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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, YOU HAVE RICH PARENTS???  And you grew up with help?  Oh shoot, why didn't you say so?

Stop with the slumming, suck up to the rich 'rents, and have them pay your way.  I mean, you have  a kid, that's a trump card with the grands.  Why are you moaning and groaning on any anonymous forum?  I thought you were really poor with no safety net.  I know people like you--you actually aren't really poor.  You just think you are because you grew up with so much.  I bet your apartment's really nice, actually.  Unless you are completely estranged, I bet your parents do help you out as well.  And you should take it.  It's New Years--why aren't you hanging out with and entertaining your rich parents???  You would get better ROI doing that than surfing the 'nets and posting on DCUM, I guarantee it.

Sheesh.

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Yes I could have an easy life living off of my parents  :roll: but i did not want to and that is why I left home in college so I can make it on my own. Yes my parents did help me, especially when I was going through a divorce and did not have a job, they sent me money for a year to help with the expenses and I am forever grateful, but I also understand that they paid for my education so I could be an independent person, not live off of them for life. i am struggling but i am not homeless, i will try to make it on my own for as long as i can before i go and beg money to my parents. They worked for everything they had and expect me to do the same. I always tell them I don't need help, they send money to my child sometimes but that's about it. [/quote]

Oh, for pete's sakes, shelve the pride.  I'm sure you are doing great anyways.  You are making ends meet, and if you go through a rough patch, your parents help out.  That's your lot in life, and there's nothing wrong with it.  Subconsciously, you are probably "only" making $70,000 because you don't want the $250,000 job!  I mean, the hours suck!  Why would you put yourself through such pain if you don't have to?  And you don't have to.  People from nothing who became wealthy...well, they came from "nothing."  That's sort of key, you know.

Just take the damn money.  And it's not your destiny to become independently wealthy, people from your background with your life choices rarely become wealthy.  You can't sniff out sources for, and drains of, money, clearly.  So just be comfortable and hope that your child will have the gene.  You're like Mary Crawley of Downton, despite every aspiration, you are not going to be Countess of Grantham.  It's going to skip you, okay?  On the other hand, people with your kids' background often do hit it rich--history of wealth in the family, good education, but penny-pinching childhood.  Try to light the fire in your kid's belly, because it's too late for you.

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If i were offered the $250k job, you bet I will take it  :P as long as i don't have to work more than 40-45h a week I am good. Also, you are not holding the keys to my destiny or my child's THANK GOD. You do not know whether I will become wealthy or not, I do not know either, I actually do not want to be wealthy, just comfortable. I want to be able to afford all of my needs and have money away for my wants, then I will be comfy ![/quote]

OP, I think with this last comment you just hinted at part of the problem -- why you're not making much in salary. You say you'd take a $250k job if you didn't have to work more than 40 or 45 hours a week. Those jobs barely exist!! How much are you working now? If you're only making $35k at your job -- you wrote that you made $70k but half came from other sources -- and you're a 30-year-old working in Finance in Tyson's...something isn't adding up. How is your work performance? What are your reviews like? Are you a 9 to 5er? If so, you might want to get a stable government job with good benefits or move someplace close, but cheaper, like Baltimore or Richmond. [/quote]

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