Reply #64: Never thought about it that way, but it's true; I've even been blaming myself for being poor..

[Kat45]

I've been doing that myself. I was always the smart kid, had a good education at a somewhat elite university, got a master's degree--and I haven't had a steady job for 2 1/2 years. I look at folks I went to school with who are doing quite well for themselves (some of whom are engineers or MBAs), and I start blaming myself for not having been really ambitious and doggedly pursuing a great career when I was younger. I start to feel like a total loser, a failure in life, because I have no income. (ThoughI don't believe that everybody is highly ambitious, yet most people used to still get good jobs, even have pretty good careers. In today's world, that's not the case.)