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I am so sick of people...

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I worked for my parents in my high school years - that paid for the used car they bought me. My dad views college as part of a parent's financial responsibility to a child, so I went to community college instead of high school, and then took feverish unit-loads in university (up to 24 units a quarter) to graduate in two years. If he was going to pay for it, I wanted to make it as cheap as possible. I don't consider myself a spoiled kid for not holding a job in college - I consider college to have been my full time job, and believe me, it WAS full time for me. I'm leaving my college town without even really having enough acquaintances close enough to say goodbye to.

Just a side note in addition: my parents have had a rough time of it with the economy going down and their business collapsing. Whatever they gave me as a child, and they gave what they could, which at times was quite generous, I'll return as they age and become dependents as I once was. I've seen it happen with my grandparents, and I'm resolved to give and do much more for my parents, planning financially for their gradual decline.
 
Although I've held many jobs since the summer before my freshman year, my parents always focused more on me getting good grades and studying than working. Any job I held was just for disposable income (i.e. going out with friends, car stereo junk, computer junk)- my parents bought me my car (well actually they were both cars that they already owned (one got wrecked, somebody else's fault), they got themselves new ones) and paid for my insurance. However when I had a wreck I paid for it (we settled outside of insurance). But since I concentrated on school, I was able to get a full-ride scholarship to college. So I guess that was a good investment, eh? Now after my freshman year, I have no credit card debt, and money in the bank, and a steady summer job (have to concentrate on my grades during the year to keep my scholarship).

To some of you this would probably be considered spoiled, and to some, very spoiled..I'll freely admit that I didn't have it as hard as many others. But its not like I've never earned anything on my own, either in jobs or in school.
 
It seems to me that quite a few people here are average working stiffs. Not poor, not rich, but getting by. They can afford food, a house, a car that sometimes needs annoying $700 repairs, stuff like that. Average people.

The problem is when people who have much more than them, and don't realize how lucky they are, come in and complain about things like "I hate my 2 year old car" or "My parents won't let me buy this for $xxxx". It's similar to complaining about the lack of a good pinot noir at your last dinner to people who eat out of garbage cans.

I think it's a little bit jealously, but mostly a lack of repsect for what you have. Not everyone is like this, of course. There are, however, enough winey, spoiled brats that it's "pissing off the populace" so to speak.

There are also people who were raised in a society where you get a job and move out at 18. In that society, it makes you a leech to be 22 and living on mommy and daddy's platinum card without a job, college or not.

I fit both descriptions.
 
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