Family says I'm worthless and stupid because of my degree subject

How is Economics and Politics 'worthless' when Econ is highly relevant to accountancy? Your family are jerks, and you deserve better.

Anon because I'm using a friend's account.
TL;DR my family belittles my achievements, marginalises me and tells me I'm worthless because of my degree subject.

Basically, up until A Level I was never particularly academically able, but I worked my ass off to get where I am today, got A*AA in English Lit, History and Politics. In my second year of A Level I started self-teaching A Level Maths, and got an A. I did this because I decided that once I graduated I wish to pursue a career in accountancy. I managed to get some good offers and am now studying for a joint honours BA in Economics and Politics at a redbrick university. My GCSEs were terrible b/c I got severely bullied at high school, and I managed to turn my life around at sixth form where I made new friends. I do lots of extracurriculars and have managed to secure a finance placement year with an engineering company which should (all being well) see me through to a graduate scheme where I'll study CIMA/ACCA, qualify, and live happily ever after (so to speak!).

But, and here is the big but, my family is always belittling my achievements. My family keep saying that I'm wasting my time at university and that I could go into accountancy without a degree. However, I went because from what I understand there is a glass ceiling for accountants without degrees at the top. My parents and family don't respect my opinions because they think I've become some kind of pseudo-intellectual snob and whenever I give my opinion or join in a discussion they cut me off and accuse me of acting like a superior 'snob'. Furthermore, they are constantly belittling my degree, saying EconPol is a 'worthless' 'mickey mouse' degree subject and the only degrees they have respect for are STEM degrees. My brother is doing Electronic Engineering and they treat him like he's a god, whereas with me they just call me 'the young political economist' and tell me that I'm just wasting my time partying for four years (even though next year I'll be working!).

My brother is so horrible: he thinks that because he's doing engineering he's the messiah, and keeps saying "I could do everything you could do but you can't do everything I can do hahahahaahaha", and he tells me that he might just go into finance to prove how worhtless my degree is compared to his. Apparently, I am just sitting in a library reading bull**** for three years and wasting 30k, whereas I always thought uni would be a good investment for my career path even though it doesn't require a degree.

My parents (non-graduates) tell everyone about how they are so proud of my brother (who hasn't secured a placement year and does no ECs), and how they have less respect for me because I'm just a time-wasting little girl when in fact I am very hard working but feel that all my hard work has been for nothing!

I should be feeling happy and optimistic given that it's highly likely that this placement will lead to a permanent job and I won't be another underemployed/unemployed graduate. I'm also heading for a first class degree and have wonderful, supportive friends at university. But I always dread going home because everytime it's just "stop being so lazy and help with the housework, you're just wasting your time indulging in a degree you don't need whilst your brothers doing something practical". They NEVER praise me for anything anymore, and actively exclude me from conversations. They have no respect for me at all, and I just feel like I don't want to see them in the holidays and instead stay with my boyfriend.

My family have never been supportive towards me. When I used to come home everyday in tears after being bullied and having hate pages created about me on social media they told me to 'suck it up' and ignore them because it's just 'teenage fun'.

Atm I feel really depressed because and upset because last night I had a meal with family and family friends and my parents keep saying how I'm an embarrassment to them because I'll 'never get a job', and the guests all agreed with them (despite the placement year!). What should I do about this?

Sorry for the long post.

Are you an Asian by any chance?

******s. This STEM **** has to stop.

Plus there is a quite a bit of maths in my degree... :/

Nope! White British and female

Anon because I'm using a friend's account.
TL;DR my family belittles my achievements, marginalises me and tells me I'm worthless because of my degree subject.

Basically, up until A Level I was never particularly academically able, but I worked my ass off to get where I am today, got A*AA in English Lit, History and Politics. In my second year of A Level I started self-teaching A Level Maths, and got an A. I did this because I decided that once I graduated I wish to pursue a career in accountancy. I managed to get some good offers and am now studying for a joint honours BA in Economics and Politics at a redbrick university. My GCSEs were terrible b/c I got severely bullied at high school, and I managed to turn my life around at sixth form where I made new friends. I do lots of extracurriculars and have managed to secure a finance placement year with an engineering company which should (all being well) see me through to a graduate scheme where I'll study CIMA/ACCA, qualify, and live happily ever after (so to speak!).

