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[quote=Anonymous]I honestly think a lot of us were raised this way ourselves and so we just adopted this lifestyle without really considering it very much. I was the kind of striver who ended up with a job that felt prestigious in my thirties and forties and having grown up lower middle class I enjoyed the bit of respect that job bought me as an adult. I do remember when my kids were a little talking to the other parents, and it was all about who was going to go to which kind of tutoring and I remember saying how none of this was fun and being surprised because I guess I thought having children was going to be fun, at some point, I was able to step away a little bit and get some perspective, realizing for example, that I really hate soccer and I didn’t want to spend most of the rest of my children’s church childhood I at a soccer field. My kids are grown now, and I really wish that I had had the guts to make a much bigger break up with his driver lifestyle and that I had done so earlier. However, economic insecurity is a big part of the striver lifestyle. It’s not that everybody wants their kid to make $1 million by founding. The next great start up as much as it is the fact that it would be very easy to fall out of the middle class at this point and it wouldn’t take too many mistakes to do so.[/quote]

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