Do you live in your parents basement and have no job?

[bluestateguy]

The CW on the conservative boards (one of which I am not allowed to mention by name) is that all of us are fully grown adults still living at home with no job and no life.

Is this true for any of you? I would doubt that this board has any more people who fit this description than their side does. I'm 29, and the only time I ever lived at home as an adult was for 2 1/2 months in between my college graduation and the start of graduate school.

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. No

I could swear there are days that it is coming to that, but in fact I am a an intermittently working property-owner with a family.

[LeftyMom]

2. Nope, I moved out as soon as I could legally sign a lease on my own place

and stayed gone. Except for the two years I devoted exclusively to LeftyKid after he was born, I've always worked since I graduated from high school.

No basements around here anyhow, we're on a flood plain. ;)

[no name no slogan]

3. I lived in my mom's basement for a couple months this summer

but that was right after my ex-wife and I split and she was living in the house. I had noplace else to live, so I lived there and commuted 100 miles one way to work-- when gas was at $3 per gallon, of course.

[Capn Sunshine]

4. I've noted that those guys do a LOT of projecting

why should this be any different ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Not since about 1969.

And never in the basement, even when I was home during college breaks. And I've actually been employed full-time ever since. I even pay taxes. Do I need to become a Republican? :sarcasm:

[johnnie]

6. No

Bought my own home, have a recording studio, I became an electrical engineer by working my way through the ranks without a college degree. I have been working since the age of 14.

I wonder if people at Certain Unmentionable websites have jobs. They seem to spend a lot of time watching this place.

[SOteric]

7. No. I live in a two bedroom apartment which I share with my cat,

and I work at 3 jobs, all of which require specialised degrees.

[grateful581]

31. 3 jobs

"You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."
- GW Bush

[benny05]

74. That was my thought too

True good wishes to the poster who is workin' 3 jobs

[Chemical Bill]

8. I have a job, own the building, and live on the 2nd floor...

but my brother, who listens to Rush, collects disability, and has no job, lives on the first floor. He drinks the kool-aid. I only tolerate that because my father beat him when he was young, and probably left brain damage (that's a joke, but he definitely has emotional damage). Since I'm the youngest of five, I was mostly ignored rather than beaten, and grew up to reject everything my father believes in (except holding a job), rather than growing up with brain damage. How's that for the cliff-notes version?

Bill

[Tsiyu]

13. Belated Welcome, Chemical Bill

:hi:

Guess I should add that my parents don't have a basement

and I own my little hardscrabble farm - no mortgage 'nuthawords.

And I work my ass off. Most of the time. :P

[Chemical Bill]

14. Well thank you.

:hi:

And another milestone to boot.

Bill

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Nope. Employed, tax-paying, bill-paying, etc., homeowner here.

:shrug:

[HEyHEY]

10. They're just pissed because our parents aren't in prison

And hence we can stay at their homes.
And no, I don't live at home with no job, I live hundreds of Kilometres away with a job. But when...I hope that's okay with the fuckos (Freepers, not my parents)

[Ariana Celeste]

11. I'm a housewife, does that count?

:hi:

[fight4my3sons]

56. Me too.

I take care of our three children while my husband works 12 hour days. I do have a masters degree in education. I haven't lived at home with my parents since I was 20, 13 years ago.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Forty Years Old and I'm Livin' in My Mom's Garage

When I was young, I was the closest to her heart
We were like one person, but we've drifted far apart
Now when I need her most, she will not support me
And if I won't go quietly, she'll have to report me
She wants me to act like some middle-aged man
I used to think she knew me, but she can't understand
That it's hard to make a living doing watercolor and collage
That's why I'm forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's garage

My girlfriend's all but finished with her graduate degree
She always knows the questions when we're watching "Jeopardy"
There's a coffeehouse near campus where her work is on display
The critics from the weekly paper go there every day
She's a true creative, which they cannot abide
So they compensate by being condescending and snide
They say her work's a mangled mess of macrame and mucilage
But they're all forty years old and they're livin' in their mom's garage

Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's ga—
Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's ga—
Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's garage
My hobbies are Godzilla movies, mountain biking and triage
I've got to relax 'cause I get so stressed from this incessant negative barrage

Mom wakes me up, she needs the car, for what I can't say
She dresses up and goes out early almost every day
I try to explain that an artist needs his rest
At least 12 hours so I can be my best
Now I'm outside sleeping under the hedge
But someday they'll recognize me as the genius with an edge
I'll meet with the New York elite, I'll be the Duke of Decoupage
With a carhole full of limos for my sycophantic entourage
Hey, at least I'm chasing something, even if it's only a mirage

But now I'm forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's ga—
Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's ga—
I'm forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's garage
Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's ga—
Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's ga—
Forty years old and I'm livin' in my mom's garage



~ Austin Lounge Lizards

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. I love them!

