What I want and what happens are usually two different things especially when it pertains to other people. What I want is the very best for my kids. I want them to not suffer and grow up to be healthy and be brain surgeons or lawyers. Now that they are adults they call their own lives. I have no say. They have free will. Believe me when I say they exercise that free will all the time. In spite of and despite me.
Better than not working at all, and expecting other people to pay your way.
I wouldn't want that for them only because supporting themselves on that income would be a constant struggle. I would support them having employment for sure .. But trying to better themselves is also an admirable and realistic way of handling your work life.
If it makes them happy YES.
Having a high paying job doesn't mean you're going to happy and healthy.
The only criteria I have for my kids, is to be happy and to live up to their potential . . . Not the potential I assign to them, but of real honest potential that we can both agree upon honestly.
If assembly line work is at the peak of their potential and they are happy with the lifestyle this provides, then my job as a parent is complete.
I never made a hundred thousand a year. I was a mechanic most of my years was thirty thousand i was happy i made sixty thousand two years but those two years i was stressed out had sorry bosses and worked every holiday it seemed
Leslie Uggams is a singer that I had seen perform in the Venetian Room of the Fairmont hotel in the mid seventies---she was one of my favorite singers at the time both for her songs and her voice.
When Alex Haley's Roots came out in 1977, one of the stars was Leslie Uggams as a plantation slave.
It was a shocking realization that being able to use your real talents and abilities are very much contingent upon the time and place in which you live.
So, no I wouldn't want them sewing t-shirts for minimum wage as the choice for their career---not because there is anything demeaning in such honest work, but because it would be far below their current demonstrated abilities.
And if they freely chose to do so (barring some future externality), I would feel an obligation to suggest that they reconsider their decision to so work.
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