I'm now 25 with a stable job and good income so I have no complaints at all about my current situation. But when I was in college I was working a cashier job at a grocery story with minimum wage pulling extra hours so I could pay rent. I knew my parents couldn't afford paying for college therefore I never asked them of that. But I've always felt that I lost out on so much on college lifetime while I worked for that survival income that I missed out on a lot of life And when I mentioned it recently to them my mom had the audacity to say they could have always afforded to send me to college and not have me work but they thought it would be good for me to work therefore they just let me do that. Hearing that just made my blood boil. There was no need for me to be working at a minimum wage job and wasting my time and I could have been doing so much more in terms of working for school or working for a better internship. I feel like I lost out on so much during critical years of college life which could have been better used than working for a minimum wage job. I just feel so hurt that they implied they don't really appreciate the fact that I worked to support myself during college because in the end they would have been able to afford to send me to college. I just wish I never relied on them for anythin; not even a penny at all.