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• Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Mid-twenties Breakdown: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twentie
  often caused by inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world....
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Successophobia: The fear that if one is successful, then one's personal needs will be forgotten and one will no longer have one's childish needs catered to.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
  [Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants....
• Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...