7 Ways To Get Your Family To Back Down Over Your Career
Set boundaries with your family for how to talk about your career. Dealing with parental disappointment over career choices is a rite of passage for many. And for some of us, it’s a continuing struggle. In a Morning Consult survey of 1,136 parents of people ages 18 to 28, 14 percent of parents said they told their adult children what career to pursue. Good parents want what is best for you, but conflict happens when their version of career success does not match yours. Author, teacher and lawyer Michelle Kuo experienced this with her Taiwanese immigrant parents when she taught in rural Arkansas and turned down a corporate offer to do legal aid. She said that whenever she sought transcendental understanding with her parents, “which was most of my 20s and even my early 30s, I always had my heart broken ... even by little, small things like my mom making a comment about some person I grew up with who owns a lot of property or always [making] a comment about doctors, who are very