<p>tell him that</p>
<p>you are about 18. you will probably work till you are 60. that is about 40 years of your life that you are going to be working. </p>
<p>why would you condemn yourself to a life-sentence of work that you do not care for, and ultimately will not satisfy you? you should search to do something in your life where you sit down and do not feel like you’re working in jail every day</p>
<p>anyway</p>
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<li><p>there’s always need for architects even if you don’t make money you can always be a slave draftsman (“at least i’m not becoming a starving artist!”)</p></li>
<li><p>“i’ll pay my own way through college”-- if you really want it, then do it, and don’t ask him. </p></li>
<li><p>justin beat me the the finish line, but we have pretty much the same points</p></li>
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