Dear counselor,

I’m 19 years old and completed my senior six last year. My family expects me to join university to pursue law but that is not what I want to do.

I want to take a catering course and start making and selling pastries online. I shared this with my parents recently and they almost passed out. My mum says I am throwing my life away but I believe I can do this. They say they won’t help pay for this "mistake I’m making” and that if I choose to pursue it, I’m on my own. But this is my dream and I want to prove to them that I wasn’t wrong.

But where do I start?

Samantha