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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the problem?  She is working a job.

Average family income in the US is $80,000 per year.

Many college grads (even from Ivys work low pay jobs.)[/quote]
She's making close to minimum wage with a college degree.   She seems lazy, maybe?  Even teachers get paid more than minimum wage.[/quote]

Do we know what her job is? I worked in a lot of low-paying jobs in my 20s even though I had a very marketable degree from a good school. (I thought I wanted to be a chef. I was wrong.) But many low paying jobs are not for the lazy, believe me. The decent-paying WFH desk job I have now? Perfect for lazy people![/quote]
I've asked this question a few times -- what is her job?  I don't think I saw the answer.

If she's frugal and doesn't care about the trappings of an UMC, then that's one thing.  But, most people do want a comfortable life, and do care about finances that can support such a life.

My DD loves the arts, and doesn't want an office job.  But, she likes her UMC lifestyle, so she knows she has to have a decent job to support herself because we have always told her that "a man is not a plan" and that she needs to be able to financially support herself.

Being a chef is a career, albeit, not a lucrative one.  I'd love a chef in the family. LOL

It's one thing if this person is getting a graduate degree and still working minimum wage type jobs; it's another if they are just working that type of job while waiting for a meal ticket, which is what OP's DS would be.[/quote]

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