Call Us Boomerangers--The New Vaboomer Generation!

We Boomerangers fit most easily in the Baby Boom 1946-1964. While I am a few months ahead of the official start of the Boom, and have always felt its “hot breath” on my neck, I’m also the daughter and granddaughter of Boomerangers. How can women of three generations whose life spans stretch back over 140 years to the end of the Civil War have anything to do with those born during the Baby Boom? What do my mother and my grandmother have in common with the Boomers? And why am I calling all of us Boomerangers?

For those of us who have a Boomeranger stage of mind, it’s all about how we view life and little about the numbers. For my Grandmother and Mom, it’s how they continued to develop as human beings—always considering themselves becoming fuller and fuller people. It’s how they viewed themselves as always aiming to enhance their lives and the lives of those around them even as they edged toward triple digits.

The Baby Boom generation has similar characteristics. We are famous for our no holds barred approach to life. Where there is a roadblock we leap over it or knock it aside. Where there is a stop sign, we pause for a moment and then speed ahead. We see obstacles as challenges to be explored and sources of innovation. We’ve soared into outer space and delved into the mysteries of inner space.

We created The New Age. We created the Internet Age. We’ve often been mocked and reduced to a marketable “style,” but without us there would be no Title VII (equal employment) or Title IX (equal education). There would be no Roe V. Wade. There would not be an environmental movement or Green Consciousness. There would be no policy or services helping abused children or women or elders. We see a problem. We work to fix it. We don’t always get it right, but we are not complacent. And we don’t give up.

Comments

[Sylvia]

Nicely written post, Virgina!

As a boomeranger myself, I can relate.

I think there is one more parameter that may help identify and qualify a "boomeranger".

In the past, many of us worked to make money OR to help others. Rarely did the two twains meet.

The boomer-aged/minded person often wants to do both, and thanks to the internet, ability to think outside the box and to leverage earnings and investments, the options to make money AND help people are nearly unlimited.

Having several vacation rental properties on and near Sanibel Island, Florida, I have become a "virtual" inn keeper.

I get great enjoyment out of assisting people in their vacation choices, watching them return year after year, and observing as their family grows and ages.

The milestones that they pass (birthdays,honeymoons, anniversaries and, sometimes sadly, illnesses) often take place right in my own space.

This is business on a very personal level.

Do I help people? I certainly would like to think I do.

Do I make money? You bet!

Helping people and making money at the same time is about as sweet as it gets. This new platform in work ethic may not have been created by the boomer age, but it has certainly been perfected here.

[Bill Billec]

Congradulations on starting your blog! Have much success! Keep on Vabooming!