Why not follow your natural bent?
You youngsters nowadays--I mean no offence--you youngsters have no longer any mind of your own.

Take my case; I was seventeen when I began to take an interest in numismatics.

My family destined me for the Stamp Office; yes, sir, the Stamp Office.

I had against me two grandfathers, two grandmothers, my father, my mother, and six uncles--all furious.

I held out, and that has led me to the Institute.