Thread: vaule question

ya man you should be pissed. Seems like you're getting the short end of the stick. but look at this way you will come out of it a better person.

Anyway what do you mean exactly by "problems"? Hard to understand the bigger picture without understanding those.

and why are you still home? You're 20, shouldn't you be going to UNI or learning a trade?

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

ya man you should be pissed. Seems like you're getting the short end of the stick. but look at this way you will come out of it a better person.

Anyway what do you mean exactly by "problems"? Hard to understand the bigger picture without understanding those.

and why are you still home? You're 20, shouldn't you be going to UNI or learning a trade?

yea i live at home and im 20, there are many reasons for this, one i get 600 a month from my dad til im 22 if im in school and my mom needs thats money to live where we are, we are trying to sell the house but its still on the market, once we move out i will get an apartment

problems as in every year til i was 16 and dropped out i missed at least 60 day a year in school, i havent always done what was needed to be done, and dropped out when i was 16, the ironic thing now tho is, since then i got my GED and am going to community college, in a test today tho i got a 92 when the class average was 72 and there were 80 students..w

[edit: This thread should really be moved to help]

Well, I don't think you should be pissed. Reason being, you didn't put forth the effort to earn it. That's why you are making up for it by working for it now. You are realizing that value of effort and hard work and how it pays off for you.

If you had worked harder during your schooling you would've probably received the car then. Although, it's probably good to look at it this way; you are learning valuable life lessons that your other siblings will take for granted and not really think twice about regarding money and finances. My sister has always had everything handed to her on a silver platter being the younger one. A free car at 16 as I bought my own at 19. She even got a scholarship to a ivy league school which cut her tuition in half. However, half of 30k a year is still a lot of money for a middle income family.

I paid my way through school while working at a bank and another retail place part-time and took night classes, because I didn't want to impose on my folks. I also bought my own car, paid my own car insurance, and cell phone. On the cut, I was saving up to move to Japan, as well. My sister has never had a stable job and is now 22. Whereas, I've been working steadily since 15. I can honestly say my sister has had more free things handed to her left and right but I'm a better person for having earned it. I know the value of working hard and it shows. There is no one that can tell me otherwise and they know it.

Just to give you another example, my mom wanted to take me and my sister to hawaii this past week but I have my own company so I can't just take off when I feel like it just to have some fun. They went without me, but who cares. I have the ability to take more vacations in my mind from having built a thicker skin to the stress. I don't need frivolous excursions paid for by other people.

It's only fun if you earned it...

Solskeye offers great advice worth listening to.

The only thing I would say is that your experience as described really is something that works to build you up as a self supporting individual. Getting pissed is a direction that will counteract that positive construction. Try not to see this as something to be pissed or jealous over.