Just something I've been thinking about now that I'm 40. A complete lack of leadership and mentoring from the boomers.
Parents were just focused on academic success and getting me off to college. Never learned to use tools, tend to plants and animals, do sports or hunt.
In my career, I was just given lots of responsibility and risk. No mentoring or leadership. No actual control to go along with the responsibility.
Was it like this for anyone else? Now that I'm middle aged and see the problem, I'm trying to be different for the younger generation.
I think this is the most accurate, the older boomers had kinda a selfish, competitive, and in many cases what we would describe as a "pharo complex" at work.
The ones I worked with used to "legacy build" by exclusively NOT training others, to maintain their need around the workplace.
They also stayed way to long in their jobs and tried to make sure nobody had it better than them.
As my boss said when I started, "a six figure salary and the corner office was the goal when I started (70's) and it still is" (until today, w/ inflation 🥴) -> they made sure salaries for younger workers were never adjusted for inflation, because it made them bitter.
You don't know how accurate that is. I grew up with them and I damn well know how they are. I also believe that a very small percentage of each generation actually understands what is going on around them