How many of us were forced into this by our parents
I opened up with my father last night. He majored in Civil Engineering back in the 80s.
He revealed to me he spent years studying Chemical Engineering because his father told him and his 3 siblings “chemE is the only real engineering discipline” and “there are ChemE and those who wish they were ChemE”
He dropped out and swapped to civil after 2 years of constant nightmares and depression, and he has literally never opened up to anyone about this, not even his wife of 40 years.
How common is this? My father didn’t force me or even push me to study ChemE, like I said I had no idea he ever studied it or had any inkling he was forced to. It made me wonder how many other ChemE had parents push them into this, what else they wanted for their life, and how it was to stick through.