Are you richer than your parents?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

You blame your parents because you didn’t do what they told you to do? Hmmmm.

[Anonymous]

I’m better off than my parents were at my age, but for a number of reasons, including student loans and poor health, I think they will leave bigger estates than me.

[Anonymous]

Your parents supported you in something you were supposedly passionate about, and they still help you, how awful.

[Anonymous]

It really. We make the same now as wha they made at our age. But their very similar house cost 1/3 of ours and they had kids earlier so not childcare and didnt have to save for college nearly as much.

[Anonymous]

Way to blame your parents for the consequences of your choices. Not only did you make your career choice but you stuck with it even after you knew it wasn’t going to get you the life that you wanted. You not only made a choice that you have now defined as a bad one but you’re too lazy to do the work to fix it. So you blame your parents.

[Anonymous]

You sound very immature and spoiled, on multiple levels. Ask your parents to pay for therapy for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: It really. We make the same now as wha they made at our age. But their very similar house cost 1/3 of ours and they had kids earlier so not childcare and didnt have to save for college nearly as much.

We adjusted for inflation, I make the same as my dad did at my age but their Cape Cod in flyover country cost around 1/10 what the low end of the same house type does here.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lawyer and I'm not better off than my parents, if that helps. They came from poor backgrounds and never went to college, but luck and a strong economy during their main earning years means they had more earning power at my age and have enjoyed huge real estate gains. Mom also has a great pension, the likes of which is no longer available.

It's really common for Gen X and younger to have less buying power and financial stability compared to the Boomers. I don't think your being a doctor or a lawyer would necessarily have changed that. But even if it would have, it's inappropriate to blame your parents for your choices.

[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.

OMG.. grow up, and take ownership of your choices. You are probably miserable because of your immaturity more than anything.

Your parents loved you enough to let you follow your "dream", and now you're on here "partly" blaming them for your inability to live the lifestyle your parents gave you?

Grow the f*up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound very immature and spoiled, on multiple levels. Ask your parents to pay for therapy for you.

If I were OP's parents I'd cut the chord and stop supporting OP, especially given that OP blames the parents, though just "partly".

OP's parents will probably leave a lot of money to OP when they die, and OP will still blame them for something like "oh, they didn't leave me all *that* much".

This is one of the most self absorbed, immature post ever.

[Anonymous]

Adjusting for inflation, we’re probably equal.

[Anonymous]

I’m wildly more successful than my parents ever were. But I choose to go to law school, so there’s that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m wildly more successful than my parents ever were. But I choose to go to law school, so there’s that.

[Anonymous]

How old is OP?