Some people choose to follow their parents into a career–whether for comfort, ease, or a sense of familial expectation. Others may reject it outright for all those same reasons. “Parents pass on their ...

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Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...