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When your child views your steady service as missed opportunity

I have been fixing cars in the same neighborhood for twenty-five years and people depend on me but my son thinks I wasted my mechanical skills by not starting a chain or inventing something.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intergenerational conflict arises when consistency and community service are seen as failures to maximize potential and ambition.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Small legacy vs. great legacy — do scale and ambition matter??”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.