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[Jacki O.]

you can make your daughter do yard work. believe me. my parents made me do all sorts of manual labor as a child. i was always mowing or having to clean the garage or some bullshit.

when i was 12 my parents made me get a job working in the corn fields. sometimes child labor laws can be "bent"

even after i moved out to college and would come home to visit they'd be like "we missed you. the backyard is getting really long"

[raubhimself]

I am 26 years old and my current source of income is mowing my mom's lawn every Friday for $25. Sometimes I mow her boyfriend's yard for another $25. This money is my comic books budget. Yes, I did say 26, not 13. I would love to get a fucking job but no one will give me a fucking job around here. I have a phone interview in 45 minutes but it's for a job that is 1.5 hours away in Expensive, MD.

[Tony]

I am 26 years old and my current source of income is mowing my mom's lawn every Friday for $25. Sometimes I mow her boyfriend's yard for another $25. This money is my comic books budget. Yes, I did say 26, not 13. I would love to get a fucking job but no one will give me a fucking job around here. I have a phone interview in 45 minutes but it's for a job that is 1.5 hours away in Expensive, MD.

what do (did) you do for a living?

location is meaningless. work remotely. only suckers go to an office.

[raubhimself]

I am 26 years old and my current source of income is mowing my mom's lawn every Friday for $25. Sometimes I mow her boyfriend's yard for another $25. This money is my comic books budget. Yes, I did say 26, not 13. I would love to get a fucking job but no one will give me a fucking job around here. I have a phone interview in 45 minutes but it's for a job that is 1.5 hours away in Expensive, MD.

what do (did) you do for a living?

location is meaningless. work remotely. only suckers go to an office.

.NET web app development type stuff. I don't want to do .NET again though because I never wanted to do it anyways. Working remotely is a bad idea for someone as easily distracted and lazy as me

[apstrougo]

Sounds like NYT is backing the '50s housewife/husband/2.5 kids lifestyle thing (although I admittedly did not read it all)

I think stifling the opportunity to grow and learn about the world and each other with a 'career' and kids etc is killing true maturity. I've seen plenty of people who, by all appearances, meet the NYT's 5 steps to an adult life, and not only are they miserable, but they lack emotional stability and maturity.

To generalize (cuz, why not) focusing on yourself and learning who you are and what you should do are prerequisites to either finding someone else who knows who they are and making a life with them (or, a portion of life), raising a child who knows who they are, or none of the above and challenging your own character for your own life.

So yeah, it's been said - do what makes you happy. But also, don't pretend you don't want it anymore because it gets harder all of a sudden.

[hexaclopsclopsclops]

I just got to the part of the article where they mentioned pensions and surmised that the author was living in a fairy tale.

[mancopter]

I just got to the part of the article where they mentioned pensions and surmised that the author was living in a fairy tale.

Well played.

[weener]

I'm 25 and a college grad, and I've never felt like having a full-time job that pays well and has benefits was an option for me. Owning a home? Out of the question. Where in the hell does a young person get that kind of money? Even the people I know who do have full time jobs are paying off student loans and barely making rent on their apartments.

[Tony]

I'm 25 and a college grad, and I've never felt like having a full-time job that pays well and has benefits was an option for me. Owning a home? Out of the question. Where in the hell does a young person get that kind of money? Even the people I know who do have full time jobs are paying off student loans and barely making rent on their apartments.

i bought my first house at 25, weener. they probably shouldn't have loaned me the money (it was right around when banks started to be pretty free-wheeling with loans back in 2001), but they did.

if you qualify for an FHA loan it's only 3.5% down, and you can pretty much roll everything else into the purchase price. so really, if you can scrape a few thousand dollars together then technically you're capable of buying a house. i'm not trying to downplay it, because it is a huge financial obligation, but the concept of owning a house is not only for people with tons of disposable income.

oh, and as to where a young person gets that kind of money: lots of full time jobs are inherently going to offer 401k or investment programs (my company had a 401k and discounted stock purchase plans) where you can take money out of your check automatically and invest it. although the 401k is designed for retirement, you can take a withdrawal for a home purchase, which is what i did. also, i was lucky because our company stock was going nuts (it was before 9/11) so that also made up for a fair chunk of the money. there are also lots of "first time" homebuyer credits, etc. anyway, my situation may not be common, but that's how a 25 year old kid winds up owning a brand new house. that, and having roommates.

[Katie]

Traditional adulthood is terrifying to me, to think at my age my mom was married, had a full blown career as a hair dresser and popping out me, the first of 5 kids. DEAR God. Although, at my age my dad was a virgin until he was 26. These are things I think about. And then I don't feel good




I don't know, I moved back home for a month this summer and I ended up couching hopping for the other month (I was supposed to stay for 2) I have to actually respect people who are adults AND move back home after living on thier own. I could never imagine living with my parents full time. My dad is 50 and lives at home! WHAT!

[chadk]

there is no way i could ever live with my parents again, nor would they want me to live with them, i mean i could visit them on vacation for maybe a week at tops before we would start getting on each others nerves, i love my parents but yea. no way