My mum wanted me to go to university.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
I was the first person to go to university from my family.
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.