Feeling absolutely messed up.

[foz]

i`m a dad now and want the best for my kid.

Thats what your dad  wants and he wants you to have a better chance at life than maybe he did`nt...

He sees whatever your doing as a failure...maybe hes right maybe he`s wrong...

I`m 33 and my dad got the hump because i called my son jack....(he did`nt like the name)...
Whats that all about....luckily i`m at an age where if my dad don`t like what i`m doing i can tell him to piss off and mind his own business...

Do what you want to do......mums and dads will get over it....eventually.

fOz

[Andail]

So many people have said so many good things already....

The bottom line is...as long as you are a sensible person, with interesting things to say and inspiration to share with other people, your father should be proud of you no matter what.

And you are that kind of person, we can vouch for that!

[SSH]

A lot of what people have said is true for me too. My life sucked at school. My parents were supportive but I had few freinds in school and none really after school finished. At University it got so much better, and then I realised exactly what I wanted to do for a job and now I am doing it. So I have a job that I enjoy mostly, and a wfie who I love and the most incredible daughter in the world. I never would have imagined these things at 15 when I felt really really rubbish.

Myself, I never was very good at studying. At school things either clicked (ie maths, physics, chemistry) or didn't (ie sport!) and I got straight As in my highers without a great deal of study really. You can't get away with that so much at University, but then you are doing something you are more interested in: still, I ended up with an upper second class degree: I could have had a first if I tried a bit harder.

I'd say try and study as much as you can, becuase getting to Uni could well make everything much better!