I came from a wealthy family, and I had a part time job off the books by the age of 13  You only briefly touched this but it got me thinking, and apologies this being off topic; I also come from a fairly wealthy family and from the outside it probably looked like I got anything I wanted but that's not the case at all. I had a paper run at the age of 11. $17.50 per week I dropped that when I went to high school but soon after got a job at a local market gardener. $7/hour When I was 17 I got a job doing dishes/cleaning a bakery every second Saturday for $50/day    I've had a huge variety of jobs over the years, landscaper, cheese maker, road worker, but I've essentially been working since I was 10 years old. Now, at 28, with no University/College/Tertiary education, I work in IT and get paid well for it. That is how I was able to afford a Porsche at 26, my parents did not buy it for me, I worked for it. Is this a common thing amongst others with "wealthy parents"? And yes, I'm under no delusions that there are spoiled people whose parents do buy them anything they want but I suspect a lot of people have the "work for what you want" mentality instilled in them from a young age.