“Gen­er­a­tions X and Y have yet to have the col­lec­tive wealth, rights, and respon­si­bil­i­ties trans­ferred and assigned to them from the Baby Boomers. As a result, young peo­ple are stuck in their often-criticized state of per­pet­ual ado­les­cence because we can­not afford the trap­pings of so-called matu­rity: mar­riage, home, and fam­ily. What else can we do but wait?”

My greatest fear around this issue is that by the time the Boomers leave the workforce, employers will seek to replace them with the most technologically savvy generation — Generation Y — leaving my generation frustrated and with nowhere to go. And this is not necessarily because the X-ers are incapable of doing the work, but that they were delayed just long enough that the younger generation, which will undoubtedly have more current skill sets and just enough experience to justify their hiring.

So while I like the “waiting for a table” metaphor, I feel that the situation may prove to be more like queueing up at a nightclub, where the bouncer leans toward letting the younger crowd in regardless of how long others may have been waiting at the front of the line.