Does anyone feel like their life is going according to plan? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Sunroc@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school.

Everything I hear on social media says this is a myth.

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[-] emptyother@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Norwegian govt gave me enough money to pay rent at a boarding school when I was 17. I earned enough in my apprenticeship to rent an apartment and have a crappy car, in a small town, for two years when I was 20. Unemployment benefit (and eggs, rice, and tomato-beans) supported me for 3 months when renting in Oslo in a shared rundown apartment with 5 other people while I was looking for work, when I was 23. The job I found, 1&2 line tech support for a small software company, wasn't well-paying but good enough to pay my share of the rent and eat a bit better, and eventually buy a car again. And my dad has occasionally helped me with a bit of money when I made a mistake. Only what he could afford, and I paid back most of it.

So thats how I did it. I've been lucky. With country, with parents, and with friends.

I don't see how people in any country can do it without some kind of govt support if they don't start out with rich parents.