How can I make this career change - Marketing/Admin to Fine Arts?

Help! I am having a problem in choosing my career?

• I have a strange predicament that requires expert advice. Before elucidating on the problem, I have to share a brief history. I have taken the commerce stream in class 11 and before starting the class discussed my aim of becoming a Chartered Accountant (C.A.) with my parents. They were extremely delighted because of the payroll and respect in that particular field. However, during my course in the 11th standard, I have generated a strange love toward a particular subject. English. Shakespeare intrigues me and so does Shelly, Yeats and Wordsworth. However, my parents have set up lofty dreams regarding my career as a C.A. They discuss about my studies and advise me to study vigorously as it is a tough course. I have hinted them on my change in career plans but they seem to disregard it. They have spread my career plans among my relatives who praise my audacity to take up the difficult course. To make matters worse, I'm quite good at accounts and math making my parents happier. It is becoming extremely difficult for me to impress on my parents and relatives my present career plans. I even discussed the matter with one of my favorite sister-in-law, trying to gain someone in my team, who was appalled and, surprisingly, advised me to get rid of the ridiculous idea. English, being considered a subject in the Arts stream, is wrongly portrayed as a resort for the weak. In India, studying English is looked down by the society. It would surely break my parents if I tell about my change of plans. My family is financially unstable and they expect me to get a good job and bring them out of the present financial problem. I am confused about the job prospects (and payroll) in the English (English Literature and Language field) that, if bought into limelight, could make them alter their vision. I intend to become a novelist and poet in future and I want to explore the language more profoundly. However, explaining parents about this specific aims would make me a laughing stock. Eliminating humor, I want to progress slowly and steadily to my ultimate dream. But somehow, my high marks in class exams and my parents’ aspirations are plaguing my mind. I can't concentrate on my works as strange thoughts accumulate and contaminate my mind. Please help!!!

• Answer:

  congratulations of finding something you are interested in at such a young age.one of my uncle was university topper choose statistics as a subject 35 years ago when statistics was considered the worst stream in engineering. he went to U.S. seeing the scope and interest in India to be low and excelled in his area. remember even with good degrees importance of common sense and balance in life is always more. Life is about alternatives or having backup plan. Money is magic. Its all about Money honey. you wont taste nectar on earth but to taste a little less you need the dollars. you wont see heaven on earth but to see a little lesser you need the dollars.the greatest thing about money is the exposure you get in terms of people, places and institutions. I am greatly inspired by chetan bhagat and company. J K Rowling motivates me.Hope you excel in whatever you do .Join the best institutions in the world.Read as many books as possible. lastly success is about health, family and work.Best of luck in life.