Sibling Rivalry

Ayla · 12-22-2005, 01:38 PM

My brother just started ANOTHER job because he got fired from ANOTHER job. He just can't seem to keep one. None of them have been very high paying jobs. He makes around $18,000 a year. Part of me feels sorry for him and the other half is secretly happy he doesn't make much money. I know....that sounds so bad.

I just remember once when I was around 14 and he was 17 and he and I had gotten into an argument about something. I don't remember what. I just remember standing outside my mom's bedroom door and hearing him tell mom that he KNEW I was going to end up barefoot and pregnant living in a shack in a holler with a drunk husband and would never leave West Virginia. As if I wasn't intelligent enough to do anything with my life and he was so much better than me. (My brother is very very smart scholastically. He's been in the Governor's Honors Academy 3 times.)

Anyway that made me so MAD. I remember it to this day. I think it is one of the things that drives me even now. So when I think about the fact that he went to college for 5 years and has a degree...and I didn't go to college and make more money than him and got out of West Virginia and he didn't...well...the little devil on my shoulder tells me it's justice for the mean things he used to say about me. I never understood why. I was a good kid. I wasn't the genius he was but I always did well in school.

I love my brother and I feel bad that he's struggling so much right now.

Weiser · 12-22-2005, 06:37 PM

Ah that reminds me of my sister and I...

She got a job as an executive assistant in a global ad firm when she went to college for film production. She has her own place in Toronto. She is younger than me.

I work in a factory making seatbelts. I'll clear 15k after taxes. I live at home. *sigh*

Difference is I always knew she would go somewhere and be something. I just didn't know it would be before me haha.

Merika · 12-25-2005, 04:44 PM

My brother is so stupid he can't even figure out how to do email.....but he makes a quarter of a million a year. He's got all this stuff paid for and is retired at 40. WTF????

Yesterday, he was telling my son he just couldn't figure out how to 'work' the computer and my son told him to go buy 'Computers for Dummies'. My brother is SUCH a dummie....he got all mad and thought my son was calling him one. I LMAO!

Luba · 12-25-2005, 05:35 PM

I didn't think there was anything wrong about buying a book called "Computers for Dummies", I've got a few different books that are ......for Dummies"; a few to individually name...

Merika · 12-25-2005, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Luba

I didn't think there was anything wrong about buying a book called "Computers for Dummies", I've got a few different books that are ......for Dummies"; a few to individually name...

That's just it...HE's so STOOOOOPID.....he didn't know my son was referring to a 'series'. 8)

Adonaicole · 12-28-2005, 02:15 PM

Life is funny. My sister who has the least education and was the worst in school, makes by far the most money of anyone in my family. I'm glad, she is a nice girl and deserves all the happiness she can get.

Merika · 12-29-2005, 12:56 PM

I'm not sure financial success has all that much to do with education. Education opens the door to most main stream sorts of jobs.....but it's the people who get out there with some strong sense of success who seem to do really well for themselves.

I never felt particularly pushed or driven to take something ordinary and make a success out of it. I kinda regret that....but I can't change the past.