Overboarding:
Overcompensating for fears about the future by plunging
headlong into a job or life-style seemingly unrelated to one's previous
life interests; i.e., Amway sales, aerobics, the Republican party, a
career in law, cults, McJobs...
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Overcompensating for fears about the future by plunging
headlong into a job or life-style seemingly unrelated to one's previous
life interests; i.e., Amway sales, aerobics, the Republican party, a
career in law, cults, McJobs...
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- McJob:
A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit
no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered... - Conspicuous Minimalism:
A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution
The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token... - Yuppie Wannabes:
An X Generation subgroup that believes the myth of a yuppie
life-style being both satisfying and viable
Tend to be highly in debt, involved in some form of... - Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition
that allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence... - Derision Preemption:
A life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of
emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers
Derision Preemption is the main goal of Knee-Jerk Irony... - Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Recurving:
Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one
back on the learning curve
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Rebellion Postponement:
The tendency in one's youth to avoid traditionally youthful
activities and artistic experiences in order to obtainserious career
experience
Sometimes results in the mourning for lost youth at...