Heard one of their tunes on the local folky show. I have to get one of their cds!

Any thoughts on which is best?

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Depends

Their earlier stuff was wittier, snarkier, more political and more... well, let's just say it's been awhile since they've had a song that cited Kafka or Orwell.

Their last three CDs, it seemed like they're trying to appeal to more of a "family" audience... although "Hey, Little Minivan" on "Employee of the Month" is one of the best things they ever did, and "Leonard Cohen's Day Job" is also on that.

So I've really gotta go with the early stuff: "Creatures from the Black Saloon," "Highway Café of the Damned" and "Lizard Vision" (live).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. Thanks for the tip!

Lizard Vision sounds good to me!

[Dave Reynolds]

15. I am in the medical field, work 50-60 hours a week.

I earn a fair amount of money. I live in a 5 bedroom farmhouse located on a working dairy farm. The farmhouse has a basement, but no one lives there but 100,000 spiders.

[democracyindanger]

17. No, but I'd like to.

Tell me more!

[NewJeffCT]

18. In my old D&D group (yes, Dungeons & Dragons)

The two liberals in the group (myself & one other guy) are both happily married with children, have good jobs, have wives with good jobs and live in nice homes in good towns with good schools. Oh, and both of us are in good shape financially with little debt outside mortgages.

The two most rapid Republicans have dead-end jobs and live at home with their parents. Despite one of them being in his mid 30s, we're pretty sure he's a virgin... even though he'd never admit to it. Both, in the vein of Bush & Reagan, are in debt up to their asses (they both had to call in those non profit groups that help you consolidate your debt into 1 single monthly payment...) Oh, and the virgin guy is not a virgin by choice - he just can't get any.

[PatriotGames]

23. That's funny. LOL

[NewJeffCT]

30. well, picture this

If you know the show South Park, the 35-36 year old guy that is still a virgin is Cartman at that age. Honest. One guy even does a dead-on imitation of him that combines the guy with a bit of Cartman thrown in...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Not me

[politicat]

20. Nope. Haven't lived with my mother since I was 16.

Haven't lived with my father since I was 15.

I did live in a basement apartment for a year in 2000, but that had more to do with the fact that there are a lot of basement apartments in Denver.

For the record, I'm married, own a house, and will be 30 next month.

[MissB]

21. Pretty funny CW

Nope, it isn't true. I'm in my 30's. This is the second home I've owned. I moved out of my parents' home at the end of my junior year of high school. :D

On edit: part of that CW is actually true. I don't work outside the home right now. My engineering degree isn't getting much of a workout. My youngest kid never adjusted to daycare, so I walked away from my career for a few years.

[PatriotGames]

22. Please. I bet we DUers do better than most freepers.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Moved out at 23...MrG is gainfully employed, and I am self employed

as a very successful real estate appraiser. Take that Mr. "I'm a creepy Loan Officer with no formal education getting by on sucking the life's blood out of hard working people with my lies". Yes, this is to one loan officer creep in particular who frequents another site. :hi:

[WCGreen]

26. Been on my own since 1979

[grateful581]

27. NO, I moved out when I was 18 years old

But my 33 year old freeper cousin still lives with his parents.

[UncleSepp]

28. 33 years old, work as a consultant, and own my own home

I do just fine.

[Metta]

29. What was it Rev. Al said?

"Real leaders don't take sides they bring the sides together." That's my daily wish. I hope I live long enough to see the damage that * and his evil minions have done be undone.

[Redstone]

32. Ahem. I own a very successful business.

Never went to college, but I won't tell you the amount of billing my business generated last year (and has for 13 years), because it would sound like boasting, and I don't like to boast.

But I can guarantee that it's at least sixteen times what those freeper losers make working at McDonald's.

Fuck 'em.

And furthermore, I left my parents' house at 16 years old, which also happens to be the age at which I graduated from high school.

So they can kiss my liberal ass, which I'm sure most of the homophobic-because-they-have-serious-doubts-about-their-own-repressed-sexuality wankers would be only too thrilled to do, if they'd only be honest...

Redstone

[Mutley]

50. Redstone, your posts always crack me up.

:D

[SmileyBoy]

33. I live in a dorm (college) and will have a steady job starting in Jan.

Though for 3 months out of the year I actually do live in my parent's basement.

I also get damn good grades.

