{"id":9078,"date":"2025-04-05T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/779976113980063744-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:17:45","slug":"779976113980063744-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/779976113980063744-2\/","title":{"rendered":"779976113980063744"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/28\/style\/gen-x-creative-work.html\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/28\/style\/gen-x-creative-work.html\",\"title\":\"The Gen X Career Meltdown\",\"description\":\"Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.\",\"site_name\":\"nytimes.com\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"6404538e22449a02e1fd4188767c7d44:8501defeed2b6ac1-a9\",\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"width\":760,\"height\":398}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/28\/style\/gen-x-creative-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Gen X Career Meltdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery generation has its burdens. The particular plight of Gen X is to have grown up in one world only to hit middle age in a strange new land. It\u2019s as if they were making candlesticks when electricity came in. 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