ZOOMER HELP TIPS, NOT THAT THEY’D ASK

Zoomer Help, Generation Z assistance, is the last thing anyone needs.

Not with characteristics like this:

Members of Gen Z are digital natives. When it comes to apps and devices, they don’t need instructions, and they don’t ask for them.

And this:

Members of Gen Z are highly educated.

This is helpful in what way? Let’s find out.

If you catch a Boomer in the yard they’re picking flowers and weaving them into each other’s hair. And strumming guitars. You know, frolicking flower children.

What’s Zoomer doing in the yard?

Grafting plant species and creating new ways to feed the world, since Boomers couldn’t figure it out. They’ll send a video of their work.

My favorite part: they don’t need instructions, and they don’t ask for them.

Why does that sound so familiar?

Who else doesn’t need instructions and doesn’t ask for them?

Not highly educated people who build 5000 piece IKEA cabinets.

No, they follow the instructions because winging it isn’t what they paid for, which is cabinet pieces without the labor costs, without the time it takes to work it out.

At some point it’s a good deal.

Zoomer Help says, “The pieces are all there, the hardware and wood, and everything is marked. If a leg or panel doesn’t fit, it’s not the manufacturing done wrong, not a mistake. It’s you, so turn it around and switch it out until it fits tight.”

Members of Gen Z are highly educated

The combination of ‘highly educated’ and ‘doesn’t need instructions’ are a hard mix, but not if you keep it to devises and apps.

If Gen Z is as highly educated as promised, then we know they’ve had plenty of instruction, unless they went to hippie schools to create their own syllabus and graduate with PhDs in Groovy Studies. In three months. With a ceremonial march. And bonfire.

It’s good to attain self-reliance, and better to understand what it is you’re relying on.

We rely on people. Human Resources. Neighbors. Friends. Family. Work. And none are the same.

Not when Information filters down between those ‘seeking more information’ at the top and those ‘tuning in now and then to see if nothing’s changed’ at the bottom.

This big Zoomer help cushions the blow when they learn everyone isn’t as smart as them. And don’t care. It hurts more when you know they should care. But can’t. For some reason.

Zoomer Help History

We all know the guy with the super power of hearing something for the first time and repeating it like ancient knowledge they were born with.

“Dave, you don’t know how to read a river? Well, let me tell you,” after watching OPB the night before.

Can you tell the difference? If not, work on it.

It bears repeating that mixing a highly educated culture with slow moving sludge gets messy.

Zoomer Help says start at the beginning.

Zoomer is a nickname referring to members of Generation Z, those born in the late 90s and early 2000s. Its use is particularly popular as a contrast to baby boomer or boomer, but before Gen Z was established, zoomer was used to refer to especially active baby boomers.

Especially active?

You’ve seen them. Lean and tan, hardy and fit, kicked a mild coke habit back in the day.

These are people who engage with the world in new ways to make it better.

“I think it’s possible to change your ways without feeling guilty or ashamed,” he (Isbell) said. 

That’s been a common refrain. So has:

“What do I/we have to clean up now,” sometimes with extra words.

Then there are the other things to clean up, the hard things, the sort of things that don’t take to brooms or brushes, hot water or soap.

You change your mind

You thought this, then learned it was that.

So you changed your mind, cleaned up the raggedy edges of understanding, and took a weight off.

This happens when education, experience, and evidence supplied at the eighth grade level starts to make sense.

Go ahead and change your ways. If you need permission, this is it:

You are hereby bestowed with BoomerPdx Permission to change your ways, with the rights and privileges to make it last.

We have Change Your Ways Passports ready for the check-out basket.

They come with one question:

Have you changed your ways so people treat you like you treat them?

Right answer: Yes, I have.

Wrong answer: Why would I do that? I treat people like shit.

Your answer?