Career Advice - Is Your Career Path Blocked?

If you are aged between 20 and 40 - also known as Generation X -. There's a big blockage is in the career path, according to Fortune magazine

magazine labels it as "Gray Ceiling" and goes on to declare that "the younger generation of workers can not get ahead because ... (baby) boomers above them will not budge."

"In today's leaner companies, executive jobs are fewer, and the boomers who are hung on them in no hurry to let go," Fortune says. In fact, one study showed that nearly half of them plan to work past 64th

, "senior managers in their 40s and 50s are paranoid about keeping their jobs, so they do everything they can to bring you down," says Generation X ad executive.

How to break the "Gray Ceiling

There are seven steps you can take to break the "Gray Ceiling ."

1 To urgently address the issue now. Moving to a new job if you work in business or industry that requires a constant infusion of up and coming managers. If you do not leave it to recognize that their career opportunities will be slow to come, at best, and not in the worst case.

2 Master your current job. Expand your knowledge and skills, so they are ready to handle bigger jobs.

3 Have a strategic plan for your career, including deadlines. Share your goals with your boss, let them know you are doing to promote the

4 Make your boss look good, and will be promoted, the opening step on your career ladder. Solving problems that have been giving him fits.

5 Make sure that the successes, recognize that they are above you can advance your career. Promote yourself as a product.

6 Expand your network of contacts within and outside the organization.

7 Push for increased accountability.

, "Gray Ceiling" is not going away any time soon. Begin to deal with it today.