When I was young I always thought I was going to be high class. I grew up upper middle class and always thought I could do better than my dad. He always told me I was smarter than he was and he’s computer programmer. Now I’m lowest of the low. Here’s looking up to you Dad.
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Yeah I look up to my dad. He was the first member of his entire family to go to university. He achieved way more than me with far fewer opportunities.
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My dad wasn’t perfect, but he was adequate, and never abused us so I should be thankful for that at least. But I always thought I’d make more of myself than him. Hopefully it’s not too late.
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Its never to late as long as you are alive.
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Yeah good point @unknown. I think I could be middle class at best if I work 60 hour weeks with a job I liked.
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i think my families problem growing up was we had very little money, maybe the depravity led to mental illness lol or added to the whole scene idk
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our family is a little half and half. my older brother and older sister have surpassed my parents wealth but me and my other sister are worse off than our parents.
we were middle class growing up, mom was a hs math teacher, dad was a union mechanic before he was promoted to a maintenance supervisor.
personally im looking at 20 years in food service in my future.
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Well, at least your dad was positive and encouraging. Mine wasn’t. We were middle class. I always thought I’d be a multi-millionaire by 30. I guess I got what I deserved. I graduated hs during the great recession.
I’m below poverty. It’s been like that for 7 years. Nothing is going to change for me. I need to get better.
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Class and wealth are not things that have ever concerned me. I grew up poor and am poor now. As long as I have my needs satisfied I’m happy. I’ve never understood my fellow human beings lust and need for power and money. I just want to take over the world to make it a better place for all. The one thing that me and most human beings have in common is the desire for prestige. With that said, I just want enough prestige to make my family proud. I don’t have a desire to be famous or anything like that. I’m not all benevolent though. I want to take over to have my ideas transform the world.
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The class doesn’t really bother me. It’s just my reality now. Good point @Tyme
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I’m not bent on conquering the world or anything… I’d settle for a family of my own if I was ready for it, and call it a success story.
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I’m not interested in conquering the world or prestige or forcing my ideas on others. One man’s heaven is another man’s hell. I just want to be rich. As it stands right now, I’m in a poverty trap. I’m worried about my safety too.
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I’m very middle, middle class. I was so growing up too. My mother and father were superior to me though. My mother was a supervisor in social work for the state of Nebraska when she retired. My father was a lifer in the U.S. Army, he was in the elite forces, and he retired from the army as a high level commissioned warrant officer III. Myself I was kicked out of my chosen profession of nursing, and I left the U.S. Air Force before they could kick me out.
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My reality is I’ve never been able to read and comprehend the newspaper. That should be a big indicator I wasn’t meant for much.
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You mean you’re not down with a democratic quasi-communist theocratic utopia.
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What???1212121212121212
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I’m horrible with crosswords. I never mastered Spanish. The newspaper is alright. It’s outdated now. Just read the economist or something!
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The brain is highly plastic meaning it can change. You can learn anything you want to man.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Are you from Europe by the way?
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Don’t worry it’s as complicated as it sounds. I’ve wrote pages upon pages of my ideal forms of government, religion and economics. Mysteriously the same night I got ill I was locked out of my computer and lost all my work.
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