Are you richer than your parents?

[Anonymous]

Where do you work? If you’re super ambitious, designers can make plenty of money. If you’re not, then enjoy your lower stress lifestyle and find a gig at a place you really like. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to support yourself as a designer — I mean as long as you’re not visually illiterate and you can show up to work on time sober.
-Designer

[Anonymous]

I am a hell of a lot richer than my parents. I am middle class.

[Anonymous]

I am much better off than my parents. My father was a school teacher. My mother stayed home until they divorced, when she started working, never making more than $11 an hour.
My siblings and I all have more education and earn more than our parents.

[Anonymous]

I am richer than my parents but they’ve done very well too. I am not a lawyer or a doctor and am certainly not a failure compared to my parents or 99% of the country. OP you need to own your choices. Sound like you had every opportunity and chose the path you chose.

[Anonymous]

I blame your parents, too, OP.. I blame them for not making you stand on your own two feet.

If they no longer supported you, what would you do? Live in a tiny apartment feeling sorry for yourself? Or would you hussle and try to figure out what you could do to make more money? You have a background in graphic design. Why don't you go to night school and get some certificate or something in UX/UI design or something similar?

I have no doubt that if your parents forced you to go to law school or medical school, you'd be on here complaining that you hate your job and partly blame your parents for your miserable life, and how you wished you could work in graphic design.

For the record, I am 10x richer than my parents, who were uneducated blue color workers. I was laid off in my first job so I had to figure out what I was going to do because I sure as heck didn't have rich parents to fall back on. I hussled and went back to school (I already had a degree) to study computer science. I got into IT, and started making six figures within two years. My parents barely had about $100K saved when they retired. I'm a female, and no, I *never* thought I would rely on a husband for my financial security. I never thought I'd get married so I knew I had to rely on myself.

I think the best thing your parents could do for you is to cut the chord and let you figure it out. Stop blaming other people for your problems, and figure it out. Your parents could even pay for your night school FFS, something most of us didn't have.

[Anonymous]

My parents were engineers and forced me to become an engineer, and I became an engineer. I hated it and changed careers, but I appreciate the education I got as an engineer - it has made me good at what I do now. I am therefore thankful to my parents for forcing me to learn engineering. I am doing *MUCH* better than my parents.

I'm not going to let my kids chase their idiotic dreams. They are going to learn something with a predictable and abundant financial future.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are insufferable.

Had your parents "forced you" into law or medical school you'd be on here whining about how they forced you into the grind while your passion is graphic design.

Please get over yourself and grow up.

[Anonymous]

Better off than my parents, but not better off than my ILs.

[Anonymous]

About the same

[Anonymous]

Yes, we make significantly more than my parents and my ILs. My parents, who were solid middle class, had a lot more free time.

[Anonymous]

It depends what you mean by rich.

In Europe, my parents have generous and guaranteed pensions and low-cost healthcare. Before their retirement, they had protected jobs which brought them regular income. My private school education was paid for by my father's workplace and university was free.

This is a kind of security and peace of mind DH and I will never have. We have more in assets, but against that we have to balance much greater risk: no pensions, expensive healthcare, college tuition.

So... that comparison can get complicated, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a failure because I'm not as rich as my parents. Anyone here feeling the same?
My parents are both retired doctors and are what you would consider UMC or rich.
I cannot afford the same lifestyle I had growing up.
I partly blame my parents for this. They wanted me to go to medical school or law school but I didn't want it.
I was interested in graphic design and that's what I wanted to do. My parents were initially opposed but they decided to
support me in my choice. Now I wish they had forced me into law or medical school. I envy my friends who went to law school.
My job as a graphic designer doesn't pay enough and I couldn't afford living in this area without help from my parents.
I feel like a failure.

Do you hear yourself??????????

That's right, blame anybody else but yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a failure because I'm not as rich as my parents. Anyone here feeling the same?
My parents are both retired doctors and are what you would consider UMC or rich.
I cannot afford the same lifestyle I had growing up.
I partly blame my parents for this. They wanted me to go to medical school or law school but I didn't want it.
I was interested in graphic design and that's what I wanted to do. My parents were initially opposed but they decided to
support me in my choice. Now I wish they had forced me into law or medical school. I envy my friends who went to law school.
My job as a graphic designer doesn't pay enough and I couldn't afford living in this area without help from my parents.
I feel like a failure.

You are stupid, idiotic sob and yes, much dumber than your folks

[Anonymous]

OP is clearly trolling and you guys are falling all over yourselves hating

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It depends what you mean by rich.

In Europe, my parents have generous and guaranteed pensions and low-cost healthcare. Before their retirement, they had protected jobs which brought them regular income. My private school education was paid for by my father's workplace and university was free.

This is a kind of security and peace of mind DH and I will never have. We have more in assets, but against that we have to balance much greater risk: no pensions, expensive healthcare, college tuition.

So... that comparison can get complicated, OP.

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