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I love these threads. It's usually a bunch of older people who graduated in the 60s talking about those damned lazy youngsters. In reality, they didn't graduate into a world where 50% of your income gets eaten up by taxes in some form, student loans mean you owe 8 million dollars for four years of bloated college tuition, and employers are bringing in H1Bs from other countries who will work for much less.

Then you turn around in a couple of years and you only got a 1.5% raise for breaking your back and you're worse off than when you started.

This isn't my situation. I moved out permanently pretty much right after grad school, but my parents did help me out for a couple of years, and I felt really guilty about it. I thought I had done something wrong, lack of drive, wrong career field or something. But then I looked around and saw possibly 50% of people my age getting help from their parents at age 28 or so, and I looked at the situation. And it pissed me off a bit, especially when I come on these threads and see older people who had a completely different situation judging, judging, judging.

But don't let me interrupt your "these damned lazy kids" fun. I know we didn't have to walk 16 miles uphill both ways to school and work 16 hour days in the coal mine at age 6 like some of you.

Not me! I'm in the "damned lazy kids" group of posters but I'm not a geezer; I graduated from college in the 90s with a liberal arts degree and rented a room (in a gloomy basement in gloomy Seattle!) to support myself while I worked at entry-level jobs.

I'm a Gen Xer, I now make $35K in a professional field, working P/T, only two days a week--mostly I'm a stay-at-home mom whose children WILL move out when they are 17.

I know we didn't have to walk 16 miles uphill both ways to school and work 16 hour days in the coal mine at age 6 like some of you.

That's because most of us paved the way and either invented, created or built a better world so you wouldn't have to sonny. And as for your snotty attitude, thanks for proving our point.

"And it pissed me off a bit, especially when I come on these threads and see older people who had a completely different situation judging, judging, judging. But don't let me interrupt your "these damned lazy kids" fun."

So why do you come to "these threads" if that is what you believe? If you did the best you could with what you had (which it sounds like you did), then you have nothing to be angry at.

This thread is directed at those who ARE lazy, spoiled, stupid, or all the above. Those kind of people exist in Every generation, it's just that the sob story that got posted, would never have been put out there so as to some how raise some sympathy for the "poor souls."

Sincerely

It's usually a bunch of older people who graduated in the 60s talking about those damned lazy youngsters. In reality, they didn't graduate into a world where 50% of your income gets eaten up by taxes in some form, student loans mean you owe 8 million dollars for four years of bloated college tuition, and employers are bringing in H1Bs from other countries who will work for much less.

It takes a while before 50% of your income is being eaten by taxes. The average college graduate doesn't make nearly that much money. My son will graduate with about $23,000 in outstanding student loans in July. That was accrued on top of the GI bill after service in Iraq/Kuwait. He still has 18 months left with the USMC. His current goal is to full pay that off in the next year and start building enough savings to cover law school. He wants to wait until his obligation to the USMC is complete so they don't hamper his choices of law school.