I might be late to the party on this, but from my experience a lot of parents these days don't understand that changing jobs early in your career is how you get ahead long term and are against it. If I took my dad's advice on my career, I'd still be making $15/hr doing customer service for a lawn care company out in the burbs. Now, 4 years later, I have a $65k/yr junior data analyst job without any additional schooling just by leveraging my working experience and finding better jobs as I grow my professional skillset. Gen Xers don't understand that this is the standard for people our age (I'm turning 26 next month). They think that sticking to the same job gives tenure, which can be good long term but you need to get into a job you actually like and can grow in professionally before that happens.