'Get a job!'
In my early twenties, when meeting up with old friends from university for a drink:

Ex-girfriend: You're wasting your life - you should get a job

Me: I've got a job!

Ex-girlfriend: Yeah, but a PROPER graduate job

Me: Well, I'm applying for graduate jobs, but my current job is quite good thanks very much and is helping me get relevant experience, plus it pays my rent while I look for something else.

Ex-girlfriend: It can't be that hard, I've got a job.

Me: Well, not exactly - you're doing a Masters and get subsidies from the government. That's fine, but it's not the same thing.

Ex-girlfriend: Well, you may say that, but I've got myself a flat in London haven't I, and you're renting a room?

Me: Er... your dad BOUGHT your flat for you. That's not really a fair comparison. My parents aren't loaded...

Ex-girlfriend: That's so out of order, what has my financial status got to do with you anyway?

Me: Yeah - good point...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 13:57, Reply)