My dad worked 50 years, missed all my soccer games, and still can't retire. I'm doing the same thing and somehow getting even less. It's not that we're lazy. It's that busting our ass used to mean something. Now it just means congrats, here's 2%.
>>62103561You sound like an envious whiny faggot.
>>62103561Why didn't he just put money into his 401k?
>>62103561I can say at this point I am lazy thoughBecause I busted my ass for a career for 20 years and just get less and less and less each year.It quite actually isn't worth it to try>t. chem engineer
my dad was a hardworking honest man. when he retired he gave me 2000 dollars. his boss on the hand became a millionaire and gave his son 2 houses and a porsche. i love my old man and i will not an honest man
>>62103561>busting our ass used to mean somethingIt means what it always meant - that you have a skill issue.
>>62103561i change jobs often. went from 120k to 165k with 3 job hops in 2 years.
>>62103631You're literally Indian.
>>62103561Your dad sounds like the perfect flyover American protestant.
>>62103561just earn more money bro
>>62103564You sound like a goy.Post nose Daniel Cohen.
>>62103561same my parents missed literally everything i did growing up and were never home.They still cant retire
>>62103561realworlder moment
>>62104427>>62103561Work smart, not hard.
>>62104447>>62104440goyim moment fr
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>>62103591I am also a chemical engineer, and funny enough I feel the same way. Every day it’s more work piled on top. Every year less pay because of inflation. Can’t leave because economy is shit. Staring down 30+ more years of this, if I’m lucky.Unless Bitcoin takes off to 7 figure territory it’s unironically over for me.
I was raised by 2 honest hard working parents who got nowhere and are now elderly, poor and destitute. I will never work hard, nor will I be honest. I'll find the easiest methods of making money and I'll be as dishonest as I need to be to achieve it.
my dad works at nintendo
>Father spent his 30s doing backbreaking manual labor abroad in the 90s>Total sacrifice mode just so us kids could have PCs and tech early on>Destroyed his body, spine is basically dust now>Spent the last 15 years before retirement as a literal gardener and graveyard keeper for minimum wage>Mother was a white-collar wagie, her pension is the only reason they aren't eating cat food right now>Me and my brother, both working in IT since high school>I "work" maybe 2 hours a day max>Income is 3x the national average>Spend most of the day playing with my kids or just cooming while the wife is at work and kids ať school>Literally getting paid a fortune to do nothing while my dad gave his health for a 486
>>62104755I can see the "retirement" America pays. The biggest scam for social security>We will pay you what looks impressive at the time, but due to inflation and how we control inflation, that number is meaningless come your retirementGot them good. If they can control the value of your money via printing, why even bother relying on their "retirement" programs? Do not be dishonest to your fellow man anon, but I wouldn't mind you being dishonest towards a dishonest system. >reality is an IQ testThe more you rely on others, the less power you will have
>>62103561>busting our ass used to mean somethingYeah during the peak of the American empire after WWII, a historic anomaly. Could regular people "retire" 200 years ago? No, they had to work until they physically could no longer do it, and then lived miserably at rhe mercy of their adult children.
Average rent in the US is $1,740 a month. You have to work 87 hours of a 160 hour work month to make that on $20 an hour. Then you have to pay for food, and fuel, and insurance, and utilities...
>>62104447We have AI, you don't need to work white collar aka smart.
>>62103561jews I mean "bankers" are stealing your money.
>>62103561Dad? Wtf is that I started working at 15 before that
