work in the same thing as your parents

timetravel . . . I've been told that! In fact, my dad also does bonsai (it's the art of shaping little trees) . . . so in a sense, that all might fall under "art". However, my dad's gardening is more like maintenance gardening, rather than something like landscaping art where more creativity is involved. My dad sees "art" as something that an insane person does (you know, like the general misconception of what an "artist" is) . . . so he never wanted me to enter into the art field because he felt it would never make me money. It took him many years to understand what I did (graphic arts/design) - which was BUSINESS art - not fine art. You're right that was he does could fall under the art category, but what we actually did for a living were completely different.

I guess you can say that you and your mom where into the same field but I think any time you a women has a child that in some way she is doing the same thing as her mother. Maybe not always being a stay at home mom or a working mom but a mom still. My mom was never a stay at home mom but she has pretty much done a little bit of everything. Me her both did babysitting as a job, but she also ran a day care I haven't done that yet I would love to maybe one day I will once I'm little ones are off and into school. Certain jobs i know me and my parents have done because a lot of people do them. But not there main field computers just aren't for me outside of turning them on. my parents are way smarter then me in that part which I'm glad I don't like computers. Only one of my brothers got into the same area of computers as my parents me and my other brother went off into other things. I went for children anything that has to do with kids I normally enjoy. My other brother is in like auto something for the army that he is getting a degree on. He likes using his hands.

Isn't gardening a form of art? There can be artistry in growing plants, I believe. Perhaps "creative arts" - a broader term - could cover both your occupations?

My mom has done a little bit of everything but mostly computer stuff the same with my dad. I can't stand computer stuff it bores me. I rather my job any day of the week, being a mom or taking care of others kids.

I agree with you that being a mom is the best job but not everyone is so lucky to be able to stay home and be a mother.

Trust me we aren't that lucky for me to be a stay at home mom. Even women that stay at home that doesn't mean they don't have struggles like women that go to work just as much as there husbands or single parents. We can not afford for both of us to work because of money issue. If I worked we couldn't afford day care I can get day care for discount through the state but only if I was a full time student and working part time and we would make to much together to afford it. So It was more of a lift choice to struggle the way we do. As long as we can pay the bills and put food on our table that is all that matters to me and my husband. What jobs we do or do not have isn't a big deal. My husband would work two jobs if I left him.

I'm sorry about your dad. I think pretty much we all drift from jobs to jobs to get and idea of what we like and do like even our parents. My dad and my mom have done a bit of everything but over all have been working for most of my life with computers and still do now. Me I went my own way my parents never tired to make me and my brothers go into anything they knew what we liked and asked us if that was something we would want to do with our lives. I wanted to do anything with children and that is what I got I'm a mommy. I don't get paid for it but that is okay I still love it and it makes me happy.

That would be cook if you make the best seller list one day. That is a big honor when someone makes one of those.

I figure as long as someone is happy with what he or she does that is all that matters. I am basically happy with the work I do - although I would like to earn far more money doing it than I do now! I find I enjoy writing about things more than anything else - and writing articles on psychology is something I would like to do, too. Someday maybe I'll even do a best seller! I have two young adult children, and loved/love being a parent.

Good thing you knew it wasn't for you. I know computers aren't my thing either.

That is very nice to know. I hope you liked what you picked even though it is or was dangerous?

There are good days and bad days, but over all it is very fulfilling.

That is good.

I feel that everyone should choice what is right for them when it comes to a career my parents never tried to force computer techonolgy on me or my brothers. One of my brothers wants to be a cook but he is working in the same field as my parents because he just doesn't have the time to finishing cooking school right now. My other brother joined the army and now school is being paid for him to get a degree in auto building/tech stuff something in which I don't get. Me anything that has to do with children is more my cup of tea and animals as well. People that are misunderstood or people that others just have trouble understanding I have easy connections with and can work every well with. I enjoy my musical side but that for me is more free time thing then a job for me. Being a mommy was the job I was looking for and really didn't know it till college came around.

Okay.

Just because if someone is in the same field as there parents doesn't mean it makes it any easier or that there parents will help them out. I never wanted anything to do with computers it just isn't me and my parents never tried to force me or my brothers into it. They knew what we wanted to do and would help us try to get into that filed mine was teaching. In the end I became a mom instead which is kind of like a teacher just in a different form. I love children and animals and my parents knew that and I could still have a good life and either of them. Did it make it difficult for me to learn it not really in some places yes but in others no. To my parents that made me kind of smarter then them because I was learning things they had no idea about. But they know things that I don't know about computers that I would just not find fun to know or learn. There is problems in what ever a field a child choices to go into with or with out there parents help or liking it. It's not the parents choice to choice it's your own.

