I’d move back in with my parents...lol
Grow up
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Living in a virtual world!Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:15 am The youth of today live their lives in their minds not in life. The facade of social media's smoke and mirrors has really done that generation in...
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Ya know, I left he army, after 8 years of active duty, when my wife and son died. I was a suddenly a single father with no job and no income. My daughter and I moved in with my parents. I lived with them for a number of years but, while living there I worked three jobs, including having gone back into the service in the NG, and went to college more than full time. I wrapped up a "4 year" degree in about 2.5 years. To be honest though, I already had my first year credits under my belt while in the army, I went EVERY semester, including summer and the short, "holiday semester," and I took on a much heavier than "recommended" course load. I also volunteered on the local rescue squad, rising to be a crew leader and assistant chief of operations.
I did not, however, sit around my parents house, playing video games, playing with toys (except when playing with my daughter and HER toys) nor loafing off. I finished school and took a state job, which was low paying and I hate, with long term prospects. As soon as I could, I moved out.
I kept working that lousy job and remarried. Now my wife and I earn six figures between us, I own my own place, all of our vehicles are new and paid for, we have a boat and a camper. My biggest problem currently is what sonar/gps to put on my boat.
I will never understand these kids today, who think they have some "right" to not work and live off of their parents. Many of my daughters friends have taken this route. They are all into "anime" and dressing themselves up in "furry" costumes while complaining about how "it's not fair that (they) don't have what other people have!"
I don't have the answers, just noting what I have experienced/ seen.
I did not, however, sit around my parents house, playing video games, playing with toys (except when playing with my daughter and HER toys) nor loafing off. I finished school and took a state job, which was low paying and I hate, with long term prospects. As soon as I could, I moved out.
I kept working that lousy job and remarried. Now my wife and I earn six figures between us, I own my own place, all of our vehicles are new and paid for, we have a boat and a camper. My biggest problem currently is what sonar/gps to put on my boat.
I will never understand these kids today, who think they have some "right" to not work and live off of their parents. Many of my daughters friends have taken this route. They are all into "anime" and dressing themselves up in "furry" costumes while complaining about how "it's not fair that (they) don't have what other people have!"
I don't have the answers, just noting what I have experienced/ seen.
I was talking to a 24-year-old bartender who told me she has a bachelors degree in mass communications. "How's that working out for you?" I asked. I won't bore you with the answer which was a long conversation about starting a clothing line.
Then, I asked if, since she's 24 and out of college, she is off her parents' health insurance. "Yes," she said. "I think it's so unfair."
Me: "Unfair for whom?"
She: "Now I don't have health insurance."
Me: "If it's that important to you, you should buy some."
Then I went back to reading the Wall Street Journal until I thought of something else to ask her. True story.
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I asked her who was her favorite Dr. Dudley on The Munsters: Paul Lynde or Dom DeLuise? She had no idea what I was talking about so I can't add another vote to that off-topic poll by proxy. ----I made this part up.
Then, I asked if, since she's 24 and out of college, she is off her parents' health insurance. "Yes," she said. "I think it's so unfair."
Me: "Unfair for whom?"
She: "Now I don't have health insurance."
Me: "If it's that important to you, you should buy some."
Then I went back to reading the Wall Street Journal until I thought of something else to ask her. True story.
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I asked her who was her favorite Dr. Dudley on The Munsters: Paul Lynde or Dom DeLuise? She had no idea what I was talking about so I can't add another vote to that off-topic poll by proxy. ----I made this part up.
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Citizen B wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:48 pm I was talking to a 24-year-old bartender who told me she has a bachelors degree in mass communications. "How's that working out for you?" I asked. I won't bore you with the answer which was a long conversation about starting a clothing line.
Then, I asked if, since she's 24 and out of college, she is off her parents' health insurance. "Yes," she said. "I think it's so unfair."
Me: "Unfair for whom?"
She: "Now I don't have health insurance."
Me: "If it's that important to you, you should buy some."
Then I went back to reading the Wall Street Journal until I thought of something else to ask her. True story.
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I asked her who was her favorite Dr. Dudley on The Munsters: Paul Lynde or Dom DeLuise? She had no idea what I was talking about so I can't add another vote to that off-topic poll by proxy. ----I made this part up.
