Growing up in a household with two parents that both had problems. My mother barely finished highschool and only went to a local city college for only one year. My dad on the other hand, finished high school and didn't even finish one year of college. When we spend so much time with our parents I think that we do pick up traits from our parents. We see the way that they interact and how they treat people. My parents didn't have much of an education but they did what they could for me, even though they both made really bad decisions. It also makes a big difference in the way that you grew up.
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My parents are both software engineers, something that I have no interest whatsoever regarding. The interactive states that I have a 9 times greater chance to end up pursuing the same career as them. My theory regarding this is that because of the fact that we spend so much time with our parents, their powerful influence leads to us knowing exactly what we want to do. Things they do that please us are things we will continue to do as we grow up, and their habits that we look down upon will be discarded in our lives. For me, my parents' work doesn't interest me at all. We also inherit many characteristics from out parents, so it is very likely that whatever aptitude and personality is desirable for the career is also inherited by us and fits us as well. I want to pursue something medical related, which my parents fully support. Although I want to go in a completely different direction in terms a a career, I will take many of my parents' habits and life patterns that I look up to. I consider myself very similar to my parent's, and I consider it likely that I might change paths and follow in my parent's footsteps.
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My mom is a teacher and my dad is an insurance manager, and they work very hard and are very successful. I am not really sure what I want to be yet, but I think I might follow in my mom's footsteps.
I've always had the desire to help other people and help other people be the best they can be. I feel like pursuing teaching would help me be able to help other people.
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I would not want to have the jobs either of my parents have, although they are successful. The types of work just don't interest me as much as it should i were to take their jobs, but who knows, maybe in the future my mind will change.
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when children live with there parents they cam get influenced by there parents and that could lead them to do what there parents do. I feel the jobs you choose are based on your parents. a lot of family's have the same interests and that can lead to you in the same job field as your parents
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I do not want to share the same type of job as either of my parents, they're both successful but their jobs don't interest me. My father is a teacher at a private school in Massachusetts and my mother is a florist. I would prefer to join the Air Force or Army I have a background from school that would help with a job in either branch. I would like to have a job where I can use my skills I learned in school to make things easier to understand and do.
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Both of my parents are very successful and I would love to be that way. They have done an amazing job raising my sister and I to the young adults we are today. I would love to follow in my parents footsteps and have a great impact on my future children the way they impacted me.
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I would love to be as successful as my parents. My parents are both military parents. My mom was in the navy for 5 years and my dad was in vietnam. They both were and are hard workers. My mom also was an executive at the world bank and my ad started his own franchise, “The Greasebusters”. AFter my mom retired from the world bank, after starting a family and having four kids, she helped my dad with his business. It became very popular and nationwide. My parents have awesome lives and have worked hard to get there. My goal is to go to the Naval Academy and be in the Navy just like my mom. And I know my parents will help me with my long journey ahead of me.
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For generations my family has consisted of the men working and women staying home and raising the children and taking care of the house. My father being a blue collar worker has always shown the importance of hard work and dedication. My mother on the other end has always just had side jobs here and there because she never needed to work. This being said, that is not the plan for me. My whole life I have dreamed of becoming a teacher and to this day that dream still stands. In ways I agree with the article being that many of my friends have set goals to peruse the same jobs as their parents, although in my case I cant agree. I've always told myself its okay to look up to other people other than my parents and that is just what I do. That being said I have always been blessed enough to have amazing people who I can look up to and hope to be like someday
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I have absolutely no interest in following in my parents’ footsteps. My mom is a sales person and so is my dad but he also fixes things for people on the side. My brother wants to go into business but I don’t want anything to do with money (besides getting paid). According to the article, a child with a parent in sales is nine times as likely to be in sales and it’s three times as likely for construction. Children often hear their parents talking about their jobs so they develop an interest in the career. It is the exact opposite for me though. Every time I hear my mom or dad talk about sales and money I zone out because it’s really boring and uninteresting to me.
