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• 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....
• Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
  The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority....
• 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 substance abuse, and show a willingness to talk about Armageddon after three drinks....
• Personal Tabu: A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition, that allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence of cultural or religious dictums.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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 about age thirty, followed by silly haircuts and expensive joke-inducing wardrobes....