These responses and others, many framed from within the expectation of traditional family roles and misogynistic assumptions about a father’s duty, were so frequent and deflating that I would either stop answering that particular question when it was asked of me or I’d make up a new job each time I was asked. Growing up in the 1990s though, meant that inevitably some schmuck would say something like, “being a dad isn’t a job!”, “How are you going to support your family if you don’t work?”, or (my personal favourite), “that’s cute, but what do you really wanna do?”. What I was sure of, from a very early age, was that I wanted to be a dad. I was never sure what I wanted to do career-wise until I was much older. Sure, most children my age would’ve answered with some future career aspiration like an astronaut, firefighter, or Prime Minister. Do we always become the thing we hate most or do we pre-emptively hate that trait because we sense it in ourselves?” – Caleb Wyatt, Fictional Fatherįor about as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a dad.Īs a kid, whenever I received that annoyingly inevitable question about what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was always the same.
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