In Indian society, whenever you go against the grain, parents pull out the societal pressure card. It would seem that in some cases, they’re more concerned about how THEY will be perceived as parents then how their kids feel…
Maybe you can relate?
-Krishna
Fortunately for me, while my parents insisted that I would go to college, they left it up to me to decide what I wanted to study, and supported me even when I changed my major from nursing to history, then back to nursing (like you, I’ve had two professions).
But your strip DOES hit home in another way. I could almost take you out of that strip and insert my friend Greg. He got lucky and went to art school.
Perfect. Damn the dogma. It’s a sad reality. The main reason parents still insist on their kids pursuing engineering is that they’re stuck in industrial-revolution-inertia.
My parents didn’t expect me to become anything. They weren’t really involved that way. Because I didn’t have the pressure to succeed, I didn’t.