My parents are always saying you are going to Colorado School of Mines and you're going to be and engineer. I have a passion for music that my parents just don't understand. HELP!!!What should I do?
REBEL against them!!! at least that's what i would do. i have a simalare problem, but you just got to not care what they think. it's your life and you can do what ever you want to.
cool you live in Coloraado to i live in Denver.
girl i got the same problem my mom is always telling me "fua with your artistic skills you can go so far" and i always think to my self well what if i dont want to do that stuff one things for sure i wanna sing i wanna play volleyball i wanna do so much more than just that. my advice to you is to tell them what you think it's your life. no one should be in control of it but you hope it helps
Personally, I think you should just avoid the topic as much as you can and then once you're 18, go off to some art school. Yes, your parents will be disappointed, but when you have a good job, they'll be proud of you.
Do what you want to do, at the end of the day your parents do not have to do the job that they are wanting you to do, it's you. If you don't like it then don't do it. Do what makes you feel happy or what you enjoy. Talk to them and explain to them that music is what you really want to do.
And if the music dosen't work out, then have a sensible and reliable back up plan, so you can still enjoy music but you can still earn a good income, at the end of the day it is you who has to decide a school where you want to study, not your parents :)
My parents are doing the same thing. They want me to go to either Univeristy of Kentucky (dad) or Kansas State (mom). But I told them I was going to college in Alaska no matter what they said.
S, your solution is to tell them "To heck with what you want! I'm going to _______!"
When the time comes, they can't pick your dream or where you wanna go. I have a passion for singing and I don't let anybody tell me that I can't do that. Tell you parents that you wanna do music instead and that they shouldn't be trying to get in the way of that.
I think that you should just sit down and talk with them and explain that music is your passion and that you just want the chance to pursue it and tell them that you will be open minded and keep your options open and tell them that just in case you’ll ever lose your passion for music you will reevaluate the whole engineer thing. At the end of the day you are going to have to listen and rely on your heart and dreams to tell you and guide you into making a decision that is right for you even though your parents want the best for you and to have what they had or didn‘t have that sometimes parents don’t realize that the very best thing for their kid is to do what makes them happy and to be what they want to be and not what the parents want them to be.
However, be very respectful and calm when explaining this because, I don’t know if this applies to you or not, your parents are paying for your education and they certainly know how to drive a hard bargain.
Also, keep in mind that for the first two years in collage is more like two more years of high school because all you will be doing is completing all the required general education courses required for each major. So that will give you plenty of time to decide if you really want to pursue music or listen to your parents and become an engineer.
I actually had a similar experience with my parents. My parents and my entire family all wanted me to go into law, but I decided to pursue a career in psychology instead. So it can work, you just have to talk to your parents and make them understand how you feel. :)
