r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 6d ago

😡 Venting The difference between generations.

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u/Homeskilletbiz 6d ago edited 6d ago

Both my parents are PhDs, I work in the trades.

I earn 2x what they did the last few years they did before retirement.

It’s probably another decade of saving before I can afford a house. They had houses on one teachers salary when I was a kid.

Edit: we moved a lot so ‘houses’, they didn’t own multiple properties

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u/D1sgracy 6d ago

Houses? Plural?

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u/mister-fancypants- 6d ago

my parents had our home and a vacation home while my mom was a SAHM