Well, colleges have lots of career centers that can guide you to the right career paths. Plus, some of my friends channelled their internships into work. My roommate majored in theater, the most impractical major ever outside of philosophy. She got an internship with the New Group theater group and from there she got hired by the Abbingdon theatre and worked up from assistant stage manager to stage manager. Now she's a member of Equity, has insurance, and gets pretty steady work. But in the end, it comes down to control. Once you turn 18, your parents really can't tell you what to do and you have to do what's best for your life, not what makes them comfortable. You may even end up estranged from them--I didn't talk to my dad from the time I was 16 until I was 20 (It helped that my parents were divorced.) It sucked, but I needed to assert my independence as an independent person. But in the end, you have to make your own mistakes, not the mistakes that your parents want you to make.
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Date: 2008-05-30 12:28 am (UTC)But in the end, it comes down to control. Once you turn 18, your parents really can't tell you what to do and you have to do what's best for your life, not what makes them comfortable. You may even end up estranged from them--I didn't talk to my dad from the time I was 16 until I was 20 (It helped that my parents were divorced.) It sucked, but I needed to assert my independence as an independent person. But in the end, you have to make your own mistakes, not the mistakes that your parents want you to make.