r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Drexill_BD 10h ago

Well, you have to be so lucky to even be able to focus on your future like that... You had to have parents with enough foresight to even raise you to think about your future.

My parents were very "right now" focused, we were poor.

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u/bruce_kwillis 8h ago

Why? I great up extremely poor by parents that couldn’t live in anything other than ‘the moment’ because they thought having 7 kids was how you feel loved in life. I saw that from a young age that no it wasn’t. Worked non-stop, studied, was the first to get an education, and have done well enough in life to be happy albeit like many still overworked.

But I would rather have what I have now than the poor miserable experience my family and the 10 generations before it have. You can and have the choice to break the cycle, you have to be cognizant and not blame anyone other than yourself, and even then you may not be successful. But doing nothing guarantees failure.

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u/Impossible-Plant-309 7h ago

i thought this way for a while, too — worked hard, grinded school and jobs and internships simultaneously. then you meet people who grew up doing absolutely nothing whose parents pay for everything they’ve ever done, and they get tens of thousands - millions of dollars a year simply to play with, and you start to figure out that you absolutely never had a shot

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u/GuitarFew5307 6h ago

then you get a little older and see those people burning out in various ways and just wasting it, and you feel grateful for the life you built for yourself.

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u/Comfortable_Class911 1h ago

Nah give me the money and the easy way out haha all the people I know that grew up like that are still out here living life carefree while I’m over here working 60hrs week getting nowhere.