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My family has gone generations back with lawyers. All kinds of lawyers if you may ask. My father is a huge inspiration to me when it comes to a job for the future. Ever since i was little i wanted to help people and seeing my dad do that in the courtroom makes me want to do it more and more everyday. Reading this computer analysis helps me think more that if i go for a job like my dad’s that i would not be the only child to do so.
I notice that right now most kids know what they want in life when it comes to a job. Even if it is down their parents path or not. What i have noticed is that most kids now want or have some sort of job that kind of involves their parents job or relates to it. I wonder that since you grow up with your parents for about 18 years if that has a huge impact on what you want to do based on what you see.
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As a student in high school you may be sure what you want to do and you may not. I’m a junior in highschool and I want to be an interior designer. My mom’s a director of religious education and my dad is a truck driver. I wonder if I will be a teacher my mom said I’m a really good teacher. I have taught before. I wonder if I will change my mayger. I think if I would it would be in college.
I think it would have to be me since its just my brother and he is in italy doing a semester and studying business and he has had a lot of experience in that job and I’m really the only one with the major and I’m only in high school, he’s in college. I compare this to the survey by following my moms path of directing teachers. I like it but I couldn't do it forever. I may follow I’m not sure.
Thank you
Gina Kavalec
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no I would not because sometimes it would not be the best for me, but sometimes if there is something trajic I would because they would help guide me
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I believe i will follow my dads footsteps i would love to work with my dad he has an amazing job i would love to be the owner of it when he retires or take over my moms windscreen business they both work together but my dad does the work on the tennis courts and baseball fields and basketball courts although my mom is the one who gets the job from her to computer by bidding on job sites so shes the work at home while my dad does the work outside in the world
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I know that some children follow in their parents footsteps. I however do not want to have the same job as any one in my family. My dad works for Buffalo Rock and my mom works at food depot. My brother and sister didn't follow in our parents footsteps. My brother is a mechanic and my sister works for customer service at tanger. I want to have a job no one in my family has ever had. I want to become a biologist because science has always been my favorite subject in school.
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I do feel that some children will follow their parents' footsteps. I'm taking a whole different route though. My father and brother have similar jobs, but he's a mechanic at a company, my brother is a helicopter repairer in the Army. My mother is a stay-at-home mom, but she has had jobs in the past and my sister wants to be a college professor and an author. No one in my family, that I know of have taken any healthcare field. I want to be a Veterinarian Technologist.
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In my perspective on this topic, it does not relate to me in any way. My parents are both financial managers, my brother is a teacher at the fire academy, and my sister is an LPN. I, on the other hand, want to be an attorney, and the first one in my family at that. Im sure that it might be correct for some people, but to me this does not relate to me.
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I do not believe that I will father in my parents footsteps, because we really do not really share the same interest.
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According the article I am 1.8 times more likely to follow in my mothers footsteps in her career and 1.7 times more likely to follow in my fathers career choice. I don't think I going to follow either of my parents because I want to be a vet and take a totally different career path.
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This article seem very relatable for me when i saw the title "The Jobs You're Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father". I feel the jobs you choose are based on your parents. My mom was in the healthcare field and when i grow up i want to be in the healthcare field as well. Now you dont have to follow your parents jobs be you do something you like. Because your job is gonna be an everyday thing so choose something you want to put effort in.
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The article that caught my attention was “The Jobs You’re Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father” by Bui and Claire Cain Miller. According to this article, I am 1.8 times more likely to follow in my mother’s footsteps for a career and 1.7 times more likely to have the same job as my father. My mother is a pediatric nurse practitioner and my father is the manager of a family owned company. Due to being a junior in high school, I have been looking at colleges lately which has been pushing me to find the profession in which I hope to move forward in. Supporting the article, I have found that the medical field, specifically nursing, has caught my attention. When I was little, I would always tell people that I wanted to be a surgeon or a nurse as that is what my mom did and I looked up to her so I assumed that, that was what I also wanted to do. However, now looking at it, I have a hard time believing that I really want to be a nurse. I feel as if I only want to be a nurse because I basically grew up in a hospital and feel as if I have to live up to the expectations that were placed upon me by myself from my comments about my future at a young age. Not wanting to be another statistic, I am challenging myself to look outside of the comforts of following my parents footsteps and instead creating my own path that I can be confident and truly happy about.
