<p>Do you ever feel that you might not be as successfull as your parents? That happens to me all the time, and especially now, when i'm not doing very well in my classes(</p>
<p>yes, but i think success depends on what you do after college... I mean my dad is very successful, but he didn't attend an ivy league or anything close to that...</p>
<p>My parents are middle class. They never went to college lol.</p>
<p>I know I'm not, but that doesn't bother me.</p>
<p>There is no way I will be as intelligent as my parents for sure, and I dunno if I'll be more successful than them because I probably won't take the same career path and it's difficult to measure success when comparing different careers...</p>
<p>Define "upper-middle class or rich family"... </p>
<p>I don't consider my family to be rich by any means, but my dad makes a little over 100K a year, so I guess that could be considered upper-middle class depending on where you live. But yes, I do feel like I may not do as well as my parents have. However, it's not like they went to an Ivy school or anything.... they went to South Dakota State University. My goal is to be really tight with my money when I get a job so I can pay off any loans from college/law school. I may live in a single bedroom apartment for a number of years, regardless of my salary, but I'll have lots of money built up to blow when I'm older!</p>
<p>my parents went to a university in Ukraine... so i don't really mean education</p>
<p>Seeing my fathers' success and his qualifications? Hell, he has my dream job...
Going the same path and understanding that all he did, was study, study, study? Well, that puts everything a bit into perspective.. :-)</p>
<p>yea sometimes I fear that I'll turn out to be the "failure" in the family...</p>
<p>My dad has made negative 900,000 dollars in the past year, so I don't have to make much to beat that. Gotta love the stock market ;)</p>
<p>Wow you wanna know what I have to live up to?</p>
<p>Basically my parents lived in impoverished life in Russia .Worked hard, and then my dad came to America almost immediately after the break up of the Soviet Union to study at UPenn for his CS(comp sci) masters, with a full ride scholarship.</p>
<p>He got a good job right out of grad school, and has done almost everything imaginable in the software industry. Started and successfully sold his own business, gave several keynote speeches for Computer Associates where he worked as VP of a division, and is now CTO of a fairly large software company.</p>
<p>so yea, not only do I have a rich family but my dad was also a broke immigrant who struck gold in a booming industry.</p>
<p>I mean im not exactly a failure, my dream school has always been NYU. plus theres my brother whos already being prepared for Harvard lol
hes in 9th grade and has like a 100 gpa. </p>
<p>so yea I think my parents arent so ****ed off at me because they have bro to brag about lol</p>
<p>^ its not as bad as being an only child.</p>
<p>I don't consider my family to be rich by any means, but my dad makes a little over 100K a year</p>
<p>Man. I'm sorry, but it somewhat annoys me when people say this isn't much. It's four times what my mother makes a year. (Single mom who never went to college)</p>
<p>Maybe I'm emotionally detached because I'm from a lower-middle class family or something, but isn't this like, "my diamond shoes are too tight"? Be happy for what you have. Do what you can. The reason why you feel like you have to be as successful as your parents is pride, and having too much pride will never let you be happy.</p>
<p>^ I was thinking the same thing.</p>
<p>My dad makes 40k a year and my mother makes 60k. They are divorced and are both paying house payments, so in the end I would say I'm mid middle class. I believe the average American's yearly income is around 45k. I'm confident that financially speaking I will be more successful than them both.</p>
<p>"Man. I'm sorry, but it somewhat annoys me when people say this isn't much. It's four times what my mother makes a year. (Single mom who never went to college)"</p>
<p>Sorry to annoy you, musicallylatin. I guess that the term "rich" is completely relative. I don't consider myself to be rich, because I've grown up in it. A kid who lives in a family who makes 175K a year probably doesn't consider him or herself to be rich either, yet I certainly would. </p>
<p>I saw an interesting study once, where they did a survey with a bunch of people and what kind of income they considered to be in the "rich" category. It completely varied depending on what income they were coming from. The lower the income of the person surveyed, the lower the income they thought was rich. For instance, if they surveyed someone who made 20K-30K, they would on average think that like 70K-80K incomes are rich. So.... it all depends on where you're coming from.</p>
<p>The average person in Zimbabwe makes about 200 million dollars a year. No joke. Of course, that is in Zimbabwe dollars (ZWD)...1USD = 48,000ZWD</p>
<p>^ Haha, yeah, I guess they're pretty rich over there. Jamaica is that way too. It's like $80 for a gallon of gas there (in Jamaican currency, of course). </p>
<p>Have any of you seen that website that ranks your wealth among everyone in the world? It's really humbling to see how much we make in the U.S. compared to most of the world. My family was in the top 1% easily.</p>
<p>Yeah...my dad is a pretty good doctor D:</p>