ignore flag because im a leaf. > father got his career job as a mailman out of the newspaper > starting pay at the time was 4x the minimum wage > bought our first and only home with my mother for 44k > paid it off completely in 8 years > had a defined benefits pension plan through the federal government and gets his full salary in retirement  > could afford 3 kids easily > always new cars. always ya least 2 cars growing up, 3 once we were teenagers. > had a camp he inherited that we would go hunting at its insane just how easy it was for them. i make more than he ever did and i cant afford shit. i also have multiple university degrees and am employed in the field i studied for.
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