[Carling]

Check out my #25. Stories like yours make me feel great about what we both managed to accomplish. When I was a youngster interviewing, having worked “garbage” jobs gave me the utmost confidence while interviewing, and it has helped me in the 16 years since those days because I have worked at the ground level, not because I wanted to, but because I needed to in order to keep a roof over my head.

I worry about my young girls, because I'm not sure that I'll be able to say no to them if they need the help. While my parents were hard workers, they didn't have extra money to give me, if I had asked. I would have never asked, though, but that's another difference between now and then.

[PowderMonkey]

"I worry about my young girls, because I'm not sure that I'll be able to say no to them if they need the help."

Blood is thicker than water. Say "yes" to them if they need help. Strengthen them for life's journey down the road. That's our job. As long as my kids are willing to take any job to pay their fair share of expenses and keep the roof over the family's head, they can stay with the "old man" for as long as they can stand it. Which won't be too long by the way. "My house. My rules" is a great kid launcher. The bottom line is, as long as you've instilled a strong work ethic in them, they'll do just fine. My dad succeeded despite the Great Depression. I staggered out of college into the Carter administration, and my kids will have to deal with Obama's. One way or another, strength of character will win the day, God willing.

[RipSawyer]

“I would have never asked, though, but that’s another difference between now and then.”
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That is the big difference, I hated to ask anyone for anything, ESPECIALLY my parents! Young people now in all too many cases seem to think that their parents should be supporting them at an age when people used to be supporting their parents.