Rich People, do you hate or love your lives?

Being generous and thinking of others? Didnt you have a forum about sociopaths?

I got it partially as a result of getting 14 A*s at GCSE and getting into Harrow, but hey ho. My brother has a job that puts him in the top tax bracket at the age of 22 so I'm yet to get there, but I am working hard. I think there's a lot less stress when you're rich and a much smaller sense of responsibility sometimes so it is important to give back to the community and not forget about others.

my dad earns a decent amount of money, and I felt quite miserable for the past few years living with my family. My dad and mom are always fighting, and talks of divorce are always around the corner, although it hasn't happened yet. I'm constantly told by my dad that he hates my mom and the only reason he hasn't kicked her out of the house is because of me.

My dad always asks me 'tell me why I should support you two pieces of ****' (referring to me and my mom) whenever he gets in a bad mood from work and in the past has went into my room with a hammer and smashed some of my belongings while yelling at me in a fit of anger, and this lasted several hours up until 2 am. I was quite useless in school the next day. To him, anything is 'ok' and justified if you're angry, which he manages to find every little reason to be really angry such as me not eating dinner with him when he gets home from work at 9 o clock at night or siding with my mother in an argument.

When he gets happy about something, he often goes overboard with it though but doesn't really know what to do about it. Like when I got a scholarship for some competition, he just gave me a big chunk of money, more than any parent would realistically give their child. He then would proceed to tell every single one of his friends about it and would not stop talking about it even years later.

Even though I did have a good education and I did come from a reasonably wealthy family, I wasn't happy and I lived in perpetual fear that I would lose it all. I am much happies now my father thought boarding school was a good idea, and subsequently I can avoid my family for the most part except for a couple of holidays a year.

I'd class my faimly as rich. But, what's interesting is that in my life, we went from poverty, like barely knowing whether we were next going to eat. To living in a large house, with lots of land, and many nice cars. Werid transion basically, poverty - poor - middle class - to rich. I'd say I've noticed a increase in happiness from my family, just feels like more freedom, more opportunities, less stress etc. Obviously, money itself doesn't make people happy, but in my experience it certainly does help. In other words, I wouldn't go back to the days of poverty.

My father has an excellent job and is exceedingly wealthy, which has allowed him to support almost single handedly my mother, me and my 4 siblings. It is truly a privilege to come from such a background, I've received excellent education at private schools and been around the world on many holidays. I feel it's also allowed me to appreciate just how lucky I am by having friends and acquaintances who aren't as fortunate.

If I may ask, what job does he do?

When your parents have a combined yearly salary over a million pounds then of course you are generous. My parents and I don't lack common decency.

Being generous and thinking of others? Didnt you have a forum about sociopaths?

He's a corporate insurance lawyer

Oh nice!. Well I am studying law at university this year, super excited but I am not sure what type of lawyer I am going to become. Leaning towards criminal law though. Anyway you must be proud of your dad!.

I am of course, he's worked blood, sweat and tears to get to where he is now, managing director of Europe in his particular company

Don't worry about specialising yet, you'll have plenty of time to do that at Uni. And don't you have to go to law school after Uni to further specialise anyway?

um even more impressive . I suppose I will. Specialising isn't my biggest worry now tbh, just meeting my grade requirements to get into my firm uni (LSE) . Kind of, you do training contracts for about 2 years I think. So are you planning to follow in the footsteps of your father? or another path.

My brother is a stock broker in London, my dad is an investment banker and my mum is a doctor whilst my sister is training to be one. Harrow is lovely and very, very posh.

Ahh, it must be different now then as my father only did a year of law school after Uni before getting a job.

No, law is definitely not for me, I'm a third year Natural Scientist

Still an equally respectable path, what uni if I may ask?, not being nosey but you know.

I have hoards of cash and I enjoy buying good things and triumphantly storming over people with my elephantine private education-funded intellect.

Being someone who has parents in the very highest percent of earners, it is a blessing. I have been to excellent private schools, I have always been comfortably off and I have also been able to help those less fortunate. Financial freedom gives so many options in practically every aspect of life. Most importantly, though, I have a VW Beetle at the age of 17. Which makes me extremely happy.

(...) So if you consider yourself/your family very rich, do you take you wealth as a blessing or a burden? it would be interesting to know.