Rating careers my parents are pushing me to do once I told them I wanted to do performing arts and I became the disappointment of the family Because my parents social status comes before my happiness: A thread
1. Dentist:
-was brought up to me in the car so I couldn’t escape
-Dentistry has the highest amount of dropouts and s*icides in the country
-Know somoeone doing it who wishes a bus would run her over on her way to class
- ew people’s mouth
2/10
2. Orthodontist:
- was brought up to me in on the same day but on the car journey home
- basically the same as a dentist but you have to do a different course after dentistry
- worst kind of doctor you can be
1/10
3.Pharmacist:
-Was brought up to me while my mom was shouting at me for making bad life choices
-was crying the whole time
-know a pharmacist who became a drug dealer
- swanky jacket
4/10,for the possible side business
4. Biochemist:
- Was brought up when I first told them I want to do performing arts as an “example” of a stable career
- I have to move half way across the country to do it
- I dropped chemistry
- I literally don’t even qualify to do the course
0/10 for ignorance
5. Engineer:
- Brought up when I said I wanted to drop to ordinary level maths because you need higher level to do it here
- my cousin was used as an example
- physics based 🤢
- very physical work
1/10 for comparing me to family members
6. Lawyer:
- Brought up because I said I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 13
- They thought they finally got me because 4 years ago I wanted to do it
- most competitive and mentally draining careers
- Career with the highest rate of s*icide
-10/10 for mental strain
7. Surgeon:
- brought up to me when when my mom was shouting at me over my poor life decisions part 2
- “I’m capable of so much more”
- they want to be able to tell people their child is a doctor
- I will have to look at peoples literal organs
-10000/10 for it being gross
8. Software engineer
-was brought up because I wanted to do this but they said no
- realised their mistake
- Not a bad career I just decided I wanted to take a different path
- “Dad does it and he likes it”
5/10 for it being tolerable
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