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I was not counting my paper route prior to 18!
That damn route bought me my first car (paid cash), a year of insurance and all the candy bars I could hold.
hah.
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Of course you did. No one is surprised. But thanks for the insight.
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I was going to say you should have gotten a paper route but your way sounds like more fun.
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Fubs I got some ice cream for you๐
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My first job where I paid taxes was $3.35 hr. I remember my first raise was a quarter. I was stoked.
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When you spend half your time gaming and get crappy grades in high school, hard to get into a good college. Even those who go to college, they have stupid majors that do not prepare them for any real job.
So live in parent's house and never grow up.....
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Or live in separate house from parents up the street ๐
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I could never live under the same roof as my mother. She already drives me bonkers some days lol
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lol
let's not talk about how plenty of people can't afford an education, can't afford to take time off work to get an education, don't qualify for financial aid to pursue an education or a trade school, or that even if all the chips fall into the right places and they manage to pull all of that off, can even get a job in their chosen field at a living wage once they do have that AA or BA.
But yeah, fuck those lazy millennials for living at home, whose parents can't afford their rent and the millennials still have to chip in for that too.
How many of y'all bitching had college funds, or didn't have to work a full time job at the same time you went to school? How many of your bills did you actually pay while you were in college? Did you go out and get that job yourself or did you have someone put in a good word for you?
Like it or not, the job market is very different right now, and the price of education has gone way up from what it was 30 years ago, making it a pipe dream for many millennials.
But yeah just tell 'em they're being lazy, tell them to pull up their boot straps and go get a 4th part time job. That'll fix the problem.
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I didn't have a choice, it was "have a good time, make sure you graduate HS and then you are going to work, hard, for me, son"
I wish I had the sense to work my ass off and go to school but that sure was not a priority then.
Now, I pay for undergrad and have a job during that, you pay for grad school. If you need to live under my roof, you are welcome but better choose a school that you can commute to. Not perfect but it's worked so far.
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I won the fucking lottery, sit on my ass and jack off all day.
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Back in your day you could buy a house on one income.
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I use bills to clean myself up...can I pay you with dirty money??
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^ living in a house that their parents bought just get them the fuck outta their house.
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so FUBAR, between all that work and studying how did you find time to get ice cream?
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Im working on that shit, old fuckers wont die.....got damn hospital keeps reviving them no matter how many times I tell them to pull the plug.
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Life isn't fair, they should have worked harder to get better grades when others were worrying about paying their bills.
Not everyone is meant to be an academic. We need tradesmen too. But even aside from good grades, it's a bit difficult to not worry about paying the bills when you're homeless if you don't. For some people it isn't feasible to still make passing grades while working 70-80hrs a week and taking a day off once every 6 months or so. Ask me how I know this lol. Maybe for some people that works, but it didn't work for me, I left school so that I could work more. I'm not blaming anyone else, it is what it is and I made my choice to not pursue student loan debt. But don't tell me I was being lazy lol. If that's being lazy, I'd like to know what hustling is.
There are plenty of families where everyone is pitching in toward rent/utilities and still barely making it. Housing prices are insane right now in SoCal. And not everyone can afford a car to commute from the IE or other various desert hellholes.
Get a job, doesn't matter what it is, then work with your employer to get time off to go to school,
Right
And you don't get paid for that time off, either. Small detail, I know. But in my experience, entry level jobs give you hours and you take them. If you can't work during a certain time period, those hours are given to someone else. You MIGHT be able to make them up later or on another day or during another shift.
The education reimbursement programs I've run into haven't been all that great. The most recent one I considered taking advantage of would reimburse you the fees for one class per semester, up to $1,000, so long as the class pertained to a certain major (in that case, business management). Better than nothing, sure.
Or you can drive uber or do the gig economy. If you have a newer car in good shape. And earn less than minimum wage.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not gonna be all that quick to call millennials lazy. It's hard out there right now.
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LOL like millennials aren't also keeping more than one job and eating ramen, even if they do qualify for benefits? Pfffff.
Problem is, they do all those things and still can't necessarily afford to go to school. And even if they do go to school and get a degree in, oh, I don't know, business systems, they can't necessarily find a job in that field when they do graduate.
I like the idea of a meritocracy, but it isn't just as simple as working hard and having that hard work pay off. Sometimes you can work as hard or harder than everyone else and get a degree with good grades and that still just doesn't cut it, and you're still stuck working 2-3 part time jobs with no bennies because full time jobs don't exist anymore, and a $500 emergency would be impossible to accommodate because you can't afford to put any money back, because your budget is in a net negative every month. Because maybe you have ill family members that you have to care for, or you have a chronic illness, or because at 30 you're still having to live at home and subsidize expenses for family members who worked hard their entire lives and still don't have a savings.
But wtf do I know, I'm just a spoiled millennial that needs to quit bitching and pull up those bootstraps. Obviously I must have made poor life choices by not being born into a rich family lol
Obviously, everyone should just do what I say and the world's problems would be solved 
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I still get food stamps.
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Started working at 13 yes paying taxes and everything, while going to school full-time and co-coach of our cheerleading squad, which cost 3500 just to sign up. Bought my own car at 16 (paid for my insurance as well). Did this all through highschool, anything extra outside of my one pair of shoes and food, I had to buy. Moved out 2weeks before graduation and have not moved back in since.
As a single women with another mouth to feed and care for trust me I understand the challenges in life and unfortunately because many from our generation are products of the free love and try anything put infront of me era, most of our parents did not plan for the future (ours or theirs), we are not given the same advantage they might have been but that is no excuse just means we have to work harder and smarter!!
...ps I know theres errors..just read through/past them๐
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Sounds like some of you really had it rough. I didn't leave my parents house till I was, was, was..........shit come to think of it, I'm still here.
Nevermind, carry on.
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Can I rent a room, my parents are getting released from the hospital this evening and I dont want to be home and have to change their bed pans...
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JC til I got drafted, college on a better GI bill than guys have today, my family paid for grad school then I was able to help support other family members
and yeah, I had a paper route, worked at McDonalds and all that other shit cos it just didn't feel right asking my folks for money
but over all I have had a pretty blessed life that continues to this day because of the lovely women on this site that will spend some time with me for a reasonable amount of money
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