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Both of my parents are real estate agents. According to the this article, I am four times as likely to pursuit a career in real estate, but I know that I will most likely not do that. Real estate has never interested me in anyway, except for getting to look at the houses when I was little, but when I was younger my dad was a firefighter and after he was a firefighter he worked at an organ bank.
I have always had a desire to help people with my profession. I want to touch as many lives as I possibly can, and this desire could have sprung from growing up with a father that was constantly helping people.
I don't like to think of my future as a statistic: "You're four times as likely to follow in your parents footsteps". To me that just makes me want to do exactly the opposite. I don't want my future to be predetermined from an online calculator, but in reality my father's previous jobs have definatley had an impact on what I want to do with my life.
The article by Bui and Claire Cain Miller was interesting because it discussed how sons are more likely to have the same careers as their fathers and daughters are more likely to have the same careers as their mothers according to the analysis by the New York Times. There was no mention of how sons might be influenced by their mother and daughters by their fathers even though that is a possibility. I feel like your choice of career can depend on your relationship with your parents. The logic is that if you have a close relationship with your mom/dad, then you will be more influenced by them and their life choices, ultimately resulting to your inspiration of what what path you want to travel on. A close relationship between a mom and a son can be just as influential as a close relationship between son and father and that concept also applies to daughters as well. And even if you have that closeness, you could still choose your own footsteps to travel on. My dad owns a restaurant. I have a comfortable and healthy relationship with him. But that doesn’t mean I have to become a restaurateur. We live in a generation that embraces individuality and independence. These are privileges that everyone do not receive, therefore it should be taken advantage of by those who do receive it. Also, it is the parents job to establish a sense of encouragement for their children whether they want to follow in their footsteps or create their own.
The article by Bui and Cain Miller caught my eye. I believe that children who have a strong bond with their parents are more likely to be interested in the same type of career. It’s interesting that the article says that sons are 2.7 times as likely as the rest of the population to have the same job as their father and daughters are 1.8 times as likely to have the same job as their mothers. I am sure there are cases where kids have the same interests as their parents and want to pursue the same careers. Kids who spend a lot of time with their parents and are aware of their careers would be more likely to develop an interest in what they do. Parents who enjoy what they do and talk fondly about their jobs are going to peak their children’s interests. There are always two sides though. There are kids who have parents that work late, are not around much, and some even do not enjoy what they do. These parents may not talk about their jobs in a positive way, or talk about them at all. I would think these kids would not want to pursue the same career and would opt for something completely different. There are cases where kids may not be interested in their parents jobs, despite it being a great job. For these kids, their interests may just be different, so they will fit better in a different career. My mother is a Finance Director, which is a very interesting and well paid job. However that is not something that I am interested in. So, I will probably not follow in her footsteps.
I understand that a fair amount of people will follow in their parents footsteps - legacies are a powerful thing, particularly in small communities and in specific careers, however I feel that it is more relationships more so than parentage that results in kids following in the footsteps of their family. I personally don’t want to end up like either of my parents. I don’t want to be like my grandparents, my cousins, my aunts, or my uncles, either. It’s nothing against them, but they’re not who I want to be. I always wanted to be like Hikaru Sulu from Star Trek, and have, for years, modeled my life in a way that would facilitate me to study to go to the stars, to pilot spacecrafts, and to grow plants in space. I saw Sulu as a role model, someone I wanted to become, and made myself in his image. For many others, they want to be like their parents - either to make the proud or out of a sense of duty or desire I can’t say - but for me, I want to be like my idol.Some kids don’t get along with their family - they’re mistreated, neglected, misunderstood, and even abused. And for those kids, I don’t think it’s right to tell them they’ll likely end up in the same profession as their parents. Let them decide who they want to be like and who they want to be. At the end of the day, that, more than anything, is the deciding factor.
