Anonymous wrote:Yep. My mom is Korean, and she knows all about how much I make, what I'm invested in, and my net worth. We're just like that...
…which your mom then tells all the moms in her networks (family, neighborhood, church, alumnae groups, etc.) and then our moms tell us, lol. Especially if you give your mom an allowance, buy her a car, etc.
I told my mom my first salary out of college. She told another mom in a fit of pique when the mom questioned how I would survive in NYC on a teller’s salary. (“She’s working for an investment bank, not a retail bank, and making $X….she’ll be fine.”) That was the last time she knew what I made.