In 2024, there were more home buyers over the age of 70 in the U.S. than under the age of 35
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My parents recently blew like $8-9000 on a riverboat cruise in Europe while I can barely keep my car running. I live with them due to me being white in this economy and they have the gall to ask me to start helping them with bills (they both drive Mercedes that they paid around $90k cash for). My mother says it is because I "don't work hard enough". I work in a warehouse lifting generators and refrigerators for several hours a night. In the last five years I have probably done more hard manual labor than my father has in his lifetime.
I'm only around 30, but my knees crackle when I squat. My parents think that I should have a $100k+ job by now. The irony being that I might actually have one by now if I didn't waste 4 years in college and another 5 trying to make it in that career as a straight white male in a very saturated heavy liberal field. They still think its 1983, because that's the last time they had to find a job.
And the worst part? My parents aren't even that bad by boomer standards.
Why the absolute fuck haven't they leveraged their own contacts to get you a job?
Seriously. I can't fathom this attitude some people have. If there's anything life has taught me, if you want any sort of reasonable job, you basically have to abuse family/friend connections.
Boomers... do good for *family?!?!?!?
They probably worked some sinecure jobs that no longer exist.
Boomers have the "i have a sandwich, why is everyone hungry?" outlook on life. They think because they rode the post-WW2 economic wave to the very end, that everyone at every stage in their life are in that same situation.
My dad will unironically suggest I buy a house down the street from him in his Beach side community. He couldn't even afford to buy his home today. He doesn't realize that someone would need to make 5x what he made when he bought it in the 90s to be able to afford the identical house. Boomers truly are clueless to the struggle of anyone else, even not so well off fellow boomers, but especially their own kids.
Start looking for nursing homes.
What are your skills?
Do you have any savings?
Do you own a vehicle? A work truck?
Look into getting a pull behind camper. If you have a tow hitch on your vehicle then you can have a small mobile home. It's a good backup plan.
In the meantime, maybe just stay on your parents good side if they have something to leave you in their will.
I think you should just start your own business. But i need to know more about your skillset, whether you have some basic business understanding from college, etc.
Also, if you come up with a good business idea then maybe your parents can provide some capital finance, help market your business, etc.
A big problem with vanlife is that most municipal areas don't allow overnight parking/camping, so you spend a lot of time hiding, getting harassed out of spots, looking for new spots, worried about getting kicked out of known spots.
I've seen videos of boondocking guys paying property owners simply for the right to park in their driveways unharassed.
And even then, this requires one to live quite rurally, because a lot of towns have strict restrictions regarding campers remaining in driveways or residential streets even on private property.
Just join a KOA which has camps all over the USA. Then you get access to all their spots. Also truckers know lots of places to park and sleep with millions in cargo in the back. So get in with their networks. Find the industrial parts of urban areas and you can find places to park. near the ports or where trains are loaded with cargo. Lots of vans and trucks. Also any where construction is going on you can often get away with parking vans or trucks. Also don't make your camper look so campy. Make it look more like a work trailer from the outside or make it more discreet so you blend in.
Also, paying for a parking spot somewhere might be worth it. The idea is to CHASE the work. Wherever you can make the most money is where you should relocate your mobile camper to, park, and stack cash which you convert to gold and silver bullion and safely stash in safe locations.
You could just continue to live with your parents but get a job that requires you to travel a lot, which means then see less of you and you still have a room they let you come home to when you return from a week of traveling, driving truck cargo, working remote construction projects for a steel company or something, I know a guy who bought his own rig and just runs cargo for contract. He said there's bidding sites and he just bids and chooses which cargo to run, and then he says there's groups he joins but i guess it's 1099 work or he started his own business llc
There's one company my bud worked for that just repaired signs. They had repairmen traveling around different states installing large storefront signs and repairing others
I'm not OP btw.
I was just chiming in about the unseen negative aspects of living like a carnie/gypsy.