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• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Obscurism: The practice of peppering daily life with obscure references (forgotten films, dead TV stars, unpopular books, defunct countries, etc.
  ) as a subliminal means of showcasing both one's education and one's wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture....
• Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Recreational Slumming: The practice of participating in recreational activities of a class one perceives as lower than one's ow
  Karen! Donald! Let's go bowling tonight! And don't worry about shoes....
• Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as dine
  mokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns "back to the present....
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Conversational Slumming: The self-conscious enjoyment of a given conversation precisely for its lack of intellectual rigor.
  A major spin-off of Recreational Slumming. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector.
  Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one....
• Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...