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Why are you in a pis_ing contest against people with degrees when they aren't a pis_sing contest against you? Just do what you like but why try to take a dig at someone else that chose a different career path and chose to get a degree?
Everyone has different likes/dislikes/skills/talents/strengths/weaknesses. Quit looking over your shoulder trying to out-do the other person that took the college route.
I went to college. I didn't burry myself in debt like those who foolishly did for a piece of paper. I find it foolish to do. I'm not trying to out do. I've out done them. For example aside from my sister, I can use my cousin as a prime example. Studied law, has no real hands on experience he's a clerk for an attorney made 35k a year his first 2 years. Now he makes 40 something...
I made 45k starting as a diesel tech... And unlike most who had to go that route and fell hook line and sinker for that false reality, I'm not one of the millenials living with mom and dad...
What can't be opposed to foolish financial choices? Makes me look down on others because I'm a realist?
They bounce from guy to guy.
Want a man who's driving a new car no payments their own house making 6 figures a year. What do they have to offer? Another mans kid to feed.
These young men are remaining at home largely because their parents (especially mothers) permit and or even encourage.
Do not forget these "millennial" young men are part of the same "gold star for everyone" demographic. As such often parents have spent their entire lives ensuring lives of this kids goes smoothly as possible. They intervene ahead of and or on behalf of same when anything remotely isn't going the way they think it should. Rather like the way Marie Barone treated her "baby" Raymond.
These are the parents who call and make employment interviews for their kids, and also take care of the follow-up if not show up with them to the point of wanting to actually go into the appointment with their "kid". They hover, helicopter, molly-coddle, and otherwise almost totally absolve their kids (now young adults) of almost taking any personal responsibility.
What many of these young men need is a good swift kick in the pants, and told to grow a pair. You'd be surprised at how fast some young men can find a job and become pretty self-sufficient once access to "Hotel de Mommie & Daddy" has a no vacancy sign on front door.
What about the women that are older living at home? Do they deserve a kick in the pants to?
In that age group, 32.1 percent of people live in their parents' house, while 31.6 live with a spouse or partner in their own homes and 14 percent live alone, as single parents or in a home with roommates or renters. The rest live with another family member, a nonfamily member or in group-living situations such as a college dorm or prison.
Pew notes that this is not a record high percentage for the number of young people living at home — in 1940, for instance, approximately 35 percent of people in that age range lived at home.
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American men ages 18-34 live with their parents 35 percent of the time, and with a spouse or partner 28 percent of the time. For women, the numbers are nearly reversed; 35 percent live with a partner, while 29 percent live with their parents.
Uhh...Not sure if you're being facetious. But I thought we were supposed to be equal? But it's somehow more okay for women to be lazy/mooch than men?
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