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[quote=Anonymous]Parents came from wealthy families and we grew up upper middle class.  Sister and I went to good colleges and my brother decided to drop out and become a boat mechanic.   Later when he had problems with high blood pressure, he had to quit working on boats (too hot) but he went on to nursing school and was a nurse for several years.

I always thought he was a smart guy who was doing what he wanted to do and respected him for it.  In fact, my parents weren't too good at the career thing themselves (too much dabbling in different fields and relying on inherited money) and so when my brother went to diesel mechanic school and then graduated and got a job doing that, I really looked at that as an inspiration when I myself was struggling in graduate school.  And when he couldn't be a mechanic anymore, he reinvented himself and became a nurse! Really impressive.

But....I think he always regretted not finishing college when he was young and he felt that he had not lived up to his potential.  But that may have been a factor of his alcoholism that killed him at a fairly young age.  It also was a factor in two divorces and him giving up parental rights to his children (huge mistake).  So it's hard to separate that devastating impact of alcoholism on his sense of self from the fact that he didn't take a traditional upper middle class path.

But the alcoholism thing wasn't related to the class issues as far as I can tell.  We have lots of alcoholics in the family of all class backgrounds.[/quote]

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