Problem with parents..

If she is going on about the economy going to ****e,just tell her that less people will be buying + mollycudlin' expensive dogs and cats and other animals. . . . and that is the truth.

ChiefBrody wrote: »

So my Dad's a vet and all along I was considering veterinary, inherit the practice and all that.
Right now I'm not exactly sure if I even want to do it anymore, maybe do a Science degree and consider it at a later stage. I was even willing to repeat if I didn't get it first time, which I probably won't.
My mother, who was the one who set the idea of repeating into my head (willing to pay for a study school for a year) has basically gone bat **** crazy, screaming stuff about the recession at me, how I won't get a job in anything but a profession, and that I definately won't get in to veterinary on a post graduate basis... Any advise/condolences..?

I'm the mother of a 5th Year student and I empathise with but don't justify your Mum's feelings. Been there done that. Hate myself when I find myself getting emotional :rolleyes:

"Know thine Enemy" is very sound advice when going into battle. At the moment you're in an emotional battle with your parents. There are two forces determining how your Mum feels at the moment:

1. The need for you to maximise your talents and maximise your future happiness and earnings

2. Her own stresses: you doing the leaving certificate is stressful enough but this is compounded by the deepening economic depression and the realisation that for the next few years at least, we're all doomed!!

As a teenager you are programmed to rebel (Take a quick look at Plato's Republic if you want proof that this isn't a modern phenomenon) and it would appear you have been the dutiful offspring so far. Not rebelling, conforming to the family firm. Now that you are rebelling, even slightly, you're scaring your Mum. All the "what if's" are surfacing... What if... you decide to opt out completely and become a vegan freetarian or whatever.

As the others have said, you need to do whats right for you, because you will be living with this decision for the rest of your life. I was forced into studing something in college by my parents because they considered it far more "middle class" than the field I wanted to go into (parents both middle-class professionals with an emphasis on respectability). I did disastrously in college, because my heart wasn't in what I was doing. It took a while and a few false starts before I got my confidence back and went back to college to study something I wanted to. Now I have a Masters in this field and my Mum is finally getting to grips with the fact that I am an individual.

Science is a great back door for Veterinary. You may not get exemptions but it will certainly help you in your studies.

Good Luck, and I promise, your Mum will calm down. She really does have your best interests at heart. Honest

tindy7 wrote: »

vets have a terrible quality of life.

Is that why you put it on you CAO then?

Very unhelpful post I must say, how dare you speak about the OPs mother like that.

Btw OP, I'm not sure what kind of a relationship you have with your mother but maybe you could sit down with her and you could both do up a pros and cons list of doing a veterianary/science degree.

Good luck!