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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (1182)	1/15/2001 11:55:32 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Wow, bland ... I'm sorry to hear this re your career. You could have told him you wanted to pursue YOUR interests, not his ... I know how hard that might have been, though .... perhaps easier said than done, particularly with hindsight. My father pushed me HARD to 'get into' accounting and finance ... and I told him to go to hell. Words didn't do the trick, so I had to 'prove it to him' by dropping out of Acct 100 and Fin 100 pursuing Bachelor's. I said, "To hell with your ideas of what I 'should' like." I liked journalism at the time ... still do. LOL. He readily came around 15 years later when I got my first (good) job that exceeded his salary after 30 years as a 'company' accounting man. It really sort of depressed me that at age 32, I made more than my Dad who was 62 at the time. He just wanted to advise me on how to make a decent living lifelong, of course. And he also encouraged me to 'go for it,' in whatever I chose as a profession. In fact, he 'raised me like a son,' which is a humorous aspect to me of how offensive both alleged men and women (grown-ups, adults, I mean) find me on these investing message boards. I don't seem to quite 'fit in' anywhere ... except on these new, wonderful 'liberal' SI venues ... LOL. Thanks, Poet, once again, for providing these threads! 'b-i-a' ###