# Quote — Douglas Coupland, Generation X

> occupational slumming - taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible failure in one's true occupation. (page 113)

- Author: [Douglas Coupland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland.md)
- Book: [Generation X](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/generation-x.md)
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> the tens - the first decade of a new century. (page 163)

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> "You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied."

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