The traditionalists desire their offspring to follow suit. My dad loved his job and wanted so badly for his kids to love the same job. I tried, but it didn't afford me much fun time in college, so i switched. I wanted to go to a college I got into and he told me where I was going to college. It was a military academy, but i was not destined for the military. Got a medical exemption at graduation, and after 8 years, pfft! enough of that crap, my turn to do what I wanted. . . and happy ever since. . .
My brothers followed in our dad's footsteps, all the way, but I didn't see the world the same way as my dad or my brothers. My dad was a product of the agrian age and the depression in his beliefs, as well as the man as the head of the household. He had a very, very good career and pay scale as an engineer. But I also took the lesson away from that in that I wanted my kids to find their own career love, whatever that might be. I can't make them love their job, only they can find that for themselves.
But i got them the best education I could buy, so that they had a good start to find their own way.
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