My dad is a fantastic artist who did everything he could to discourage my wanting to do art as a career-he was very successful at this discouragement; I've been jobhopping all my adult life and now in middle age, am back to doing what I should have been all along.
My son surpasses me in his talent by far. He's an amazing artist for only being 14. I see in him all the things I wished I'd continued to practice, but I won't push him. He has many talents and he needs to find his own passions, not live mine.
My cousin is a retired NYC fireman. His rank at retirement was leiutenant. His son recently signed up and he is very proud of him. It seems that in service-oriented careers such as police, fireman, soldier, generation follows generation. Not sure why.....
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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.
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