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Nolan92
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Growing up as a rich kid.
#23883618 - 12/01/16 04:14 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Who here grew up as a rich kid?
A minor annoyance when your entitled
(I'm not complaining just expressing)
My family is a political dynasty in one of the provinces of the Philippines, I spent my formative years in CA then the rest of my life in the Philippines.
I was pretty spoiled growing up having everything I asked for be it the latest console, cool toys and imported American clothing (FUBU), I even had my own personal care taker for a long ass time (since my mother was working 19 hours a day)
But I lived in a smaller city in the Philippines and had a hard time making friends since I only knew how to speak Filipino at 14. And most of my friends at the time were not rich like me. They were the sons of the maids, cooks, drivers and 12 yr old cigarette hawkers (think of a walking kiosk with gum papers and the shit).
I was constantly called out for being a rich kid, and people automatically assumed I was very snobby just because of my social class and how I speak.
This has led me to being ostracized and left out of quite a lot of stuff, but that did not bother me since I had Battle realms and age of mythology.
Growing up in this environment has made me a very generous person though , I have a feeling I do not deserve the money I have and that it belongs to the starving children. One day when my mother dies I'm going to sell all her companies and donate most of the proceeds to grass roots football for the less fortunate.
And now if you put me in a room with other people I would be the shabbiest person you would see. I just hate it when people compliment me they either say it because of my social status or because I'm /American. So I do everything in my best effort to be shabby and look poor.
Though all in all I'm very lucky not to go days starving, and I'm very thankful for everything that I have received.
But the thing is people see you differently if you are rich, and 9/10 would think your a snob well in the Philippines that is, I do not know if this is the case anywhere else.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92]
#23883734 - 12/01/16 06:23 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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My family has always been very well off. And I grew up around a bunch of kids who's parents were wealthy as well, so it wasn't like I was ostracized for it or anything. The money made my upbringing pretty comfortable. I never felt bad asking for something extra or something special because my parents just never had money problems. I'm going to do the same thing for my children one day.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Webster10]
#23883740 - 12/01/16 06:26 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Average family in terms of money. As a kid, my life was comfortable and I was treated for Christmas/birthday. Never spoiled though.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92] 6
#23883747 - 12/01/16 06:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I grew up in a trailer at first, then apartments, my mom was a single parent because my dad was into hookers, cocaine, and motorcycles, my mom worked her ass off at numerous jobs, so I have much respect for her.
I poverty level until my mom got remarried when I was going into 6th grade.
I didn't grow up rich at all, but have never had want for anything, that's the importance of teaching your kids to go outside to have fun, you don't need all the bullshit you see on TV if you're outside in nature.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Lucis]
#23883771 - 12/01/16 06:56 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can totally relate. I come from a family of successful business people. My childhood was extremely lofty. Gigantic house. Trips on weekends. Winnebagos, Harleys, Snowmobiles, new consoles. Legos. Everything.
I was sent to private high school. Hated it. But it had a football field, an arena, an Olympic size pool, soccer field, baseball diamonds, tennis court, basketball court, a gigantic gymnasium, a massive library. The works.
When I was in elementary school I was too young too realize what I had and my best friend came from a poor family of stoners. He spent days at my house (which IMO saved him from being a complete loser in life).
Upside: I experienced at a young age all the toys (snowmobile etc). Therefore I no longer seek to have them. So I'm no longer chasing the dream, I lived it already. I now live like a poor person. The only expensive hobby I have is reading books that sell for 30$ a piece which I get at a discount or thrift store for 2$. I bank my cash every month because I don't know what to do with it. I do not crave material things like someone who never had them before.
Downside: I have no work ethic at all. I despise the rat race and I'm genetically predisposed to high business ambitions. You cant run a business without drive. So I settled for land-lording. Minimal effort, maximum profit (which totally belongs in the upside). I've inherited every mental illness that run in my family but that has nothing to do with money. Bottom line; the downsides are nearly none existent given the lifestyle I choose to live. If I wanted fancy things, I'd probably be horribly depressed by now.
I've never been looked up too by poor people except maybe in elementary school which I was too young to realize it. In high school I was the poor kid. That private school was all kids from multi-millionaires. Since I now live like a minimum salary person, nobody realizes the money that'll be unloaded on me when my parents pass away. Until then I will live like a minimum salary person chasing a poker career.
Overall, I have 0 reasons to complain about anything ever.
To all you people living in poverty or almost poverty, I wish you the best of luck making it in this world. The deck is stacked against you but you can still win.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Patlal] 1
#23883822 - 12/01/16 07:38 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I come from a family that owned over 10 houses and i inherited 2 of them. Never had to worry about money
I am the laziest person on earth.
That is all
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I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 3
#23883873 - 12/01/16 08:30 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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that sig gif creepys me out....
I had a semi privilaged upbringing. My dad owns a sucessful business he started. I was an only child.
I wasnt rich but i got some cool stuff growing up, video games, a SUV to drive, some other cool toys. I would say Upper middle class.
