I know you probably aren't actually trying to blame them for it, but I think its unfair to even state it like that. I'm in college now, with my parents paying f

I know you probably aren't actually trying to blame them for it, but I think its unfair to even state it like that. I'm in college now, with my parents paying for everything necessary, and I started a paid internship the year before university started, and then worked part time for them through the year, and full time again during the next summer. Finally this past summer, I moved to a research position at the university, and still do some freelance work for the company I was interning/part-timing at. Now on top of a full load of classes, a research position (where the professor has never worked with an undergraduate, so I've been told I'll be treated like a PhD student - and so far it definitely feels like it), freelance work for a company (possibly another, we'll see), I'm still trying to find the time to get a company rolling with some friends of mine. And my parents still pay for everything necessary for schooling (books, tuition, housing, car, food, etc.). All it means to me is I can take the lower paying jobs that are better experience. For instance, I was offered a few jobs this summer, but I took the research position, even though it paid the worst because it looked interesting, challenging, and would help me eventually get to the grad school I want to be at. This has been a bit long winded, but my point being, just because your parents pay, doesn't mean you have to sit back and do nothing.