[elshiva]

35. YES! IT is true for me. But I am getting an internship soon.

It is embarrassing to live at home at 24, but am I supposed to go
homeless? :shrug:

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

43. Don't be embarrassing elshiva

I live at home as well right now and I'm 25 and unemployed at this time, I'm going back to college next week. I will find another job after I get back into the pattern of college in a month or 2 that works around school. My last job 55k year labor job in a warehouse, 5 years from now I would be beat down from working 13 days straight and ready to die with no future. I've been responsible for my own financial since I was 16, I try to help my family out with what I can with a little rent money & buy the grocery, in the last year I've bought the parents a new Washer/dryer along with a sony flat screen TV. I've had complete strangers and even people I thought where my friends make fun of me for my living situation at the moment. Usually these people have had some of following or all given to them in life by their parents.

A Car
Car Insurance
Gas money
Cell Phone
College Tutition
Rent for an Apartment
Down payments on a House
A House completely paid for
or just everday I need this or that

When I ask them about those things it usually leaves them with a face looking like a cat that just licked it's butt. Those kinds of things that they take for granted can really help a person out in life to get started. There are alot of republicans that are like this "I'm self made" attitude that don't even realize their not really that, act like complete asses. Liberals & Democrats think differently, I won't slam anyone who has had those things given to them on here because we all on here understand the value of it helping others, no matter what our financial situation was or is.

[elshiva]

69. Thanks Indy_Dem_Defender.

:)

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

72. Your welcome

:thumbsup:

[Fox Mulder]

36. I am.

Not in a basement, but at home. It's because I have no money and just dropped out of school. Once I get enough for an apartment, I'm moving back out. I'm guessing I'll be out of here in about two months at most. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Nope. And the only three friends I know who did live in the basement

are all rabid ignorant-style republicans, one of which would be perfect for FR, one which is perfect for any kind foAyn Randian republico-libertarian psycho wackjob but-literate-and-well-spoken board, and the other for the basic devolved former-Marine construction worker type who isn't as psychotic as a freeper but not as literate as an old school republican.

[elshiva]

39. Hi, I live in a basement and am a liberal.

Probably haven't gotten a steady job because of my mental
illnesses. I'm broke and I'm liberal... is that weird?

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. It's not weird. It is what it is.

No apologies needed, no defense, explanation, or justication needed.

[elshiva]

41. Thank you.

[NMMNG]

38. I work two full-time jobs

And I have been employed at least 40 hours per week since age 17.5, and began working at age 14. Most of my adult life I have worked more than 40 hours per week, either in the form of overtime, or in the form of a second (or even third) job. I moved out of my mom's home six months after my 18th birthday and have never returned. Tell the wingnuts to flake off.

[radwriter0555]

42. Well, I live in the south of france and haven't "worked" in some time

now. See, there's this thing called "investing" and creating your own opportunities, and if you get really, REALLY lucky, you hit a nice, big, fat payoff... THEN you get to invest in other money making opportunities that enable you to live in a modest, comfortable lifestyle in a nice part of the planet where you're content.

It's called letting your money work FOR you. As opposed to, like the freepers on the unmentioned board, working for a giant, faceless, useless corporation where you make $8 an hour and do all the grunt work, while the CEO makes 3 million a year to golf.

I consider myself very, very, very fortunate. Kinda like a lotta thing, except that I'm the one responsible for my good fortune.

Oh right, and I left home at 18, about 25 years ago, with $30 in my pocket. Never looked back.

[shanti]

46. lucky you

:hi:

[Evergreen Emerald]

54. I love the south of France

That is my goal someday after my daughter is grown and the dog dies. I have traveled there a couple of times.

[last_texas_dem]

44. No, but...

...that's just 'cause they don't have basements here on the coast where I live. haha I am, at 22, currently living with my parents and I don't have a job. I just moved out of an apartment after deciding not to continue with grad school (not 'cause of grades; I had a 4.0) next semester, so I'm kind of "between things" at the moment.

[LincolnMcGrath]

45. I had my own pad as a senior in High School

Never Looked Back

[LaurenG]

47. I moved out at 16

I have never lived at home since. I am a lot older than 29 as well so they are confused, obviously.

[Mutley]

48. Hell no.

I love my parents but UGH! I could not live with them again.

edit: Oh and they don't have a basement. Too close to the ocean. And yes I have a job. Up until September I had two jobs.

[ComerPerro]

49. Dude, you're only 29?

For some reason I thought you were older.

Of course, you're still older than me (24)!

