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**My parents life for me** -- Major in Business in college and work in business, marry a rich man with a high power/paying job; befriend only people who can "benefit" my business-related endeavors; start a small business, make it a success; make babies and home-school them; play for the rest of my life on the money from my ultra-successful small business (in which my parents have envisioned such a business being fashion-related, or a restaurant).

**What I want** -- Major in something my parents find "too difficult to get a job in" but that I find thought-provoking, get a job in that field; marry the man whom my mother believes to be the bane of my existence and will probably never accept while he's treated me kinder than any man she's liked; befriend my *friends*, who my parents find to be a useless bunch; make none or perhaps one baby and raise it completely different than the way I was raised; live outside of the country and travel periodically if the job allows it, perhaps work on some freelance travel-writing; over all be a happy person doing what I like.

The life my parents envision is a nice life, but it's not what I want.  What I want in life might sound completely stupid, but it's what I want, or already plan on doing.

Just wanted to shed a little bit a light.  I can't be the only one who wanted something completely different than what their parents wanted for them.  I love my parents, but I have realized that they will combat everything *I* want to do in *my* life.  I would love to hear your stories.
<bot>: Just about everything my parents want for me is the opposite of what I want for myself.  I'd love to hear stories from people who've had similar problems with their parents concerning the way their lives should be lived.