Where I come from Psychology is not quite a good career. Thousands and thousands of students enroll for that degree and there are no jobs for it. Then I moved to the U.S., and the same thing.

My sister in law has the same degree and is working in an office doing accounting, which turned out to be a better job that pays well.

My parents while being supportive, gave a reality check. I wanted to be a psychologist or a writer, they told me psychology is interesting career but useless. In the real world I also have to make money to pay bills and pay off my debt. So, right then they asked me to choose wisely and leave the careers like psychology, singer, artist, writer, dancer, etc for when I have free time.

I didn't like anything else so. I became an ESL teacher. I wanted to quit because I didn't want that, but they told me they weren't paying for anything else. So I finished it, and I'm so glad. This decision brought me here where I am now.

My parents were right. Here I've met quite a few parents helping their kids pick out a university to go to, the focus on the campus, the area, how close to the downtown is, a bunch of stupid irrelevant things instead of focusing how good is the nursing program in that particular school. You gotta choose wisely, you're about to enroll in a giant debt so you have to make sure that once you're done with college you are going to get a job.

It's good to be a supportive parent, but also should give your kids a reality check.

If you don't like what you're doing and wish to do something different, I suggest you do your job and find out what are the job opportunities so you don't end up in debt and jobless.