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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All work is honorable and respectable. She is working 2 jobs and paying her bills. Be proud of her.[/quote]

I just worry about her longevity.  She doesn’t ever ask me for money but lives in a crowded apartment with her girlfriend and band mates.  She just had so much potential now it seems like she may as well have dropped out.  She’d be in the same place.[/quote]

I’m sorry but that is the most disgustingly clueless thing you’ve posted OP.

She went to university for six years, no? She matured as a human being and developed her mind - her acquisition of knowledge and critical thinking skills has incredible inherent value, whether she uses it to be a corporate drone or to work in the hospitality industry while she makes music.

If she had the success and bank account of Alanis Morisette or Pink you wouldn’t be whinging on this board about her. Own up to the truth that all you care about is MONEY. And if you keep this up - be prepared to lose your daughter, well deservedly. [/quote]

Of course she's worried about money. I'm the PP who said OP's DD was just having fun and she shouldn't worry, and ALSO the PP who said she shouldn't cut her off financially. But come on, of course we want our kids to be able to make a decent living. It's hard to have a decent life without money, youthful fantasies aside.[/quote]

Well then it might interest you to know that the managers of burger joints make more than the average social worker, without tossing and turning all night for thinking of the hellish abuse they’ve seen nor struggling with burnout and suicidal ideation because of same.

You parents with your obsessions about status and what makes a successful career or life. IT IS NOT YOUR LIFE. She isn’t asking you for money. Leave her alone, or risk the day coming when she leaves you alone permanently.[/quote]

Are you even a parent? Of course parents care -- extremely and uncontrollably -- about their children's lives. That's baked into the role. And of course you could also post, and probably do, about parents who don't care at all about their adult kids.

OF COURSE WE CARE.[/quote]

What if kid decided to become a priest or nun or monk? After all that education! What a parenting failure, huh? What a disappointment of a kid, huh?[/quote]

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