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My mom discouraging me for a future career I desire?

I want to be a multimedia artist: its a very interactive career where it has the art and writing I want. Plus, the technology involved in it I find vital for the near future ( hence: "technology is the new future" or something like that). My point Is its a job where I can be creative and interact with other creative people. Plus, ere are many multimedia art professions out there I can choose from: motion picture design, video game design, animation feature design, cartoonist etc. There's even a multimedia art-based company ran by Kurt Shillings called 38 studios that would be perfect for me (my location and what's included in the company). My mom says a job like this is a socially deprived job that only people who consist of a dull personality and poor social skills would go to. She even went on about how technology immigrants (hence my generation, I'm 15) will be the most socially deprived people because of phones, computers, apple(patent mark that should be there XP) technology, and everything related to the things we have today. What do you think about my situation and my moms opinion on technology and how it'll affect us?

Public Comments

1. I have a cousin that graduated with a graphics art 4 year degree She has not found work for almost 10 years She just recently made it as night manager at Taco Bell I know it's important to take what you love. But employers are simply not hiring. There are no jobs. No demand You are smart - consider going into medicine (bio-medical designing parts), engineering (Auto Cad Design), or computer programming (creating software for companies)
2. Yeah, geeks like Bill Gates are "socially deprived". You don't want to be "socially deprived" like them, do you!? It's your life - do what you want. Your mother is a prejudiced luddite and will never understand that it's good to be a geek.
3. Unfortunately, parents often can have input in educational decisions in part because they feel like they know what is best for you and in part because they are helping to pay for your education and giving you a place to live. There are several ways to handle this. I would suggest that you be careful in how you handle things. Having parent support financially and emotionally beats being out on your own trying to find a place to live, a job and a way to pay for an education. Once in college I would suggest that the first two years of college are general courses and you will have very few of the course that relate to your major. You can perhaps proceed starting college with a major that is acceptable to your parent and take a few course in some areas of your interests. If you really still think that multimedia art is the way to go you can float that idea again. Many students will change majors in college and you will also still be changing jobs once you enter the workforce. You can count on having at least 3 careers in your lifetime. So if you are sitting there right now worried about deciding what you are going to do with your life and you will have to stick with it forever that is not the way it works. I'm on career #4 right now. Perhaps it will be my last, I don't know. I was a campus minister for 8 years, a bicycle shop owner for 19 years, an author of Computer magazine articles for 10 years and right now am a computer security technician for a large aerospace company for the past 15 years. I would like to tell you that parents will get more comfortable with you job decisions but that may not be true. When I had my first IT magazine article published I was on a trip back home. I stopped at a local bookstore and purchased a copy of Windows IT Pro Magazine for my mom. She read through the highly IT technical article I was the author of and then remarked, "You mean they actually pay you money for writing this nonsense?"