<p>How many of you on CC are working your butts off every year just so when you graduate from college with ahigh paying job you can rub it in your parents' face? A "HA! HA! You could hardly pass high school, and I'm a sucessful <strong>insert career here</strong>! You made me go through crap and look where I am now."</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong. That's not my original intention, but I don't come from the dream family by any means. I've dealt with my own crap at what's suppose to be my home and I'm left days thinking I can't wait to rub it in their faces when I actually get into college and graduate prepared to do something than work as a cashire for the rest of my life. </p>
<p>No. I really love my family and would never do anything just so I can make them feel bad. If anything, I would want a high-paying job to help them after retirement (not that they'll need it).</p>
<p>I come from basic middle class and have gone through crap due to throughtless decisions by my parents. I do love them, and wouldn't want to see them suffer really, but there are those moments that it's overly frusterating to deal with and I just hope one day I can show them what I can really do no matter what they made me deal with.</p>
<p>You're lucky, be thankful for your family. They provide for you, put a roof over your head, raised you, etc. You have no idea how many people don't have that.</p>
<p>Kind of. I want to do good in school so I can get a high-paying job for sure, but I'm not going to rub it in my parents faces. I want to make enough to help my family our because they need it. I want to buy houses for my parents or something like that when I'm older. My parents split up this year and we're pretty much broke with loads of debt esp my dad and I don't want to put my kids through that. So if I make enough why not help out my parents a little. Even though it's their fault.</p>
<p>Wow, that is harsh. My mom is a depressed alcoholic, and my father, until the divorce, was an bipolar(diagnosed),abusive drunk. They, along with my new step-father, are about as conservative. For example: My mother says plastic pollution does not exist, because it comes from the Earth, and even if it did, she wouls not care because it will not affect her lifetime. I am a bisexual, agnostic teenager who's parents are not so great. I don't want to rub it in there faces as much as I want to see myself succede so that I can rub it in my face that though my life has not been as easy as others, I can still get somewhere. I know that pride is not the best attubute, but it is much better than vindictiveness.</p>
<p>I like how CC is full of what appears to be the most morally upright, ethical high school teens around the country. Someone's got to be faking; you guys are really teenagers, right?</p>
<p>^ Yes, but the difference between CCers and other teenages is that, though we apprear the same perverted teens, we actually very insightful and mature. Wow, I sound arrogant, but people at CC act more like adults because they need to act more mature in order to get a head start in adulthood. How many immature kids do you meet at say, Harvard? Not many compared to those crazy kids you see at Radford or USC or UWV.</p>
<p>Ok, just to let everyone know, I'm not usually as cynical as I was last night. Although I can be highly cynical. I do love my family. I was angry at the moment and wrote on a whim. Not always the best thing in the world to do, but since it was too late to go for a run to work it out I was a moron and posted on here. I do like diatre31192's comment though.</p>
<p>lol, I apply that to pretty much my entire graduating class. No matter what they've said to me in the past 4 years, it's hard to deny that it's only a matter of time before I make more in a year than any ten of them combined will make in their lifetimes.</p>
<p>My parents worked their hardest to provide for me despite the fact that my mom only had a high school diploma and my dad didn't get his GED until after he was forty. My dad died because he would have rather worked and kept a roof over our heads than go to the doctor and get himself checked out, so no, I can't say that I've ever felt that way.</p>
<p>Rather, I'm working my hardest so that I can get through college and start my own family and be able to provide for them and have a secure job so they don't have to worry about finances. (Not that teachers are particularly secure or well-paid, but at least it's more secure than the myriad of jobs my dad had and pays more than being a waitress or a cashier.) Also, I'm trying to prove that one CAN turn around - I had a terrible GPA in high school and never graduated, and now I'm in college with a 3.87. So I've got my own agenda, but rubbing it in my mom's face is not part of that.</p>
<p>I don't especially want to prove myself to my parents by actively seeking a high level of success, but I would absolutely loathe being the one child that doesn't measure up. In both my parents' families there is an even split of siblings who didn't attend college, and those who did (my parents both have two degrees), and the income and lifestyle difference is a source of much tension and weirdness. </p>
<p>I figure in every family there has to be a sibling that doesn't "measure up" in some way, whether that be prestige, possessions, money, lifestyle, etc., and I would really prefer that sibling not be me.</p>
<p>Haha I can't rub it in there faces, it would be weird since it's clear that everyone's hopes are in me because I seem to be the only(not exaggerating) university bound student in my immediate family (out of me,2 sisters, and a cousin). I feel a little pressured by them because they've made this all clear to me.</p>