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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Guess which kid is going to look after your mother when she needs help?

Not you.[/quote]

OP here. I'm not sure why you would draw this conclusion. Actually, my sister and I both take care of our mother. She is now terminally ill with cancer. However, her attitude toward our work situation has been the same for the past 15 years.[/quote]

Are you high? This will 100% fall on OP because OP doesn’t have the “real job” (according to mom). European CEO sister will be way too busy and stressed and also shunt to the work towards OP which will cause friction between the sisters.

OB I’m a physician and have a very stressful job. Sometimes I talk about the fact that it’s stressful. About 12 years into my career and my mom asked me when I was going to “stop seeing patients and do something else“. I was like I’m sorry what? At that point I believe I still had like $200,000 to pay off on my student loans. It was such a weird question. I was like, this is what I do. It’s what I’m going to continue to do. I reigned in talking about the stress after that because I assumed that that was what triggered her odd reaction to me.

A lot of older folks have very preconceived cultural attitudes about work because I think the employment environment was very different back then (see the decline of pensions, etc.). I’m sorry to hear about your mom‘s cancer. Best of luck to you your family.[/quote]

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