I am wondering if your parents had a 'plan' for what they wanted you do be as a professional. i.e. lawyer, dentist, computer programmer - basically 'reasonable' professions.

No, I got into music too young for them to really think about it. I think they knew they were in trouble when I was in 9th or 10th grade and I begged them to use the money that they had saved up for my college to buy me a Marshall stack...