Reply #3: Same here. except for the married part. LOL

[Javaman]

I live in Austin and as great a city as this is, there is a gigantic slacker element here. As if as it's almost encouraged.

fortunately he doesn't live with us. He finally got his own place. He does have a job, but nothing noteworthy.

Beyond all my complaining about him, he is basically a good kid but not in the least motivated about anything at all.

He has a degree in environmental studies, a pretty hot field right now, but does nothing to pursue a job in that field.

Drives me nuts. My GF and his dad are just very laid back and have given him just about anything he wanted growing up (that's a massive problem to me). Christ they still even pay some of his bills. That blew me away. I can't demand anything but I did strongly suggest that they cut him off and let him fed for himself, that will be the biggest motivator to him getting a job in his field.

One would think that maybe he's hanging around with a bunch of losers, but he's the odd man out, his friends are all pursuing their fields of study and are moving on.

His older sister, has her act together, living on her own in San Fran and working as a chef.

I just don't get it.