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I assumed he was referring to the large recession in the early 80's. Which would be about 20 years after the 60's.

I think he's talking about the (relatively mild) early '90s recession. The core of Gen X are people born in the late 60s and early 70s -- people who would have been entering the workforce in the early '90s.

Whichever recession you're talking about, they only lasted a couple of years each (at most) so there's no way an entire generation could have graduated into one of 'em.

The NASDAQ crash of 2000 put a big damper on the employment of tech workers. If you were in this field at that time things sucked. That's when most of us ended up in graduate schools.

The comments are golden; generation Xers complaining about this guy