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[quote=Anonymous]Most of my friends have a failure to launch sibling. My own brother, 45, has 3 graduate degrees (all funded by our parents)…they have also done massage therapy courses, yoga instructor training, life coach training. They don’t want to work for the man, or take part in our capitalist system, or turn over their time to soul sucking jobs like other people do. They feel our system doesn’t value creatives like himself. When he has worked, he’ll either quit the second his month-long vacay to a silent retreat gets denied, or he’ll stay long enough to burn bridges. 
Nor does he help with our parents.
I assume there will be $0 left. And I try to bite my tongue. My parents have cut back on funding but it’s complicated because he has also cut them out of his life a few times. So they bend over backwards to not have that happen again.
Interestingly enough, he’s now had his longest stint of employment thanks to COVID and the ability to work remotely—he spends months at a time Airbnbing all over and has been with the same company for 9 months. So maybe this will stick.[/quote]

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