“It’s the end of work as we knew it”: Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
There are just over 5 million Australians in Gen X, those born between 1965 and 1980.
In Generation X, the 1991 novel that defined the generation born in the 1960s and 1970s, Douglas Coupland chronicled a group of young adults who learn to reconcile themselves to “diminishing expectations of material wealth”. Lessness, Coupland called this philosophy.
For many of the Gen Xers who embarked on creative careers in the years after the novel was published, lessness has come to define their professional lives.
