Upper middle class people- why don’t you want your kids to live a life of leisure?
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Anonymous
| In my medical school class, many of the kids had parents of high incomes (lawyers, doctors, engineers) end yet they embarked on an unrelenting career path with crazy hours. Same with my husbands law school class- some many children of big law partners going into big law. Why? Why would you want your kids to suffer like you did? I’d never want my kids to go through the abusive medical training- I did it so she wouldn’t need to. Not understand why a parent would want these careers for their kids. |
Anonymous
| The alternative is lazing around |
Anonymous
| Like Jen Gates? |
Anonymous
| I think most people worry that it leads to unhealthy habits. There’s also the risk the family will lose its money. |
Anonymous
| I'm lazy as hell and have found a career path that allows me to be in the top 2% (not quite top 1%) wrt to personal income. I have absolutely no problem with my kids lazing around as long as they can live comfortably. However, it's hard to do, and every couple of decades that professions/jobs where it is possible shift with the economy and technology |
Anonymous
| Op here- I plan to save a bunch for my daughter so she can have a more chill career and still be able to build wealth on her own. I hope she picks something she enjoys and can actually love life. |
Anonymous
| Well yeah, UMC kids go into finance and VC and such which is much more chill than medicine. Only immigrants and LMC go into medicine. |
Anonymous
| UMC don't have SO much wealth that the next generation can just laze around. So they become professionals too. |
Anonymous
Finance is chill? Well yeah you're an idiot. |
Anonymous
| Idle hands are the devil’s playground. |
Anonymous
I am in this camp 100%. |
Anonymous
+1. If you're in the right profession, it's not "suffering," OP. It's called working hard at something that you like to do. Sorry if you made the wrong career choice, but please don't project that onto your kids. |
Anonymous
cite? I used to work in an administrative role at a medical school, just for a year and a half, and I saw the opposite. in fact one of the big efforts when I was there was to get more income diversity because it was almost overwhelmingly kids from well-off backgrounds at our school. And I did a little research as I was contributing to some of these efforts and that seemed to be pretty consistent across medical schools. |
Anonymous
+1, but they might have enough to supplement, so if kid wants to do something in non-profit, etc., parents can assist with down payments. You read it about here on DCUM all the time! |
Anonymous
| Interesting you describe medical training as abusive. Do you think you are a martyr or something? |