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Amen.Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:15 am The youth of today live their lives in their minds not in life. The facade of social media's smoke and mirrors has really done that generation in...
I wonder if "blame Wildcat" will become a theme here? - Fr_Tom
My daughter is living proof of this remark. She graduated HS with high honors, membership in all sorts of "honor societies" and on "lists." Colleges were falling all over themselves to offer her FULL scholarships and this when I was killing myself trying to pay off my college degree. She ignored the offers, told me she was "taking" with the colleges but did not bother to even respond to them. I freaked out when one of the most prestigious womens colleges on the east coast called wanting to know if she had received their offer of a full ride scholarship, tuition, books, room and board. The woman I spoke to said, "we have had people turn us down for other schools but it is rare to not even get a response."Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:15 am The youth of today live their lives in their minds not in life. The facade of social media's smoke and mirrors has really done that generation in...
I had a SERIOUS "come to Jesus" talk with her where she told me that she "planned to do nothing, just stay home and play video games." I told her "no" and gave her 6 months to go to college, get a job or join the military. She threw a fit because my brother, and his wife, had allowed their boys to stay home, for years, doing nothing. I told her, "and that is the difference between my brother and me."
She wasn't able to go to college, none of them would take her after she ignored their initial offers. Then she found that she couldn't get any job above minimum wage, which she just "didn't want to settle for." So, 6 months later, she went in the coast guard.
Three years later she was out with a 100% disability rating and a "medical retirement."
Now she has an apartment where she sits and plays video games all day, bringing in more money than I make after 20 years in a state job. I have to walk with crutches, due to a service injury, and have a 50% disability rating, BTW.
Used to work in VA disability claim processing. Amazing how different things are now. Prior to 2000, veterans often had to fight with the VA for decades to obtain a disability rating - claims usually being denied before starting the long appeal process.CoreyR wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 7:45 am Three years later she was out with a 100% disability rating and a "medical retirement."
Now she has an apartment where she sits and plays video games all day, bringing in more money than I make after 20 years in a state job. I have to walk with crutches, due to a service injury, and have a 50% disability rating, BTW.
Many WWII veterans, even if they knew about VA disability, refused to file claims as long as they were physically able to hold down a job. For the WWII veterans it just wasn't done. Many of them, like my grandad (lone survivor of his rifle team) went to their graves with longstanding service connected injuries and illnesses without claiming anything.
Many Vietnam Era veterans did file claims in the 70s only to be denied until after the VCAA was passed, and the Niehmer Case. Remember having to skip trace Vietnam veterans and their survivors to let them know that enormous retroactive payments had been awarded to them. Cold calling a vet to let him know that the VA had a $300K check waiting for them was always interesting.
Nowadays service members must be advised of their rights regarding VA disability claims prior to their exit from service, and the process of filing disability claims for recently discharged veterans is super streamlined. That is a good thing for those who have been injured or sickened by service (all too common), but any time there is serious money involved there will always be scammers.
The current state of disability law is something of an over correction, which was necessary because a lot of veterans were completely screwed by the VA for decades and decades.
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Lostdog5152 wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 10:34 pmDon't know about intense fire sex Ruff, but fire sex in tents could be interesting. Camping without the kids. Bring along a Malibu Barbie, a G.I. Joe and some comic books just in case things get dull. A copy of the Kama Sutra and a Dr. Joyce Brothers book in case you have forgotten anything while raising the kiddies.Ruffinogold wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 10:12 pmI thought parents wanted the kids the hell out so they could have intense fire sex again , lolWildcat wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 6:50 pm “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
1 Corinthians 13:11
Except my comic books.
...I've known and now know plenty of real men who played with trains, built model airplanes or puzzles, collected NASCAR memorabilia or toy farm implements and yes enjoyed comic books. Heck, I even knew a preacher, a real fire and brimstone guy, who had a thing for everything James Bond. The problem is when these escapes from the often miserable, workaday existence that life has a habit of dishing out, become all consuming. When this happens, nothing else matters and everything falls to the wayside and there's nothing left to do but move back home and complain about your aging mother's cooking.
All that said, there was a time when families did continue to live together as one generation gave way to another. Then it was decided that government and institutions should care for our elders and that young adults should should move out so mom and dad could turn their bedrooms into sewing rooms and man caves. But I digress...
Yes , comics . Men dig them
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