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A.RichardTrickle
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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%
Spoken like true Trusties. I was raised poor.... My father cut firewood to supplement his milkman and later UPS jobs. One day he shorted a man some firewood in Waukesha WI and called the man and made it right. The man just happened to be sales director at Klements sausage and gave my father a route. He worked very hard and very long hours, learned the industry and wound up in the commodities business as I grew older. I can identify with the poster about oatmeal on thanksgiving, as one year for Christmas my sis and I got to each choose a box of sugary cereal as gifts. Because of seeing this and knowing it can be done, I got my first job at 13 "picking rocks" in Minnesota you follow the farmer on a flatbed behind a tractor through freshly plowed crop crimes and pick out large rocks, I always wondered how new rocks were made each year lol. I then worked on a turkey breeder farm and at 15-17 made 10+ dollars an hour in the 80s, a lot of cash back then. I bought a almost new Toyota celica and took myself and friends on mini vacations. I then turned to good service, starting at Burger King, becoming shift supervisor then semi fine dining and never looked back. I feel bad for people who have been handed everything, seriously. I know I quit school, expelled for being on LSD on student day, they were unaware of what I was on, but then traveling and following my dream of being "the boss". Everything I have is mine. I earned it. My baby sis is very entitled, was bought a brand new camaro t top at 16 and so on. We were both given the opportunity to study at university, THE Ohio state, and did well, I never used my clinical psych degree, and would not be allowed to practice as I am a drug felon now. I am proud that my pops instilled hard work and ethics into me even with the money. I was offered a house on a Robert Trent Jones golf course and told pops to sell it and save the money for retirement. Good thing I did. After the crash in 2008 they lost it all :-( The young people of today who are children of the boom we saw in the late 80s and early 90s are, for the most part worthless, lazy people. That's my story. Love you all Dick
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SARAtonin
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Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884459 - 12/01/16 01:06 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
Exactly. MAYBE 1 out of 10
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I am working my ass off with three jobs and I'm broke and struggling even though I try and try. I have no bad habits like coke and hookers. (Just weed on special occasions) If you need to send money to someone, I'll send you my info.
It was worth a shot...
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin] 1
#23884493 - 12/01/16 01:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
Batman?
Really?
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SARAtonin
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: stzacrack]
#23884532 - 12/01/16 01:38 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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A.RichardTrickle
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: stzacrack]
#23884551 - 12/01/16 01:46 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Hey guys, Siddhartha grew up rich and was like nawh fuck that, imma just fast under a tree. Same thing with Frederick Engles, his father was a rich industrialist and that helped him realize how unfair and unbalanced capatilism is. Batman was rich but was like nawh dude, money don't matter, only justice matter, yo.
Batman?
Really?
I lold as well. Sounds typical of a privileged millennial living in a fantasy in my opinion, but I don't know Sara so i shouldn't judge.
 Dick
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Man... this is about to be a rant but yolo it feels good to type out.
I witnessed both sides of the coin. I much preferred when we had money though lol.
Growing up my dad was a big shot and made 6 figures. We never lived luxuriously, I didn't know we had good money actually. They drove average cars, we took 1 vacation per year, we weren't spoiled. But, when I was 13 my parents separated, my mom was a stay at home mother for over 20 years and my dad moved out and didn't help her with a penny other than child support for me and my 2 siblings. He would actually short child support payments to be a dick to my mom, crappy father.
My dad lived it up while I watched my mom work for $9 an hour as a receptionist. My mom went through depression and held onto our home much longer than she should have, all her money went to the mortgage while my dad still making 6 figures bought a 1 bedroom apartment and a new corvette. I asked my dad for new sneakers and he told me to ask my mother, he sends her child support so she can do that.
For the first time ever, money wasn't just there when I needed something. My feet actually bothered me because my shoes were so run down, my mom was doing the best she could but she couldn't afford shoes at that time.
This is where riding my bmx bike changed my life. I was bmxing with a group of guys around my neighborhood and one of the guys was a pro bmx rider and I looked up to him and for whatever reason, he took me under his wing. He taught me how to do bmx tricks, gave me skate shoes, clothed me from his sponsors for free. My mom actually cried a few times when I came home with a schoolbag full of clothes from the guy for me and my brother. He even helped me get my first job at a local deli which helped tons.
That guy changed my life and I don't think he knows what impact he had. He didn't have money either, I remember going into a convenience store with him and taking packages of free croutons to eat so we could stay out riding. I helped him shoot shots for film edits and we just rode bikes all day. That guy played a key role in who I am today.
When I was 15 he told me a few of our group were starting to get hard into pills and to stay the fuck away because it never ends well. He specifically told me "I know you smoke weed and drink but our friends A, B, and C are using pills like xanax and percs, please don't do that shit, ruins people and they quit riding. If you want to try different substances there's cool shit out there like psychedelics that won't ruin your life, fuck pills."
This guy I really respected said psychedelics were ok. Maybe they were. I needed to study them. I found the shroomery when I was 15 and signed up and researched. Eventually tripped on magic mushrooms at 16 and by 18 I was cultivating while I was away at college and making money with them.
