manchester_black

Well, let's just say my homecoming didn't last as long as I'd hoped it would. The folks didn't even wait until the Prez was gone for them to get on my back about things. Mostly money things (which of course doesn't help me none), but they're on my back now about getting myself a career. I've already stated my intent to go back to school, and they're still getting on me about not getting a job doing serving or doing anything they don't consider 'worthwhile'. - It's at this point that I should go into what my parents are like, and why we don't really see eye to eye on these things. My father operates a construction company, which he started after working for 15 or so years in the business, and the company he worked for was mis-managed into the ground. My mother, currently works as the accountant/secretary for the company, and even before, she's worked in a lot of office type jobs doing clerical stuff. My brother, the heir apparent to the company seeing how I've stated that I have no wishes in the least to work as a manual labourer, works for the family business (and he's good at it from what I've heard, so it's not total nepotism) He's getting groomed to take things over, and he's in the process of getting his life settled in in that manner. My sister, after dropping out of the Aur Pair program (being a nanny for a family in another country) returned home and fell in line with the rest of the family and works for the company. From what I know of them, there is not even the slightest spark of creative desire in their bodies. They have no inkling in that regard in the least. My mother is the absolute worst in this matter, and she figures that if a job isn't either suit and tie every day, or working until you're filthy with grease isn't one worth doing. She simply cannot fathom a career that is founded not in simply making enough money to retire with, compared to one that you feel genuine pleasure in doing. The only thing I think I have in common with my family for the most part is biological in nature.
-So , back to my problem at hand. I need to now hit the bricks for a job, which I had all intentions of doing anyway, but now I'm going to have this bullshit judgemental attitude breathing down my neck. I'm just not entirely sure what they want from me- I could get a job at motherfucking McDonalds or Wal-Mart, and within a couple years of drudgery I could make manager and after a few more I could go corporate. How this is kind of thing is the best choice for me, I will never know. They want me out of the house, fine, but really, how I get the means to do it really shouldn't matter.

Also, I do not understand why the fuck they get on my nuts about playing some World of Warcraft, stating of how video games are such a waste of time, etcetera, but they won't say squat if I spend the same amount of time in front of the TV. They always used to tell me I was born before my time, but I really just think that they should have been born at the dawn of the industrial revolution, where working yourself to death was the best way to live.