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Do you're parents accept you for what you're doing

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Do you're parents accept you for what you're doing

Do your parents accept you for what you're doing?

Ie, would your parents be more proud if you were a doctor/lawyer/engineer and the like. Or less proud if you were a director for small plays, free-lance journalist, plumber, electrician etc.
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I think your paretns should be proud if your happy what your doing.

Going through school (this may sound sterotypical but its my experiance) there where lots of asians taking engineering becuase thats what their parents expected of them, they made up for the lack of engineering nack/desire with real hard work but in the end didn't really enjoy what they where doing, to me that seems like a shame.

If you end up in any job where you can support your family, and live the life style you like it shouldnt matter what the job is.
hell I know a couple garbage men that live better lives then lots of engineers.
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Yeah, since my parents wouldn't accept my initial career choice as a law enforcement officer or something in that field, I'm still in high school on my fifth year taking business courses instead studying criminology at York. :(
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you're = you are
your = your

don't give another reason for your parents to be ashamed of you.
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Sajjad wrote:Do your parents accept you for what you're doing?

Ie, would your parents be more proud if you were a doctor/lawyer/engineer and the like. Or less proud if you were a director for small plays, free-lance journalist, plumber, electrician etc.
you're = you are
your = your

don't give another reason for your parents to be ashamed of you.


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Sajjad wrote:call me blind but I can't find my supposed error?
Sajjad wrote:Yes...you're point being?
you're != your
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15-20_God wrote:you're = you are
your = your

don't give another reason for your parents to be ashamed of you.
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GroceryBagHead wrote:you're != your
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it's a mental problem > :(
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Sajjad wrote:call me blind but I can't find my supposed error?
read the title of YOUR thread.
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Hard for parents to accept their kids dreams, for instance, if my kid ever told me they wanted to be a freelance social worker, when I've put them through the best education for them, & myself and my wife both have professional careers.. yea i'd flip and tell them to pick something worthwhile.
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CodecX81 wrote:i'd flip and tell them to pick something worthwhile.
worthwhile to who?

when talking about career choices, i think there's two ways to be miserable: doing a job you hate, or make so little money that you live below the poverty line.

After a certain income level, what you do is more important than how much you make, so unless they choose something where they will be completely poor (i.e. burger flipper) why not let them do what they love?
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supernerd wrote:worthwhile to who?

when talking about career choices, i think there's two ways to be miserable: doing a job you hate, or make so little money that you live below the poverty line.

After a certain income level, what you do is more important than how much you make, so unless they choose something where they will be completely poor (i.e. burger flipper) why not let them do what they love?
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Worthwhile to both parties..expanding your mind to a place where it can make your own life for yourself without being poor or being reliant on others to survive.


I think everyone in their heart has dreams of being famous or discovering a cure for cancer, but the process of getting to those places results in a lot of years of struggling for yourself. As much as I would support my children, I do not think its fine to say "Its okay, you do what you want, failure is an option because you can always come home"

It will always be implied that they will always be able to come home, and sometimes failure happens... But I lose respect for people who chose a life where struggle is widespread and they use that "poverty" as a safety net.

My kids get 1 chance to persue the life they want to, I'll go halves on schooling.. They prove themselves in semester 1, then I'll pay for semester 2.

If anywhere along these lines they end up unable to support themselves, they will be unable to support a family and carry on my genetics. If they choose to live back at home, they'll have to do it under my supervision. Go back to school and learn something that will employ them with a wage and a chance at life, and they can keep the skill they failed at as a hobby.
supernerd wrote:worthwhile to who?

when talking about career choices, i think there's two ways to be miserable: doing a job you hate, or make so little money that you live below the poverty line.

After a certain income level, what you do is more important than how much you make, so unless they choose something where they will be completely poor (i.e. burger flipper) why not let them do what they love?
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i fail to see how being a social worker is a bad thing.
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