Long story short is everything worked out. My dad died alone and his pension went to my mom for life(she is now rich because of this.) I graduated with a bachelors degree I use for my own small business and am working on my second bachelors to get into health care. If everything works out, there's no reason I shouldn't live very comfortably. If it wasn't for the pro bmx'er who knows, he is the reason I grow mushrooms still and always will have some sort of way to make money to fall back on if the need arises.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92] 1
#23884609 - 12/01/16 02:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well i grew up in a weird mix of poverty and privilege, mostly poverty. Would often go weeks without food, yadda yadda, on the other hand there were random conveniences and ive received a fair amount of assistance as an adult.
I dont need or want much, would rather sleep in a hammock out in the woods for the most part.
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pirate-blues


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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.
Growing up with money just made me take it forgranted until I experienced what it was like to be super broke and living in a shitty house in a shitty area. I don't want to repeat that again but I'm glad I went through it. It's not that I never knew hard work, I am an extremely hard worker because my parents instilled that in me, but I never knew hardship or ever had to think about money as a finite resource until I was an adult. Boy was that a rude awakening to be 19, living in a big city while flat ass broke and trying to decide to buy food or toothpaste with the change in my pocket.
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Growing up as a rich kid is fucking great as long as your parents make you work for the stuff you want.
My parents never gave me and my brother stuff for free. If I asked for something like a video game, they'd laugh in my face and ask me why I want a piece of useless shit, and that I'll have to work for it if I really want it.
It was 20 bucks to mow our 1.5 acre lawn each week, 10 bucks to wash 1 car, 10 bucks an hour to pressure wash the pool deck. If we did a bad job thy'd make us redo it or not pay us
They paid for all necessary survival things in our life, including college so I feel so blessed and obligated to return the favour to them by being a most successful offspring.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884650 - 12/01/16 02:20 PM (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.
We'll put that one in the "Easy to say when..." pile.
I would say I'm upper middle for where I live. I went to a decent public school and my parents bought me a shitty car when I got my liscence, payed for me to attend community college, covered my ass when I got into trouble. I always had to work though. Had my first job when I was 13 building split rail fences.
My dreams were ground the fuck down by reality, but I am still happy, and know that as far as the world goes I am lucky as fuck.
I'm wondering OP, what do you think of Duerte?
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stzacrack
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SOLID feel good/coming of age story
Thanks for posting, genuinely felt good after reading that
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees] 2
#23884677 - 12/01/16 02:32 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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trees said: Growing up as a rich kid is fucking great as long as your parents make you work for the stuff you want.
My parents never gave me and my brother stuff for free. If I asked for something like a video game, they'd laugh in my face and ask me why I want a piece of useless shit, and that I'll have to work for it if I really want it.
It was 20 bucks to mow our 1.5 acre lawn each week, 10 bucks to wash 1 car, 10 bucks an hour to pressure wash the pool deck. If we did a bad job thy'd make us redo it or not pay us
They paid for all necessary survival things in our life, including college so I feel so blessed and obligated to return the favour to them by being a most successful offspring.
I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
So yeah, that's how I got a horse.
Now I work in data analysis/strategy, which was something I never thought I'd end up doing....but looking back, I'm not all that surprised now.
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akira_akuma
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: stzacrack]
#23884680 - 12/01/16 02:32 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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money completes the illusion, so it's nice when you're a child to have a parent spoil you -- my parents weren't rich, nor my step-dad. but i still got all the video game systems, and movies, and albums i wanted, generally speaking.
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pirate-blues said: I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
How did you procure their financial information? Most parents don't just freely give that kind of information out. My parents never even told me how much they made.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G] 1
#23884709 - 12/01/16 02:40 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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My parents have just made up random numbers about what they make and what their assets are worth my entire life I don't even ask them but they'll just slip in absurd numbers always trying to throw me off one way or the other, and it never lines up or I will find out later it was a lie from the other one. Who knows maybe I am rich and they are just stingy as fuck.
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akira_akuma
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that's funny, when that happens. my step-dad does that...says shit is way more expensive then it actually is. it's kinda sad, but in a way, it makes sense. he's way too giving a person, so he has to throw people off the scent of money, otherwise his life is just giving people money and things.
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Not me but most of my friends are pretty damn well off, I'm probably the poorest among them but I'm still pretty privileged compared to most Canadians (university paid for, never really lacked for anything I wanted let alone vital stuff like food and housing and whatnot) kind of weird knowing that the people you know are better off than 90% of your fellow countrymen, I do feel very disconnected from lower class people and outside of work never really interact with any
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akira_akuma
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Ezuma] 1
#23884729 - 12/01/16 02:47 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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The young people of today who are children of the boom we saw in the late 80s and early 90s are, for the most part worthless, lazy people.
that's bullshit. young people today are just as 'lazy' as those who grew up from the 50's and onward. it's just you had less shit to do, so more things to distract yourself with that were less involved in fantasy. merely it.
don't waste yourself trying to tell me your life was "better cause you worked harder".
cause then we'll have to get into, why? and how that is.
other than that, nice post.
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