DW is on a call with our eldest niece in my IL clan.  

She was hired full time with the school district as a SN student class aid at the beginning of this school year.  This is about the only chance that she, her mother, and my SIL have at a long term job that will provide benefits and a pension.   

Over the 40mins this call has been going on so far, there has been some more of the eruptions of genetic multi-generational oddities.  She is considering quitting the school district to work a vet clinic. Because, it is her "dream job".  smh.  She and her BF of a few years have apparently "almost" qualified for an FHA home loan and are intending to buy a house.  Going down the same drain that her parents have gone down .Way over dreaming.  Her parents first home was foreclosed.  They ended up buying another home about a decade later after my BIL 1's bovine bride got her buy out for working at an employee owned company for 11yrs, though she had been fired for about 10 years when her shares matured and they paid her for her ownership % in the company.  BIL1 and the bovine bride listened to my CPA bride and payed cash for a modest home, paid off all of their debt, and but a notable chunk into an IRA. 

Her GPs lost a home to foreclosure, her uncle, my BIL2, lost a home to foreclosure.  All bad choices due to some rush to buy a home when they have zero employment stability and income stability due to a complete and total lack of skills or qualification and being unreliable as an employee.  It is all about the dream. 

Which when translated into reality, is ultimately invariably a pipe dream. We have owned 4 homes in our marriage, we are currently "homeless" and rent.  None of our homes have been lost to foreclosure or have ever been at risk of being lost.  This is a major source of delusional superiority for most of my IL clan.  Oh well. We could write a check for any house we wanted, within reason, but..... no mortgage/home, not worthy of care ... for much of my IL clan.

And... her BF got fired "for no reason" which terminated his medical insurance and he ended up with a $25K hospital bill due to his insurance being canceled on his termination date.  Of course, not his fault, fired for no reason, getting ripped off by the employer, etc....  All verbatim crap we have heard over, and over, and over again from my entire IL clan.  Homes are foreclosed because the banks are mean. No recognition that not paying results in no house. Not paying, results in no car.  No pay, results in no .... fill in the blank.

Right now she and her BG are both trying to get FASFA submitted for their next "dream" of some flavor of trade school for him and a CC for her to progress to being a Veterinarian. I cringe at this as it is the formula that my SIL went down the crapper with taking out nearly $100K in school loans and never competing a degree. SIL is also working at the school district as a get her ass beat by ill behaved spawn class aid.

Her younger sister (BioSis) is on some interesting hybrid schooling. She is too stressed to go to class because she is bullied..... kids are mean...... too stressful..... blah, blah, blah, but.... she can go to class for the stuff she likes which is the ag classes.  How the F does that work?  Your too stressed to go to school but..... not the part you like. This wussy school crap is beyond me to understand.  I miss the, get your ass to class, sit your ass down, STF up, do what you are told, do the work, or.... fail and be gone with you ...... model.  The hybrid school niece was for years a bully. She is a very large girl who would throw her size around ... until... her bullying bullshit started to be reciprocated. Instantly she and her parents went into the victim hood cry baby bullshit.  So now she gets to go to school for the stuff she likes which is where her friends are, and stay home for the real classes.  No doubt there was some legal consequences for her earlier bullying bullshit so ..... victim, victim, victim and reward the bullshit instead of having her ass eternally in supervised study hall and weekend detention. Of course if I said this, I would be the evil mean uncle.

It is so sad that she is going down the same entitled, generational failure model, and so is her younger sister.

Then there are the twins. One has been remanded to a behavioral lock in group home for threatening to kill my BIL1, the bovine bride, her twin, and the two older sisters.

I just cringe any time there is a in depth check in between my bride and her clan. It is a dance of the usual multi-generational delusion, the never ending pursuit of the fill in the blank "dream", and recounting of some not their fault termination, foreclosure, repossession, massive bill, etc, etc, etc, victim mentality...

Once again, my bride is either a mutant or an alien implant in her own family.  That becomes increasingly clear year after year, after year.