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I agree that it is possible that children have the desire to follow in their parents footsteps. But the statistics are definitely not 100% correct. Yes me and my mother are very close in genetics and thought process but in some ways we are very different. My mom is a food scientist while my dad runs his own business. I am looking to go into the medical field, so I am leaning more towards my mother's career in science, but they are very different departments. I’ve always wanted to help others and take care of people. After watching shows, reading articles and taking courses in school I have decided. I don’t believe that it is because of my parents, they definitely have pushed me towards it because the health field is always open with jobs and pays decent. My dad has never wanted me or my brother to take over his business.
My mom and I are more like sisters than we are mother and daughter. We are carbon copies - every time we go somewhere together, without fail, someone always comments on it. Salesmen at the mall will use it as a marketing tactic - “Do the sisters want to buy some of this?” they say, shoving samples of smelly perfumes or lotions under our noses. I have inherited a lot from my mom - more than just her nose, snarky facial expressions, and dry sense of humor. So, of course, it’s no surprise to me that I’ve inherited her desire to enter into help people.
My desire to enter into this field was not fueled by family conversations. My mom does not (and can’t) gush about her patients over dinner. My dad’s job in the produce industry never thrilled me. Look, I love potatoes, but inspecting them as my job? No thanks. My desire to enter this field was fueled by my own passions - hippotherapy, kids, and teaching. My desire to enter this field was inspired by my mom’s 3-11pm shifts in the ER, where she drank cups of bitter hospital coffee (did I mention I inherited her love of coffee? I was practically drinking it straight out of the womb) and worried about raising us in between administering IV fluids and antibiotics.
My desire was also independent - I pushed myself to get opportunities shadowing pediatric and outpatient OTs. I immersed myself because I was, and am, enamored with the idea that I could make things better for someone. I couldn't get there without my mom.
My “sister”.
Despite evidence given, I am 100% certain that I will not enter into my parent’s careers.
Let’s get one thing straight: I am a people person. I always have been, and I always will be. This though, does not mean that I will follow in my mother’s footsteps as a realtor, or my father’s in public relations. My comforts do not always correspond to my interests.
This is not to say, though, that it is improbable that I find myself having the same interests as my parents. My father, for example, went to Berklee College of Music, which quite coincidentally, is where I hope to find myself in two years. I was brought up loving music and the arts, which is why I seem to think that even though my father does not work in a music-related field, I still hold that interest as this daughter.
My parents, as well as an assumed majority of parents, are very influential on their children. I believe though, that they can have an impact on their career, whether it is negative or positive. By being exposed to both of my parent’s careers, I know that I do not want to find myself in a field where my pay is based on commission or success.
Exposure, in the news, politics, and social issues, is the basis for all opinion, and I believe that the same goes for family life and values.
As an individual, I believe that I want to be in a place where I am happy, not in a place where I would want to “carry on the family business”, no matter how likely it may be. I am ME, so why not choose another path?
I do believe that I will follow a similar path as my parents, but not the exact one. I was raised on two principals, make yourself happy and make others happy. Both of my parents deal with both of those at work. According to the article I am 37% more likely to follow become an HR Manager, like my mother, and only 2% more likely to become a nurse, like my father. While blood makes me sick and I could never imagine myself working a desk job I do admire the principals of both of their jobs. They are able to help people by helping themselves. I was lucky enough to grow up and have parents that came home to never complain about their jobs. I grew up with the idea and belief that work was meant to be fulfilling and make you proud. I believe the determining factor of if you will follow in your parents footsteps is how they feel about their job and how you perceive that. If your mother comes home everyday from being a teacher and just complains about that for the rest of the day I don’t think anyone that experiences that would want to be a teacher. But if your mother is a teacher and comes home to tell you about how lucky she feels to be a teacher and how much she loves her job then you are much more likely to follow your parents footsteps. I was lucky enough to have parents that love their jobs and while I do not believe that I will be following right behind my parents I do believe that their ability and love to help others will contribute to whatever I am able to do in the future.
