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Originally Posted by ridder
the job i've taken up doesn't earn me much, and i'm currently fighting for access to my own funds. my mother claims that i will spend all my money, and so often just takes my paychecks. she claims she is putting it in savings, but i don't trust her with my money.
. i've long looked forward to college, and have been looking through different ones, but my mother refuses to talk to me about it. she won't help me and won't even attempt to guide me. the one time i looked at schools with her, she told me i should just go with the cheapest one i could find.
i've set literal goals for myself, but they don't get me anywhere either. my next goal would be to drive, but i'd have to pay for the lessons, and my father already told me that car insurance would be unaffordable, so there's almost no point...which means that i also thought of saving for a motorcycle or scooter, but my mother won't let me.
she says that i am already spending money i don't have. .
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I learned to drive under two rounds of learners permits, because of the 'car insurance' rhetoric. However, I made sure to have my license at 18, because I wanted my license before going off to college. Oddly, I could drive every one else's cars, but my parents, after my license. I still haven't comprehended that one, after many years of paying for my own auto insurance policies.
About the find something cheaper. Here's the thing, about 4 year degrees. The first two years, are basic classes. Can be achieved at a community college, and if the GPA's are high enough, all those credits can be transferred over to another college/university. Witnessed that happen first hand, by two of my sorority sisters. Honestly, what a practical decision.
I am baffled, by the logic here...Saying you are already spending more money than you have, yet she's taking your paychecks from you and putting it in to savings(which you sound skeptical about). Are you able to, at least have access to those statements or passbook? If not, to withdraw funds, to observe, that it's really going where she says it's going and not to pay the 'family bills'?
The positive thing, about finding your self, is that you know what you like and don't like. Yet, it's difficult to truly spread your wings when there lacks a certain amount of independence, which, by virtue of still being in high school, I'd presume you are still a minor child and not emancipated by your parents, yet?
