I’d rather be a Boomer than a Millennial

June 30, 2025

I can’t quite grasp the overall message of Trish Bolton’s Boomer talk. Yes, we are privileged, and had things so much easier in early adulthood than do millennials these days, but we apparently have to suffer scorn, ridicule and derision from those much younger than us.

And we should not be blind to the fact that not all Boomers are financially secure. But aren’t these truisms just facts of life in any non-homogenous group? Neither of my two children in their late thirties/early forties can envisage ever being able to buy their own home albeit they are both in professional jobs with similarly educated partners, all of whom have just finished paying off their HECS debts.

I changed jobs at 60 and never thought for a moment i would not gain another well-paying secure job, which indeed I did. All up, life is so much more enjoyable now that I am largely invisible to those who would have pestered me in the past and I have the total confidence not to take offence at any ageism directed towards me, albeit this happens so rarely.