I don't think that I will follow in my parents' footsteps. There were not enough statistics in the article to show how likely I would be to have the same job as my parents. However, I do agree with one point made in the article: "Children are less likely to follow their parents' careers if they are middle managers or clerical or service workers". I believe that I am in the same situation because when my parents first entered the work field, they searched for a job with the sole purposes of financial stability. They were more concerned with raising a family, rather than fulfilling their own goals or pursuing individual interests. My parents have positions as supervisors in manufacturing departments at companies that they have remained loyal to. I don't believe that I will ever pick up the exact same occupations that they have due to my different values and interests, which I have acquired outside of the household. The New York Times states that "daughters are 1.8 times as likely to have the same jobs as their mothers", which is possible. I'm not sure if I can apply the statistics regarding the occupational influences that maternal and paternal figures have on their sons and daughters to my own life. In my case, it is a matter of culture and belief system that will lead me to not follow my parents' footsteps.
The article by Bui and Cain Miller really caught my eye. I believe that children who have a strong positive relationship with their parents are more likely to be involved in the same type of occupation as their parents. The article says that sons are 2.7 times as likely as the rest of the population to have the same job as their father. Maybe there are certain cases where children do have the same interests as their parents and want to pursue in the same career. However, I think that scenario is rare and it has more to do with their childhood connection with their parents. If children spend a lot of time with their parents then they tend to develop some of their interests. Also, if parents talk about their job in front of their kids or have them get involved with it early, then that could push the children to follow in their footsteps too. Yet, there are kids who have a horrible relationship with their parents and want nothing to do with them or their occupation when they are adults. The children who don’t have a good relationship with their parents pursue in a career that is different from that of their parents. Or, children may not be interested in their parents jobs. Maybe children have different learning styles and techniques than their parents so they will fit better in a different career. My mother is a finance for a government contractor, which is a interesting and well paid job, however it is not something I am interested in. So, I will not follow in her footstep.
I do plan on following in my father's footsteps. My father enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, and I intend to do the same. My father was an 0231(Intelligence Specialist) and I intend to become an Intelligence Specialist as well. However, my father left the Marine Corps after 10 years, I intend to stay longer. I may even consider making it a career.
I am pretty sure I will follow in my father and mothers footstep. They both work at the same place doing different jobs, but similar enough. I really only want to work there because of my parents. I want to write a book while working there though, so I don't have to work there for long.
Yes, I want to go to the same college, as well as make some of the same decisions my parents make like religion, schooling, and even job. I to develop some of the same personality traits like kindness, patience, and humor. My parents are really wonderful and I want to follow in their footsteps.
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I think i might want to follow in the footsteps of my mom. She works with people of all ages who have disabilities. I love helping people and making their lives easier. I would not want to work and manage a hospital like my dad, but my sister does; she wants to be a surgeon.
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I think I already have fallen in the footsteps of my dad. My dad has been doing concrete his whole life and has owner his own business the past five years. I have worked with him the past four years and already know had to do many things on the job. I think I am very likely to take over my dads business when he retires. Concrete work will always be a demand and I already know the skill so I am very likely to pour concrete when I'm older. Out of everyone in my family I think I take after my dad because I've looked up to him for as long as I can remember and we like the same hobbies.
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I like my dad but really would not want to have his job. my dad is a high school teacher which is a highly disrespected career in the U.S, my dad is consistently blamed by parents for their child's failure. I'm not just saying this in defense of him, I have been taught by him and he does his job well, anyone who payed attention in his class did well. So I hope that i do not end up having the same job as him (so does he). I don't need disrespect and low pay.
