WTF Gen X?!

If you're a Gen Xer who has been told you're overqualified, too senior, or "a threat," you're not alone. Grant Langston spent 20 years working at the online dating site, eHarmony, rising from third employee to CEO. When he took on the CEO role, he was handed a company losing $2 million a month and, by his account, facing huge fines. He turned it around and sold it. Then he ran another business for five years as CEO.

So why is he now being told he's too experienced to hire?

In this inaugural episode of WTF GenX?!, Grant tells host, Alice Chan, about the moment he learned the job he was interviewing for was his to lose, but that his prospective manager would be fired for hiring someone so senior.

They also talk about:

• Why past successes don't guarantee your next job, especially for Gen X
• The "you should just start your own company" advice, and why it's a brush-off
• Getting hours of your life back after 25 years of commuting across LA
• Keeping your purpose in view 
• Why being in the C-suite can leave you with a thinner network than you'd expect
• Why community matters more than contacts
• Can you make money from your passion?

Grant is also a musician and has sold songs to TV and film and plays with his current band: Grant Langston and the Grill Masters.

Links:

Grant Langston and the Grill Masters: https://on.soundcloud.com/6ekscW4iMwiflAfDKd 

Grant’s Substack: https://substack.com/@grantlangston

Grant on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-langston-la/

Grant on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grant8la/

Join the WTF Gen X community: https://www.wtf-genx.com/#community

Website: https://www.wtf-genx.com

Daily musings (with some cringe factor) on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wtf_genx/

Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: IOEXECSXSU3FZEPE

Hosted by Alice Chan. Explicit language.

Alice Chan sits down with guest co-host, Kate Purmal, to talk about WTF is happening to Gen X. From careers ending abruptly, being tethered to big financial commitments, kids leaving home later, life expectancy increasing, the Boomer playbook just isn't working for our generation.

How do we turn WTF into What's the Future?