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Message: [QUOTE="Rocco, post: 923664, member: 51"] Way to throw a blanket over every single person who is in their 30's. I will take offense to that comment, as did [USER=22]CIL[/USER]. I've worked hard enough, in my childish age, to make my way up the investment world. Went from grunt intern to partner over the last 10+ years. That paid off last year when I was able to launch my own investment advisory firm. Tossed everything I had built-up and threw it on the line. It was a ballsy move, but I wanted control and took the bull by the horns and did it. Fortunately, it has been more successful than I ever envisioned at this point. I am currently raising my 15 month-old daughter with my beautiful wife who happens to be in the medical field. We were saturated with student loans and have finally begun climbing our way out of a deep hole of debt. I wasn't given a free ride on someone else's ticket, nor was my wife. My wife's father has been a mechanic in the Mohawk Valley for the last 40+ years. They had less than a pot to piss in growing up. When I was 10, I once asked my father for $5 to head to the movies. He proceeded to say, "What have you done for me today? Go get a job if you want to enjoy those types of things." So that's exactly what I did, haven't stopped working for myself since. And I'm 100% OK with that, frankly, that's how it should be. Nothing in this life is handed to you. Self-entitled? If doing the above is self-entitled, then I guess I am. Coddled? I roofed houses, worked in a steel mill and bartended throughout college to make some money for books. Also, worked full-time when I was a senior in HS and always had summer/winter jobs in the younger years. I have a few buddies who are active duty in the military and have been for the last 15 years. I myself happened to be very close to enlisting in the Marines right after graduation, but didn't for various reasons. I would love to see some sort of military service obligation. I think it would help a lot of kids get on the right track and teach them respect. I am a huge supporter of our military and the troops behind the scenes. They will never, ever get enough respect for what they've done for us and that is not right. I'm not looking for praise from you or anybody, but comments like yours are ignorant and flat-out untrue. There are bad eggs in every generation (20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, etc). There are also great people in every generation. Just remember, at some point down the road, someone in my generation might be changing your diapers in a nursing home. [/QUOTE]

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