Curb your expectations

By Academia - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - United Kingdom

Today, I got accepted into University, onto a course I don't want to do, but my parents said they would disown me if I didn't go. I believe them, since they haven't spoken to my shop assistant sister in about three years now. FML
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tenniscrazy2 6

Don't listen to your parents. Just do what you want in life. It's your life, not theirs.

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Niicky_fml 20

Let them be stupid. They'll regret it when they don't have any kids who come to see them or talk to them. They'll just come crawling back one day, and u can tell them they did it to themselves

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mgsoloist 14

2 things...that's a really nice way to repay someone that selflessly took you in. She was right to tell you not to pursue being an actress. Nowhere in your post does it say that you are successful as an actress. There are some fields of interest that parents are right to tell their children to stay away from.

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charlotte100 2

Thumb me down I don't care but I think you should listen to your parents and give the course a try. Do u have other goals and aspiration? If not then more reason to go and explore Ur options while still attending university. I believe in going after Ur "dreams" too but if Ur dream is going to be useless then make it a hobby instead. Nowadays you are lucky to even have a job that pays decent, without an education don't even think about it.

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nerdsgetmehot 22

Follow the path that YOU want to follow. If what you want to do is something that you love, it's probably worth pissing off your parents.

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wierdos_rule 0

#75- you could have phrased it in a nicer way, without soundig like an uptight ass. It's not your life, so you can't tell them what to do, especially in such a bitchy way! Retirment age is 65 anyway, stupid.

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perdix 29

You got a better idea? Suck it up, princess, and go to college and get through that course. We're headed to a worldwide depression and the airy-fairy notion if pursuing what you "love" is an obsolete notion. Do what your parents tell you to and when the world economy improves in the next 10 to 20 years, you can switch to pursuing your dream. You've got plenty of time. People your age ought to expect to work until they are 80 or older.

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ReynshineCutting 10

Your parents don't love you any more than OP's parents love her. Our parents want what's best for us and they don't want to see us struggle because of bad choices we make. My dad has been pushing for me to get my masters in business after I finish my bachelors this year since I started college. I've always been totally against it because I didn't want to go to college in the first place but it was either have him pay for college and support me while I'm in it, or find a job at a fast food place to try to make ends meet. I'm glad I went to college now (even though I hate most of it) because I've learned a lot of stuff I never would have otherwise. This week he pretty much bribed me to get my masters and you know what? It worked. I was 100% against it until he told me what he'd give me if I got it. Now I'm totally going to get it. Is it bribery? Sure but he gets what he wants, I get what I want, so everyone's happy. He wants me to get my masters because a bachelors today is like a high school diploma was when our parents were in school. The world economy is about to go to shit so you have to have that extra edge and I know that my dad's pushing so hard because he doesn't want to see me struggle and I appreciate that. He's even going to send my fiance to a 4 year university to get a degree so that we won't struggle. Parents often try to make us do what we don't want to do, but it's all in our own best interest and we need to recognize and appreciate that.

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structuredchaoz 4

Return the favor by getting yourself in gear, moving out, and doing a job that makes you happy. As long as you are happy that's all that matters

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tj4234 35

as a UK student who actually did this, I can tell you that you can use the course you have been put on to transfer onto the one you wanted. You can do this before you even get there. E-mail the universities registry or ask your advisor of studies. I did that and got moved from doing a Law degree to doing the one I actually wanted, which is History joint with Scottish Gaelic.

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monnanon 13

Why should you go to uni, get into tonnes of debt and pass a degree when there are no real oppurtunities for graduates anyway. Its even worse when its a course you dont even want to do. I went to college and uni and I have a degree as well as other qualifications in web design and software development. To get even a junior position I would have to move all the way to London. The only jobs I could after uni were cleaning ones, most places think graduates are unreliable and just holding out til their career starts. Seriously do what you want as long as its not sitting on your arse doing nothing. My degree has been utterly useless and its in a growing field. The most I can use it for is a hobby. On the plus side I am now doing an on the job apprenticship to run my own hotel. Everything works out in the end i suppose.

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JesterMarcus 0

Screw em, they will regret it when they find themselves in a terrible retirement home and nobody coming to visit them and they die lonely and depressed.

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fuckmylife2323 0

Dude not to be mean but are u parents from Asia ??

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