Do parents who own hawker stalls ask their children to take over?
my father who has a stall at a kopidiam needs a helper to help out at the stall (talking to customers and handling orders) and my mother is asking me to help out my dad at the stall and take over the stall, in the past when I was younger like cooking food not really talking to customer since I’m horrible at talking to people
I currently have a job working in fine dining as a chef and my mother is asking me to quit my job and help my dad and soon enough take over the stall, even though my dad has said that I don’t need to take over the stall or even help out since I already know what I want to do in life and he just wants my mum to help him with the stall since she is a stay at home mother and pretty nobody is at home nowadays.
I have told my mother a lot of times that I don’t want to take over and even my dad says it’s not necessary but my mother keeps asking me to quit my job and work with my dad and take over his stall, she has gone as far as to call me a useless son for not helping him, should I just not help at all?
tl;tr: mother pressuring me to take over my father’s stall even my father say it’s not necessary, My father wants to only work with my mother but mother don’t want so father has to hire a helper to help at the stall
Netizens’ comments
- she’s only nagging you to go help because SHE doesn’t want to do it
- If you are a useless son then does that make her a …….
Because sounds like she’s not helping either ? She might like it, talk to customers and take money, if she doesn’t have to cook sounds ok - Sounds like your mom doesn’t want to work and is trying to pressure you to take her place.
It’s short sighted and selfish when most hawkers of my parents’ generation are discouraging their kids from taking over since it’s hard thankless work.
You might want to talk to your dad and have him tell your mom to stop. - All i can say is fine dining chef takes over kopitiam stall is gonna make one hell of a sensational headline haha.
That said, i think your father understands you la. Not too much to worry minus the nagging from your mother - Eh. Is it a good stall? Want us to go support your dad before he closes for good?