So what if your parents want you to make lots of money? If you are not interested in becoming a doctor of lawyer don't. It's that simple. It's your life and you can lead it however you wish. If expectations are that you will follow in your father's or mother's footsteps the decision is up to you. If your dream is to be a painter, a writer, a musician, a cook... whatever compels you that is what you should devote your life to. It is your right to see your dreams through. Despite their concern for your economic security, it would be a spiritual death for you to pursue an occupation such as carpentry or accounting for monetary reasons alone.
The world is full of people who have a severely limited awareness of real life because they are simply a product pumped out through the educational system. We see the efficiency model at work here once again. These people struggle so hard in competing the make it in their field that they sacrifice their humanity. Where is the time to experience life when grades must be kept high and then when one gets a job, well you've got to get to work, you've got to feed the kids... There is so little time for experiencing oneself when all of this must be attended to just to be an average worker.
The truth is that one with an awareness of self is a high priority in every avenue of life. People like solid, well sculpted personalities. People such as this are capable of being good friends as well as being good at business. Those who live according to the efficiency model of living are as emaciated, third world statistics- spiritually at least. It is too easy to see the falseness in a person or the lack of personality. Let these products fall off of the assembly line of the university or trade school. Let them go about their routine, to their churches, let them congregate and babble on in that fake, unaware way, that death talk: What do you do, who are you married to, how many kids do you have? These sort of questions are fine in of themselves but it is the purpose behind the questions that is the problem. The purpose behind questions such as these is that there is an implication that you SHOULD be able to answer these or else you don't measure up to someones criteria. Did you achieve economic success in life is the question they are asking. Where do you belong on their ranking of achievement is what they are really trying to figure out.
The fact is that people really suffer when they cheat themselves out of a developed personality. The sacrifice generally, if anything, gets them a few dollars more an hour, if they can achieve more in the business world than a well developed person that is. The truth is that a knowledge of self translates to a knowledge of that which is outside the self as well so there really is no reason to withhold the self its enrichment. What it really comes down to is that life should be lived well. Making money should be a way to fuel your life experiences. A person may know just who they are and have an interest in crunching numbers. Being an accountant is perfectly fine if the goal of earning the paycheck is to make one's life richer. Accounting is the job that is so often brought up as an example of this because people who don't know what direction they wish to go in life often pick a business related direction because they know it may lead to a chance to make money. It is a "safe" route that is not really safe at all. Really, these jobs that have you stuck in a cubicle are depression laden and unfulfilling to most. If one finds a job such as accounting exciting or fulfilling in some way then there is no real problem. If one does not end up sacrificing their true self for a cold life filled with stress then there is no problem. Find what makes you happy.
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