idkmybffjill
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So, I've noticed that in the past two or three years, when I've made some large advances in my own personal development, my viewpoints have slowly drifted away from the way my parents think. I guess it all started with my parents wanting me to go pre-med (my major in college is biomedical engineering, I'm gonna be a junior this fall, I'm 19 now) and be a doctor because they believe in a stable path that will guarantee money. Medicine is one of them, but I have bigger aspirations. I want to start my own company and take it public, make some money, and start my own charitable foundation. I already tithe 10% of all my paychecks/income to charities. As this dream/passion of mine was developing, I also got more interested in finance/stock market on the side unintentionally. I started on the stock market when I was 16 (had to use my mom's name to trade since I wasn't 18 lol), started a Roth IRA when I was 18/ read a lot of finance/personal finance books.
And especially lately, with all the stuff that has been going on with politics/economy, I notice that my viewpoints/understanding of things is much different from theirs. My mom and stepdad are socially conservative I guess, but economically liberal. They both like Obama a lot. I guess most middle class people do. Me? I'm a moderate. I used to be liberal like them up till my senior year of high school, when I shifted to the moderate side. I like being in the middle; I can see what goes on at both sides. My head isn't so far stuck up one party's ass that I'm blinded (this was especially annoying in Texas where a lot of people suck the Republican party's **** consistently).
Anyways, i posted this thread because I'm at a wealthy friend's house (15,000 sq house on 3 acres of land on a lake haha, several boats, cars, etc. etc.). Anyways, my friend's stepdad is hardcore conservative. And he was *****ing today about Obama. And I just sat and listened...I agreed with some of what he said, disagreed with some of what he said. When I called my mom later, I just mentioned to her what the stepdad was saying about Obama. And she like flipped **** at ME, and started touting all the good stuff Obama said. I was like...why are you yelling at me? I didn't say anything ha, I just told you what he said.
I guess it's stereotypical of your average middle class/upper middle class family (my mom and stepdad)....? They usually want their kids to go the most secure/income generating field...medicine, law, etc. Even though I routinely point out to my mom and stepdad many many instances of people succeeding in business and making a lot of money, etc., they always come up with some excuse or another like "oh its harder than it looks" or "so you think you can just start a company and you'll just become a billionaire?"
Like, I know starting a company/investing path will be hard. Nothing in life that is worthit is easy. I guess my thoughts on all that have just diverged from my parents.
Does anyone else feel like this has happened to them as they grew older? Like your own aspirations have exceeded your parents' (i mean that not in a bad way) and so it generates some friction because they don't think your dream is realistic. My parents thinking....keeps them in the middle class. I want to surpass that. I don't mean that arrogantly at all (I mean hell, my whole point of becoming wealthy is to first do something I love, then give back to the world)
Sorry of this post is confusing haha, I realize it's kind of all over the place.
And especially lately, with all the stuff that has been going on with politics/economy, I notice that my viewpoints/understanding of things is much different from theirs. My mom and stepdad are socially conservative I guess, but economically liberal. They both like Obama a lot. I guess most middle class people do. Me? I'm a moderate. I used to be liberal like them up till my senior year of high school, when I shifted to the moderate side. I like being in the middle; I can see what goes on at both sides. My head isn't so far stuck up one party's ass that I'm blinded (this was especially annoying in Texas where a lot of people suck the Republican party's **** consistently).
Anyways, i posted this thread because I'm at a wealthy friend's house (15,000 sq house on 3 acres of land on a lake haha, several boats, cars, etc. etc.). Anyways, my friend's stepdad is hardcore conservative. And he was *****ing today about Obama. And I just sat and listened...I agreed with some of what he said, disagreed with some of what he said. When I called my mom later, I just mentioned to her what the stepdad was saying about Obama. And she like flipped **** at ME, and started touting all the good stuff Obama said. I was like...why are you yelling at me? I didn't say anything ha, I just told you what he said.
I guess it's stereotypical of your average middle class/upper middle class family (my mom and stepdad)....? They usually want their kids to go the most secure/income generating field...medicine, law, etc. Even though I routinely point out to my mom and stepdad many many instances of people succeeding in business and making a lot of money, etc., they always come up with some excuse or another like "oh its harder than it looks" or "so you think you can just start a company and you'll just become a billionaire?"
Like, I know starting a company/investing path will be hard. Nothing in life that is worthit is easy. I guess my thoughts on all that have just diverged from my parents.
Does anyone else feel like this has happened to them as they grew older? Like your own aspirations have exceeded your parents' (i mean that not in a bad way) and so it generates some friction because they don't think your dream is realistic. My parents thinking....keeps them in the middle class. I want to surpass that. I don't mean that arrogantly at all (I mean hell, my whole point of becoming wealthy is to first do something I love, then give back to the world)
Sorry of this post is confusing haha, I realize it's kind of all over the place.
