Did your parents pressure you to follow in their footsteps?

Thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss....

My parents always encouraged me to be my own person and do what I wanted to do with my life. They were big on learning from your own mistakes and that sort of thing.

My father is an lawyer and my mother a CPA. Although my dad always said I had the argumentative skills of a lawyer, he never pressured me to follow in his footsteps. My mom always knew I hated math...so my following in her footsteps was never an issue..

They didn't pressure us to follow in their foot steps.

But they did put A LOT of pressure on us to do well in school.

How ironic, my father is a CPA, my mother a teacher. I took the teacher route and am extremely happy with my choice. None of them ever pressured me to go into their field, it just happened this way. Oh, BTW, I hate math too!!!

My dad was a musician during my childhood and when the business got bad, he went to work for the Post Office. My mom is a teacher. Neither one of them pressured me to follow them. Dad tried to dissuade me from going into music or theatre when I showed interest. He said ' do you like food on the table, clothes on your back and a roof over your head? Yes? Then don't go into show business '

Mom never pressured. She knows that to be a teacher, you really need to have the 'calling'

Im glad they didnt becasue Id either be laying cement or a maid

I wish I had the pressure to be my parents sometimes.

I got my free will and odd sense of common intuitiveness from my father. I know I got my stubborn streak from my mother. My dad just wanted me to be happy, period.

He pushed me to experience life to it’s fullest. He taught me that money is useless without a full and happy life and that you can be happy with or without money.

My dad was a Navy man. Old school. Girls don’t join the military. When I went through the testing and the physical to join the Navy he took it in stride though I could see it made him a little uncomfortable. He got ridiculed by my grandfather and laughed at by his brothers (all military). I didn’t get in due to a hearing issue. He was never ashamed of me and supported me 100%.

He doesn’t work now. Hasn’t since he got out of the military to take care of us. He’s much more in to community service and voluntary work. He gives a lot of himself to the aid of children in his local community and tries hard to make everyone have equal opportunities.

If I could be HALF the person my father is I’d be proud. He’s a great giver, huge heart and a wonderful man. He’s also unemployed, so there’s no footsteps to follow. He was a D minus student in high school and didn’t finish college. He’s a history buff and a great philosopher.

He just wants me to have more and do better. That’s enough pressure on it’s own, let me tell you.

My mother was a teacher, auto repair shop owner, housewife, military woman (explosives and armory) and now a housewife again. There’s nothing about my mother I want to emulate. She was a top student in High School but didn’t go to college. I hope never to be the woman she has become.

I feel like I was given tools to be what I can and then given a blank canvas to figure it out. There was no right or wrong, no better or worse, just trial and error. Dad’s proud of what I have become. I am happy where I am. Now all my dad want’s is grandchildren!!