Your Parents, Success or Failure. Options

[Consynx]

Be as harsh as you want...their your own rents.
but im curious, how many of your parents are loaded, how many are broke as sh*t...and just all that jazz...

That's all..

[FallenHero]

well my parents came to this coutry the way most hispanics do (they came from El Salvador) crossing da RIO GRANDE and well my dad i would consider to be a success....he was teh second oldest of his 10 siblings and his father was murdered by corrupt police..so he came to the US (with $20) to try to make soemthing...he lived in DC for a while in an unairconditioned apartment...sending most of the money he got from working construction back to his mother and his bros and sistas...he saved up some money and finally one by one brought all his bros and sisters and his mom to america....my dad did not even finish high school..since his dad died while he was onlyu 12 he had to take responsibliity (his odler brother was off gettin bytches pregnant) My dad married my mom and they had me..we lived in a ghetoo area of Langley park...my dad after years of hard labor decieded he needed to do better...so he left the company and started his own....keep in mind thast this is without ever finishing high school, without that good of english speaking skills...nothing...but somehow he made it and im not saying we are rich...but we are good and stable...i have to younger sisters and we live in a home worth $400,000 now plus 2 other homes we have and the busienss for a total of about 1 million in assets...my dad turned $20 into $1 mill i think thast a success
(my mom cleans houses which helps us pay for groceries)

i think he rasied me right cause im doing teh same thing...im at university of maryland where hispanics are like 3% and doing fairly well..not to mention i just got my real estate license and wil begin to sell proterites in the upcoming year..with my dads construction company adn my license we will be able to buy damaged hoomes and fix them up and sell them for $$$ 
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Rock on dude.

My dad's a social worker and my mom's a homemaker... we're surviving.  My brothers and I help pay bills... then again... Asian families are very different from your typical 'white' family (sorry for not being politically correct).  I know Vangsta will know what I mean... ;]
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What the hell? You're asian? Why is your handle Kwanza? lol


OOK, Well, Dad is/was and Educator (Principal, retired, now part time teacher=semi hobbie) Mom has worked for the state for eternity. Now she is the personell manager for the state department of the Treasury... which is sweet because I could go just about anywhere in the capital as a kid. I freakin have locked the big honkin vault in the reinforced bunker type place in the basement.= really cool.

Success? ehh. I think both my rents are successful. they have provided my brother and I with a high standard of living, and a great understanding of life and how to live (kept us straight, make us pay for college and other such things while providing us with cars and when they are generous, gas money. )

It's a good life. I love my parents to death, although my mom can be a pain when I come in late on the weekends.

[Kwanza26]

My dad's a social worker and my mom's a homemaker... we're surviving.  My brothers and I help pay bills... then again... Asian families are very different from your typical 'white' family (sorry for not being politically correct).  I know Vangsta will know what I mean... ;]
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What the hell? You're asian? Why is your handle Kwanza? lol
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Yep... naturalized Asian American. The name "Kwanza" goes all the way back to my grade-school days. A good majority of people who know me simply know me by 'Kwanza' or 'Kwanz'. It has little to do with the holiday... ;]