Hi y'all. So, my family is forcing me to study engineering so that I can get into those soul sucking 9-5 IT jobs. Now my real heart lies with physics, but you know how it is, research takes a lot of time considering you have to get a PhD and it pays less then those IT jobs. These family members and people of society around me go as far as saying researchers are not respected much and pretty much anyone can do bsc but they get menial jobs. Now I'm pretty outraged and kinda sad that my passion is being demeaned. I mean how the fuck do you expect me to forget Physics and Astronomy and just move on? It's not that simple and it shouldn't be!