Sahaj Kaur Kohli is off this week. The following first appeared Oct. 13, 2022.

Dear Sahaj: I’m a 25-year-old second-generation Indian American. My dad is a doctor, and my sister is a gynecologist, who married a pediatrician at age 30. My mom wanted me to go into medicine as well, but I rebelled and now work as a computer engineer with great work-life balance in another state. My mother rejected my wants and needs initially, but eventually came to terms with it.

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