Took plane trips every year sometimes twice a year.
No super expensive trips but they did cost some money.
Im glad im working for my own money now, i depended on my dads money thru 6 years of college and i hated the feeling of depending on him for money. Sucked.
I finally broke the addiction to my dads money and life is pretty good. Freedom
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 1
#23883900 - 12/01/16 08:45 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
That almost made me laugh. MAYBE in 1 case out of 10 and thats a solid maybe. The rest it just teaches them that money can buy happiness which it clearly can't.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23883909 - 12/01/16 08:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
No, don't say that. Money does buy happiness, there's is no doubt about that. Unless you're Trump rich, money probably loses it's value, but anywhere under 10 million dollars, money is definitely valuable.
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#23883916 - 12/01/16 08:51 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Webster10]
#23883929 - 12/01/16 08:58 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.

Agreed, even at my age and growing up with a father who made millions I know this is garbage. Dick
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well, I grew up poor, single mom raising 3 kids in the 70's and 80's. My mom took food stamps once and was embarrassed by not having enough coupons one time, and she ended that. She then worked as many as 3 jobs to provide for us. This wasn't the best although it is what happened. I remember eating oatmeal for Thanksgiving once. My older half sister taught me how to steal. She stole steaks so we could eat well.
We also had those aluminum and poly/plastic strip lawn chairs for living room furniture at one time. Never had new anything or rarely. I appreciate everything I get as if it were gold. So yeah, the opposite of OP and almost every poster above me. I have been legally working since 17, but had a few jobs before that. I actually started working at 12yo. Money is the root of all evil and yet it is part of what can make some people happy (I would say most people even though some disagree). It is interesting to read about the OP and how he views money and being in an upper-class/wealthy environment. I always wondered why wealthy kids wanted to look like bums because it is really no fun when one HAS to dress in old clothes and shoes.
Life is beautiful, strange, and confusing, but I am glad to be alive now. There was a time when I wanted to just be dead. I thought it would solve everything. A friend speculated about what my life would have been like if I had the opportunities that other people had/have. I get people telling me that they thought I was from money and they can not believe my story of how I grew up. I am pretty well adjusted considering all the things that happened to me and all the things I put my self through. If I could be independently wealthy and never work another day in my life I would be VERY happy about that! Money has always been an issue with me because I never had it.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 2
#23883955 - 12/01/16 09:11 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
I disagree to an extent. It's easier to have money and not want it than the opposite. One can bitch and complain about it all the while having a trust fund and never truly knowing what it is like to want/need something. Some people take for granted simple things like buying a new set of tires or a fridge etc. as something that they can just go buy without it hurting their pocketbook (or their parents/guardians). "Do I need this tire so I can get to work so I can pay my rent on time, or do I catch buses and try to find rides until I can pay for the ONE USED TIRE on my crappy car and possibly be late causing me stress about possibly losing my job". I was in a place where I had to just buy one tire and a used one! People that never had to be in that position will never truly know what it is like to be poor, and money is desired, wanted, and needed.
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I'd rather become moderately wealthy by my own initiative than have the wealth just given to me
It just feels better for me to work my ass off for something I want rather than just to receive it with no effort
But I also don't consider having a lot of money to be my top goal in life, I'd much rather have a job that I genuinely enjoy and feel passionate about, something that I could do every day of my life and never get tired of it
To me that goal is worth more than all the money in the world
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884127 - 12/01/16 10:24 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
I agree with this 100%
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#23884204 - 12/01/16 11:03 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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OhMrJohnson said: I'd rather become moderately wealthy by my own initiative than have the wealth just given to me
It just feels better for me to work my ass off for something I want rather than just to receive it with no effort
But I also don't consider having a lot of money to be my top goal in life, I'd much rather have a job that I genuinely enjoy and feel passionate about, something that I could do every day of my life and never get tired of it
To me that goal is worth more than all the money in the world
I agree here mostly. Money/great wealth/material things are not at the top of my list either. I found through my journey in life so far that extreme wealth hurts some people. But having peace of mind when buying things one needs (or just wants at times) is very soothing to my existence. A friend of mine that has passed told me it was much easier to go from poor to rich than rich to poor. He was well off and NEVER had to want for anything. He also thanked me for "helping him in more ways than I will ever know" before he died. Maybe because I was a real person and not one of the shitty materialistic people surrounding him all the time. After having to struggle and such all these years I wouldn't mind one bit if someone gave me say a million to live the rest of my life on. Even half a mill would do it. I can live modestly and enjoy the rest of my years here without ever working again. But then again I am going into nursing and that will be fulfilling to me. If I had my way I would create art and music and just travel and socialize for a living, but that takes a lot of money.
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grew up mostly poor, there was a period when my mom remarried and did a bunch of real estate stuff but then the market crashed.
ime people who have never wanted usually don't develop coping skills well and tend to try and appease their ego through material items. our society is fucked with wealth fetishism.
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