But, and here is the big but, my family is always belittling my achievements. My family keep saying that I'm wasting my time at university and that I could go into accountancy without a degree. However, I went because from what I understand there is a glass ceiling for accountants without degrees at the top. My parents and family don't respect my opinions because they think I've become some kind of pseudo-intellectual snob and whenever I give my opinion or join in a discussion they cut me off and accuse me of acting like a superior 'snob'. Furthermore, they are constantly belittling my degree, saying EconPol is a 'worthless' 'mickey mouse' degree subject and the only degrees they have respect for are STEM degrees. My brother is doing Electronic Engineering and they treat him like he's a god, whereas with me they just call me 'the young political economist' and tell me that I'm just wasting my time partying for four years (even though next year I'll be working!).

My brother is so horrible: he thinks that because he's doing engineering he's the messiah, and keeps saying "I could do everything you could do but you can't do everything I can do hahahahaahaha", and he tells me that he might just go into finance to prove how worhtless my degree is compared to his. Apparently, I am just sitting in a library reading bull**** for three years and wasting 30k, whereas I always thought uni would be a good investment for my career path even though it doesn't require a degree.

My parents (non-graduates) tell everyone about how they are so proud of my brother (who hasn't secured a placement year and does no ECs), and how they have less respect for me because I'm just a time-wasting little girl when in fact I am very hard working but feel that all my hard work has been for nothing!

I should be feeling happy and optimistic given that it's highly likely that this placement will lead to a permanent job and I won't be another underemployed/unemployed graduate. I'm also heading for a first class degree and have wonderful, supportive friends at university. But I always dread going home because everytime it's just "stop being so lazy and help with the housework, you're just wasting your time indulging in a degree you don't need whilst your brothers doing something practical". They NEVER praise me for anything anymore, and actively exclude me from conversations. They have no respect for me at all, and I just feel like I don't want to see them in the holidays and instead stay with my boyfriend.

My family have never been supportive towards me. When I used to come home everyday in tears after being bullied and having hate pages created about me on social media they told me to 'suck it up' and ignore them because it's just 'teenage fun'.

Atm I feel really depressed because and upset because last night I had a meal with family and family friends and my parents keep saying how I'm an embarrassment to them because I'll 'never get a job', and the guests all agreed with them (despite the placement year!). What should I do about this?

Sorry for the long post.

Anon because I'm using a friend's account.
TL;DR my family belittles my achievements, marginalises me and tells me I'm worthless because of my degree subject.

Basically, up until A Level I was never particularly academically able, but I worked my ass off to get where I am today, got A*AA in English Lit, History and Politics. In my second year of A Level I started self-teaching A Level Maths, and got an A. I did this because I decided that once I graduated I wish to pursue a career in accountancy. I managed to get some good offers and am now studying for a joint honours BA in Economics and Politics at a redbrick university. My GCSEs were terrible b/c I got severely bullied at high school, and I managed to turn my life around at sixth form where I made new friends. I do lots of extracurriculars and have managed to secure a finance placement year with an engineering company which should (all being well) see me through to a graduate scheme where I'll study CIMA/ACCA, qualify, and live happily ever after (so to speak!).

But, and here is the big but, my family is always belittling my achievements. My family keep saying that I'm wasting my time at university and that I could go into accountancy without a degree. However, I went because from what I understand there is a glass ceiling for accountants without degrees at the top. My parents and family don't respect my opinions because they think I've become some kind of pseudo-intellectual snob and whenever I give my opinion or join in a discussion they cut me off and accuse me of acting like a superior 'snob'. Furthermore, they are constantly belittling my degree, saying EconPol is a 'worthless' 'mickey mouse' degree subject and the only degrees they have respect for are STEM degrees. My brother is doing Electronic Engineering and they treat him like he's a god, whereas with me they just call me 'the young political economist' and tell me that I'm just wasting my time partying for four years (even though next year I'll be working!).

My brother is so horrible: he thinks that because he's doing engineering he's the messiah, and keeps saying "I could do everything you could do but you can't do everything I can do hahahahaahaha", and he tells me that he might just go into finance to prove how worhtless my degree is compared to his. Apparently, I am just sitting in a library reading bull**** for three years and wasting 30k, whereas I always thought uni would be a good investment for my career path even though it doesn't require a degree.

