Not counting student loans I'm worlds ahead

I am ahead of my parents at my age. Neither of us had kids at my age but I'm doing better financially. My wife and I combined already make more money together than my parents ever did in a year combined. I however did not grow up poor either. That being said, my parents were frugal and retired at 55 having not made a ton of money in their careers. They are the epitome of money smart.

The big difference in my situation is that my wife has a career with a comparable salary to my own. While my mom worked once I got into school, she worked as an administrative assistant that paid considerably less.

I'm much, much worse off. I have not owned a car since April (totaled in an accident), I have no savings and I don't expect to ever get out of debt as I don't believe there's any way I will ever make more than 25-30 grand in any given year, if I can even earn that much. Decades of bad life choices combined with no social or networking skills and zero marketable work skills just don't paint a very pretty picture of the future. I'm lucky to have a job that pays ten an hour at this point.

Thanks, Obama.

My Dad never had a lot of money very humble life as a rural mail carrier, tv repair man, electrician, firefighter, football gang chain & Scout Master in a small Ks town community. He built his own home and the only debt he had was from mom having cancer. Maybe some of you remember I was adopted by my Grandparents.

My life, I've made my mistakes and still paying for them but have turned things around and am on track to be ok but it's taking time & a hell of a lot of hours at work that is sometimes more than I bargain for.

My problem is impulse & wanting to do more than I have money for.

We all made our mistakes. Props for turning it back in the right direction.

Your dad is a man, man.

No.

Yes he was and I miss him very much, my home town misses him too & that says a lot about the man.

Thank you eDave

That sucks. Hang in there! You never know when things can turn around for you.

Justin Houston sure as **** is.

My mom worked at IBM for 32 years.

Not even close.

He should vote.

Holy shit. Hopefully she leaves you some of those stock options.

I did find that after all the kids left the house, my parents did have some lettuce. We give them shit about that all the time. We lived VERY conservative. I'm better for it.