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Oct. 8th, 2009 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordHuh. So my dad just called and told me that he can't come to parents' weekend (my mom is still coming, though). Apparently he changed jobs and has to go to some meeting for it, or something? I'm just kind of like... holy crap. He's a lawyer and a partner at the firm, and he's been working there for 30 years now. So the fact that he's changed jobs is kind of just a really sudden, random thing, you know? Although I guess I haven't mentioned to my parents yet that I'm not minoring in math, I might minor in German, and I want to get a masters in social work after college, all of which is new stuff, since I wanted to tell them in person. And last year during fall break (or maybe it was Thanksgiving) I kind of sprung on them the whole double major thing (which I ended up not doing at all). I think me changing my majors/minors in college is a little different than my dad changing his job after 30 years. I mean, it's the same job in that he's still a lawyer (it's not like he's decided to suddenly become a botanist, or something), but still.
I'm not mad at all (honestly, I'm kind of used to it. He's missed stuff before, and he called to apologize, and it's not like he didn't take 2 weeks off only a month ago to help me move in and stuff), I'm really just... shocked and confused. I didn't ask him to explain why since the connection was bad, he was on the way to take my mom to the airport, and he said there were a lot of reasons. But I'm definitely going to find out from my mom tonight. The only thing I can think of is that at his firm, you're forced to retire when you're 65, and he's turning 60 this November, and I really can't imagine him retiring and not working anymore after he turns 65. He would be bored out of his mind. But I don't know for sure that that's the reason. I don't know. It's all very sudden and weird.
I'm not mad at all (honestly, I'm kind of used to it. He's missed stuff before, and he called to apologize, and it's not like he didn't take 2 weeks off only a month ago to help me move in and stuff), I'm really just... shocked and confused. I didn't ask him to explain why since the connection was bad, he was on the way to take my mom to the airport, and he said there were a lot of reasons. But I'm definitely going to find out from my mom tonight. The only thing I can think of is that at his firm, you're forced to retire when you're 65, and he's turning 60 this November, and I really can't imagine him retiring and not working anymore after he turns 65. He would be bored out of his mind. But I don't know for sure that that's the reason. I don't know. It's all very sudden and weird.
