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re: 1%’ers, is the rest of your family doing as well as you?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:24 pm to Kujo
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:24 pm to Kujo
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Between my parent’s children all just have undergrad degrees (business, psychology, theater arts), 2 make well into six-figures, and 1 is an unemployed former Bud-tender living at home at 34.
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Current success rate 1/3
Your math doesn't compute. I take it you are the unemployed living at home child?
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:31 pm to Steadyhands
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Current success rate 1/3 Your math doesn't compute. I take it you are the unemployed living at home child?
Thanks for catching the freudian slip.
Psychology major is the unemployed, the Theater Arts major lucked up in getting hired to his best friend’s father (CEO) and was gifted an analyst position. (100% remote, $125k) 2 years out of college when he was unemployed.
He made horrible career planning choices that should have had him living at home, so as a Trump lawyer would state “it’s a qualified” one.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:32 pm to Kujo
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Where does the nurture part come in to “my decisions”? I only mean it as nurture is most often used in an “it ain’t my fault” type narrative to say that people aren’t born bad
Navigating childhood with alcoholics, mentally ill without knowing that’s what was going on (normalcy to me). I was already making poor choices without even knowing what a poor choice was. Yes, MY 10 year old anxiety filled self thinking and decision making. Does a fish know it’s wet?
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:40 pm to Kujo
my wifes family is a herd of black sheep. Her brother currently works at a CVS, she has cousins all from the same family..one drives for fedex, the other repairs HVAC and the other is unemployed and her, her bf and child still live at home. I actually wonder sometimes how my wife ended up being so driven. Though to be fair her dad was very driven and placed high importance on education....it just only got through to her.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:41 pm to scott8811
I'm probably middle of the pack out of all my siblings and 1st cousins. Some real overachievers in this family.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:44 pm to TJack
True, and this isn’t meant to dump on you.
I didn’t paint the whole picture in the OP, it’s not all utopian white picket fences.
I was thinking of London Breed, highest paid mayor in the US, $350k+ has a drug addict younger sister, and a murderer felon of an older brother.
Same home, same neighborhood, same family, we must assume the same “nurturing”….what makes her different?
What made you specifically impacted than your other siblings?
Again, not meant as an attack, but trying to better understand perspective
I didn’t paint the whole picture in the OP, it’s not all utopian white picket fences.
I was thinking of London Breed, highest paid mayor in the US, $350k+ has a drug addict younger sister, and a murderer felon of an older brother.
Same home, same neighborhood, same family, we must assume the same “nurturing”….what makes her different?
What made you specifically impacted than your other siblings?
Again, not meant as an attack, but trying to better understand perspective
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:54 pm to Kujo
quote:Negative, not that I'm aware of.
Did any have children before marriage, felony arrest, any of the various drug/vice addictions?
I've been fortunate.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:56 pm to Kujo
I don't know because I don't associate myself with the poor.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:59 pm to Kujo
quote:Timing of negative events and age we went through them. My 5 year young sib lived a different life IMO. I rolled through most of the crap in puberty. I think she learned a lot from my mistakes too. Our household financial situation got better over time but I was already working too so she had less strain. I took things emotionally harder too. She was more amiable.
What made you specifically impacted than your other siblings?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 1:06 pm to Kujo
My mom and dad had three kids. All of us are professionals - a teacher, engineer and computer programmer. Considering how dysfunctional my parents were, that is shockingly good. All of us, children of divorce, are married to our first and only. I’ve never heard a whisper of an affair from either of my brothers’ marriages, and of course my wife is faithful, as the opposite would be like killing the goose that laid the golden egg. 
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:33 pm to Penrod
My dad’s family. 4/4. Three business owners and a General in the army.
2/2 for me and sibling. Both business owners.
5 different fields and types of businesses all doing very well.
2/2 for me and sibling. Both business owners.
5 different fields and types of businesses all doing very well.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:34 pm to Kujo
Why was the stay at home mom unsuccessful? That’s a messed up take. She contributed to raising her family you twat
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:37 pm to Kujo
No. I have a couple of cousins ahead of me, but I'm #1 in my extended family outside them.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:56 pm to Kujo
There's a black sheep / victim in every family. Success is typically a combination of hard work, persistence and luck. The perineal victims only see the luck and assume they never have any unless it's bad.
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