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I have been questioning myself about what I’m going to do with my life at the moment. I’m going to community college to pursue acting while living with my mom. I’m a bit scared of what’s going to happen in my late 20s. I wanted to transfer to a university in Los Angeles where I could pursue my acting career. I’m a bit nervous moving to a big city away from my parents, and I was wondering how I would be able to afford to live after college, and I was a bit worried if acting didn’t go so well. I remember my aunt was asking what I was going to major in, and I told her the truth. I wanted to be an actor. A long story short. It seemed like she was doubting my success and thought acting wasn’t a stable income and I thought I should do something, some kind of blue-collar job and I would be successful in years and be broke and all of that. My mom was telling me my aunt was telling her to back me out of doing it, which is crazy to me, because this is my life and this is what I want to do with it and I know my auntie wants the best for me, but at the same time she doesn’t know what’s best for me only I do nobody knows what best for me including my parents. And that makes me want to go even harder at acting, and I want to be successful at it so I can prove her wrong and, in fact, acting is for me. I know a lot of people go through something similar to me when parents think that they are not going to make it onto the field, like singing, acting, streaming and YouTuber. I know there’s more than just those things. It sucks that they think the only way to be successful is to become a doctor or a lawyer, something like that, but not everybody wants to pursue that dream and I heard it’s even worse in immigrant households as well, since they move to a country like America to have a better life, so I couldn’t imagine going through that.

Hi SilverFalcon92,

I noticed this was your third board post today on top of chatting with us on text, and to be honest I'm not really sure how we can support you here, or what you're asking. I want to gently remind you that our service is for sex and relationship education/questions, and we are a team of mostly volunteers, so we have limited resources and need to stick to these topics. In this case, I'm not sure this falls into the topics we cover here. But we will be happy to continue talking to you on the two other posts you have open right now, and can help you find a better space to vent about this if needed. Do you have any spaces like that already, or do you need help finding one?

Yeah I’m sorry about that I thought I can vent about other things outside of sex and relationships do you want me to take down the post?

Hi! At the moment, I don't think you have to take this post down, but do keep in mind we won't be able to help you with career-related issues. (If you had to delete this post, only us staff and volunteers would be able to do so, anyway; we'll either move this post somewhere only staff and volunteers can see or lock replies, if necessary.) To reiterate what Sofi said, do you have any space where you can talk about your professional life? It can be online or in-person.