Dave Evans

office hours to our students because, of course, there's always a conversation going on about what do I do with my life?

And that's true of my clients and true for everybody.

And Stita came and she started describing a problem that I thought I'd heard before.

She said, I've gone through the university and I've majored in chemistry and I got all A's like my parents wanted me to.

And I've got admitted to both Yale and Harvard medical schools, except I don't want to go to medical school.

I said, what's the problem?

She said, well, I'm also a pianist and I love music and my parents didn't want me to study music because it's not an important enough thing, but I care about it.

So I didn't major in music while I was here to honor my parents, but I kept my music going and little do they know that I also applied to Juilliard school of music.

And I've been admitted to get a, um, a master's of arts in piano performance.

And so I've got a problem.

And I said, oh, so your problem is how do you tell your parents you don't want to be a doctor?

She says, no, no, no, that's not my problem.

Well, what's your problem?

Well, my problem is how do I tell my boyfriend?

I know what the piano requires and it requires everything I've got.

I don't think I can be in love with the piano and a man at the same time.

So I'm going to break up with my boyfriend and I don't think he's going to understand.

And I went, oh, that's a different problem.

So here we had a person who really had three things going on.

I've got the doctor and my parents' expectations.