Its YOUR life!! Maybe after everyone is disowned and they have noone, they will realize what dumbasses they are..

If you have something better in mind go for it! If not you may want to give it a try. Life is tough without an education. Ultimately you will be the one living with your decision so choose wisely.

Do it anyway c: and make a bajillion more dollars off that course than the one you wanted to do

Screw your parents just go out there

Don't let them control your life. Just do what you want and if they can't accept your choices, then they are bad parents.

Lol by the sound of it, it will be better for you to disown them and go for the course of your choice. They probably don't deserve kids if they think That kids only exist to be robot-like and academically successful or else to be discarded/ignored. It's your life, not theirs, so live it your way

You let them decide your future, you will never be happy. And they will move onto to telling you who to date, what to name your future children and how to raise them...etc Put a stop to it now. Sorry about your situation op. But you have to expierence life without guilt and emotional blackmail from the people who are supposed to love you unconditionally.

One of my best friend's husbands works at walmart. Another woman heard this and snickered at my friend. What that bitch didn't realize my friend's hubby works as a very high ranking manager for walmart in charge of over 100 stores and makes a shitload of money. Maybe your shop assistant sister can move up in the store she is at and then your disowning parents can go to hell.

This is all about control; the parents do not view the OP as an individual, they view her as a living piece of property who they expect to do their bidding. If they really cared about the OP, they would encourage her to follow the course of study of her choosing. When I was young my parents pressured the crap out of me to become a teacher. This is because my dad wanted to be a teacher but HIS parents refused to pay for his college unless he got a business degree, so he ended up in a field he wasn't as interested in. Instead of learning from this, he insisted I do what he had wanted. Apparently he didn't want to become a teacher because he loved the idea of teaching. He wanted to do it because he's lazy and wanted to have summers off with pay. I was the family retard because I couldn't understand the "summers off with pay" portion of the sales pitch they kept giving me (the summers off were important to them because I could spent them at their place, doing chores). I only escaped because I got a scholarship so their financial contribution to my education was zero and they had no blackmail ammunition. I am very successful in the field I chose and I love my work. We spend a lot of our lives working so it would be horrible to hate what you do. I advise the OP to follow her dream and if that costs her the company of her selfish parents, then so be it. Their love is conditional anyway so no loss in my opinion.

Does the course they've insisted you take give you really good opportunities during and after uni? Does what you want to do give you equally good opportunities (be it a job or different course)? If so, do the course you want to do, and let them disown you. If they've pushed you to do a course with more opportunities and will be overall more beneficial (especially in this economy) then maybe they're onto something. They probably have your best interests at heart. One of my friends is having problems right now because she did the course she wanted to do, and has since discovered that it doesn't give her the opportunities she thought it would, and she can't afford to change course. So she'll probably end up doing a whole load of other A-levels because of it. Also, don't forget, that the fees go up next year, so bear that in mind as well.