Rejection and college students

Wjs1107
Sun, 18 May 2025 05:38:56 +0000

This is very true. I grew up in the Bay Area (Gen X) with a software engineer dad and a stay at home mom. My dad was the first in his family to finish college, my mom didn’t go. He finished his degree at Berkeley when I was a baby. The first house I really remember living in was a 3 bedroom ranch that my parents bought for 146k. This was in the early 1980s. I just went to look it up on Zillow—estimated at $2.58 million for 1350 square feet.

We raised our kids in the Bay Area too, but damn, it’s been a hustle the whole way through. Both my husband and i work, and are fortunate to have well paying jobs with decent amount of flexibility, but there’s no rest for the weary. I feel lucky that I love my job and I don’t mind the hustle, but as I get into my 50s, I do dream more of slowing down.

If my kids want the settle here, they will have to figure out how to hustle even harder. I wouldn’t mind if they set up camp somewhere less expensive and less competitive. Maybe I’d follow them