With one foot in the past and another in the future, Gen Xers can show others how to “keep calm and carry on”, says NTU lecturer and young Gen Xer Ian Yong Hoe Tan. Edition: Singapore Indonesia Asia US/UK SINGAPORE: Lately, it feels like my generation – Gen X – is utterly doomed. If you believe the headlines, our careers and finances are tanking; we are overlooked, overburdened, forgotten. “The Gen X Career Meltdown”, says The New York Times. “The Real Loser Generation,” says The Economist.