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In reply to the discussion: Are you better off economically than your parents were at this point in your life? [View all]MissB
(16,141 posts)46. My parents didn't go to college. Neither did my inlaws.
Their jobs: steel detailer/draftsman, waitress, logger and bookkeeper. DH and I both have engineering degrees and have been gainfully employed for our careers (except for me during our kids' early years, but that was by choice.)
My parents' and inlaws' middle-class lives allowed dh and I to go to college with with no or little debt. That gave us a heckuva leg up. Our own kids will graduate with no college debt. But if we'd chosen to not go to college or only made a normal middle class income, there is no way that we could provide for our kids in the same way that our parents did for us.
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Are you better off economically than your parents were at this point in your life? [View all]
Juicy_Bellows
Jun 2015
OP
Hell yes the Unions are a good thing - now to convince more people of that.
Juicy_Bellows
Jun 2015
#9
Interesting - my parents had my older brother pretty early (normal by those days) and I came
Juicy_Bellows
Jun 2015
#13
Need another category--people getting Social Security are really in a different situation
eridani
Jun 2015
#23
I'm over 40 and led a COMPLETELY different life than my parents. Comparing economics
KittyWampus
Jun 2015
#36
I make far more than my parents did, but I have far less to show for it.
Sheldon Cooper
Jun 2015
#37
Economic power much greater, but it's hard to argue with 80 acres for 12,000 dollars.
ileus
Jun 2015
#39
In many ways I am doing better than my parents at the same age... Much worse in others
Xyzse
Jun 2015
#50
I aimed a little lower than my dad and chose a more secure path. He did fine, I'm fine, no regrets.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jun 2015
#58
Worse, my father retired at 55 from a corp after putting three sons through college
aikoaiko
Jun 2015
#60