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OK.  I'll bite. I'm a gen xer in my mid-40s.  What systemic barriers did you face that i didn't? [/quote]

Multiple recessions[/quote]

Gen Xer here who graduated college in a recession and spent years underwater on a condo during the Great Recession of 2008. I also had unpaid parental leave and had to pay 100% of my student loans even though I’ve spent my career in public service. [/quote]

What recession did you graduate from college in? [/quote]

Gen-X here -- graduated during early 90's. Could not get a job. PhDs were driving cabs. Look it up[/quote]

yep! I graduated in 1990, had to work two retail jobs to pay the bills. [/quote]

For how long? That's not really a sob story. Poor little thing had to work retail after college! [/quote]

I worked three jobs, and two of them were pretty crappy bosses!  I knew from growing up in a lower income environment that saving and making money was my only way out, I watched and I learned what I did not want for my own life.  Meanwhile my friends had their hair styled professionally, nails (sculptured at the time) were always on point, clothing spectacular and they had credit card bills out the a...    It was a matter of choices, I wanted to own my own condo more than anything.  I accomplished that by my mid twenties because I worked multiple jobs even while in school.  Did it suck, yes, but so did growing up poor and hungry.  I have a good life now because I sacrificed while so many of my long time friends did not and they are paying that price now.  [/quote]

Ok ... You're only young once and you still sound envious of your friends. [/quote]

Correction, I was never envious of them, I actually felt sorry for them.  I see that I was able to join them at clubs without going for their excesses, I did not need the nails or a new outfit every time and I got the same attention.  Missed out on nothing, did everything I wanted to do and am very happy with my life choices.  I'd love to share with you the disaster some of their choices have left them, but I don't want to put their lives all over an anonymous board.  Suffice it say, I've never not been happy with my choices and have never looked in the mirror and muttered, "poor me."  Choices, we all have the freedom to make them just as you chose to insult me with your own insecurities.  Live well![/quote]

+1.  I did the same and was known as “the grind.”   As the starter marriages of work colleagues fell apart, I happily rented them the second bedroom in the condo I bought as a dump and renovated mostly by myself. I politely got rid of them when their prowl for husband #2 meant they could not go on expensive trips and pay rent.

I have moved on to friends like you with similar values and life is more rewarding.  I now own a string of condos that I rent to the failure to thrive or those with daddy jobs.

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