<p>OP, your post and conmamma’s really saddens me. </p>
<p>You are defending your choice of major and career based on academic terms, not passion. </p>
<p>It sounds like your tiger mom has totally dominated your capacity to “like” anything thereby harming you and rendering you simply an economic engine designed to create money. Your endgame sounds a lot like conmamma’s unfortunate circumstances. </p>
<p>Have you been allowed to have any interests that you actually enjoy? Have you been allowed to explore interests. </p>
<p>In my opinion, you need to plan to break away from mamma as soon as possible. You probably need to play along until you are 18, but not a day longer. You are way behind the curve. Look through the list of clubs at your school and join something your mother wouldn’t approve of. Quit the orchestra. Quit any academic ECs. Quit NHS. Join the frisbee club. Get some exercise. Pick up a cello and play. Ask one of your friends to tutor you in it. </p>
<p>The full ride opportunities that ucbalumnus has posted are potentially your ticket. Eliminate prestige from your vocabulary. You have been programmed to think like your mother. Fortunately, you’ve probably gotten a good education and will have options. </p>
<p>Go ahead and pursue the accounting degree, but make sure that you understand that this is a direction not a commitment. Explore things in life that make you happy. See if you can use the accounting job to buy an education in a new found passion. </p>
<p>Life is long. Your mother will eventually get over it. </p>