I don't really think it has to do with the parents. I never picked anything my parents did nor do my brothers. I pick everything I do myself with out any other person tell me what to do or them doing it themselves. The same with my husband and everyone else we know personal. Some kids choice to do what there parents did because it's part of there culture or that they don't want to hurt there parents feelings. Me I didn't care and my parents didn't care that I didn't care.

I wouldn't want my kids to do what I did unless that is what they wanted I would never suggested it either. That is up for them to make a choice what jobs they want to do and possibly get a degree. I never did the same things as my parents and I'm glad for it because I'm happy with what I'm doing being a mom. I wanted to be a teacher and that is what I am just that I have a smaller class room and only my children to deal with and not others. Good luck with the online business. Business these days aren't doing to well because of the economy the way it is every where that is why a lot of people want any other job and that you don't have to work crazy hours or worry about breaking even with in the first year.

Teaching isn't really working for the government that is working for the tax payers since that is what teachers get paid off of. You don't need government papers to work as a teacher just a teaching degree, some tests, and good back ground. my dad works for the government in computers. My mom does computer financing both to me are boring don't like would never do it ever. I rather just be a mom like i am now.

That is good to hear that both you and dad like the medical field and can still have a good relationship with each other. That is a good idea not to talk about your patients outside of work unless its like a question to which you can't find the answer some times doctors need to talk to to other doctors about doctor things. I could never get into the same field as either of my parents it just isn't me. Which is okay with them and me. We know it's not for everyone no job is ever for everyone.

Your parents gave you wonderful advise. Do what your heart wants. That is what my parents wanted for me and my brothers to do something that we enjoyed doing. I became in the end a mom which is close to what I wanted to do.

No it doesn't sound medieval at all. That is how some families live and there is nothing wrong with that. I think it's kind of cool that your family runs a farm and that someone in the family will most likely continue doing so. Well you never know if farming isn't something you want to do it's okay to go and try something new. There is different types of family or you can go into business and learn how to work the business end of farming so if your brother wants to do the farming on his own you can always help him out by finding buyers to take what products you do have. PR stuff isn't me either and back when my dad was growing boys always did the same job as there dad in some people still fallow that practice because they feel there parents will no approve. My dad went away from glass making and working in factories instead he better himself with education joining the army was a medical field for a while but when he got out of the army he went into the computer field and has been in that ever since I was 2 years old. What every a person goes with make sure it's right for you and it makes you happy.

Nice nursing is always a good job and you can pretty much go back when ever you want with that one. I never went into computers I know the basics and that is about it. It tends to make me want to fall a sleep. Neither of my parents where really stay at home parents they both took turns staying home and taking care of at least my not my brothers they had my grandparents before i was born and before they moved away from them.

I don't think so most children don't like what there parents like for a field. I know I didn't like computers and I want nothing other wise to do it other then turning the computer one. Never felt the need to try to get a degree or a job in computers. I wanted to be a teacher I worked for a little bit at a day care which was one thing my mom did but it's not her main field computers are she has done that for the longest time since I was little the same as my dad. Neither of there parents where into computers. My brothers one is wanting to be a cook but got a job after not doing so well in cooking school right now and not having the time he needs to do it started working in a government job with computers like my dad just for different company. My bother joined the army but and is now trying to finish automatically tech stuff.

Not always common but yes most children do like the jobs there parents have done or did. I don't like computers it just doesn't go with my personality and stuff. I'm more of let me be with kids and I'm good to go anything that has to do with kids and I'm okay. I don't really work well with other adults but if I have to I will I have done so in the past but there was no degree in that so it really isn't a field to much since I didn't really work and them for years like some people do. Both of my parents have done a bit of everything so I have over lapped with them but no the same main field which is computers they both have degrees and work for company's that deal with all kind of computer stuff.

okay cool.

I wasn't talking about working with your parents just the same field. But I'm guessing that means since your husband didn't like working with his dad that means he also didn't like the field that got into or he like it but he just didn't want to work with his father since they couldn't get along while working together?