The number of roles family members are expected to carry out depends on their marital, parental status, and gender. For instance, parents are expected to maintain and manage the family system. Gendered expectations strongly influence my family; consequently, instrumental roles are assigned to both men and women, while women also engage in affective roles. Yet, all family members perform the role of provision of resources. Although there were no open discussions about the expectations that my family placed on my work, career, and life, I received these messages indirectly. The contradiction between my relatives’ expectations and my desires is a major life and career theme. My family has always been involved in my life and particularly in career-related matters. For instance, the development of overtly utilitarian skills was constantly encouraged by my grandparents. As a result, I had to find a way to combine my family’s expectations and preferences. The search for opportunities to self-actualize is another significant theme, as well as the need to escape the parent’s home. College was a fundamental step in becoming closer to completing these themes. Such variables as gender, religion, tradition, and socioeconomic status have strongly impacted career choices and the development of my mother’s side of the family. Traditional gender roles and expectations to a significant degree predetermined the career choices of my maternal aunts and uncle. This tendency was amplified by Christianity and the deep religiosity of my grandparents. Additionally, my mother’s and her siblings’ professions were expected to align with my maternal grandparents’ expectations and reflect their social status. My father’s part of the family is significantly less driven by traditional roles and beliefs, which allowed me and my siblings to be more unconfined in our careers. The value of higher education is a prominent theme: my maternal grandparents viewed it not as optional but as an indispensable attribute to succeed and become what they believed to be a valuable member of society. Career choices were also expected to be practical, guided by reason, and not personal inclinations. Although my father’s and mother’s sides of the family are distinct in this respect, the value of strong work ethics was constantly accentuated. For instance, work has always occupied a sizeable part of my parents’ lives, sometimes at the expense of family. Multigenerational family decision-making patterns are pronounced in the career genogram. A strong preference for practical occupations can be observed among the three generations with almost no variations. Particularly, job choices in the health care system seem to be the most common in the second generation, while manual jobs are typical for the first generation. The preference is not based on traditional gender expectations, as it concerns both male and female family members. A slight predisposition for manual labor jobs is also present in several cases. The extensive involvement of parents in the decision-making process is also tangible. In general, pragmatism and dependability are the most prominent patterns. The career genogram crystallizes an “acceptable” range of life and c