Convincing parents for travel

Ok, i have had the urge to travel since i started highschool, and now im about to finish it. I want to take a year of two off to live on the road, however, my parents want me to go into college right away. I really dont see myself going to college. After i get back from travel i would like to become a massage therapist, and i might earn a associates, but thats a different story.

What i need is a valid explanation i can give my parents to why i want to travel for so long.

Anything helps

thank you

 

Say something like "it would be an education experience and it will help me see the real world" or something like that. Even if you dont mean it...just use big words and stuff and sound sophisticated. But you can always just tell them what you would tell your freinds. When your freinds ask why, you probably come up with a reall good answer right? Well just tell your parents that. And if nothing works, just do it anyway, behind their backs. Its your life, not theirs.

 

if you have the money, time and nous then stick with college

travel after you've completed your studies, this seems the wiser option.

 

I been in the same situation as you and I decided to go to college, i'll tel you why. my college is an international community as well, so we have a lot of spare time during summer (3,5 months) and winter (1,5 months). i'll be using that time to work, for the money to travel and the travelling itself. this is just an example. think about it extensively how you can work this out properly, i would say and than stick with it. even though going to college first would be a more save road. I like your idea to become a massage therapist by the way.
Good Luck!

 

the thing that troubles me about "college" is that i do not know what i want to major in, other than philosophy, but even that is only a few universities. honestly, i want to spend my time enjoying life and helping others. I also want to find some land and form a community and possibly farm the land. None of that to me needs a degree. im interested in massage therapy since it is flexible, fairly good at pay, and there will be a demand, but even in that, i will only temporarily work exclusively for money.

i have thought of a realistic compromise, after graduation, i travel for the summer, go to my first rainbow gathering, etc. then go get my "education". I still don feel comfortable rushing into college, even if its for an associate degree, however i am willing to go to massage school and get licensed and begin working and save money for land, etc.

i know that you will all recomend sticking to college, but will this idea work

btw, rainbowedskylover, you say international community as college? what do you mean by that?

namaste

 

In my opinion, unless you know what you want to major in or you are getting a free ride I would not recommend going to college. The last thing you want is to have a large loan on your shoulders that you have to pay back doing a something you don't like just to make money to pay off the loan. And you might even be stuck in a job that pays about as much as another job you could have gotten without a college degree (and the debt).

If you do go to college I would suggest a business degree. To me that would compliment your message therapy should you wish to have your own business doing that. Plus it could help you out with about anything you want to do on your own.

But what is it that you really want to do? Too many people get side tracked trying to get money to do what they want to do, and usually never wind up getting where they want to be, when in reality they could have had what they wanted if they actually tried to get it in a more direct manner. So do what you want to do because it is your life.

You can always go to college later if you find that it is what you want. Many people are going later in life. Plus if you work for a company and you are taking coarses or working towards a degree that can benefit the company, they might pay for it.

 

What Im doing, and you could do this too is planning to live on the road on the summer after high school graduation and before college. That leaves a coulple months to get used to living on the road, but you can still go to college. and then you could go back to being on the road again each summer between your classes.

 

well, i want to travel and live on the road for a bit, then eventually settle down and start a farm/commune and just start a big family of freaks like me.

I dont want fortune, reputation or a "nice" house and furnishings

I just want love, peace, meaning and enlightenment

I want to live simply, without the clutter of modern life

Although things may change, but in general i just want the things mentioned earlier.

The idea of working for some company sickens me. Sacrifycing my time and possibly even my ethics to sustain this horrible, meaningless and unsustainable lifestyle we call "normal"

 

well il bro i understand you plight but then again i am a pretty cool mom ... well ok as cool as we can get n still be a parent and i tend to disagree with many parents in the world. I personally do not understand the whole college directly after high school thing unless that is what the kid is truly wanting to do. I personally would prefer that me kids take them self a nice break , travel have fun and do what they wish for a while before deciding upon more school.I truly think that when we are given time to explore the real world we learn alot not just in ourselves but what the world is really like and can give us more of an idea as to what direction we would like to go in further down the road and then apply ourselves in that endeavor.... rather than being rushed to college doin what we not wanna n becoming a partying fool that flunks out
I would just sit in a adult fashion with folks n say look i know you want me to go to schol however yadda yadda n splain it all out to them... know that they prolly will not like what you have to say n will prlly say welllllll we aint paying or etc but those are your choices in the end,,, know they may say well dont come back here whining ,,, etc etc,,, but also keep in mind that you will be 18 when this goes on n are free to do as you wish .... parents do not have to agree with all we do ,,, nor anyone else for that matter,,,, but i myself try n point out all the good , bad uggerly points n offer my advice to the kids then it is there own decision.. i do not have to like it however so long as they not hurtin anyone other than self possibly it is their choice...

luv n lite to you on convincing the folks

 

The most valid explination I can think of is to tell them exactly what you told us. Let them know that you aren't just trying to slack out. Have a game plan, make sure you can back up what you are doing. Don't bullshit them.


Ona side note...: Dilligaf!!! Where were you when I needed ya'!!! hahahaha!! My folks were real uptight. Wish I had you living next door to open up their minds.

 

I totally agree with you. I have had a couple of freinds going straight to college barely knowing what they wanna do in life. One of them has been going to college for 7 years (no, shes not becoming a doctor) just because she keeps changing her mind. I think that if she would have taken some time off and really spent time figuring herself out, things would have been alot easier