09-06-2020, 05:15 PM
tuqqer wrote:
I don't see a lot of that kind of bootstrap risk taking in many young people.
i agree with you regarding the willingness to hustle or make sacrifices. what level of socio-economic class would you say you grew up in. my family didn’t feel poor but i do know what government cheese taste like and my first glasses came from county health clinics. my parents also scraped it together for me to attend a private boarding school and i got a scholarship to a really good college.
for a variety of reasons my son has grown up with opportunities and resources that belie my actual meager resources and thus is used to a fair amount of creature comforts. he’s read stories of people who make and have made the kind of sacrifices you have. he says he’s not that kind of guy. yes, he has a job but to move out he’s going to need more than that.