My message to one Parker (whose parents think they’re Batmans and he is Gotham and needs to be saved).

A guy named Parker wanted to know how he can gain support from his parents for, as he put it, wanting to pursue a career in secondary education, when they only care that he has a “respectable” and “rewarding” job (i.e. lots of money).

I wrote my answer in which I stressed that neither their support nor their approval is necessary, and that he can allow himself to disappoint certain people (or even make them unhappy) in order to make the choice he will be…