How am I going to turn out?

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I can't take it anymore. I want to be a successful accountant, but I don't know if that's going to happen. I'm still obsessed about electronics, but my Dad keeps asking me if I want XM satellite radio, and I can't decide whether I should ask for it or not because I can't stop fretting about my future.

This stems from whether or not I will be allowed to obtain a bachelor degree after community college. My dad keeps saying,"You might not need a bachelor degree for accounting." But I might need one in order to advance in my field. Furthermore, when I bring up that subject with my mom, she tells me these things:

And after working for a few years in the accounting field, you might decide you're happy where you are, and might not want a promotion.
Well, then if you can't make enough money, then you find creative ways to make money!

Uh, how do these people know that I won't want to advance in my field? These are the same people who kept trying to destroy my popularity in my senior year of high school. These are the people who got my a $200 stereo instead of the better $300 one in my junior year of high school because it was cheaper! Now instead of daydreaming about my adult life, I keep fretting about it. I can hardly talk with anyone because I'm so jealous of everyone else because they're allowed to be as successful as they want, but my Mom seems deadset on setting 25 years old as the deadline to be completely finished with college, especially if I want to get my bachelor's before setting out into the working world.

Where is my future going to go? I want to be a successful accountant, but that might require a bachelor's degree, and if I don't get it after community college, then I'll have to get it later while working full time, and that might put me in poverty. WHat should I do? I can't keep fretting like this!! !

It seems odd that your mum and dad are not encouraging you to reach the highest you can but maybe they just don't have the funds to support you for a long time in education. If you really want this then go as far as is possible with their support and then work while putting yourself through the rest of the education. I had to leave home and school at 16, ended up as a single parent with 2 kids, worked and went to evening classes and eventually got a batchelors and then a PhD (I worked part time and took out loans to fund this and yes I was poor for a long time). It was hardwork but now I have a good job and the satisfaction of having achieved what I wanted. It is not your parents responsibility to help you to achieve your goals, it is yours.

You can achieve your goal. Just work as hard as you can for as long as you can while your parents will help. Then, when you reach age 25, you can always try to get a student loan to help out. Some will even loan living expenses. I'll bet, though, that if you keep trying and working hard, when you reach age 25 your parents will still help out because they'll be proud of you and want you to succeed. You never know. It's worth a shot!

Don't give up on your dreams!

Financial aid really helps out when you're working and going to school (like I did), plus accounting is one of the big demand jobs, so don't worry about not being able to repay.

I really like accounting because it's so concrete (auditing, not so much, but for the most part it's pretty clear cut).

Just hope you wont turn out to be a guy I know about.. A frequent crack and heroine user, over 6 ft tall/under 110 lbs, long dirty hair/fingernails, and homeless. Someone told me recently that he was staying over their house and he was scratching his stomach till it bled all over the place.. Thats just vile man.. I used to know the guy, I disliked him but if I see him like this now I think I would probably cry.. or run away in terror.
Its strange, because Im healthy and do none of that s**t and hes just as dead to the world as I am.

Interested in programming? Programmers with accounting knowledge and visa versa are in demand. Also you can be an accountant in the electronics industry.

Accounting is a very flexible discipline and is not limited to doing "the books" or taxes.