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No. I know for a fact that I am not going to follow in their footsteps, there is a whole world out there to explore and so many jobs so why keep one as a family tradition? There's no point to it because of all the opportunities there all out there.
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My dad works for himself as a construction worker he owns his own business and he has been doing construction since he was my age and when he was like twenty he started his own company and now it has become something that I have been around my whole life and i'm hoping that i can take over the family business after he is not able to do the work anymore so yes i would follow in my dad's footsteps because he is really successful and he loves what he does and i like doing construction to.
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I would like not to follow in my parents footsteps because I want to become a teacher or an athletic trainer. My dad owns his own his company and he is an electrician. I plan on trying to become an athletic trainer and if that doesn’t work out I will become and electrician.
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While i probably will end up at my Dad's job for a while but i would not want to stay there due to my own personal interests and aspirations. the main reason most people even take their parents job is because they could put a good word in for you.
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I hope that one day I do follow in my parents footsteps. Both of my parents are hard working individuals who do everything they can to provide my brother and myself the best life. My dad works for a company called, "JoGalloup" and my mom is an elementary school teacher. I'm still undecided about my career choice, but teaching and business are both in my top three choices.
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I do think I will follow in my parent footstep mostly my dad with him being an electrician. The reason I think I will follow his footstep is because I have been working with sense I was 10 years old. I am planning on going to major in Electrical Engineer so I will in his footsteps just this job is a little higher up but I has the same qualities. This article has the same reason of being a trait that can be passed down so you can go into the workforce ready.
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Cain Miller’s research on the relationship between parents and their children’s occupation is very interesting. He says that boys are 2.7 times more likely to have the same occupation as their father than the rest of the population is. Perhaps kids take the occupation of their parents because they are pleased with the amount of income they bring in. However, I believe it has a lot more to do with their upbringing than economic reasons. Children often grow up to have similar interests with their parents because they spend so much time together and develop similar ways of thinking. It reasonably makes sense that children would have similar character traits because of this, and thus be suited for a similar job as their parents. But, some kids who have poor relationships with their parents would be unlikely to want a life like they had. Therefore, they will be more likely to choose a more unique job to avoid becoming like their parents. A third option that I find myself agreeing with is that while kids may like their parents, they know that their occupation does not interest them. My mother is a teacher, which is a fine job. However, I do not like to explain how to do things. I am a very hands on learner, and I would want a job that allows me to use my strengths. In this way, I am different than my parents. I strongly believe that children who have strong relationships with their parents will tend to have similar occupations as adults.
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You see all throughout pop culture people being pressured to follow in their fathers footsteps. It is ingrained in some kids from the time they are young, I want you to be XYZ.. I want you to follow me to the school that I went to, be in the same business I'm in, but what they're really saying is let me live through you! This is a dangerous phenomenon that only leads to sadness, unneeded pressure, and disappointment for not only the child, but also the parent.
My parents personally never said to me that I has to be what they were. They didn't care if I wanted to be an artist, a lawyer, whatever I wanted as long as I was happy and stable. They are both in the pharmaceutical industry, which I've never had a passion for therefore I think it is unlikely that I will follow them. More than likely I will do what I want to do which is help people especially people who have been hurt by the Justice system, and work as a public defender or maybe at the innocence project doing what I want to do.
I think all parents should emulate what my parents did which is tell me I could do what I wanted to do. As long as I volunteered, had good grades, and a good moral character. If we try to force upon our young people what we want them to do we will never have innovation.
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I agree with jenna due to the fact that my mom is a nurse and im scared of blood my dad is a bus driver and i have had a few bad experiences in the car....
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My mom is a pharmacist and my dad is a policeman. I don't think I'll follow in either one of their footsteps, mainly because neither one of those jobs interest me and they aren't "pressuring" me to try and go into those fields. My mom actually discourages me to go into pharmacy, she says it's changed over the years and it isn't what it used to be. I don't really have contact with my dad, but being a police officer doesn't interest me at all. If I were to go into one of their jobs I would probably choose my mom's.
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