<p>I’m still torn between majors, have an innate interest in the humanities, and know that I need to do something creatively unfiltered and unlimited with my life to come anywhere close to my delusions (?) of grandeur. There’s not enough magic in most jobs for me. </p>
<p>And my parents will approve of whatever I do - completely unconditionally. In fact, my father is a doctor along with that entire side of the family. The one thing he asks of me is to never go into medicine. No qualms there for me although I know for a fact I could. His own parents virtually forced him into medicine against his natural yearn for physics. Now, amidst routine procedure after procedure, he spent his time earning a Masters in Engineering. While a degree in engineering is virtually useless where he’s at in life, he had a passion that went unfulfilled because of a coercive family. He’s spent his middle years retracing his misguided steps. It really does irk me whenever I read on this forum about people being forced to pursue careers. You may be well off financially, but you’ll never be well off internally…unless you’re so apathetic that coercion wafts over you without you batting an eye. My parents know that I could do anything I want be it IB, Medicine, or Law, but they will always be 100% behind me if I decide to think out of the box a little with my life.</p>
<p>Accounting. My parents aren’t complaining. Though, they would have been fine with any choice as long as I felt I could do well and had a plan for after college.</p>
<p>physics and chemistry, no clue what the hell i want to do but i like it. my dad totally approves because he knows i can go into a wide range of programs for graduate school and switch to engineering relatively easy. my mom insists i go to medical/pharm/anything pre-prof because she wants to be able to brag to family pretty much.</p>
<p>My parents are so thrilled that I’m going to college that they don’t really care what I’m majoring in, as long as I’m happy and have a plan. I’ve been through three majors (occupational therapy > engineering > psychology) and they’ve seemed equally thrilled with all. </p>
<p>It’s my brother who has given me the real problems. When I switched from engineering to psychology (and from a higher ranked school to a much lower one), he basically flipped out and started calling me, sending me long emails, griping about it at work, and calling my parents to try to get them to convince me not to transfer majors/schools. My parents heard none of it and my brother has come to grudgingly accept my change of majors, especially since I’m doing exceptionally well and I have plans for what I’m going to do after undergrad.</p>
<p>My mom definitely approves. I’ve been interested in my subject my entire life, and I love learning more about it and seeing what kinds of things I can do with my major besides just going straight into science. I suspect she’s secretly routing for me to go to med school, though.</p>
<p>My dad is disappointed that I did poorly in chemistry (he’s an electrochemist lol), but I have never heard my parents talk about wishing that I was majoring in something else. From the beginning, they had always wanted me to use my talents, which just so happened to be art-related. Originally, I was going to go to a private art school and major in fine arts, but at the last minute, I decided to go to a large university and major in graphic design (which is a useful career but is not appreciated by enough people!). I chose FSU and I’m glad that I did. I think my parents are happy that I chose a university too.</p>
<p>If you like both subjects equally, you may want to consider that physics (or chemical engineering) has much better job and career prospects than chemistry.</p>
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<p>Believe it or not, there have been students posting here that they really want to go into engineering, but their parents are pressuring them to do pre-med or pre-law (though it is easy to say that one is doing pre-law as an engineering major since there are no specific course or major requirements for pre-law).</p>
<p>My parents are like, English? Don’t you know English already? LOL. They’re really supportive though, even if I don’t know what my other major should be or what I’m gonna do after I graduate.</p>
My mother has told me she wishes I’d “not worry so much about jobs and careers and broaden myself in college.” Thanks for being a responsible adult, mom.</p>
<p>It’s not really their say, since they’re not paying anything, but they’re ok with it. They both just want me to be happy and they trust my decisions. Especially my dad- he has complete faith in me. However, about a year ago, my mother had a freak out about me not being in a marketable major (anthro and humanities). This is part of the reason that I went for a BS and subsequently found bioethics through looking for more “marketable” classes.</p>
<p>Mine just tell me to keep an open mind for changes, but know that History is what I want to study. And they understand that I don’t want to be in any highly profitable field anyway (both disinterest and principle). Not that they’re paying tuition/room/board anyway.</p>
<p>My parents are very, very unsupportive of my major(Equine Studies & Management). I’ll be going into college next year and they fight with me every step along the way. They aren’t paying for my tuition or helping me through college so I don’t take their opinions very heavily.
It’s tough but I have enough faith in my talents to pull through on my own.</p>
<p>I learned from my parents how not to be supportive so I, hopefully, will not make the same mistakes. My mom wanted me to teach and my dad wanted me to go in to computer programming; this was in the mid-70’s. I wanted to be a journalist but after a year, I changed to history and poli sci and then went to law school. To their deaths, my parents complained about how I should have gone into computers. My dad had this fantasy that I would have somehow met Bill Gates!</p>
<p>My D is studying to be a teacher. I know she won’t become rich but she has a passion for it. I am supportive of her, though I did suggest that she attend a state school rather than a private, which she did.</p>
<p>My parents don’t exactly approve of my first choice of major, Communications Design, because they both come from big, Ivy League business backgrounds and are just concerned that I won’t be making enough money to live comfortably. So to compromise with them, I’m definitely double majoring, most likely in English but if I develop some other interest in college we’ll see how that goes. My dad would love for me to double in Economics like he did but again, we’ll have to see. I’m just thankful that even though they don’t approve of my first choice of major, they’re both being supportive about it anyways and still encouraging me to carve my own path. They’re also just proud of where I’m going to school anyways, so no matter what education I’m getting it’s going to be a good one.</p>