- Jan 2, 2006
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My cousin's 28 and the groom is 30. Both are absolutely beautiful people (both physically and mentally) and had been dating for 4 years. They are absolutely the right people for each other. Both embody the essence of their parents' hopes and dreams.
My cousin used to work at Agilent in IT. She graduated at the top of her class in college. She now does real estate, buying homes and fixing them up and reselling them.
The husband worked for Intel designing processors for the server market. He now works somewhere else designing hardware for the server market.
They live in California in a 1.4 MILLION dollar house literally a stone's throw away from the Stanford campus. They eat out five days out of the week and are thinking about buying a BMW X3.
They've traveled to literally every continent except Antarctica. They have a web gallery and there are all these pictures of them in China, in Taiwan, in South America, in Japan, etc. The bachelor party was in Spain and they got their engagement photos done by some famous photographer in Taiwan, who did an absolutely masterful job for $4,000. They paid for the entire wedding themselves ($50,000), which took place at a luxurious Ritz Carlton/golf course at Half Moon Bay overlooking the ocean. There were two photographers, two videographers, and a 5 course gourmet meal.
During the dinner they showed a slideshow of their pictures on their $2K 30" Apple monitor and a slideshow on a projector. One of the pictures showed the husband with the job offers he got straight out of college. The stack was about a foot and a half thick.
I love my cousin so much. She was like a sister to me when I was young and always took care of me. But it's just so hard to ignore their sheer level of success. These are people who are absolutely set for life, and they aren't even past 30. I'd be lucky to get one job offer out of college and to have even a quarter of their financial success by the time I'm 30. Not to mention I feel that there is no chance in hell I will have found anyone who loves me so much at that age, nor will I have visited nearly the number of places they've been.
The icing on the cake is that my parents are just outright envious, and the first thing they did was ask "why can't you be more like your cousin?"
*sigh*
Now I'm back home in bumblefuck Ohio preparing to hand my craptastic resume out to employers who probably won't even give me a second look at the career fair on Wednesday. *cries*
My cousin used to work at Agilent in IT. She graduated at the top of her class in college. She now does real estate, buying homes and fixing them up and reselling them.
The husband worked for Intel designing processors for the server market. He now works somewhere else designing hardware for the server market.
They live in California in a 1.4 MILLION dollar house literally a stone's throw away from the Stanford campus. They eat out five days out of the week and are thinking about buying a BMW X3.
They've traveled to literally every continent except Antarctica. They have a web gallery and there are all these pictures of them in China, in Taiwan, in South America, in Japan, etc. The bachelor party was in Spain and they got their engagement photos done by some famous photographer in Taiwan, who did an absolutely masterful job for $4,000. They paid for the entire wedding themselves ($50,000), which took place at a luxurious Ritz Carlton/golf course at Half Moon Bay overlooking the ocean. There were two photographers, two videographers, and a 5 course gourmet meal.
During the dinner they showed a slideshow of their pictures on their $2K 30" Apple monitor and a slideshow on a projector. One of the pictures showed the husband with the job offers he got straight out of college. The stack was about a foot and a half thick.
I love my cousin so much. She was like a sister to me when I was young and always took care of me. But it's just so hard to ignore their sheer level of success. These are people who are absolutely set for life, and they aren't even past 30. I'd be lucky to get one job offer out of college and to have even a quarter of their financial success by the time I'm 30. Not to mention I feel that there is no chance in hell I will have found anyone who loves me so much at that age, nor will I have visited nearly the number of places they've been.
The icing on the cake is that my parents are just outright envious, and the first thing they did was ask "why can't you be more like your cousin?"
*sigh*
Now I'm back home in bumblefuck Ohio preparing to hand my craptastic resume out to employers who probably won't even give me a second look at the career fair on Wednesday. *cries*
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