Here is an actual conversation I had with my friend Labels the other day:
Labels: So I think I'm going to quit work.
me: Why? You just got a promotion that took you a difficult exam, 2 interviews and 6 months of waiting to get to this position.
Labels: I just need a break. I'm so tired.
Me: silence
Labels: What?
me: You're 25.
labels: And?
Me: You just started working, and you're tired? You live at home, and you don't even have to do any work at home.
labels: Well my Dad told me to quit too and take a break.
Me: Really?! My dad would boot my ass if I told him that.
What's up with that???
Thanks Mom and Dad. Seriously.
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The only time I did not have some sort of job after the age of 12 (when I started babysitting) or 16 (when I started paying taxes) was for 7 months in graduate school when I was STUDENT TEACHING 4 1/2 days a week AND taking a FULL LOAD of graduate courses. Oh, and the month I was looking for a job and homeless in Korea.
I've been working since I was young too, babysitting, reffing ringette (a woman's form of ice hockey), and then waitressing, and even in University I worked in call centers, retail stores and government offices (which rocked cause I got 50% off the clothes). The mentality is just different in India. Parents don't push their kids to work like in the west.
2 of my friends quit their jobs lived at home for over a year without working and they are in their mid-twenties.
I call India the hand holding society. Universities call the parents if their son/daughter doesn't show up (and they are 21)!!
Hard to wrap your brain around.
Hey Shelly,
I TOTALLY can relate with you and I'm sure you know what I'm talking about when I mention Korean students. Korean students who live at home, have their mothers still do their laundry and cooking, and fathers who let them use their car and pay for their education.... and how about many working Koreans too?! Don't get me wrong, I love Koreans but something about a full grown Korean living at home until their married and then expecting to fit right in with the married life when they basically have little to no experience with independence and having their own place.
So.... ya, thank you to your mom and dad, and thank you to mine too! It was the expected thing for me to make my own money and to move out at age 18.
It seems like it's an Asian thing! I remember all my Korean friends lived at home too.
You don't have to defend your love for Koreans- HEHE. I love Indians too, but there is something to say about an independent person, who is not hand held through life and can stand on their own two feet.
If I do marry my Indian boyfriend he better believe I will not be mothering him when and if we get married. HAHA
How are Koreans supposed to live on their own though? I don't know what housing is like in India, but in Korea it's so expensive it actually makes sense that kids live at home until they're married.
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