Parental Expectations: What My Pare

Parental Expectations: What My Parents Wanted Me To Be When I Grew Up
It may sound like a silly question -- after all, you're the one working every day, not them -- but as it turns out, your parents' expectations of where you would end up could have had more of an impact on your eventual career path than you believed.

As much as parents really just want their kids to be happy, they also can't help but be human and put a few expectations on them as well.

We asked different ptofessionals from Canada for their own recollections of their parents' expectations, and were happily surprised to discover they covered the gamut from "be a doctor" to "piano playng will always pay the bills. "What did your parents want you to be?