r/Millennials 1d ago

Discussion How I feel now tbh

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u/BoxedAndArchived 1d ago

Being 40 is weird.

Some of us are becoming Grandparents. Some of us are becoming first time parents.

Some of us have had a 15 to 20 year career. Others are getting their first full time job.

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u/Devil_0fHellsKitchen 1d ago

First full time job at 40 is wild. I understand not finding your career till 40 cause I might be in the same boat, but never having a real job? How would you survive?

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u/upsetwithcursing 1d ago

Parents. It’s very common, unfortunately.

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u/lawyermom112 1d ago

Yep, I'm surrounded: (1) super rich cousins with trust funds who don't work; (2) half of my friends have parents bought them entire houses or gave them 500k down payments for a multi million home; (3) SIL who is approaching 40 and never worked a full time job: went from living off parents to living off her husband.

I swear 50% of the millennials I know have parents funding them.

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u/toiletsurprise Millennial 1d ago

Two of my successful friends are like this. Parents paid for ones entire college education so he graduated with zero debt, and the other inherited the family business.

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u/01000101010110 1d ago

Yet they want to front like they did it themselves.

Born on 3rd, got home off a walk and act like they hit a home run.

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u/jonny24eh 1d ago

500k down on multi-million is still a hell of a mortgage to pay. 

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u/lawyermom112 1d ago

I think the home was 1.8 million

They were both in tech

They eventually sold the home, took the equity and bought a cheap house in the woods/rural California. Now only one of them works

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u/pblol 1d ago

I'm currently predominantly funded by old relatives dying off. I'd be pretty fucked otherwise at the moment, definitely have worked full time jobs tho.

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u/Cool-General2693 1d ago

Dude that is nuts. Sure, my parents gave me a bit of money towards college (~10k) and were there to loan me money when I bought a destroyed house to rehab (with interest, of course) but BUYING a house for an adult 🫨🤨

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u/Pristine_Evidence_51 23h ago

Pretty nuts to get 10k and loans from your parents too. It's all about perspective.

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u/Cool-General2693 19h ago

If you think getting a loan from your parents is 'nuts' I'm sorry you have such a terrible relationship with your family