His Millionaire Mom Keeps Trying To Use Her Connections To Influence His Career Path
While it may sound nice to have influential, wealthy parents who could secure jobs for you, it’s actually not always an ideal scenario, as parents can put a lot of pressure on you to follow the ‘perfect’ career path.
One man recently decided to change his career from being a real estate agent to going to law school. Unfortunately, he’s still finding it hard to impress his millionaire mother.
He’s 32-years-old and has two millionaire parents who are divorced. Ever since he was little, his parents pressured him to get good grades and be the best at everything he did.
“I graduated from what others consider to be an ‘elite’ college in 2014, but with poor grades and a mental health-related medical leave of absence on my transcript,” he explained.
“I was an excellent student before and got multiple academic scholarship offers in high school. I believe the mental health leave was related to the fact that both of my parents constantly berated me that I was ‘not good enough,’ and I eventually had a mental breakdown under stress combined with the fact that where I went to school was just really hard to get through.”
After college, he decided to work in the commercial real estate industry. He was doing well until around two years ago when the pandemic had made a massive impact on the market, and he wasn’t finding it as enjoyable anymore.
So, he decided to switch career paths. He took the LSAT and decided to apply to law schools last year. In January, he found out he was accepted to two law schools, one in Texas and one in Florida. Both schools offered him scholarships.
Now, his mom is inserting herself into his career change and trying to get him involved in her connections.
“My mother had a conversation with me last night about how she spoke to one of her clients, who is a partner at one of the top real estate law firms in Dallas,” he said.
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“She had asked me if I wanted to be introduced to him about a week ago, and I had said yes. She took it upon herself to have the conversation with him for me on my behalf.”
His mom eventually told him that the law partner’s firm only took students who graduated from a different law school than the one he got into. She also told him that neither of the schools he was accepted to was good enough for this man.
After his mom canceled their lunch plans the next day, he decided to speak his mind.
“I said that I bet there will be other opportunities for people who go where I [was accepted], and I am not going to judge my own self-worth through the eyes of a guy I’ve never met,” he recalled.
“She blew up and said that she has to ‘walk on eggshells’ around me.”
His mom told him she spoke with the law partner to help him and was trying to get him inside a law firm. He eventually told her he didn’t need her, and she told him he’d “live to regret” saying that.
Should he feel bad for not using his mom’s connection, or is his mom being too aggressive?
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