:hi:

[datasuspect]

51. i wouldn't begrudge anyone who had to do what it took to have shelter

times are tough in some places.

people like to show off online though.

it's not like anyone can actually verify anything on a message board.

[BuelahWitch]

52. I have no parents

:cry:

[NoPasaran]

53. No way! My parents' basement smells weird

Also, it's a couple of thousand miles away from my house.

[Evergreen Emerald]

55. No, but I am trying to talk my daughter into letting me live in her turret

She says I must take the dungeon. Alas.

[Jade Fox]

57. Sometimes I wish!...

Then there are the Conservatives who claim we are all rich and riding around in limos!

[Cobalt Violet]

58. No, I have a job and an apartment n/t

[Burma Jones]

59. Nope, I work for the Marine Corps, which is closer to the Military

Than most of these weasel assholes have ever got. I have a PhD in Computer Science, and am extremely comfy and live in a liberal county of a liberal state, pay taxes that I can actually see working and would appear to these horsefuckers to be one of "them". If these shit eating, pustulent fucks are so damn better and productive than the rest of us, how come the wealthiest and best educated states in the USA are fucking BLUE?????

[Fleshdancer]

60. I'm in TX....what's a basement??

we don't have those down here. :D

Let's see, I moved out when I was 18, married at 21, moved to Japan 4 months after getting married, gave birth to my daughter when I was 23, moved back to the States when she was 3 months old, moved back to Texas when she turned 3 and now my husband and I own our own company. What am I doing today? Planning the logistics for a 5 week trip to Europe and Israel for Spring 2006. My life fun. I'm still madly in love with my husband, my daughter is my inspiration and my friends are wildly entertaining. If I get any happier, my heart will explode.

Let them believe what ever makes them feel better about themselves. If thinking we are alone living in basements gives them an ounce of happiness, then so be it. It's their time and energy wasted trying to figure out who we are in the real world and although it's sad, it's what they do. ;)

[mcscajun]

61. Have owned my own home for the last fifteen years. Still gainfully

if quite underemployed after a 32-year career in banking/IT.

Have lived with family while getting over divorce, but only as long as it took to get back on my feet and get my own place. :)

My parents never had a basement; indeed, they never owned their own home, or a car, and never had to support me after age 19. I went back to college at 37 and got a degree, won on Jeopardy thirteen years ago, bought my own little home all on my own, and ran for local office this year. I wonder how many freepers can say likewise.

[mvd]

62. I don't live in the basement, but for now I'm living with them

I'm 29. I help out around the house. But don't get too happy, Freepers - looks like I'll be able to get a job at the University Of Pennsylvania this year. Besides, Freepers sure have time on their hands to poison the web - so look who's talking. :-)

[StellaBlue]

63. Almost.

I am back in my hometown, against my will, working in a customer service position earning $1200 a month, living with my mom in her APARTMENT. Not depressing AT ALL. Oh, I am 26. But I do have a life.

Edited to add: this is the first time I have lived with my parents, or in this hellhole, since I was 17.

See my explanation at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4513149#4515231

[merh]

64. Nope, no parent's basement for me.

Both of my parents are gone. :-(

Not many basements in South MS and if those that did exist probably flooded thanks to Katrina.

And I do have a job, wish I didn't have to work.

Tell your CW that he is mistaken. :hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

65. Well, between apartments in the mid 80s I stored things in their

basement. Do you think that counts?

No living in the basement for the Midlos. We have a lovely (I think) home and we both have pretty good jobs.

[CanuckAmok]

66. I wish!

That'd be sweet. Three squares a day, free cable, all the blue and red lawn lights I could steal, washer/dryer right next to my bed...

What else could one want?

[RayOfHope]

67. I live in my own home, but my freep brother in law

lives in a trailer owned by his dad, and his entire lifestyle is 100% subsidized by my inlaws, right down to car insurance, cell phone, and gym membership. Did I mention this brother in law is 31 years old?

[Left Is Write]

68. Not last time I checked.

I have lived with my parents as an adult, but I was gainfully employed and paying rent the entire time.

I've been a homeowner for a number of years now, though.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

70. during the summer

But I'm 18 - for the most part, I live in a dorm & buy my own shit. My parents aren't paying for my tuition, just signing their names to loans which I'm responsible for.

So no, I don't live in the basement of my parents house. I also have a life, surprise surprise.

[supernova]

71. Yes, but it's My House now

:D

I'm mistress of the manor around here now. :D The house is paid for and I pay my taxes on time and I perfrom Jury Duty. So there.

[Liberal In Texas]

73. errr...NO. I imagine that describes more of them than us.

We're also elitists. Probably because we do things like read and think for ourselves.