What should I answer when my rich peers ask what my parents do for a living?

College Life
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<p>My dad has had/has freaking cool jobs but my mom doesn’t work. I’d have no problem telling people anything. He was unemployed for a while and if someone had asked me back then I’d say he didn’t have a job at the moment. </p>

<p>I don’t think anyone cares. My best friend’s mom works at a bank and I don’t know what her dad does. Because I don’t care what her parents do. Lol.</p>

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<p>…seriously, op?</p>

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<p>Hugs to you Barfly.</p>

<p>My D is at an “elite” school with many, many full pay friends. They don’t give a hoot that her single mom is an unskilled blue-collar worker. Those who would judge you on such criteria are not your friends.</p>

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<p>Everyone else has already said that true friends won’t care, and you don’t need the other people, so the only new thing I can add is this: read Nietzsche, particularly the idea of the Ubersmensch. When you start to rely on other people’s approval to define your own self worth, you undermine your ability to make the most of yourself.</p>

<p>Also, why do you think that your parents haven’t made anything of their lives. Blue collar work is every bit as necessary to society as white collar work, and requires a skill set that many fewer people have. Every BA in English can recite all the plots of all the Shakespeare plays, but how many of them can take apart their engine and put it back together again? Worth isn’t about how much money you make (coincidentally: the highest paid starting position in America? Auto Mechanic willing to move for work) but how much you enjoy your life. And constant worry about acceptance undermines that.</p>

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<p>^^^^^</p>

<p>What is your point?</p>

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<p>let me try to help you out…</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t care…
This isn’t the medieval times when your status depended on the wealth of your parents (though there are few people who are still caught up in that mindset). Personally, I find it a little more admirable when someone who didn’t have all the advantages of their richer peers growing up is successful. When I think about all the people who I hang out with now (maybe future friends?), the last thing that comes to mind is their parents’ jobs.</p>

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<p>Where oh where has our OP gone? Could she (for some reason I’m assuming it’s a female) really be a ■■■■■?</p>