[Freelancer]

Ok here's the problem;
My parents view of my future life;
1) Finish education.
2) Get a 9-5 job and work untill I'm of old age.
3) Get a family and live the average life.

My personal view of my future life;
1) Start several business ventures.
2) Work for myself and generate passive income so I ultimately have more free time.
3) Get a family and spend loads of time with them, live a above average life and most importantly a happy life.

So these visions are radically different, right now I am starting to work on myself to prepare myself (reading books/starting to write articles/do prep. work) for my future. On the other hand my parents are constantly pushing me to get a job and work hard on my education (even though I doubt this education will be of any use for me in the future) basically leading me towards a average life. My father has always worked for a boss and although I respect him a lot I think he's trying to push me into the life he always wanted. When he was young he was forced to do something below his skill and he had to work very hard to sustain himself. He wants to get his children through school and get a good job they enjoy so they can sustain themselves. This all very honerable and nice, but I don't want to work for a boss. This is something I realized only in the past few months (partially because of steve pavlina) its just not a big challenge for me. I want to live a great life where I help a lot of people, working for a boss is fine. But I'm not aiming for fine I'm aiming for 'the greater good' and a GREAT life.

I love my parents unconditionally and this is tearing me apart internally, because I haven't told them yet about my ambitions. I share my projects with them and what I'm working on, but I haven't told them yet that I want to drop out of college and work for myself and not for a boss.

So help me out, how do I tackle this obstacle?





Ps. Don't start about how I won't make it self employed, I know you are probably saying it to help me. But I know personally deep inside that I will make it, so lets just assume scenario #2 is possible for me.