Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) on Nostr: A common pitfall: Parents luck into a successful career that they wouldn't have ...
A common pitfall: Parents luck into a successful career that they wouldn't have gotten in another era, so they tell you to do the "right thing", blending success and happiness into phrases like
"Do what you're passionate about, work hard, compete, and you'll succeed!!!"
I see this a lot in UMC kids whose parents can pay for schooling. The kids don't know shit about the world, the parents are kind of blinded to a lot of different jobs, so they tell their kid to DO WHAT YOU LOVE - resulting in worthless dead ends like video game design, filmmaking, or writing on the low end, at best doctorin', piloting, or shooting.
That is turning away slowly as conservatives internalize this blue collar worship propaganda, so they pivot for the younger children and push the zoomer siblings to be plumbers instead of a "dumbass artist like your older brother".
They're trying, they just aren't prepped to be running on falling sand, they're reacting to changes too late. These same people balk when I tell them their kids should subvert the system and join the gay latino association in order to get ahead - 10 years behind the curve
"Do what you're passionate about, work hard, compete, and you'll succeed!!!"
I see this a lot in UMC kids whose parents can pay for schooling. The kids don't know shit about the world, the parents are kind of blinded to a lot of different jobs, so they tell their kid to DO WHAT YOU LOVE - resulting in worthless dead ends like video game design, filmmaking, or writing on the low end, at best doctorin', piloting, or shooting.
That is turning away slowly as conservatives internalize this blue collar worship propaganda, so they pivot for the younger children and push the zoomer siblings to be plumbers instead of a "dumbass artist like your older brother".
They're trying, they just aren't prepped to be running on falling sand, they're reacting to changes too late. These same people balk when I tell them their kids should subvert the system and join the gay latino association in order to get ahead - 10 years behind the curve