Take Me To Post Comment Form Yuppie
The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional") or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to a market segment whose consumers are characterized as self-reliant, financially secure ( ? ? ? THAT'S A JOKE?... RIDING ON COAT-TAILS! )
Although the term yuppies had not appeared until the early 1980s, there was discussion about young urban professionals as early as 1968.
Critics believe that the demand for "INSTANT EXECUTIVES" has led some young climbers to "CONFUSE CHANGE WITH GROWTH".
( SOOO EASY TO SPOT THESE BOYS IN RICHMOND HILL!)
One consultant comments, "Many executives in their 20s and 30s and 40'S have been so busy "JOB HOPPING" that they've "NEVER DEVELOPED THEIR SKILLS".
They're apt to suffer a sudden loss of career impetus and go into a power stall."

Joseph Epstein is sometimes credited for coining the term in 1982. However, an early printed appearance of the word is in a May 1980 Chicago magazine article by Dan Rottenberg.
In 1983, the term gained currency in United States when syndicated newspaper columnist Bob Greene published a story about a business networking group founded in 1982 by the former radical leader Jerry Rubin, formerly of the Youth International Party (whose members were called yippies); Greene said he had heard people at the networking group (which met at Studio 54 to soft classical music) joke that Rubin had "gone from being a yippie to being a yuppie".
The headline of Greene's story was From Yippie to Yuppie. The PROLIFFERATION OF THE WORD WAS AFFECTED BY THE PUBLICATION "The Yuppie Handbook" in January 1983, FOLLOWED BY SENATOR GARY HART'S 1984 CANDIDACY AS A "YUPPIE CANDIDACY" FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ( GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE "PRETTY SMILEY BOY WANNA-BE'S WE'RE DEALING WITH IN BRYAN COUNTY THESE DAYS). The term was then used to describe a political demographic group of SOCIALLY LIBERAL but FISCALLY BANKRUPT SUPPOSEDLY "conservative" voters favoring his candidacy. Newsweek magazine declared 1984 "The Year of the Yuppie", characterizing the salary range, occupations, and politics of yuppies as "demographically hazy".

BEEN DONE, DIDN'T WORK THEN, NOT GONNA WORK NOW!
GET A LIFE LITTLE JOHN!!

In a 1985 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Theressa Kersten at SRI International described a "yuppie backlash" by people who fit the demographic profile yet express resentment of the label: "You're talking about a class of people that makes payments on the BMWs!
To be a Yuppie is to be a loathsome undesirable creature". Leo Shapiro, a market researcher in Chicago, responded, "Stereotyping always winds up being derogatory. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group".

Later, the word lost its political connotations and, particularly after the 1987 stock market crash, gained the NEGATIVE socio-economic connotations it enjoys today.
By 1991, TIME proclaimed the death of the yuppie in a mock obituary.

CAREFUL FOLKS ... THEY'RE BACK!!! BEWARE!