Pressures On Your Career?

I was wondering, just if anyone's parents bother you on what career you're choosing as you move on into college. It is the most stressful thing ever. My parents want me to be a doctor. It's like they are forcing me...but they aren't the ones who are going to do that for the rest of their life, and I don't want to go through all those years of schooling. I don't know how to get it off their minds. Does anyone else have this problem?

I've sorta b een in the same situation....I played volleyball for three years and decided I wanted to get a writing scholarship rather then a volleyball scholarship when I go to college...three years away..and it was like they wouldn't get off the fact that I didn't want to play anymore...finally after I broke down crying and told them I don't feel like playing anymore I want to focus on grades and writing they realized they can't make my decisions only I can...so in the end choose what YOU want because if you end up chooseing what they want..something you don't want to do...imagine the years that you'll be unhappy ya know? Either way I hope it works out!

My parents don't really tell me what careers I HAVE to be in, they kind of tell me what I SHOULD be in. More of a push, then a shove, you know?

You know, you tell them things would never work out, and they tell you a way it could.

As a parents I want my daughter to have a good paying job. I never finished school and I'm lucky to have found a job as a Job Coach. However, it seems like I never make it and I never wish that to happen to my child. That every month struggling..No way!
My daughter has many careers she wants to do. Modeling is one of her careers. No matter what she wants to do, I stand a 100% behind her choice!! No pressure here, just making sure she has a good life!

lets see I am not a parent but I am a teacher....
parents usually just wants what is best for their children...sometimes they pressure us at the wrong times but they think it is what is for the best. A career is something you as a person is happy with...if you don't want to be a doctor and they force you to go to school to be one then majority of the time you will drop out or never finish that career. It is your life and you should have the decision on what you waht to do but I do see the point of them just wanting to protect you and want the best for you. It is almost a catch 22 your damned if you do and damned if you don't in this situation. My parents stood behind me 100% on what I wanted to do and that made it so much easier. Just hang in there and it will get easier in teh long run ;)

Well, yes, sometimes an ambitious parent (usually a friends' mum) will come up to me and ask me where I go to school and what I'm going to study in university.
So I'm like...umm, I'm home schooled...I'm not going to university.
I get a lot of lectures, but I know that if they accept me for who I am, well, that's who I am.
My career options so far are

Dancer
Writer
Journalist
Photographer
Secretary (Bilingual)
Dance Teacher

//T.L.//

^^I like your career options. =P

I've ALWAYS wanted to be a professional dancer, and then go on to be a professional Choreographer, and then later on open a dance school. BUT my mother didn't quite agree. "It's not a real career. blah blah blah" ..But I don't live with her anymore, so yeah. I don't know what I'm going to do. I've only just started dancing again, so yeah. blah.

^^^By 2008, thanks No Child Left Behind, they'll make it mandatory for you to get a degree if you want to be a dance teacher, the rest are do-able though

Yeah, my parents are pretty supportive of my writing, film 'career' dreams. I hate calling it a 'career.' It makes it sound like I have it all 'planned.' Though my dad thinks I'm going to be this great success and expects me to be able to afford a decent retirement for him...and my mom (like most parents) doesn't want to see me struggle and she doesn't have a lot of confidance in me to be able to live on my own, they're supportive. But they must nag.

Wow thanks for the input on the topic. It really seems like everyone's parents are so supportive towards their children's desires. My mom is just like, "if you know you are capable of it, then do it." But what if I don't want to? I need to try and get my parents to understand. Maybe soon I will sit and have a talk with them. You are all right, I guess it will feel easier once we come to an agreement.