My parents (non-graduates) tell everyone about how they are so proud of my brother (who hasn't secured a placement year and does no ECs), and how they have less respect for me because I'm just a time-wasting little girl when in fact I am very hard working but feel that all my hard work has been for nothing!

I should be feeling happy and optimistic given that it's highly likely that this placement will lead to a permanent job and I won't be another underemployed/unemployed graduate. I'm also heading for a first class degree and have wonderful, supportive friends at university. But I always dread going home because everytime it's just "stop being so lazy and help with the housework, you're just wasting your time indulging in a degree you don't need whilst your brothers doing something practical". They NEVER praise me for anything anymore, and actively exclude me from conversations. They have no respect for me at all, and I just feel like I don't want to see them in the holidays and instead stay with my boyfriend.

My family have never been supportive towards me. When I used to come home everyday in tears after being bullied and having hate pages created about me on social media they told me to 'suck it up' and ignore them because it's just 'teenage fun'.

Atm I feel really depressed because and upset because last night I had a meal with family and family friends and my parents keep saying how I'm an embarrassment to them because I'll 'never get a job', and the guests all agreed with them (despite the placement year!). What should I do about this?

Sorry for the long post.

Anon because I'm using a friend's account.
TL;DR my family belittles my achievements, marginalises me and tells me I'm worthless because of my degree subject.

Basically, up until A Level I was never particularly academically able, but I worked my ass off to get where I am today, got A*AA in English Lit, History and Politics. In my second year of A Level I started self-teaching A Level Maths, and got an A. I did this because I decided that once I graduated I wish to pursue a career in accountancy. I managed to get some good offers and am now studying for a joint honours BA in Economics and Politics at a redbrick university. My GCSEs were terrible b/c I got severely bullied at high school, and I managed to turn my life around at sixth form where I made new friends. I do lots of extracurriculars and have managed to secure a finance placement year with an engineering company which should (all being well) see me through to a graduate scheme where I'll study CIMA/ACCA, qualify, and live happily ever after (so to speak!).

But, and here is the big but, my family is always belittling my achievements. My family keep saying that I'm wasting my time at university and that I could go into accountancy without a degree. However, I went because from what I understand there is a glass ceiling for accountants without degrees at the top. My parents and family don't respect my opinions because they think I've become some kind of pseudo-intellectual snob and whenever I give my opinion or join in a discussion they cut me off and accuse me of acting like a superior 'snob'. Furthermore, they are constantly belittling my degree, saying EconPol is a 'worthless' 'mickey mouse' degree subject and the only degrees they have respect for are STEM degrees. My brother is doing Electronic Engineering and they treat him like he's a god, whereas with me they just call me 'the young political economist' and tell me that I'm just wasting my time partying for four years (even though next year I'll be working!).

My brother is so horrible: he thinks that because he's doing engineering he's the messiah, and keeps saying "I could do everything you could do but you can't do everything I can do hahahahaahaha", and he tells me that he might just go into finance to prove how worhtless my degree is compared to his. Apparently, I am just sitting in a library reading bull**** for three years and wasting 30k, whereas I always thought uni would be a good investment for my career path even though it doesn't require a degree.

My parents (non-graduates) tell everyone about how they are so proud of my brother (who hasn't secured a placement year and does no ECs), and how they have less respect for me because I'm just a time-wasting little girl when in fact I am very hard working but feel that all my hard work has been for nothing!

I should be feeling happy and optimistic given that it's highly likely that this placement will lead to a permanent job and I won't be another underemployed/unemployed graduate. I'm also heading for a first class degree and have wonderful, supportive friends at university. But I always dread going home because everytime it's just "stop being so lazy and help with the housework, you're just wasting your time indulging in a degree you don't need whilst your brothers doing something practical". They NEVER praise me for anything anymore, and actively exclude me from conversations. They have no respect for me at all, and I just feel like I don't want to see them in the holidays and instead stay with my boyfriend.

My family have never been supportive towards me. When I used to come home everyday in tears after being bullied and having hate pages created about me on social media they told me to 'suck it up' and ignore them because it's just 'teenage fun'.

Atm I feel really depressed because and upset because last night I had a meal with family and family friends and my parents keep saying how I'm an embarrassment to them because I'll 'never get a job', and the guests all agreed with them (despite the placement year!). What should I do about this?

Sorry for the long post.