IDK this whole men on this site need advice thing has convinced me that people here really think this isn't a safe place to ask questions about how to, IDK, be?. So ask them here I guess if you didn't ask them in the other thread.
I'm drunk and going to sleep now, but I have the day off tomorrow and will sincerely commit to effort-posting responses if anyone has genuine questions they want some in depth advice to.
I will say I'm just a guy who thinks he has enough trips around the sun to have some insight to share but I am not an authority on anything, so anyone else please feel free to chime in
How much money did your parents make growing up?
Ya I wanted to say something similar. Although my parents are working class, I benefitted heavily by being born 40+ years ago, white, male, and with a stable-ish family. I don't want to shit on the OP, but possibly comrades here struggle and I don't want anyone to feel like they're at fault.
This is a good question - I remember reading a tweet once where someone said every public figure's parental wealth should be listed after their name or something.
My parents had no generational wealth, no college degrees. My dad left when I was pretty young. My mother was a working single mother who was an administrative assistant in a SOE, and raised us on that salary. To the best of my understanding my father did pretty well for himself but that wealth has never really been connected with my life - as I understand things he didn't pay for child support, I had to take out loans to go to school and spent most of my adult life trying to get out from under that debt. I do probably stand to inherit something from him one day, but he's pretty into his wealth it wouldn't surprise me if he spends it all.