Topic : 03/29 Next Generation of Moochers

Quote From: brachan

There is hardly any jobs anymore that pay more than $5.15 an hour, unless you count all those "work from home" jobs that are more than likely bull.  You try finding a job in a place like I live, but, judging by the date you are quoted as typing, you are probably retired and living off of Social Security that I helped to give you when I did have a job.  So what would YOU know about it.  I think that a lot of the trouble is that there are more people than there are jobs and that people in the stage between highschool and college are suffering titles like "mooch" while they attempt to scratch out a living in our failing economy.  And college tution keeps going up and up, making it impossible for people like me to go to college, forcing me to work minimum wage jobs, and forcing me to throw all my money away on rent, bills, gas, etc. 

And now that our Colorado government is going to keep all the excess taxes that they have raped from me, I am seriously thinking about throwing myself off of a bridge.   

Quote From: draperc

 I don't think the boomerang effect is just a result of dispositional factors of either the parents or the kids.  I think I big part of it is that the world is changing; the middle class is thinning and dividing, minimum wage is not anywhere near enough to live on, and college education is no longer something that puts you at a major advantage.  I'm only 23 years old, so I can't go on about the 'good old days,' but my parents can, and I don't always ahve a chance to escape.  Through these conversations, my observations, and what I understand about our culture in general, not everyone has a chance at making it financially.  Going to college doesn't guarantee a job that pays more than minimum wage, it just guarantees a debt.  I was lucky that my parents paid for my college education, but I'm getting ready to go for grad school loans, and I'm watching my friends with college degrees struggle to survive above the poverty level, and I'm horribly scared to go in debt--even for a PhD--because there's just no way to guarantee that the job market is going to allow for me to pay off my loans, no matter what my work ethic and dedication.  I believe this is the reason for the boomerang effect, and I think it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Quote From: peepinbud

 Hey the economy is going in the toilet.

Even people in their 30s, with college degrees are only making 10, 11, 12 and hour and barely making it.  I just realized my household income has not gone up in 5 years, despite endless efforts. Im kind of freaked out because even my ebay sales-- I only sell a small amount--pin money that was really needed-- have literally gone in the toilet in the last year....[I have the feeling that is an early sympton of the real state of the economy--

The sick thing is older people who lived in a much different world when jobs were for life and there was actually incomes that paid substenance wages, dont GET it.


Dont throw yourself from a bridge. I will pray for you.

Quote From: twnty1inwi

 Once again - the 21 year old here.. Just to clarify, I am just living at home until I get my bills paid off, then plan on moving out to a new house.  Its much easier to live at home while making $900/mo of vehicle and insurance payments, plus 80 for health insurance, and about $150 a month for gas...  its just a lot easier to be living at home for free until I can get the cars paid off, and buy a new house...living at home lets me put a couple hundred in savings a month, plus extra for movies, food and entertainment and such..

Quote From: jsavell_02

Hi I am 22, married, have two children and my husband and I have owned our own home since we were 18.  So I don't believe that the so called adults on todays show can't have a descent life without being moochers.  I work during the day and my husband takes care of the kids and he works at night.  Anyone can make it at a young age if you just work hard at it.  The 4 years we have been on our own we have only borrowed $100 from my parents and it was paid back the next week.  It just takes some hard work.

Quote From: kleesun

Do you have any idea how many decades that will take?  (It doesn't pay THAT decently.  I mean "decently" in that I can pay my rent, car insurance, gas, and basic personal expenses without going into debt, which is what was happening at my last job.)  A "good starting position" is only that--I'm very glad to have it but it's still grunt work and it pays as such. 

  

I am taking part-time courses.  I'm taking online courses so they won't interfere with my job, which does not allow for a flexible schedule.  They do, however, require a high-speed internet connection, which is one of the things that most of the posts on here would consider a luxury (I consider it a luxury, too, except that I can't take the classes without it.  It's a master's program and the classes are not offered on a local campus.  There is nothing comparable in my area or I'd be doing that instead).  I have absolutely no plans to stop working or change jobs; in fact, the job and the school are in the same field and complement one another, except I need the schooling to make any real progress beyond office girl. 

  

I'm not out partying and spending my money on clothes (ha ha--my parents wish I would go out more).  I don't have children.  I'm not footing the bill for a loser boyfriend.  I'm not sitting on my butt while my mother washes my socks and scrubs my soap-scum out of the bath-tub.  I pay $650 a month room and board, which is more than any other amounts I've seen posted here, and have never been late.  I clean up after myself and do any chores, errands, etc. that I'm asked.  They can borrow my car any time they need a station wagon.  Rent here is not exorbitant but it is a big city and there is a lot of competition from low-income renters, and the apartments I can afford are not in safe neighborhoods.  I don't know anyone here to take on as a roommate, and, as a single woman, I would be very hesitant to live with somebody that I didn't know well.  Believe me, I could stand to be a little less cozy, but as it is, I need a little slack financially and my parents need somebody who can help with the physical work that my mother cannot do (she cannot lift or grasp well and she cannot be in the sun, so I do a lot of housework and help Dad with the yard). 

Quote From: unclemtl

Having a mental illness is not an excuse to drop out of college? Are you kidding me? Mental illnesses can be very disabilitating even when a person doesn't look like they have anything wrong with them. Howard Hughes, the aviation pioneer of the 1940's, in his last years of life didn't even leave his room because he suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Yet, you would of kicked Howard out on his ass and said get a job. I don't think that would of been very helpful given his disorder.  

  

I still find it strange that the mother left the household two years ago and no one seems to think that this behavior is odd?  

  

James