<2022-08-16T03:17:06.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: So my boomer mother grew up country club set back when that meant something.  She and my father both basically stumbled into six figure jobs, he literally failed upward into his.
<2022-08-16T03:17:30.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: They INTENTIONALLY sent their kids to a diverse public school.
<2022-08-16T03:18:15.000Z> Tactical: that's fucked
<2022-08-16T03:18:18.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: We had congressmen coming to the Christmas parties, some of whom owed us favors.  I really wanted to be a pilot. Would my parents lift a finger to get me an academy slot? HAHAHAHA, no, bootstrap yourself, son.
<2022-08-16T03:19:13.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Now they own four time shares and a convertible, and have promised to spend down all their wealth "so the last check bounces."
<2022-08-16T03:20:40.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: I knew we were pretty well off, I had no idea my parents made Georgetown Prep money until I graduated law school (paid out of my own GI bill and pocket)
<2022-08-16T03:20:50.000Z> Tactical: oh my god
<2022-08-16T03:21:35.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Now I hardly talk to them. They'll never see my son again because my mother was sharing propaganda from the group that threatened to kill him, and when I asked her to take it down she acted like I was the problem 
<2022-08-16T03:22:38.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: I'm the only successful child, so I think they hold out hope that I won't let my utter failure younger brother starve
<2022-08-16T03:23:07.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: They could, of course, afford a trust to ensure that, but that would eat into the time they spend in Hawaii every year.
<2022-08-16T03:23:28.000Z> Tactical: dude
<2022-08-16T03:23:40.000Z> Tactical: I've just had it up to fucking here with the boomer question
<2022-08-16T03:24:31.000Z> Tactical: I could share so many damned stories but I've been cheated, swindled, jewed, fucked over, and kiked by them all
<2022-08-16T03:26:06.000Z> Tactical: Like shit dude, I basically have no family, nothing like that at this point.
<2022-08-16T03:27:15.000Z> Tactical: It's a bizzare concept
<2022-08-16T03:27:33.000Z> Tactical: I have never had a family that wasn't willing to screw me over at the drop of a hat
<2022-08-16T03:29:28.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Bro, I have gotten so fucked by boomers 
<2022-08-16T03:29:52.000Z> Tactical: I have no clue how dads work, single child all that, whatever, raised by single mom, that basically set me back hard
<2022-08-16T03:30:09.000Z> Tactical: yeah
<2022-08-16T03:30:18.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Ooof, yeah that doesn't help
<2022-08-16T03:31:05.000Z> Tactical: I basically moved to my dad's around 2 years ago, first time having one, whatever,  try to get my life in order, and fuck dude - gen xers can be hyperboomers 
<2022-08-16T03:31:34.000Z> Tactical: I basically got promised help in trying to get into a trade job, trying to learn stuff, y'know, get up to speed
<2022-08-16T03:31:37.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: I talk down my dad for being a coward and letting my mom fuck over his kids for feminist/liberal upcummies, but I still have a template I can modify in my own parenting
<2022-08-16T03:31:47.000Z> Tactical: oh god dude
<2022-08-16T03:32:04.000Z> Tactical: at first I had to get over the fact my dad is literally me but older
<2022-08-16T03:32:28.000Z> Tactical: this is where the problems kind of start
<2022-08-16T03:33:10.000Z> Tactical: my dad's a hyperboomer running his own business, and I basically get told to find a job whatever, standard stuff, I start a retail job, time goes by, and gradually what was pretty promising turns sour, my dad admits he doesn't want to be a dad, just a "buddy"
<2022-08-16T03:33:43.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: jfc
<2022-08-16T03:34:07.000Z> Tactical: meanwhile I get a shitload of criticism if I try to change jobs, no support in trying to get a driver's license from the DMV, I ask if he can teach me how his shop works, he tells me he's planning on selling it when he retires, a bunch of shit like that
<2022-08-16T03:34:17.000Z> Tactical: I basically get stuck in retail for 2 years and a bunch of back and forth
<2022-08-16T03:35:08.000Z> Tactical: Now I let them know "Yeah I got fired since I yelled at someone and starting cussing" and dude, last thing I wanted when I get fucking home is someone treating me like a piece of shit like I'm retarded
<2022-08-16T03:35:17.000Z> Tactical: "you burned bridges"
<2022-08-16T03:35:19.000Z> Tactical: it's a fucking retail job
<2022-08-16T03:36:18.000Z> Tactical: it's nearly impossible to explain since I'm exhausted but shit dude
<2022-08-16T03:36:35.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Shit, we'll get an internt nazi to say he was your supervisor at a small biz and you were fantastic 
<2022-08-16T03:36:41.000Z> Tactical: LITERALLY
<2022-08-16T03:36:51.000Z> Tactical: Dude
<2022-08-16T03:37:02.000Z> Tactical: When I first moved here about two years ago, I was pretty much a telegram wignat
<2022-08-16T03:37:34.000Z> Tactical: homeless, depressed, withdrawals from adderall and nicotine, I was a mess, but by the time my dad met me I basically got off all that shit
<2022-08-16T03:37:58.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Shit, man, that's not a great thing to come down off on your own
<2022-08-16T03:38:02.000Z> Tactical: had no choice
<2022-08-16T03:38:25.000Z> Tactical: I was stuck at a BNB since my mother killed herself, I had no money, and I was between college terms
<2022-08-16T03:38:49.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Shit
<2022-08-16T03:39:02.000Z> Tactical: yeah
<2022-08-16T03:39:08.000Z> Tactical: I was like, 19 I think around then
<2022-08-16T03:39:25.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Gotta jump off for a sec, kid just came back downstairs and ai need to find out why
<2022-08-16T03:39:32.000Z> Tactical: no worries
<2022-08-16T03:40:51.000Z> Tactical: i guess to summarize it all, I basically jumped from the single mother shitshow into Boomerhell
<2022-08-16T03:42:55.000Z> Tactical: a lot of promises of help and support, and all I've been doing for 1-2 years is being stuck at a retail job while my family basically tells me to pull myself up from my bootstraps and shit
<2022-08-16T04:06:00.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: Gay as fuck.  
<2022-08-16T04:06:11.000Z> GLObalMARinePR: And every prior generation would be getting you a job
<2022-08-16T04:13:42.000Z> Tactical: yeah
<2022-08-16T04:14:05.000Z> Tactical: I think what just gets me is the generational divide of them thinking I pissed away 2 years because I was rude to a customer
<2022-08-16T04:14:08.000Z> Tactical: "customer"
<2022-08-16T04:14:20.000Z> Tactical: meanwhile I'm just sitting here thanking god I'm done with that shitshow
<2022-08-16T04:23:29.000Z> Tactical: but yeah, basically in the middle of some legal shit, little support, family doesn't exactly want to help pay for a lawyer to deduce some arcane bullshit, and frankly I just want to write shit
<2022-08-16T04:24:31.000Z> Tactical: whole arguments about the military vs job corp, shit like that