2050s and into the early-2060s
As the 2020s have whizzed by, they’ve survived the Covid outbreak and its public disharmony over the question of whether masks should be worn or vaccines should be mandated. They’ve prepared for their golden years as the Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021 further divided an already-toxic nation. They saw Trump impeached for a second time, helped make Juneteenth into an officially-recognized federal holiday, and weathered the news of additional mass shootings in Atlanta, Boulder, and Uvalde.
Under Biden’s presidency, a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan allowed the Taliban to regain ground. Russia invaded the Ukraine. Biden passed infrastructure funding along with a more scaled-down version of his “Build Back Better” plan — resulting in far fewer losses than had been expected for Democrats during the 2022 midterms.
During the interim between the 2020 and 2024 elections — Roe v. Wade was overturned, Kevin McCarthy was ousted as House Speaker after only 269 days (the third-shortest tenure in American history), Trump was indicted & arraigned, and Hamas launched unprecedented attacks on Israel.
The 2024 presidential election season had Biden dropping out of the race following a disastrous debate performance, in addition to the Crooks/Routh failed assassination attempts on Trump. In November of 2024, Trump beat out Vice-President Kamala Harris by less than 2% of the popular vote — becoming the second person in American history (after only Grover Cleveland) to serve in the presidency for two nonconsecutive terms.
By this midpoint of our current decade, public opinion has ebbed-and-flowed as Trump’s second term got underway. Among the developments that have kept Americans sharply divided:
- The TikTok ban, and who will win its bidding war
- DOGE mass-firings
- February 28th’s very public Trump/Zelenskyy argument
- The Signal Intel leak
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia being controversially deported
- March 2025’s Houthi attack
- Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on foreign imports
With more and more JonesGens retiring from political offices, it remains to be seen in which ways they will shape America throughout the remaining 2–3 decades of their lives.
Presumably, they’ll be on the frontlines of mentoring GenXers, Millennials, Zoomers, Alphas, and Intrepids — as these younger generations advance through the workforce and take over key leadership positions.
But exactly what advice will they be giving? JonesGen leaders certainly have a wide span of both achievements and misjudgments from which the rest of us can learn.
Here are 10 prominent Americans from the JonesGen (“Generation Jones”) cohort:
Members of the previous microgenerations were named…
Colonial Zygotes | Turnip Squeezers | Starving Timers
Long Climbers | Rumpus Rebels | Emerald Knights
Royal Raiders | Pre-Continentals | Bottled Beacons
Primordial Founders | Aucto-Septennials | Public Liberators
Cradled Explorers | Liberty Babes | Defiant Giants
Prospectors | Gilded Architects | Late-Goldens
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