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Does money buy happiness?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Exactly my point of view redcrx :o)
The sooner people like this stop thinking that jobs of this sort are beneath them, the country may become a better place to live in! actually, it has long been an opinion of mine that every child should have a few months working a cash register as work experience. You learn an awful lot about life doing that ;o)
A good honest days work reaps rewards ~ whether you are rich or poor!
Ok, seeing that this is a rare civil conversation with SR involved I would have to say i partly agree with Russian. Only very partly might I say!! If I was well off enough in the future I would want to help my kids through university. Obviously if i couln't afford it then i wouldn't be able to.
Having been through uni myself I wouldn't want my kids to come out with the amount of debt that I have behind me if I had the money to help them. My dad paid for my tuition fees (he is not well off but wanted to help) and i only got a job in my second year (which interfered with my studies a bit). I relied almost completely on my student loan and am still 2 years later in my overdraft let alone only paying a tiny amount of my student loan.
For this reason (if any of it makes sense!!) i do hope that in the future I could help my kids through uni if they wish to go. I doubt I will be able to do the same as Russians dad but you never know!! (although i must say �150 a week is quite a lot of money!!!!)
loobie, no-one here would deny there child the chance of Uni if they could afford it. But I for one would like my son to experience working life (be it just a saturday job) before he left uni. There is such a thing as spoiling a child to the point that they cannot cope with the reality of life. What if SRs parents went bankrupt (it does happen) how would she cope?
I see your point loobie ~ however student loans are another matter...personally I don't agree with them and would prefer grants, but while it is a Government directive there isn't a lot I can do about it :o(
I would certainly like to help my kids out if they decided to go to Uni, but I would also expect them to get a job mainly for life skills. Hopfully they will still be living with us so won't have any major living costs (We are currently in the process of extending the house so they will be comfortable doing this!) of course if they do go to Uni they may welll have to move away..but I shall cross that bridge if or when it arrives ;o)
�150 per week is a great deal of money when you are living rent free ~ however as SR has already (repeatedly) stated, her parents can afford it so it is all relative. I am content in the knowledge that my kids have, and will continue to have, a good sense of the value of money. I am not sure SR has been taught this..getting a job may well help.
I don't know why the thread has turned into a debate about how hard students/doctors work and what they have to put up with!
Life is hard, working is hard..no matter what career you choose. Studies are important, I certainly don't disagree with that. And as for Doctors falling asleep on the job, that happens even when they have been in the job for years ~ that isn't the issue here.
Nice post, SR ~ honestly :o)
I really do wish you well with your studies ~ I just think that 'putting yourself out there' for a little while would do you good..and maybe as you have asked this question it is far more personal than I thought..
Maybe helping out somewhere (as has already been suggested) will bring you the happiness, or sense of purpose, you may be craving? just a thought.