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mrs and i are working through years and years now. excited to hear another show on that theme.

LMFAO!!  So studying to be a couch pilot for another two decades!! 

Professional student.  And his mother is too soft. But in 5 years we are selling up and moving to our 3 acre block down the coast, and we've made it very clear neither of them are coming with us.  I'm hoping they both end up homeless. 

And Norseman, you should have heard the discussion a few weeks ago about how hard teachers work. I set him straight. Mrs said I sounded just like you. I think the term latte sipping metro f$% got used a few times.


Bce1, sorry for the thread hijack, but I needed to vent for my sanity.

You have to be reeeally careful doing that. These mobs make a fortune off people who do that and forget to cancel in time.

Agreed.

My parents are in their 80's, and they live with my wife & I (and our kids). The key point here is that we're supporting and helping them, not sponging off them.

I did live in my parent's house until about 30 (or so);p but I worked full time, I did most of the jobs around the house (the folks were starting to struggle a bit), and I paid more than my share of the bills.

There's something right (in my mind at least) about helping those in their old age who raised me from childhood.

i lived with my mum in my late 20s when my dad died. i am now closer than ever to her because of it. i had friends who lived at home into their 30s while they rented their house out and smashed their mortgage. i can see an advantage to doing it right.

pushing chicks out to empty the nest is not on my agenda. they can leave when they are prepared.

besides, i live in a big beachside house, they are gonna be here as adults all the time.

tomatoes 

It means kids should stop f***ing around with useless Taxpayer / Mum / Dad funded University study / degrees and go get a real job in the real world like Carpenter, Plumber, Mechanic, Farmer etc etc!  By the way I'm not even pointing the finger at this kid far from it in fact!  I'm talking about 80% of all the kids that go to University!  When I was in school forty years ago out of 200 kids 20 went on to do year 11 and 12 and of these maybe 6 went to university and maybe 3 got a degree in something useful like DOCTOR!  These days most school teachers are leftist propaganda agents who are not interested in educating our kids they are only interested in state sanctioned indoctrination!    

Allowing a man-child to indulge at home isn't doing them any favours. Eventually they WILL have to move out and they won't be prepared for it. At most workplaces you can usually pick out who still lives with their parents due to their less mature demeanour. Those who are prepared to work long hours in trades invariably earn more than those who did fairweather degrees at university. I know one guy who hasn't worked a day in decades. Professional student who knows how to play the system to stay on the government teat by bouncing from course to course. Sounds an easy life? Not unless ending up 60 and still single and renting is your goal.

Yep. I'd love it if every kid went into trades and doctoring.  Our wonderous capitalist system would ensure the competition brought about by market saturation in these professions would reduce the hourly rate paid to tradies to a point that I might actually use one.  As it is I find tradies so unaffordable I do all my own work.  These days the taxpayers (via Government) and Chinese/Arab investors ultimately pay for most trade work.  

I regularly tell my kids they should become bridge engineers ... the Government (that is TAXPAYERS) and reserve banks are sure to have a 50 year long list of 'stimulus' projects involving bridge/overpass construction and replacements - no matter how pointless they are.  (we had a pointless bridge - over an unused railway- completed last year in our regional centre at taxpayer expense.  The main thing was some construction companies made $20 million building it.)  I want my kids to get their snout well and truly into the taxpayer funded construction industry.  Or failing that ... building apartments or toll roads in Sydney and Melbourne paid for by our super funds.  

These days a 'real job' that pays well can be something as unorthodox as unwrapping toys on YouTube and getting paid $26 million per year as an 'influencer'.  I phucking love capitalism!
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But yeah ... it does require putting in the effort to find opportunities and make them work.

Sadly farming is increasingly a fools game.  Don't recommend anyone getting into it unless they inherit a farm with good equity balance.  Good money in being a chemical, fertiliser or machinery salesman though!